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At the 2023 International Coronary Congress, five presenters spoke on their techniques for optimizing the saphenous vein bypass graft. Topics covered include SVG outcomes over the last 20 years, elimination of SVGs, best practices in SVG harvesting for CABG, and more. Disclaimer The information and views presented on CTSNet.org represent the views of the authors…
To begin, the innominate artery was cannulated with a 14 or 16 Fr pediatric cannula. A separate circuit was used to perfuse the brain. It was given one liter per minute of perfusion at 20 °C while the rest of the body had a second circuit, which was kept at 34 °C with a distal…
Anomalous aortic origin of the coronary artery (AAOCA) is a condition that represents between 0.1–1 percent of malformations (1). It has been found with a prevalence of 0.44 percent in the young population (2). It is most frequently asymptomatic but can also be related to sudden death (3). AAOCA can present in different forms, such…
The Cox-Maze procedure is an effective and successful method of surgical ablation. However, for lone atrial fibrillation cases, invasive sternotomy is not feasible. Patients with persistent atrial fibrillation can benefit by combining left atrial endocardial and epicardial interventions. This video presents multiple cases to highlight surgical steps of a totally thoracoscopic left atrial maze. The…
At the 2024 STS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning and CTSNet senior editors set out to interview the most knowledgeable CT surgeons from around the world. Stay tuned for more interviews from the meeting. CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Professor Ralph Damiano, Jr., a cardiothoracic surgeon at Washington University…
April saw a wide variety of content published on CTSNet. Popular articles published this month include two videos from Dr. Tristan Yan’s off-pump CABG series, important news in CT surgery, and a comprehensive webinar on the Ross procedure. 1. Cone Repair for Tricuspid Valve EndocarditisBy Ahmad Ali Amirghofran, Mohammad Rafati Navaei The top video this…
The patient in this case is a sixty-year-old woman with increasing shortness of breath, especially in a horizontal position. She was diagnosed with right-sided diaphragmatic paralysis. Surgeons suspected trauma or a viral infection to be the possible causes, but exact etiology was not clear. Observation did not result in any functional or radiological improvement and…
CTSNet recently hosted the third webinar in the ESTS Women in General Thoracic Surgery Committee and the Women in Thoracic Surgery webinar series, in which experts discussed addressing inequities for women in CT surgery. Watch the recording below for more. Topics Covered • Cherie Erkmen: Fighting Inequities in CT Surgery Salaries• Shanda Blackmon: Fighting Inequities…
Background The first heart transplant in Colombia was performed in Medellín on December 1, 1985 and the first successful lung transplant in Colombia was performed on October 28, 1997 at the same center. The principal surgeon of these two milestones was Alberto Villegas Hernández (1, 2). Today, the Cardio VID Clinic at Pontifical Bolivarian University…
This introductory video describes the Gaudiani technique of cerebral perfusion at hypothermia, while the body is kept normothermic, for major aortic cases. The key issue that this technique addresses is that the body does not need to be hypothermic in cases of circulatory arrest, but it is mostly made hypothermic so that the blood that…
This video is a part of CTSNet’s World’s Best Centers for Cardiothoracic Surgery: United States series. View every video in the World’s Best series and stay tuned for more. Watch Professor Faisal Bakeen demonstrate his method for LIMA artery and radial artery harvest at the Cleveland Clinic. Disclaimer The information and views presented on CTSNet.org…
The patient is a twenty-three-month-old boy with total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR), ventricular septal defect (VSD), and secundum atrial septal defect (ASD II) initially treated with a TAPVR correction with an anastomosis of the confluence to the LA, VSD closure, and fenestrated ASD II closure in the first month of life. The patient also…
At the 2024 STS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning and CTSNet senior editors set out to interview the most knowledgeable CT surgeons from around the world. Stay tuned for more interviews from the meeting. Editor in Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Bernard Park, a thoracic surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,…
With the recent approval for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) across all risk profiles, reintervention is likely to become common practice. As surgeons treat younger, fitter patients with longer life expectancies, complications such as thrombosis, endocarditis, non-structural valve deterioration and, of course, structural valve deterioration will warrant reintervention, which may require a high-risk surgical procedure…
In this deep dive series of videos produced by Professor Tristan Yan from the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia, he demonstrates a technique of total arterial off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting without touching the ascending aorta to reduce stroke risk. This video demonstrates another grafting configuration that achieves complete revascularization without manipulating the…
The patient is a five-year-old girl weighing 21 kg with right isomerism, right-sided superior vena cava (SVC), and left-sided inferior vena cava (IVC). The patient’s pulmonary venous confluence drained to the left atrium. She had a dominant right ventricle and double outlet right ventricle. A right-sided bilateral cavopulmonary connection had been performed four years prior.…
