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The Patient In this video, the authors present the case of a minimally invasive resection of an infected CCAM in an adult. The patient is a twenty-nine-year-old African-American man who presented to the emergency department with shortness of breath and a productive green frothy cough for one and a half weeks. His past medical history…
CTSNet recently hosted the second webinar in the ESTS Women in General Thoracic Surgery Committee and the Women in Thoracic Surgery webinar series, in which experts discussed women as leaders in cardiothoracic surgery. Watch the recording below for more. Topics Covered Jessica Donington: Women in CT Surgery Institutional Leadership Nuria Novoa: Women in CT Surgery…
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 Bakaeen recount the history of innovation in CABG surgery at Cleveland Clinic and discuss his contemporary strategies for safe and effective CABG using…
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 Global Editor Emily Farkas spoke with Dr. Ikenna Okereke, the cardiac surgery division chief at Henry Ford…
The ArtiSential wristed instruments have been developed by the South Korean company LIVSMED. Because of difficult access to robotic surgery, our thoracic team has introduced the ArtiSenital bipolar precise dissectors for anatomical lung resection (1). The fully articulating wristed motion provides wristed manipulations that are similar to robotic-assisted surgery but in the hands of the…
Tracheobronchomalacia is a degenerative condition of the central airways that that can result in excessive dynamic airway collapse (EDAC) upon expiration. Clinically, patients present with dyspnea on exertion, exercise intolerance, and/or recurrent pulmonary infections. Tracheobronchoplasty, or surgical stabilization by plication of the membranous airway with mesh, may improve symptoms in carefully selected patients (1). In…
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 Leonard N. Girardi, a cardiac surgeon at Weill Cornell…
This is a detailed video by Professor Tristan Yan demonstrating the left radial artery to left internal mammary artery (LIMA) ‘T’ graft formation, which is an important procedural step, when performing total arterial anaortic off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. This no-touch technique to the ascending aorta minimizes the risk of stroke. A 7-0 prolene…
An eighteen-year-old young man was referred from another heart center with the finding of an aortic pseudoaneurysm following a redo Bentall procedure. The patient’s medical record included two previous cardiac surgeries. In August 2022, he underwent a Bentall procedure due to severe stenosis of the bicuspid aortic valve. Two months later, he underwent a redo…
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 Amy Fiedler, a heart transplant surgeon at University of…
This video discusses when and how to perform esophageal lengthening in paraesophageal hernia repair. Determination of intraabdominal esophageal length is a key step in a paraesophageal hernia repair. Ideally, 2.5-3 cm of intraabdominal esophageal length is desired after mediastinal mobilization. A short intraabdominal esophageal length contributes to hernia recurrence. There are several predictive factors for…
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 Lars Svensson demonstrate his technique for valve-sparing aortic root replacement. Along with a step-by-step demonstration of the procedure, Prof. Svensson discusses important tips and…
CTSNet continued its webinar series with ASAIO Journal on March 14, 2024 by enrolling cardiac surgery and heart transplantation professionals to discuss the topic, “Donor Heart Preservation and Resuscitating Marginal Donors: Hot or Cold?” Panelists included Dr. Michael E. Bowdish, Professor and Clinical Chief of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Dr.…
The patient is a thirty-two-year-old man who is a nonsmoker with no prior medical history living in a rural area. He consulted his pneumologist after experiencing dyspnea and hemoptysis. In the chest CT scan, a large hydatic cyst was seen to be taking up most of the right upper lobe. The patient underwent a right…
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 Mara Antonoff spoke with Professor Kevin Lobdell about remote patient monitoring in cardiothoracic surgery. Prof. Lobdell…
This is a video by Professor Tristan Yan, who performs a total arterial anaortic off-pump bypass procedure, without manipulating the ascending aorta, which reduces the risk of stroke. He first anastomoses the left radial artery to the left internal mammary artery (LIMA) in an end-to-side fashion, as a “T” graft. Then after performing the LIMA…
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