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February was a busy month for CTSNet. This month’s list of top 10 content includes an orthotopic heart transplant, recorded sessions from the London Core Review Cardiothoracic Surgery Course, JANS articles highlighting recent game-changing studies, and more. 1. Orthotopic Heart TransplantationBy Debasis Das, NILANJAN DUTTA, Pradeep Narayan, Shyamal Maiti The most popular video this month…
Recurrent tricuspid valve endocarditis is a difficult problem that is not uncommon. Valvectomy is often used as a temporizing strategy until remission from drug abuse is achieved for a meaningful time. In the absence of a tricuspid valve, timing of reintervention is crucial and should precede severe irreversible right ventricle failure. Upon intervention, every effort…
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 Senior Editor Mara Antonoff spoke with Dr. Anna Olds, a cardiothoracic surgery resident at the University of…
CTSNet is happy to present the webinar recording of “Getting to the Root of Complex Aortic Procedures,” featuring panelists Dr. Eric Roselli (Cleveland Clinic), Dr. Kendall Lawrence (University of Pennsylvania), Dr. Kyle Eudailey (University of Alabama), Dr. Christopher Mehta (Northwestern Medicine), and Dr. Nimesh Desai (University of Pennsylvania). This webinar was hosted on February 21,…
This video demonstrates a bilateral anterior thoracotomy or clamshell thoracotomy. A clamshell thoracotomy is used primarily to treat cardiac tamponade as a potential cause of death. The goals are to release cardiac tamponade, control hemorrhage, and restart the heart. Still, the survival rate for this procedure remains less than 10 percent. The main indication is…
Convergent hybrid AF ablation is a safe and effective minimally invasive procedure for treating persistent atrial fibrillation. It combines epicardial radiofrequency left atrial posterior wall ablation through subxiphoid access, concomitant thoracoscopic left atrial appendage management, and pre/postprocedural transcatheter pulmonary vein isolation. In this video, the authors demonstrate a successful convergent procedure in a sixty-nine-year-old normosthenic…
In this series of videos, Dr. Vincent Gaudiani shares his experience in the new field of surgery after previous TAVR and provides his tips for safely performing redo surgery for a variety of indications including TAVR early and late failure, endocarditis, and when further valve surgery is required. Watch the entire series by following the…
In this session from the 2023 London Core Review Cardiothoracic Surgery Course, Professor Steven Westaby spoke on notable milestones in cardiac surgery. If you like this video, register for the 13th Annual London Core Review from April 10-12, 2024. The three-day course is taught by a mixture of US and UK faculty at the Wellcome…
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 Senior Editor Mara Antonoff spoke with Dr. Jonathan David Spicer, a thoracic surgeon at McGill University in…
Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO) caused by subaortic membrane (SAM) can result in increased left ventricle (LV) systolic pressure and wall stress and LV hypertrophy. This video presents the case of a nine-year-old male with severe subvalvular stenosis caused by a discrete SAM and interventricular septum hypertrophy. The surgical technique described by Yacoub et.…
The patient is a seventy-one-year-old male with a history of Hurthle cell carcinoma who initially underwent thyroidectomy and central neck dissection, follow by radioactive iodine. He developed recurrence after 10 years with tracheal invasion, which was treated by tracheal resection via partial sternotomy and mediastinal lymph node dissection. Four years later, he developed 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 in Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Professor Leah Backhus, a thoracic surgeon at Stanford University in…
Total aortic arch replacement with the frozen elephant trunk (FET) technique has been an established solution for extended dissections, useful especially in cases where an endovascular approach is not possible (1, 2). The E-Vita Open Neo offers a unique approach for aortic arch replacement with the FET technique. This modern device focuses on getting closer…
A one-month-old baby presented to the pulmonology unit at Mansoura University Children’s Hospital, Mansoura, Egypt, with respiratory distress and a wheezy chest. A chest X-ray showed an opacified right side of the chest with a marked shift of the mediastinum to the right. A flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FFB) was completed and showed a primitive right…
As part of the 2023 Joint International Conference of the African Academy for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery and the African Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons, Dr. Mark N. Awori presented on his team’s experience with the development of a cardiac surgery unit and how it connects to surgical management and outcomes of Tetralogy…
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 Professor Cherie Erkmen, a thoracic surgeon at Temple University Health Systems…
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