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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…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2023 Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. This video presents a rare surgery for secondary carinal tumors. Secondary carinal tumors are most often treated with pneumonectomy. This video demonstrates the parenchymal preservation technique. References Left secondary carinal resection and reconstruction for low-grade…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2023 Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. Myocardial bridging is a rare congenital anomaly presenting a segment of a coronary artery, most commonly the left anterior descending (LAD), covered by a bridge of myocardium that produces dynamic compression resulting in intermittent myocardial…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2023 Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. Anastomotic leaks of the esophagogastric conduit in minimally invasive esophagectomies (MIE) are associated with increased length of hospital stay, formation of anastomotic strictures, and increased morbidity and mortality rates. The authors’ study has shown that…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2023 Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. Pressurized intrathoracic aerosol chemotherapy (PITAC) is a novel and promising treatment for malignant pleural effusion, allowing surgeons to achieve an effective pleurodesis together with a potential anti-neoplastic effect. The treatment delivers chemotherapeutic agents via a…
In this session from the 2023 London Core Review Cardiothoracic Surgery Course, Professor Gebrine El Khoury gave his tips and tricks for his method of mitral valve repair. 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…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2023 Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. This video shows the preclinical use of the minimally invasive targeted resection (MiTR) system, a novel electrosurgical instrument that allows for targeted excision of a lung abnormality while using bipolar radiofrequency energy to seal blood…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2023 Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. Aortic valve repair procedures can be technically challenging and there are no tools to evaluate the valve intraoperatively. Echocardiography after repair is considered the standard method, but if there are no satisfactory results, another clamp…
At the 2023 EACTS 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 Professor James Tatoulis, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Royal Melbourne Hospital in…
Despite the emergence of various innovative therapies for individuals suffering from advanced heart failure, such as significant advancements in mechanical circulatory support, biventricular pacing, and stem cell treatments, heart transplantation remains the preferred and most effective treatment option. This is a surgical video demonstrating an orthotopic heart transplant using the bicaval technique. Orthotopic heart transplantation…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2023 Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. The patient is a forty-nine-year-old woman who had previously undergone a bilateral mastectomy to treat breast cancer. Her follow-up CT scan showed a single left fourth rib nodule suggestive of metastasis. This was a challenging…
As a 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, Professor William Novick presented on his methods for developing pediatric cardiac services in low- and middle-income countries. He also discussed what he has learned about identifying the…
This video highlights innovative surgical strategies for repairing common arterial trunk (CAT) type III. Patients with CAT are predisposed to an early, irreversible increase in pulmonary vascular resistance. Hence, early surgical correction is crucial for improving prognosis (1). Surgical treatment consists of separating the aortopulmonary connection, creating a new right ventricular (RV) to pulmonary artery…
This video shows the case of a forty-year-old man who presented for evaluation of several months of anterior chest wall pain. Cross sectional imaging demonstrated a calcified anterior fourth rib lesion arising from the posterior table and projecting inward into the left hemithorax, measuring up to 3.8 cm (Figure 1). Physical examination was notable for…
At the 2023 EACTS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning and CTSNet senior editors set out to interview the most knowledgable CT surgeons from around the world. Stay tuned for more interviews from the meeting. Joel caught up with Professor John D. Puskas, Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery and Director of Surgical Coronary Revascularization…
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