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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…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2023 Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. Extracorporeal telescopes have been the latest addition to the neurosurgeons’ armamentarium. The implementation of three-dimensional exoscopes in minimally invasive cardiac surgery seems feasible for safe utilization and may also be a promising tool in terms…
Esophagectomy is associated with significant postoperative morbidity and mortality (1). In an effort to reduce these outcomes, many medical communities have adopted minimally invasive techniques for esophagectomy. A variety of minimally invasive techniques have been established (2,3). The authors’ center has been offering minimally invasive McKeown esophagectomy with extracorporeal gastric conduit formation since 2012, using…
In this session from the 2023 London Core Review Cardiothoracic Surgery Course, Professor Tirone David spoke on the development of aortic valve sparing operations over the last twenty-five years. If you like this presentation, register for the 13th Annual London Core Review from April 10-12, 2024. The three-day course is taught by a mixture of…
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. In this video, the patient underwent TAVR,…
A mildly symptomatic seven-year-old male patient presented with a high partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection of the right upper and middle veins into the superior vena cava high above the right pulmonary artery with a secundum atrial septal defect. An elective surgical treatment was indicated. The Surgery After a midline median sternotomy the ascending aorta,…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2023 Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. In this video, the authors share their latest educational innovations, including the development of a telesimulator and a telesimulation curriculum for endoscopic mitral valve surgery. Mitral valve repair is a highly intricate procedure in cardiac…
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Lung sparing bronchial sleeve resection was first described by Paulson and Shaw in 1955 (1). Resection of the left mainstem bronchus (LMSB) is challenging due to its location adjacent to the aortic arch and left main pulmonary artery. The surgical approach can be anterior or lateral (1-5). The anterior approach can be transsternal or hemi-clamshell…
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, Dr. Charles Mve Mvondo presented on the efforts to build the African Database for Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery in order to strengthen CT surgery across African countries.…
