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This video demonstrates a new modification to the periareolar approach, periareolar minimally invasive technique (PAMI). The periareolar approach has been the preferred technique in Brazil since 2006, hence named the Brazilian technique. It is a video-assisted minithoracotomy through a skin incision along the lower ridge of the areola (1). However, in this modified technique, the…
This video presents the case of a sixteen-year-old boy who was diagnosed with type C Ebstein’s anomaly in childhood. Previously, he underwent cone reconstruction and replacement of the tricuspid valve with the Heimlich cylinder valve. This redo surgery is the very first case of totally endoscopic beating-heart tricuspid valve replacement after complex congenital heart surgeries…
This is a recorded session from the 2021 Birmingham Review Course. In this session, five expert cardiac surgeons came together to present on topics in aortic surgery. This talk from Dr. Duke Cameron, former CTSNet President and cardiac surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses various aortopathies and their surgical solutions. Disclaimer The information and views…
August saw a wide variety of content published on CTSNet. Popular articles published this month include recordings from ATAS 2023, aortic surgical technique videos, and perspectives on the 2023 Chronic Coronary Disease Guideline. 1. Aortic Arch Debranching: The Off-Pump TechniqueBy Stephen Spindel, Shinobu Itagaki The most popular video in August demonstrates a step-by-step rundown of…
This video demonstrates the construction and implementation of a Cabrol patch and Cooley fistula, which can be an effective technique to combat persistent aortic bleeding. In this case, the Cabrol patch was used on a fifty-eight-year-old women, a former smoker with uncontrolled diabetes and BMI of 34. The patient had undergone aortic valve replacement with…
Dr. Sameh Said wrapped up his congenital heart surgery Guest Editor Series, “Right Axillary Thoracotomy for Repair of a Wide Variety of Congenital Heart Defects in Infants and Children—Should This Be the New Standard?” by moderating a live webinar. Contributors to the series discussed tips and pitfalls of completing various congenital cardiac surgeries via vertical…
This video presents a special case of a fissure last lower bilobectomy after an interoperative unilateral pulmonary artery clamping test. This was necessary because preoperative functional evaluation was inconclusive and intraoperative simulation of bilobectomy by artery clamping was planned to secure functional operability. To the authors’ best knowledge, this is the first documentation of this…
This is a recorded session from the 2021 Birmingham Review Course. In this session, five expert thoracic surgeons came together to present on thoracic malignancy and its surgical solutions. This talk from Dr. David Waller, a cardiac surgeon at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, discusses the role of segmentectomy and lobectomy in early lung cancer…
This article is part of CTSNet’s Guest Editor Series, “Right Axillary Thoracotomy for Repair of a Wide Variety of Congenital Heart Defects in Infants and Children—Should This Be the New Standard?” Guest Editor Dr. Sameh Said has curated a robust collection of content that shares the knowledge, techniques, and insights of several distinguished experts from…
This article is part of CTSNet’s Guest Editor Series, “Right Axillary Thoracotomy for Repair of a Wide Variety of Congenital Heart Defects in Infants and Children—Should This Be the New Standard?” Guest Editor Dr. Sameh Said has curated a robust collection of content that shares the knowledge, techniques, and insights of several distinguished experts from…
This article is part of CTSNet’s Guest Editor Series, “Right Axillary Thoracotomy for Repair of a Wide Variety of Congenital Heart Defects in Infants and Children—Should This Be the New Standard?” Guest Editor Dr. Sameh Said has curated a robust collection of content that shares the knowledge, techniques, and insights of several distinguished experts from…
This article is part of CTSNet’s Guest Editor Series, “Right Axillary Thoracotomy for Repair of a Wide Variety of Congenital Heart Defects in Infants and Children—Should This Be the New Standard?” Guest Editor Dr. Sameh Said has curated a robust collection of content that shares the knowledge, techniques, and insights of several distinguished experts from…
In the newest CTSNet Guest Editor Series, “Right Axillary Thoracotomy for Repair of a Wide Variety of Congenital Heart Defects in Infants and Children—Should This Be the New Standard?” Dr. Sameh Said brought together congenital cardiac surgery experts from around the world to contribute procedure videos on right axillary thoracotomy for repair of congenital heart…
As a part of the 2023 Australian Thoracic Aortic Symposium, Dr. Marco Di Eusanio presented on frozen elephant trunk without circulatory arrest. Dr. Di Eusanio is a cardiothoracic surgeon at Lancisi Cardiovascular Center and Politechnic University of Marche in Ancona, Italy. View Dr. Di Eusanio’s CTSNet profile for more of his articles and videos on…
A ten-month-old, 9.4 kg infant with heterotaxy syndrome presented with cyanosis. The cardiac diagnosis was a double outlet right ventricle with complete atrioventricular septal defect and multilevel right ventricular outflow tract obstruction. Other multiple anomalies included dextrocardia, situs inversus, interrupted inferior vena cava with azygous continuity to a left superior vena cava (SVC), malposed great…
This video demonstrates aortic arch debranching without the usage of cardiopulmonary bypass. In this case, the debranching was performed on a sixty-one-year-old male smoker who was diagnosed with type B aortic dissection three months prior, and presented to the emergency department with chest pain and an enlarging thoracic dissecting aneurysm. Computed tomographic angiography confirmed that…
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