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This article is part of CTSNet’s Guest Editor Series, 21 Years After First TAVI: Will Pace of Innovations Continue for All Heart Valves? Guest editor Gry Dahle has curated a robust collection of content that shares the knowledge, techniques, and insights of several distinguished experts from around the world. In this video, transcatheter mitral valve…
This article is part of CTSNet’s Guest Editor Series, 21 Years After First TAVI: Will Pace of Innovations Continue for All Heart Valves? Guest editor Gry Dahle has curated a robust collection of content that shares the knowledge, techniques, and insights of several distinguished experts from around the world. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is…
This article is part of CTSNet’s Guest Editor Series, 21 Years After First TAVI: Will the Pace of Innovations Continue for All Heart Valves? Guest editor Gry Dahle has curated a robust collection of content that shares the knowledge, techniques, and insights of several distinguished experts from around the world. Since the first transcatheter aortic…
In the newest entry into the CTSNet Guest Editor Series collection, “20 Years After First TAVI: Will the Pace of Innovations Continue for All Heart Valves?” Gry Dahle, MD, PhD presents a curated collection of videos on the history, current challenges, and future advances of transcatheter valve replacement. You can learn more about Dr. Dahle…
Gry Dahle, MD, PhD, is a consultant working in department of cardiothoracic and cardiovascular surgery at Oslo University Hospital in Norway. She is a transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) pioneer and implemented TAVI in Oslo University Hospital. Dr. Dahle is the executive secretary for ISMICS and the Editorial Board of Innovators. She is the chair…
Complex chest and lung infections with bronchial fistula are life-threatening situations with a mortality rate of up to 20 percent. If medical treatment fails, these patients require aggressive surgical procedures to heal. Transposition of the omentum is a valuable option in these complex cases with aggressive infection involving the pleural space, with or without a…
Growing up, Dr. Penelope Adinku’s parents always encouraged her and her sisters to fearlessly pursue their dreams. Today, Dr. Adinku is Ghana’s first female cardiothoracic surgeon. She began her position at the National Cardiothoracic Centre at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana in April 2022, where her special interests include pediatric cardiac surgery. Dr. Adinku…
A sixty-three-year-old man with a complex history, including a prior mechanical Cabrol procedure and subsequent total aortic arch replacement with frozen elephant trunk, presented to an outside hospital with a fever. CT imaging revealed a graft infection. The patient was transferred for further management, and after a multidisciplinary discussion, the decision was made to…
One of the most frequent and feared complications of sequential diamond-shaped coronary anastomoses is the so-called seagull deformity, which causes a turbulence flow within the graft and the risk of clot formation. In this video, the authors discuss strategy to avoid this complication as well as the strategy to address it in case the seagull…
Although they are not as common as other thoracic surgeries, esophageal procedures are an important part of every thoracic surgeon’s repertoire. These five popular videos from CTSNet demonstrate different techniques for esophagectomy, hiatal hernia repair, and more. Do you have a favorite esophageal procedure video on CTSNet? Let us know in the comments. 1. The…
The treatment of superior sulcus tumors (Pancoast tumors) has evolved over the past seventy years. Initial treatment was resection followed by irradiation (1). Now, the established trimodal treatment popularized by Shaw and Paulson involves neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by thoracotomy with right upper lobectomy and resection of the involved ribs (2). The five-year survival with node-negative…
A 44-year-old female with no past medical history presented with acute onset chest pain and new heart failure. A workup revealed severe aortic insufficiency (AI) with a bicuspid aortic valve that appeared to be prolapsing. The patient was stabilized and deemed a suitable candidate for the Ross procedure (1,2). After a median sternotomy, cardiopulmonary bypass…
This video demonstrates a case of a seventy-four-year-old woman found to have persistent primary hyperparathyroidism after bilateral neck exploration, implicating an anterior mediastinal cyst as an ectopic parathyroid adenoma. The patient underwent anterior mediastinal mass resection via a left-sided robot-assisted thoracoscopic approach that resulted in normalization of her hypercalcemia. The Surgery First, a 12…
A variety of procedures make up CTSNet’s catalog of heart valve content, which has continued to expand as surgeons increasingly focus on perfecting valve surgeries. Read on to explore five of the most popular heart valve videos on the site in the past year and let us know your favorite in the comments. 1. Mechanical…
After the donor heart arrives (see Orthotopic Heart Transplant Using Bicaval Technique Part 1: Recipient Cardiectomy for that procedure), additional cardioplegia is given. The anatomy, such as the patent foramen ovale, is inspected before implantation. Left atrial (LA) anastomosis using 3-0 MH needle starts at the level of the left upper pulmonary vein of the…
To begin the cardiectomy, the sternum is opened in a standard full sternotomy. The ascending aorta, superior vena cava (SVC) and inferior vena cava (IVC) are isolated and umbilical tape snares are passed around them. After heparin administration, the ascending aorta is cannulated using a 20 Fr cannula as distal as possible, as is SVC…
