Ali Khoynezhad
This video depicts a redo commando operation on a patient on hemodialysis who had aorto-left atrial fistula and presented with heart failure symptoms. The patient underwent redo sternotomy and bicaval cannulation with exposure of the...
A seventy-four-year-old male underwent a thoracoscopic biatrial ablation procedure with bipolar frequency. His past cardiac history was significant, with a three-year history of atrial fibrillation and multiple failed cardioversions. Further...
Drs Mohamad Bashir, Joseph Bavaria, Ali Khoynezhad, Martin Grabenwoger, and Heinz Jakob discuss the controversies of the treatment of thoracic aortic dissection, including risk identification, strategies for the optimal treatment...
The treatment of thoracic aortic dissection raises many controversies, including risk identification, strategies for the optimal treatment approach, and the appropriate surgical intervention. Mohamad Bashir of Barts Heart Centre moderates...
Hybrid aortic procedures have the potential to reduce morbidity and mortality in patients that may not be reasonable candidates for traditional open operation. Proposed advantages are: reduced mortality in patients...
Patient Selection Renal artery stenosis (RAS) of >70% of one or both renal arteries AND poorly controlled hypertension despite multiple antihypertensive regimen, or chronic renal insufficiency related to RAS Dialysis...
Introduction Introducer sheaths currently provide the safest method of maintaining access to the vascular system during an endoluminal procedure. The use of sheaths is now recommended for nearly every endoluminal...
Introduction Whether diagnostic or interventional, catheters and other endovascular devices are rarely sufficiently maneuverable to be used without guidewires. The purpose of guidewires is to create a pathway in the...
Introduction “Diagnostic” catheters allow the endoluminal practitioner to assess areas of the vascular system and to evaluate for a possible intervention; additionally, they assist in performing an intervention. This often...
Introduction Balloon catheters have two principal applications in peripheral endoluminal procedures. Therapeutic or angioplasty ballooning is the forceful inflation of a balloon to dilate stenotic/occlusive lesions in a vessel. This...
Patient Selection Indications for endovascular repair of the abdominal aortic aneurysm are: Patients with asymptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysm greater than 5 cm in an orthogonal projection or larger than twice...
Patient Selection Indications for endovascular repair of the thoracic aortic aneurysm (Figure 1) are: Figure 1: The three-dimension reconstruction (Medical Metrx Solutions, West Lebanon, NH) off the aortic-centerline from a...
Patient Selection Indications for endovascular repair of the iliac artery are: Stenosis or (short-segment) occlusion of iliac artery (TASC type A and B, TASC C lesions are controversial) with ipsilateral...








