Antonios Pitsis
This session features leading surgeons discussing the tricuspid valve at the Transcatheter Heart Valves Greece (THVGreece) 2026 conference. Moderators Vassilis Voudris, Director of the Cardiology/Interventional Cardiology Division, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece; and Vasilios...
In this session, cardiothoracic surgery experts gathered to discuss perfusion strategies, redo mitral valve surgery, and endocarditis. These presentations were recorded during the mitral and tricuspid valves session of the...
This video demonstrates a totally endoscopic transaortic extended septal myectomy for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in an 81-year-old woman who was heavily symptomatic with class 3 shortness of breath. The LVOT...
The case of a 73-year-old man in NYHA class 3 and a history of pulmonary edema, due to severe mixed aortic valve disease, is presented. The operation was performed with...
The authors present the case of a 77-year-old woman in NYHA class 3, due to severe AS and severe secondary MR. The operation was performed with the authors’ totally endoscopic...
The artificial chordae technique is a well-established technique used to treat primary mitral regurgitation, especially when the anterior mitral leaflet is involved (1). The main difficulty of this technique is...
The authors present a video showing their technique of totally endoscopic aortic valve replacement with a bovine pericardial valve (Trifecta GT, Abbott), performed for an 81-year-old patient with severe aortic...
Redo isolated tricuspid repair following previous mitral valve replacement carries a high mortality and morbidity. The authors’ totally endoscopic technique avoids entirely heart dissection, thus minimizing surgical trauma and possibly...
The patient was a 38-year-old man with dyspnea on exertion class II and severe mitral regurgitation seen on transthoracic echocardiography. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) revealed a flail A2/A3 segment and...





