Haytham Elgharably

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Redo Mechanical Commando After Previous Bio Commando

January 26, 2026 | Ahmed K. Awad…

This presentation details a redo Commando procedure converting biological to mechanical valves in a patient in his early 40s with end-stage renal disease. Three years after his initial Commando procedure with aortic and mitral bioprostheses,...

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Revisiting the Manougian Technique With Double-Patch

November 18, 2025 | Anthony Zaki…

In the treatment of aortic valve disease, there is increasing recognition of the adverse impact of patient–prosthesis mismatch, which has been associated with early valve failure and poorer long-term outcomes....

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TAVR Explant for Endocarditis With Repair of Focal Invasion of the Left Fibrous Trigone

November 17, 2025 | Haley Jenkins…

This case presentation demonstrates a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) explant with repair of focal invasion of the left fibrous trigone in the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT). The patient...

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Reconstruction of the Left Trigone During the Commando Procedure for Invasive Prosthetic Aortic Valve Endocarditis

July 15, 2025 | Davut Cekmecelioglu…

A 44-year-old male with past medical history of mechanical aortic valve replacement presented with methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bacteremia secondary to a dialysis fistula infection. He developed complete heart block,...

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Mitral Annular Calcification: Assessment, Debridement, and Annular Support for Valve Replacement

July 8, 2025 | Haytham Elgharably

This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Instructional Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. Mitral annular calcification (MAC) is a chronic degenerative process...

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Bilateral Orthotopic Lung Transplantation After Prior Cut and Sew MAZE

June 3, 2025 | Andrew Tang…

Bilateral lung transplantation after prior cut and sew MAZE presents a challenging technical scenario because severe calcifications within the left atrium and pulmonary veins make it difficult to safely clamp...

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Surgical Extraction of a Watchman Device, Amplatzer Plug, and Failed Transcatheter Mitral Prosthesis

August 26, 2024 | Mujeeb Zubair…

The patient is a seventy-eight-year-old male with a complex cardiac history, including a 3-vessel coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG), a Watchman device for atrial fibrillation, and a transcatheter mitral...

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Simplified Running Suture Technique for Allograft Implantation in Cases of Aortic Root Abscess

May 6, 2024 | Michael Javorski…

To simplify allograft implantation, especially in a case like this where the normal aortic root anatomy was disrupted by the infection and when debridement was carried down to the LVOT...

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Repair of a Large Posterior Left Ventricular PSA Involving the Mitral Apparatus

January 9, 2024 | Anthony Zaki…

A sixty-two-year-old former smoker with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presented to the authors’ institution with multiple recent embolic strokes and worsening heart failure symptoms. Careful diagnostic evaluation revealed a large...

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Minimally Invasive Excision of Pulmonary Valve Mass via Left Anterior Thoracotomy

January 3, 2023 | Anthony Zaki…

The Patient A fifty-six-year-old woman with HIV had been undergoing workup at an outside institution for progressive shortness of breath when a CT scan was obtained to evaluate for...

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Double Replacement With Reconstruction of the Aortomitral Fibrous Body for Invasive Valvular Endocarditis “Commando Procedure”

April 9, 2019 | Jose Navia…

This video demonstrates the technique of the “Commando procedure.” Reconstruction of the aortomitral fibrous body for invasive double valve endocarditis is a technically challenging operation. It includes aortic valve or...

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Incorporated Aortomitral Homograft for Double-Valve Endocarditis: The “Hemi-Commando” Procedure

April 10, 2017 | Jose Navia…

This video demonstrates a “hemi-commando” procedure in a 64-year-old female patient with aortic root abscess involving the intervalvular fibrosa. The hemi-commando procedure is a feasible treatment option for invasive double-valve...

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