Joseph Zacharias
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 Ancona Minimally Invasive and Trans-Catheter...
In this roundtable, cardiac surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with the board members of the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons (ECS) Club about minimally invasive endoscopic and robotic...
In this fascinating interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Joseph Zacharias, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the Lancashire Cardiac Center in Blackpool, England, discussing lifetime management of heart...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Joseph Zacharias, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the Lancashire Cardiac Center in Blackpool, England, about lifetime management of...
An eighty-eight-year-old man with a history of hypertension, pulmonary embolism, prostate cancer, and right hip and femur surgery came to the cardiology clinic with progressive shortness of breath in recent...
This video describes one of the authors’ initial series of combined mitral and aortic valve surgery and highlights the steps involved for an endoscopic approach. The authors hypothesize that this...
In this video, we have used a homemade chord loops for mitral valve repair. We believe that this system is flexible for the mitral surgeons as the number of loops...
In this video, the authors demonstrate the advantage of minimally invasive endoscopic beating mitral valve surgery with cardiopulmonary support in complex redo cases. This technique can simplify the procedure in...
The authors present their experience with totally endoscopic beating mitral valve surgery by presenting this case of mitral repair. They recently moved to beating mitral surgery due to the shortage...
Isolated tricuspid regurgitation has been increasingly diagnosed amongst the population (1). Intracardiac devices and the prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) are now the most common causes of AF (2). Morbidity...
Joseph Zacharias of the Lancashire Cardiac Centre, Blackpool, UK, gives an overview of the use of ablation for atrial fibrillation in minimally invasive mitral valve surgery. Dr. Zacharias demonstrates his...
Joseph Zacharias of the Lancashire Cardiac Centre, Blackpool, United Kingdom, demonstrates an endoscopic vein harvesting technique, and reviews the evidence for and against endoscopic vein harvesting. This presentation was originally...






