Mariano Camporrotondo
Introduction Aortic valve repair is emerging as a beneficial alternative to aortic valve replacement in the treatment of aortic regurgitation, offering young patients the possibility to eliminate the risks of complications associated with prostheses, including...
In this video, the authors show a two-stage hybrid treatment strategy for DeBakey type I aortic dissection. The patient was a 70-year-old man who arrived from another institution with a...
The use of both internal thoracic arteries (ITAs) has been shown to provide a decreased risk of death, need for reoperation, or need for percutaneous coronary intervention when compared with...
The patient was a 35-year-old woman. She had a cardiovascular history of obesity and an ischemic stroke with a right brachiocrural focus and expressive aphasia in 2012-2013. She continues to...
Mitral valve repair is shown to have better survival, better preservation of ventricular function, and decreased thromboembolic complications compared to mitral valve replacement for mitral regurgitation (1-2). The Cardiovascular Institute...
This video demonstrates the resection of a fibroelastoma in the left ventricular outflow tract using a minimally invasive approach. The 83-year-old female patient was asymptomatic. Her cardiovascular history included a...
This the case of a 55-year-old male with no record of previous disease or cardiovascular risk factors. At the time of surgery the patient was asymptomatic. TEE showed severe mitral...






