Oleg Orlov
One of the most frequent and feared complications of sequential diamond-shaped coronary anastomoses is the so-called seagull deformity, which causes a turbulence flow within the graft and the risk of clot formation. In this video,...
The case involved a thirty-three-year-old male with a seventeen-year history of postprandial nausea, vomiting, and epigastric pain. He also suffered from chronic abdominal pain from a past motorcycle accident. The...
This is the case of thirty-four-year-old woman who presented with a long-term history of left flank pain, groin pain, and proteinuria. She underwent a venography, angiography, and CT scan. The...
Sternal dehiscence without mediastinitis is a rare and relatively benign complication after cardiac surgery. However, it may cause severe discomfort for a patient. Traditional approaches include the Robicsek technique and...
The David procedure with an upper hemisternotomy approach is feasible and provides an excellent outcome, particularly in young patients. In this case, a preoperative chest CT showed aortic root dilatation...
A 45-year-old male hypertension presented with severe chest and back pain. Computed tomography (CT) scan revealed a type A aortic dissection extending into the abdominal aorta. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiogram demonstrated...
A 53-year-old man with a history of hypertension and coronary artery disease, status postcoronary artery bypass grafting x3 with left internal mammary artery (LIMA) to left anterior descending artery, saphenous...
The authors present a combined open and endovascular approach to a descending aortic pseudoaneurysm with iatrogenic coarctation. A 64-year-old man was found to have a pseudoaneurysm associated with coarctation at...
IntroductionA 56-year-old man status post repair of a descending thoracic aortic aneurysm after type B aortic dissection presented with acute type A dissection. The patient had a long history of...
Introduction Primary ovarian carcinoid tumors account for less than 0.5% of all carcinoid tumors [1]. Patients with primary ovarian carcinoid tumors may develop carcinoid heart disease by release of bioactive...
IntroductionChronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) occurs in less than 3.8% of pulmonary embolism (PE) cases. It results from concomitant pulmonary vascular obstruction and small-vessel fibrointimal hyperplasia, which leads to elevated...
Introduction Complex long-segment septal hypertrophy consists of both hypertrophic subaortic stenosis and midventricular obstruction [1-3]. Untreated midventricular obstruction leads to recurrent symptoms and reduced survival [1, 2]. A combined transaortic...
A 65-year-old man, who had a previous type A aortic dissection in 2011, developed a pseudoaneurysm at the proximal and distal aortic anastomoses of this prior ascending aortic repair. At...









