Olivier Fabre
Surgery of the aortic arch has advanced significantly in recent years. The gold standard technique for treating arch aneurysms remains moderate to deep hypothermia with circulatory arrest of the lower body, coupled with cerebral protection....
Minimally invasive cardiac surgery is increasingly becoming a standard approach for the treatment of various cardiac pathologies such as aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation. It is also gaining popularity in...
This article is part of CTSNet’s Guest Editor Series, Coronary Arterial Anomalies—Pediatric and Adult Congenital. CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Sameh Said invited both pediatric and adult cardiac surgeons from around...
Minimally invasive cardiac surgery is increasingly becoming a standard approach for the treatment of various cardiac pathologies. Minimally invasive techniques are well established for isolated procedures such as mitral and/or...
Minimally invasive approaches are slowly but surely entering the field of cardiac surgery. It is important to note that in this direction, the valvular pathology has developed first and an...
The authors were faced with a patient who had previous double aortic and mitral valve replacements with two bioprosthesis (Perimount aortic 25 mm and Perimount mitral 29 mm) and presented...
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has gained worldwide acceptance for the treatment of aortic stenosis in high risk patients. Interestingly, transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVR) is in the initial phase...
Minimally invasive mitral valve repair is accepted as a reliable technique, and its use has spread. The respect rather than resect approach is now widely used in mitral valve repair,...
This video shows an 81-year-old male patient with severe calcified aortic stenosis. He had several previous abdominal surgeries and presented with clinical frailty. LVF was 40% and there were no...
TAVR is now the gold standard in the treatment of aortic stenosis in high risk patients. The transfemoral approach has been shown to be a reliable access method for TAVR....
Median sternotomy remains the gold standard approach for aortic valve replacement. Recently, there has been growing evidence of interest in performing aortic valve replacement via right anterior minithoracotomy. This minimally...










