Selim ISBIR
The authors present the surgical treatment performed for a 75-year-old woman with severe aortic and mitral stenoses due to postradiation therapy. There was severe mitral annular calcification in both the anterior and posterior annulus. She...
The authors present a sutureless aortic valve replacement via a right anterior thoracotomy, using minimal extracorporeal circulation (MECC) in an 84-year-old patient with severe aortic stenosis. Preoperative tomographic angiography showed...
The treatment of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms continues to be a challenge in cardiovascular surgery. Recently, hybrid debranching and endovascular repair of extensive thoracoabdominal aneurysms became a suitable approach in those...
This is a novel usage of an ultrasonic bone scalpel in cardiothoracic surgery used to operate on what is normally one of the most difficult situations that we face, namely...




