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Vasily Kaleda
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. Nowadays, despite strong evidence of the benefits of concomitant atrial fibrillation ablation during cardiac...
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...
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 intramyocardial LAD poses a challenge for LIMA-to-LAD anastomosis, especially in the case of an off-pump or minimally invasive approach, so the artery should be detected preoperatively to choose a...
Ascending aortic graft kinking occurs incidentally after replacement of the ascending aorta. If not corrected, graft kinking may cause heart failure (1), severe hemolytic anemia with renal dysfunction (2), or...
