Vladimir Demianenko
Combined aortic valve replacement (AVR) and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) are predominantly performed via full sternotomy. The authors present an innovative sternum-sparing technique using a left anterior minithoracotomy (LAmT) for concomitant AVR and multivessel...
This article is part of CTSNet’s Guest Editor Series, “Right Axillary Thoracotomy for Repair of a Wide Variety of Congenital Heart Defects in Infants and Children—Should This Be the New...
This video presents the clinical case of atrial septal defect repair through right axillary minithoracotomy. The patient was a seven-year old girl with no symptoms. The physical examination was uneventful....
Experience with routine minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting makes it possible to successfully and safely perform more complex procedures through the same incision. This video presents the authors’ routine...
We are presenting the case of the minimally invasive total repair of Tetralogy of Fallot in a 2-month-old male patient. Echocardiography showed good LV contractility, open permanent ductus arteriosus (PDA),...
In this video, we are presenting the case of minimally invasive repair of the anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery in adult. A 29-year-old man has presented with...
We are presenting the case of minimally invasive repair of large left ventricle inferior pseudoaneurysm and concomitant CABG procedure. The patient was a 63-year-old man who presented with shortness of...
This video demonstrates a case report of a 33-year-old man diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF). He had progressive exertional dyspnea with oxygen saturation 91% and NYHA class II-III. The...
The patient was a 6-year-old boy with no symptoms and a finding of a systolic heart murmur on the left sternal border on a routine examination. Echocardiogram showed left ventricular...
The authors present a case of mitral valve (MV) repair combined with pectus excavatum repair in a highly symptomatic 28-year-old woman. Her preoperative transesophageal (TEE) echo showed severe mitral insufficiency,...
A 53-year-old man was admitted with a two-month history of anterior myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, and a New York Heart Association III classification. Echocardiography showed severe mitral insufficiency (Carpentier...






