Dr. Mara Antonoff, president of Women in Thoracic Surgery, spoke with her colleagues Drs. Stephanie Chang and Amy Fiedler about the program highlights for the upcoming WTS Annual Meeting.
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Cardiac
October 15, 2025
October 15, 2025
This video demonstrates the removal of a four-year-old Evolute transcatheter aortic valve replacement and the placement of a 23 mm surgical aortic valve.
October 15, 2025
This video demonstrates the successful surgical intervention of ascending aorta replacement in a patient following complications from a previously implanted Sapiens TAVR.
October 14, 2025
This video demonstrates the surgical management of a 77-year-old patient with streptococcus endocarditis following a previous transcatheter aortic valve replacement, necessitating an aortic root replacement.
October 14, 2025
This video demonstrates the urgent removal of a transcatheter aortic valve replacement due to a contained aortic annulus rupture and the subsequent repair using a Dacron patch.
October 13, 2025
This video demonstrates a redo surgical aortic valve replacement after the removal of both a valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve replacement and a previous surgical aortic valve.
October 13, 2025
This video demonstrates the removal of a functional transcatheter aortic valve replacement in an 83-year-old patient with mitral disease.
October 10, 2025
At the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) 2025 Annual Conference, Dr. James Long, a thoracic surgeon at INTEGRIS Health Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, delivered a presentation titled “Disruptive Innovation.”
October 9, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning shares insights from his recent trip to Ghana.
October 9, 2025
This video demonstrates that while intravascular ultrasound and transesophageal echocardiography are valuable tools for establishing true lumen access during both type A and B aortic dissection repair, these techniques require significant experience to understand and interpret.