This video demonstrates a combined surgical intervention involving aortic valve replacement, mitral valve repair, and tricuspid valve repair through a single minimally invasive approach— a right anterior thoracotomy in the third intercostal space.
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Cardiac
June 10, 2025
June 9, 2025
This video demonstrates a simple and reproducible chest tube snaring technique that allows safe and controlled explantation of transcatheter aortic valve replacement prostheses with minimal risk of damage to surrounding structures.
June 9, 2025
This video demonstrates an open surgical repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm following multiple failed endovascular attempts, along with a concomitant recurrent umbilical hernia.
June 9, 2025
Dr. Ahmad Ali Amirghofran has pioneered numerous innovative techniques, particularly in valve repair, minimally invasive surgery, and congenital heart surgery. His current focus is on constructing native tissue valves using the patient’s own tissue during surgery, including the novel right atrial appendage valve technique. For more information on his surgical experience, accomplishments, the challenges facing cardiac surgery in Iran today, and more, read this interview.
June 6, 2025
At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, leading surgeons presented various management strategies for a 55-year-old male with a Debakey type 1 aortic dissection and discussed their respective techniques.
June 6, 2025
This video demonstrates that the left atrial appendage can be clipped via a left video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery approach in three minutes.
June 6, 2025
This video demonstrates an optimal approach to aortic arch coarctation with a large pseudoaneurysm, featuring an endovascular strategy and a backup open repair plan.
June 5, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning recaps the 33rd European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) annual meeting in Budapest.
June 5, 2025
This video demonstrates a minimally invasive mitral valve repair in a male patient with severe mitral regurgitation and mitral annular disjunction.
June 4, 2025
This video demonstrates a simple surgical technique for identifying the intramyocardial left anterior descending artery by passing a 1 mm coronary probe from the apical portion.