This video demonstrates the use of a 3D model to tailor a Dacron patch during surgical ventricular restoration.
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Cardiac
February 16, 2021
February 12, 2021
This study evaluates the importance of of evaluating patient frailty prior to high-risk cardiothoracic operations.
February 10, 2021
In this CTSNet To Go podcast episode, Niv Ad moderates a discussion on the importance of atrial fibrillation in decision-making in structural heart disease and coronary artery disease.
February 10, 2021
In this CTSNet To Go episode, David Tom Cooke moderates a discussion on innovative curriculum design in cardiothoracic surgery.
February 10, 2021
This week's episode: the status of COVID-19 survivors after ECMO, trial on advanced reperfusion strategies, decrease in adult surgeries, and analysis of robotically-assisted congenital cardiac surgery.
February 9, 2021
This video outlines the operative set-up and minimally invasive approach to left atrial wall ablation (Convergent procedure) and left atrial appendage clip ligation for patients with persistent atrial fibrillation.
February 4, 2021
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) continues to be responsible for major cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the developing world. It constitutes a double tragedy because it disproportionately affects economically disadvantaged people and young people, thereby robbing them of the most productive years of life.
February 2, 2021
This video demonstrates the operative technique of totally endoscopic transaortic extended septal myectomy for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
January 30, 2021
A Canadian multi-centre RCT of immediate baloon-cryoablation of the pulmonary veins: the intervention was compared to the relevant standard of pharmacological care. The target population was treatment-naive sufferers of de novo paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.
January 29, 2021
This video demonstrates subaortic stenosis resection via a right axillary minithoracotomy in a 6-year-old boy with ventricular outflow tract obstruction by subaortic fibrous membrane with a peak gradient of 76 mm Hg and mild aortic valve regurgitation.