On Location is an ongoing series designed to provide brief overviews of the evolution of cardiothoracic and vascular surgery (CTVS) programs and voluntary CTVS activities in developing countries.
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July 15, 2021
This video demonstrates the technique of unroofing of trans-septal left main coronary artery in a 12-year-old boy.
July 13, 2021
This is a report and video of a successful slide tracheobronchoplasty for right mainstem bronchial agenesis.
July 12, 2021
Dr Bode Falase is a consultant and an associate professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria.
July 12, 2021
We present the repair of LPA sling and tracheal stenosis with reimplantation of the left pulmonary artery and slide tracheoplasty.
July 5, 2021
This a 15-month-old girl who under went asymptomatic vascular ring repair that was diagnosed prenatally.
July 1, 2021
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA), the American Society of ExtraCorporeal Technology (AmSECT), and the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management (SABM) published an update to the "2011 Update to The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Blood
June 28, 2021
This video demonstrates the technique of intraoperative fluorescence angiography (IOFA) for assessment of a variety of congenital heart defects after repair.
June 21, 2021
Patient with a known history of situs inversus was referred for surgical correction of severe mitral regurgitation. The surgery was minimally invasive. The challenges with performing the surgery are presented in the video.