Atlas of Surgery
In this special guest lecture for the 2026 Society of Thoracic Surgery of Thailand, Dr. Vince Gaudiani addresses essential surgical techniques for the safe removal of transcatheter aortic valves and their replacement with surgical aortic...
This video demonstrates a redo operation in a patient in their 60s who had a previous biological aortic valve replacement and required an aortic root replacement with the Konect valved...
The patient was a healthy 88-year-old male who had been in atrial fibrillation (AF) for 20 years, who presented with a large left atrium. He had undergone ascending aortic replacement,...
In this special guest lecture for the 2026 Society of Thoracic Surgery of Thailand, Dr. Vince Gaudiani addresses essential surgical techniques for the safe removal of transcatheter aortic valves and...
This video documents the investigation and treatment of a male patient who was referred with severe aortic valve stenosis. He was initially referred for consideration of transcatheter aortic valve replacement...
The case presented involves a 34-year-old male who had a 21 mm St. Jude valve placed 10 years prior but now has a 4m/s gradient across this valve, which occurred...
This video shows an operation on a patient who had previously undergone a biological aortic valve replacement 10 years ago at the age of 40 who now needed a redo...
This video describes a 73-year-old woman with severe aortic and tricuspid regurgitation due to rheumatic fever. The inferior vena cava (IVC) cannula was placed in the right femoral vein, and...
This video features a patient who needed a left internal mammary artery (LIMA) graft to the left anterior descending artery (LAD) and a graft to the posterior descending artery (PDA)....
This video describes how to perform a left ventricular outflow tract enlargement in a pig model. A Hemashield velour Dacron graft was fashioned after making an incision into the annulus....
The patient was a 52-year-old man with a 5.2 cm aorta. A femoral vein cannula was placed, followed by an upper ministernotomy. Retrograde cardioplegia was administered while the aorta was...
The patient was a 50-year-old man who had undergone a 27 mm Mosaic aortic valve replacement three years previously, who, unfortunately developed a streptococcus mitis infection. The valve was sterilized,...
This video features a 42-year-old male patient who received an On-X mechanical valve. An aortotomy was performed after a hemisternotomy, and then the leaflets were removed as closely to the...











