Aortic Surgery
This talk features Farhad Bakhtiary, Director of the Clinic for Cardiac Surgery at the University Hospital Bonn, Germany, delivering a presentation on “The Ascending Aorta and Root Through the Scope” at the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons...
In this single-center study of 651 patients undergoing combined aortic and mitral valve surgery, mitral annular constraint from anterior annular anchoring sutures for mitral replacement or complete-ring annuloplasty was associated...
In this 32-year, single-center retrospective study, the authors evaluated outcomes of total arch replacement (TAR) after prior aortic surgery. Among 219 patients undergoing reoperative TAR between 1993 and 2025, procedural...
In this national registry analysis, the authors evaluated sex-related differences in outcomes among 2,857 patients undergoing surgical repair of type A acute aortic dissection in the United Kingdom between 1996...
This surgical video demonstrates they key steps, safeguards, and pitfalls of a Konno-Rastan aortoventriculoplasty. The patient underwent a fifth redo sternotomy after a complicated previous surgical history. In addition, previous...
This video demonstrates hemi-commando reconstruction for destructive infective endocarditis of a prior transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) caused by Coxiella burnetii. Preoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) revealed posterior aortic root thickening,...
In this educational interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Luca Di Marco, a cardiac surgeon in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Bologna University Hospital, Italy, about managing...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Luca Di Marco, a cardiac surgeon in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Bologna University Hospital, Italy, about...
A 69-year-old woman with a body surface area of 1.8 m² presented with progressive dyspnea on exertion (New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III), severe aortic regurgitation, and an ascending...
In this analysis of 1,156 patients from the Nordic Consortium for Acute Type A Aortic Dissection (NORCAAD-2) across seven Swedish centers, younger patients presented with more extensive dissections, including higher...
This prospective single-surgeon series reports 30-year outcomes after the Ross procedure in 212 consecutive patients operated on between 1990 and 2004. The median age was 34 years; 108 patients underwent...
Patient selection includes infants requiring aortic arch reconstruction with concomitant intracardiac repair, particularly those with a dilated main pulmonary artery associated with pulmonary hypertension. Operative Steps A median sternotomy was...
A 37-year-old man with a bicuspid aortic valve had previously undergone aortic valve replacement and ascending aortic replacement. Persistent postoperative symptoms were followed by the development of a presternal pulsatile...







