Aortic Valve
Mitral valve replacement in infants with a very small annulus remains challenging when the annulus cannot accommodate even the smallest prosthesis. This video shows a supra-annular technique using a bovine pericardial tube in a 16-month-old,...
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,...
…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...
