Aortic Valve
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 percutaneous plugs had been used...
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...
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...
