Coronary Disease - Surgery
The video begins with an interview featuring CTSNet Senior Editor—Education Vincent Gaudiani, a Clinical Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University in Stanford, California, USA, and Lorena Montes, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Fundacion Cardiovascular...
The authors present a case of left atrial tumor excision combined with mitral and tricuspid valve repair and coronary revascularization, performed through a left anterior minithoracotomy in the fourth intercostal...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with David Waller, Chair of the EACTS Emphysema Taskforce and Director of the EACTS Fundamentals Course in Thoracic Surgery, about...
This single-center retrospective study evaluated whether stenosis in the intervening left anterior descending artery (iLAD), between the internal thoracic artery (ITA) anastomosis and diagonal bifurcation, affects ITA-LAD graft events after...
Across 252,408 angiograms performed by 40 interventional cardiologists in British Columbia (2010–2024), the proportion of patients referred for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) varied 13-fold (2.03 percent–26.4 percent) and was...
An interesting metanalysis, especially: The ad hoc results of off-pump surgery. The mean number of silent brain infarcts per patient was significantly higher in the transcatheter aortic valve implantation group...
Ticagrelor (Brilinta), an oral P2Y12 inhibitor, is an agent used in combination with aspirin for dual antiplatelet therapy after coronary interventions. It’s antiplatelet function cannot be reversed by platelet transfusion....
This single-center study retrospectively analyzed the impact of the implementation of thromboelastography (TEG) on all cardiac procedures performed during 2-year intervals prior to and after TEG implementation. A total of...
Filmed at the 2018 EACTS Annual Meeting in Milan, Italy, Jill Ley of California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, USA, moderates a discussion on evidence-based recommendations for movement following...
This video presents the endoscopic harvesting of the radial artery using the Getinge Vasoview Hemopro 2 System. It is an easy to learn technique, and it should preferably be trained...
The debate over the utility of postoperative incentive spirometry continues. In this instance, the use of a high-tech incentive spirometer that included audible reminders and use tracking was associated with...
Gu and colleagues developed a surgeon-specific quality monitoring system using a structured database of information derived from electronic health records. Additionally, they used a mobile-based system to provide feedback to...
Patient Care and General Interest The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have released their proposed update to the national coverage policy for transcatheter aortic valve replacement, in which...




