Thoracoabdominal Aortic Surgery

Podcast

The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 167: Insights on Robotic Cardiac Surgery Adoption and Training 

July 30, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Ahmed Ghazy, Head of Minimally Invasive Surgery at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, about robotic cardiac surgery adoption and training. Dr. Ghazy...

A pair of doctors operating on a patient in the operating room.
Video

Type A Interrupted Aortic Arch Repair and Pulmonary Artery Banding Through a Left Posterolateral Thoracotomy

July 20, 2026 | Zineb EL HASNAOUI…

This video illustrates the case of a 10-day-old female neonate (2.8 kg) with antenatal diagnosis of Type A interrupted aortic arch (IAA). Preoperative echocardiography showed Type A interrupted aortic arch,...

Journal

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

June 3, 2025 | Martin ANOTHER
JANS Article

Discussion to: Branched stented anastomosis frozen elephant trunk repair (B-SAFER): Early results from a physician-sponsored investigational device exemption study

October 21, 2024 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A detailed , open and stimulating discussion of a presentation in the AATS . The presenter responds to peer questioning on the technical aspects of the evolution of hubrid interventions...

JANS Article

EACTS/STS Guidelines for diagnosing and treating acute and chronic syndromes of the aortic organ

February 26, 2024 | Wei-Guo Ma

This is the 2023 EACTS/STS guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of aortic disease. For the first time, this document identified aorta as an organ. It main body contains the...

JANS Article

Long Term Health Related Quality of Life After Acute Type B Aortic Dissection: A Cross Sectional Survey Study

September 12, 2023 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

This free-access report raises a number of research questions in light of a relatively unsatisfactory response of 55 percent that may reflect unrecorded deaths and should be addressed in future...

JANS Article

Updated JCS/JSCVS/JATS/JSVS 2020 Guideline on Diagnosis and Treatment of Aortic Aneurysm and Aortic Dissection

September 5, 2023 | Wei-Guo Ma

This is the newly published latest version of Guideline on Diagnosis and Treatment of Aortic Aneurysm and Aortic Dissection developed by the Japanese Circulation Society, Japanese Society for Cardiovascular Surgery,...

JANS Article

Terumo Aortic’s ThoracoFlo Hybrid Device Used in First North American Case

April 26, 2023 | Wei-Guo Ma

On April 21, Dr. Randy Moore at the University of Calgary in Canada performed the first implantation of Terumo’s new hybrid graft, Thoracoflo, in North America for thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm...

Video

Correction of Anomalous Origin of Right Subclavian Artery from Distal Thoracic Aorta

November 22, 2022 | Dr Alexander Reynolds, MRes…

A fifteen-year-old girl (BMI 16.4 kg/m) with a two-year history of dysphagia, periprandial angina, and anorexia was referred to pediatric general surgery. A contrast swallow demonstrated a luminal obstruction...

JANS Article

2022 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Aortic Disease: A Report of the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines

November 3, 2022 | Wei-Guo Ma

On November 2, 2022, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) published an update to the 2010 ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Aortic...

JANS Article

Total Aortic Arch Replacement Using a Frozen Elephant Trunk Device: Results of a One-Year US Multicenter Trial

September 9, 2022 | Wei-Guo Ma

The authors of this study reported the safety and one-year clinical outcomes of the Thoraflex Hybrid frozen elephant trunk prosthesis from the US Investigational Device Exemption trial. Follow-up was available...

JANS Article

Commentary: Strategic surgery to type A dissection: A bird in the hand or 2 in the bush?

October 22, 2021 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A brief focused commentary on a recent medium size Japanese series of succesful surgery for Acute Aortic Syndrome. The limitations of the series presented in well- written Uchida manuscript( and...

JANS Article

Ultrasound- Versus Fluoroscopy-Guided Strategy for Transfemoral Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Access: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

September 27, 2021 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A small meta-analysis suggesting a bemefit of vascular ultrasound for access to the groin vessels in TAVI. The utility of ultrasonography may be extended in access for groin cannulation in...

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