Valve Disease

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The STS Risk Model for SAVR After TAVR

September 10, 2026 | Shrikar Modukuri

This study developed and validated an updated Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) risk model for surgical aortic valve replacement after a failed transcatheter aortic valve replacement (SAVR-after-TAVR), including the emergent and concomitant-procedure cases that earlier...

Video

Fifth Sternotomy: Konno-Rastan Aortoventriculoplasty and CABG

November 2, 2026 | Kareem Bedeir

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...

Podcast

The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 178: Managing the Left Subclavian Artery

October 29, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

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...

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ECS Club | Mitral Valve Intervention in Asymptomatic Patients

October 23, 2026 | Maurice Sarano

This talk features Maurice Enriquez-Sarano, a senior research scientist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation’s Valve Science Center, Minnesota, USA, delivering a presentation titled “Mitral Valve Intervention in Asymptomatic Patients:...

JANS Article

Risk Factors for Recurrent TR After Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy for CTEPH

October 22, 2026 | Shrikar Modukuri

In this retrospective study of 170 patients undergoing pulmonary thromboendarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension at a high-volume center, 25 percent developed recurrent moderate or greater tricuspid regurgitation. Reoccurrence was...

Video

Adult Supravalvular Aortic Stenosis: Modified Three-Patch Aortic Root Reconstruction

April 2, 2019 | Derek Brinster…

Supravalvular aortic stenosis is usually diagnosed and corrected in childhood. An adult patient with Williams syndrome presented with shortness of breath and was found to have severe supravalvular aortic stenosis...

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Bentall Surgery for Infective Endocarditis: A Biointegral Bioconduit Subannular Implantation

March 29, 2019 | Marco Di EusanioBronze Contributor…

Bentall surgery, often required in patients with an aortic valve prosthesis infection, represents a great surgical challenge. Extensive periannular abscess with annular destruction and friable infected tissues may hamper a...

Video

Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair Using Adjustable Chord-X and Locking Figure-of-Eight

March 18, 2019 | Mario Castillo-SangBronze ContributorBronze Commentor

The patient was a 65-year-old man with a newly identified systolic murmur in the mitral position on routine examination, who was asymptomatic without history of atrial fibrillation, pulmonary hypertension, or...

JANS Article

Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement With a Self-Expanding Valve in Low-Risk Patients

March 18, 2019 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold ContributorGold Commentor

A number of interesting findings in early follow up of this randomized controlled trial on one type of transcatheter aortic valve against conventional surgery: the mechanics of the valve and...

Video

Rheumatic Double Valve Repair Using Two Remodeling Annuloplasty Rings

March 14, 2019 | Richard Downey…

Objectives Cardiac valve repair is a recognized approach to achieve satisfactory long-term valve function and improved survival over replacement. Concomitant aortic and mitral valve repair has been associated with excellent...

JANS Article

ACC to Offer Transcatheter Valve Certification to Help Hospitals Implement Best Practices, Identify Quality Improvement Opportunities

March 14, 2019 | Wei-Guo MaGold Contributor

On Wednesday March 13, the ACC Quality Summit announced in New Orleans that beginning in mid-2019, hospitals performing transcatheter valve repair and replacement will be able to apply for the...

JANS Article

The Train Has Left: Can Surgeons Still Get a Ticket to Treat Structural Heart Disease?

March 12, 2019 | Tom C. NguyenSilver Contributor

With the disruptive advancement of catheter-based technologies and minimally invasive techniques in structural heart disease, surgeons must obtain the necessary skills to continue to serve this large patient population. An...

Video

Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair After Endocarditis With Bileaflet Prolapse Using a Modification of Leipzig Loop Technique

March 12, 2019 | Mario Castillo-SangBronze ContributorBronze Commentor…

This video shows a complex mitral valve repair using a modification of the Leipzig loop technique (1) with a modular Gore-Tex neochord system to address the anterior and the posterior...

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