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With the recent approval for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) across all risk profiles, reintervention is likely to become common practice.
September 16, 2019
This video illustrates two cases (right and left) of intramural coronary arteries and their surgical management using unroofing.
September 12, 2019
Filmed at the 2019 AATS Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada, Mara Antonoff of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, USA, moderates a discussion on dedicated research time for residents interested in cardiothoracic surgery.
September 11, 2019
This video demonstrates a ministernotomy for aortic valve replacement.
September 10, 2019
This presentation discusses the experience of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals with endoscopic tricuspid valve surgery.
September 4, 2019
E. Murat Tuzcu of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates and Ourania Preventza of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, discuss valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve replacement versus redo surgical aortic valve replacement.
August 29, 2019
Filmed at the 2019 STS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, USA, Jill Ley of California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco moderates a discussion on the ERAS multidisciplinary team.
August 27, 2019
The authors present a video showing transventricular apical myectomy in a patient with nonobstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
August 22, 2019
James Tatoulis of the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia discusses the use of the radial artery, including tips and tricks for vein harvesting, and how to deploy it in coronary surgery.
August 21, 2019
The authors demonstrate a technique for aortic valve repair, which is durable, simple, reproducible, and economical, and awaits longer term results.
August 20, 2019
In this video, the authors present their totally endoscopic technique for aortic valve replacement with a bovine pericardial prosthesis, using a 3D endoscope, one 3 cm working incision, and two 10 mm ports.