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This interview celebrates the long career of British cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Michael E. Cowen. He leaves a legacy of pioneering robotic thoracic surgery and trainee education.
April 25, 2023
This video presents the “Buff Cuff” technique, a modified zone 2 arch replacement that uses a shorter stent, ending proximal to the left subclavian artery, to preserve flow to distal vasculature and optimize the future landing zone for thoracic branch endografts.
April 24, 2023
This video demonstrates the operative steps for successful sutured patch repair of a large ischemic left ventricular free wall rupture, an increasingly rare but often fatal mechanical complication of myocardial infarction.
April 13, 2023
This video demonstrates critical steps in performing mitral valve translocation, a novel technique for patients with secondary mitral regurgitation.
April 11, 2023
This video demonstrates a robotic assisted mitral valve repair after a failed transcatheter edge-to-edge repair.
March 29, 2023
In this video, transcatheter mitral valve replacement methods are reviewed—valve-in-valve, valve-in-ring, and valve-in-MAC—focusing on the challenges of the techniques and how to improve outcomes through appropriate patient selection and specialized techniques.
March 20, 2023
In this video, using a simulator, the authors show how to deal with a graft flattening and kinking at the anastomotic site—a common error in diamond-shaped sequential anastomoses.
March 9, 2023
A variety of procedures make up CTSNet’s catalog of heart valve content, which has continued to expand as surgeons increasingly focus on perfecting valve surgeries. Explore five of the most popular heart valve videos on the site in the past year and let us know your favorite in the comments.
March 8, 2023
This video shows the unique bicaval technique for implantation of a donor heart.
March 7, 2023
This video demonstrates the authors’ technique of cardiectomy in orthotopic heart transplantation, leaving the recipient's atrial septum.
March 1, 2023
Watch as Dr. Meindert Palmen, from Leiden University Medical Center, performs and annotates a robotic mitral repair using the SimuForm™ Annuloplasty Ring.