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Five experts made presentations on topics including the future of non-surgical management of coronary disease, the future of coronary surgery research, new coronary guidelines, and more.
May 10, 2024
This is a video demonstrating Vince Gaudiani’s technique for differential temperatures in cerebral and body circulation in a redo aortic root and proximal arch reconstruction.
May 7, 2024
In this video, surgeons demonstrate their ascending aorta replacement technique using a minimally invasive approach.
May 6, 2024
The purpose of this video is to present the authors’ simplified technique for allograft implantation to be used for cases of invasive aortic valve infective endocarditis.
May 3, 2024
Topics covered include SVG outcomes over the last 20 years, elimination of SVGs, best practices in SVG harvesting for CABG, and more.
May 3, 2024
This video demonstrates a frozen elephant trunk procedure with differential temperature control to the head and the body, with the body at 34 °C and the head at 20 °C.
May 1, 2024
The Cox-Maze procedure is an effective and successful method of surgical ablation. However, for lone atrial fibrillation cases, invasive sternotomy is not feasible. Patients with persistent atrial fibrillation can benefit by combining left atrial endocardial and epicardial interventions. A step-by-step approach of this hybrid totally thoracoscopic maze procedure is demonstrated in this video.
April 30, 2024
April saw a wide variety of content published on CTSNet. Popular articles published this month include two videos from Dr. Tristan Yan’s off-pump CABG series, important news in CT surgery, and a comprehensive webinar on the Ross procedure.
April 26, 2024
Stephanie Worrell and Maria Teresa Tsukazan led a recent webinar discussion on inequities for women in CT Surgery with contributors Cherie Erkmen, Shanda Blackmon, and more. Watch the recording now.
April 24, 2024
This introductory video describes the Gaudiani technique of cerebral perfusion at hypothermia, while the body is kept normothermic, for major aortic cases. Another video demonstrates repair of Type A dissection with normothermia.
April 24, 2024
Watch Professor Faisal Bakeen demonstrate his method for LIMA artery and radial artery harvest at the Cleveland Clinic.