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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... More
December 22, 2015
CTSNet published over 200 pieces of educational clinical content in 2015. As the year comes to a close, Joel Dunning, CTSNet Co-Editor, presents his choices for the most interesting content of 2015.
December 16, 2015
This video demonstrates a total and complete arterial revascularization using bilateral internal mammary arteries in a 65-year-old man with acute inferior wall myocardial infarction.
December 15, 2015
In this video, Tirone David gives an invited talk during the STSA 62nd Annual Meeting Postgraduate Program in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
December 9, 2015
D. Craig Miller of Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, California, delivers a talk on his 22 years of experience with the Stanford valve-sparing aortic root replacement technique.
December 7, 2015
Filmed at the 2015 EACTS Annual Meeting in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, this roundtable discussion focuses on current developments and technological improvements in valve surgery.
December 3, 2015
Filmed at the 2015 Aortic Valve Repair Summit, an international panel of experts discusses the management of the aortic root in acute aortic dissection.
December 2, 2015
This video shows a right axillary Edwards SAPIEN 3 TAVR implanted through the new apical Certitude delivery system, in a patient with severe aortic stenosis. The postoperative follow-up was uneventful and the patient was discharged home on postoperative day three.
November 26, 2015
Arie Blitz of the McAllen Heart Hospital, McAllen, Texas, delivers a talk on vertical and horizontal integration in health care.
November 23, 2015
Marc Ruel of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute poses the question: can a single ITA composite graft adequately supply the heart?
November 19, 2015
Recorded via Google Hangouts, Joel Dunning and E. E. John Smith discuss the new international Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons qualification.