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This video demonstrates a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery sympathectomy for the termination of ventricular tachycardia electrical storm, featuring an exceptional view and excision of Kuntz's... More
September 25, 2025
This video demonstrates a detailed technique to close the left atrial appendage through a right minithoracotomy.
September 24, 2025
In this engaging interview, Dr. Amr Alsalakawy, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Aswan Heart Center and Research, Magdi Yacoub Foundation, spoke with Dr. Magdi Yacoub, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the National Heart and Lung Institute at the Imperial College London, and Founder and Director of Research at the Harefield Heart Science Center, Magdi Yacoub Institute, about the Aswan technique for common arterial trunk repair.
September 24, 2025
This video demonstrates a clampless aortic valve replacement technique in a partial porcelain aorta, along with aortic root enlargement and coronary artery bypass grafting utilizing two grafts.
September 23, 2025
This educational video demonstrates how to perform an endovascular arch repair with a triple inner-branch custom-made device in a patient with a zone 2 penetrating aortic ulcer.
September 22, 2025
This video provides a step-by-step tutorial on pulmonary autograft reinforcement—a method aimed at preserving valve geometry and preventing dilatation of the neo-aortic root.
September 18, 2025
In this remarkable interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Alexis Shafii, professor of surgery and surgical director of heart transplantation at The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine, about the first in-human BiVACOR total artificial heart implantation.
September 15, 2025
This video demonstrates a modified Yasui performed under deep hypothermic circulatory arrest for interrupted aortic arch type B with posterior malaligned ventricular septal defects.
September 11, 2025
This video demonstrates the application of minimally invasive cardiac surgery in patients with tetralogy of Fallot requiring multiple intracardiac repairs.
September 11, 2025
This video details the case and operative video of a huge left ventricular aneurysm that was on at the authors’ center.
September 10, 2025
This video demonstrates the challenges of distant inferior vena cava cannulation at the third intercostal space and the potential for accidental dislodgment.