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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... More
March 8, 2016
This video shows a complex robotic-assisted mitral valve repair performed for active endocarditis with persistent bacteremia, fevers, and embolic neurologic events.
March 2, 2016
Friedrich Mohr of the Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany, discusses his 18 years of experience performing minimally invasive mitral valve surgery.
February 29, 2016
This video illustrates complete pericardial leaflet replacement via the Ozaki method, using tissue-engineered bovine pericardium as the leaflet substitute.
February 25, 2016
At the 2015 SCTS Annual Meeting in Manchester, United Kingdom, Mohamad Bashir and Duke Cameron sat down for an in-depth discussion of valve-sparing aortic root replacement.
February 23, 2016
This video demonstrates the utility of 3D printing in perioperative planning for the surgical resection of complex cardiac tumors.
February 18, 2016
This video demonstrates the surgical repair of transposition of the great arteries with absent pulmonary valve in an infant, using a technique for pulmonary artery reduction/retrenchment.
February 16, 2016
This video is a step-by-step guide for aortic valve replacement using a porcine stentless bioprosthesis via a modified subcoronary implantation technique.
February 10, 2016
The video shows the explantation of a Corevalve through a minimally invasive inferior ministernotomy approach.
February 8, 2016
This video shows a primary inferior cavopulmonary connection with an extracardiac conduit as an alternative treatment for an infant unsuitable for the bidirectional Glenn.
February 3, 2016
Filmed at the 2015 SCTS Annual Meeting in Manchester, United Kingdom, Mohamad Bashir interviews John Elefteriades, Director of the Aortic Institute at Yale University and Yale New-Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut.