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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... More
December 13, 2017
Filmed at the STS 2017 Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, Emily Farkas moderates a discussion on changing the perceptions of women in cardiothoracic surgery.
December 12, 2017
This video demonstrates a sutureless aortic valve replacement via a right anterior thoracotomy on minicardiopulmonary bypass.
December 11, 2017
Find it here: The 4M Symposium on Robotic Thoracic Surgery on CTSNet.
December 11, 2017
This video demonstrates a mini-Ravitch operation for pectus carinatum or pectus excavatum.
December 7, 2017
Herbert Decaluwé of University Hospital Leuven in Belgium discusses complications during video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.
December 5, 2017
Patrick Myers, David Taggart, and Michael Mack discuss the recently published ORBITA trial.
December 4, 2017
These videos present techniques the authors have adopted to perform minimally invasive mediastinal surgery as an outpatient procedure.
November 30, 2017
Michael Borger of the Leipzig Heart Center in Germany presents an overview of surgical repair for ischemic mitral regurgitation.
November 29, 2017
Filmed at the 2017 STS Annual Meeting, Shanda Blackmon, Brendon Stiles, Vinay Badhwar, and Robert Cerfolio discuss maximizing efficiency in a cardiothoracic surgery practice.
November 27, 2017
This video demonstrates a right lower sublobar resection for an intralobar pulmonary sequestration that had an 8 mm systemic feeding vessel arising from the descending thoracic aorta.