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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
October 7, 2015
Davide Pacini of the S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy, poses the question: should the aortic arch be replaced during acute type A dissection repair?
October 6, 2015
This video demonstrates a Florida sleeve valve-sparing aortic root repair, repair of the leaking bicuspid valve with raphe shaving, virtual basal ring annuloplasty and leaflet plication, and ascending through proximal arch replacement with alternate aortic cannulation/clamping.
October 5, 2015
This videos shows an open filter retrieval and open aortic repair for a chronic aortoiliac dissection secondary to aortic inferior vena cava filter penetration.
October 4, 2015
European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) Past President Jose Pomar interviews current President Martin Grabenwoger on key features of the 2015 EACTS Annual Meeting.
October 3, 2015
Pieter Kappetein, Secretary General of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), previews the 2015 EACTS Annual Meeting taking place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
October 1, 2015
This video demonstrates a right upper microlobectomy and its differences from traditional VATS lobectomy.
September 30, 2015
In an interview filmed at the 2015 STS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, Tom Nguyen speaks with Michael Reardon, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center in Houston, TX.
September 29, 2015
Vinnie Bapat of Guys and St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK, discusses the Edwards FORTIS device, a transcatheter mitral valve device.
September 28, 2015
This video shows a robotic-assisted repair of an anterior mitral valve leaflet perforation from endocarditis and ruptured posterior chordae tendinae.
September 24, 2015
Neil Moat of the Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK, gives a talk on transcatheter mitral valve implantation.