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In this exceptional interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Nasser Altorki and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian about the 10-year results from the JCOG0802 trial.
August 23, 2022
Professor Nasser Altorki joins Mara Antonoff and Joel Dunning to discuss the breakthrough results of the CALGB 140503 surgery trial.
August 18, 2022
This video demonstrates a simplified and reproducible technique for anatomic aortic arch reconstruction using a custom-made frozen elephant trunk.
August 11, 2022
This video displays a uniportal robotic left upper lobe sleeve resection performed by Diego Gonzalez Rivas.
August 10, 2022
This video presents a surgical technique to perform a video-assisted "hilum first-fissure last" right lower lobectomy with two-port approach.
August 8, 2022
Tricuspid valve repair with patch augmentation is used to overcome the valve regurgitation caused by malcoaptation of leaflets. This video shows the technique used when the anterior leaflet is too thin to hold the suture line safely; the possibility of tearing the leaflet after cutting and suturing exists. The augmentation was made at the annular level with no contact on the leaflet itself. This technique ensures a much more secure repair, as the suturing is only on the fibromuscular tissue. An artificial chordal support to the flail leaflet technique is also demonstrated.
July 27, 2022
Robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) is rapidly expanding, and new challenges should be continuously proposed regarding this technology. In effect, the community may further understand its strengths and limits, and consequently, offer better treatment to patients.
July 26, 2022
This the first uniportal robotic lobectomy procedure of the registrar of this video’s author. The procedure was a left lower lobe with the DaVinci Xi system.
July 25, 2022
This video highlights reoperative mitral valve repair surgery after prior sternotomy with fibrillatory arrest in the context of patent coronary grafts.
July 20, 2022
This video describes how to perform a recipient cardiectomy using the bicaval technique for implantation during an orthotopic heart transplantation.
July 19, 2022
This video demonstrates a case of TAVR explantation due to late transcatheter heart valve thrombosis leading to cardiogenic shock in a sixty-seven-year-old woman who underwent TAVR forty-one months prior.