Mechanical Support & Transplant
This International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) consensus statement formalizes the definition, diagnostic framework, and therapeutic approach for acute lung allograft dysfunction (ALAD). Recognizing the need to standardize acute, potentially reversible graft function...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Traves Crabtree, Professor and Chair of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Medical Director of the Surgical Skills Laboratory...
This case report describes a 75-year-old patient with a centrally located squamous cell carcinoma extending from the carina to the right intermediate bronchus and the superior segment of the lower...
This session features Rishav Bhattacharya from the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA, presenting on “Celsior Cold Storage Attenuates Myocardial Edema in...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with James Cox, Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, USA,...
CTSNet held a joint webinar with ERAS Cardiac Society on April 22, 2023 to provoke professional discussion on the topic, “Enhanced Recovery After Surgery: Improving Outcomes in Patients Requiring Mechanical...
A fifty-three-year-old man was transferred for emergent surgical repair of a left ventricular free wall rupture (LVFWR). An expedited preoperative workup including an electrocardiogram and echocardiography revealed an old inferior...
After the donor heart arrives (see Orthotopic Heart Transplant Using Bicaval Technique Part 1: Recipient Cardiectomy for that procedure), additional cardioplegia is given. The anatomy, such as the patent foramen...
To begin the cardiectomy, the sternum is opened in a standard full sternotomy. The ascending aorta, superior vena cava (SVC) and inferior vena cava (IVC) are isolated and umbilical tape...
During the 2022 Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland (SCTS) Annual Meeting, cardiothoracic professionals from across the world came together to present on pivotal topics, congregate for...
Ventricular septal defect (VSD) occurs in less than 1 percent of patients suffering from myocardial infarction (1), but anterior or apical VSD provides more than 60 percent of all...
CTSNet had the great privilege of hosting an expert-filled roundtable on aortic root enlargement (AAE) vs. total root replacement (ARR) for the small aortic root. Barbara Hamilton moderated the debate...
This video shows the case of a twenty-six-year-old mother of four with a history of BRCA 2 gene mutation, breast cancer, bilateral mastectomies, and radiotherapy. The patient developed dilated...






