Mitral Valve
This talk features Patrick Perier, chairman of the ECS Club and staff surgeon at the Herz und Gefäss Klinik in Bad Neustadt, Germany, presenting on “When to Respect, When to Resect a Mitral Valve?” at...
This talk features Patrick Perier, chairman of the ECS Club and staff surgeon at the Herz und Gefäss Klinik in Bad Neustadt, Germany, presenting on “When to Respect, When to...
The authors present a case of left atrial tumor excision combined with mitral and tricuspid valve repair and coronary revascularization, performed through a left anterior minithoracotomy in the fourth intercostal...
This talk features Maurice Enriquez-Sarano, a senior research scientist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation’s Valve Science Center, Minnesota, USA, delivering a presentation titled “Mitral Valve Intervention in Asymptomatic Patients:...
In the clinical case reported herein, a 62‑year‑old female patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and systolic anterior motion syndrome, with a EuroSCORE II risk of 4.07 percent, was treated with a...
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 talk features Joerg Kempfert, Senior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center, Berlin, Germany, presenting on “Endoscopic Team Training and Surgeon Mentorship: My Personal...
This talk features Tomas Holubec, Professor of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at University Hospital Frankfurt and Goethe-University in Germany, delivering a presentation titled “A...
This single-center, real-world study compared a simplified, fluoroscopy-free mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER) workflow guided solely by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) against the conventional approach using combined fluoroscopic and TEE guidance....
Mitral valve replacement has become the default strategy for patients with recurrent or persistent mitral regurgitation after a failed transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (MitraClip), largely due to the technical challenges of...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Jeffrey Velotta, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine in San...
This retrospective study evaluated surgical mitral valve interventions in 221 octogenarians (median age 82) at a high-volume center, addressing concerns regarding procedural risk in the elderly. The cohort achieved an...
The authors present a 75-year-old woman with dyspnea on exertion. She was diagnosed with an aortic valve stenosis and moderate-to-severe mitral valve regurgitation due to a localized A2 prolapse. This...







