In March 2023, the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland brought together surgeons from around the world to discuss topics in CT surgery. These recordings cover the two sessions focused on aortic surgery.
Use the time stamps on each video to direct yourself to each surgeon’s discussion.
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Aorta
June 19, 2023
This case report presents the first procedure of a successful implantation of a rapid deployment aortic valve over a mechanical bileaflet valve.
April 28, 2023
In this single-center expert series of 1000 robotic-assisted left internal mammary artery harvest and off-pump anastomosis to the left anterior descending coronary artery through a 4 cm thoracotomy, 30 day mortality was 0.6 percent, stroke occurred in 5 patients (5 percent), and postoperative graft patency was 97.2 percent (491 of 505).
April 26, 2023
On April 21, Dr. Randy Moore at the University of Calgary in Canada performed the first implantation of Terumo's new hybrid graft, Thoracoflo, in North America for thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair.
April 6, 2023
This video shows a case of successful closure of an aortic pseudoaneurysm and mitral paravalvular leak via a hybrid transapical approach.
March 14, 2023
This is a video of a reinforced Ross Procedure for a 44-year-old female who presented with acute onset chest pain and heart failure due to acute aortic insufficiency caused by a commissural rupture and aortic leaflet perforation.
February 23, 2023
As part of this study, patients 75 years and older with acute type A aortic dissection from 2011 to 2020 were reviewed. The surgical outcomes of noncommunicating acute type A dissection in this group were favorable, with no significant difference in maintaining physical function at discharge.
February 23, 2023
This video demonstrates extension TEVAR and fenestration of the dissection flap across the visceral plate in a patient with type B dissection.
November 3, 2022
On November 2, 2022, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) published an update to the 2010 ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Aortic Disease.
The top ten take-home messages are:
September 20, 2022
Plasma metabolomic profiles were examined to determine differences in social determinants of health between Black and white women. This observational study paves the groundwork for further investigation of social disparity in atheromatous disease.