The authors present a case of acute aortic dissection in a patient with Loeys-Dietz Syndrome type II, complicated by multiple blood antibodies.
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Cardiac
May 6, 2017
He went to Stanford University and got the surgery. Shortly after, Coleman said he wanted to play football again.
“Right after surgery, I put two and two together,” Coleman said. “If I’m fixed, I can play football again, right?”
April 29, 2017
A succinct update relevant to all arrhythmia and heart failure surgeons. The concept of atrial cardiomyopathy is particularly stimulating.
April 28, 2017
Stephen Westaby speaks out on the BBC about the state of cardiac surgery in the NHS in the UK in 2017
March 25, 2017
Four experts on the surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation met at the 2017 STS Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, to discuss the recently released STS clinical practice guidelines on the subject.
March 7, 2017
This video demonstrates the utility of a cardioscope-assisted tricameral approach to the excision of a large left ventricular thrombus in a patient with a recent history of embolization.
February 16, 2017
Tristan Yan of the Sydney Adventist Hospital, Sydney, Australia, and Martin Misfeld of the Leipzig Heart Institute, Leipzig, Germany, discuss their preferred methods for peripheral cannulation in minimally invasive cardiac surgery.
February 5, 2017
A review of particular interest for procurement (retrieval) of hearts after brain injury, especially subarachnoid bleeding, the commonest cause of death in DBD in our practice. The authors discuss, amongst other things, the early stress micro-infarcts that may limit the performance of the donated heart, especally in female donors with sub a
January 31, 2017
Appropriate perioperative fluid management is of increasing interest for the team caring for the critically ill cardiac patient as fluid overload has been shown to have negative effects on organ function.
January 27, 2017
CTSNet published over 200 pieces of educational content in 2016. CTSNet Deputy Editor Arie Blitz presents his choices for the most interesting CTSNet content of last year.