Alberta’s first minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB) surgery was performed at one of the few sites in Canada offering the procedure. The procedure is less invasive than traditional bypass surgery and provides patients with a faster recovery time.
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Coronary disease
July 27, 2023
These new guidelines contain wide-ranging recommendations on the use of beta-blockers, sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide-1, and other medical therapies to treat chronic coronary disease.
July 20, 2023
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 coronary surgery.
July 5, 2023
This video presents the author’s technique for harvesting the right gastroepiploic artery in coronary artery bypass grafting.
June 27, 2023
In this video, surgeons demonstrate a Vouhe procedure on a patient with anomalous left coronary artery origin from the right coronary sinus.
June 6, 2023
This video showcases a successful posterior postinfarction ventricular septal defect closure parachuting two composite handmade patches through the aortic valve and the tricuspid valve—without performing a left ventriculotomy.
June 1, 2023
A large RCT suggesting superiority of the transcatheter 'Alfieri' (Mitra-clip, edge to edge) repair over BMT.
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April 21, 2023
ROMA-Women is an offshoot of the original ROMA CABG trial designed to address the lack of women in surgical studies, and therefore the lack of guideline-directed surgical care for women patients. Women make up less than one third of participants in cardiac trials, yet they make up roughly half of annual cardiac deaths in the US annually.
March 20, 2023
In this video, using a simulator, the authors show how to deal with a graft flattening and kinking at the anastomotic site—a common error in diamond-shaped sequential anastomoses.