At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, Dr. Pedro Catarino, professor and Director of Aortic Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, delivered a presentation on “Transplantation Across the Pond: Is the Grass Really Greener?”
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June 24, 2025
In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Faisal Bakaeen, Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Director of the Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Center at the Cleveland Clinic, about radial artery harvesting.
June 23, 2025
This video demonstrates the excision of a subvalvular ring in a 59-year-old woman who also had aortic regurgitation.
June 20, 2025
At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, Dr. Marco Di Eusanio, director of the cardiac surgery department at Lancisi Cardiovascular Center and professor at Università Politecnica delle Marche, delivered a presentation on “MICS and ERAS in Cardiac Surgery: Seven Pillars.”
June 18, 2025
In Part 1 of this series, experts provided a brief review of the historical adoption of the CALS protocol by their respective societies, including training models, provider roles, and the impact of training on staff confidence.
June 17, 2025
This video demonstrates a repeat sternotomy for unifocalization and extensive pulmonary arterial reconstruction in a child with a prior staged repair for tetralogy of Fallot (ToF), pulmonary atresia (PA), and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries (MAPCAs).
June 13, 2025
At the SCTS Annual Meeting, Dr. Yolanda L. Colson delivered a presentation on “Nano and Cell-Based Technologies for Thoracic Surgeons.”
June 11, 2025
This video demonstrates a robotic-assisted multiportal intrathoracic resection of a complex goiter using the da Vinci Xi system, following a previous transcervical approach.
June 9, 2025
Dr. Ahmad Ali Amirghofran has pioneered numerous innovative techniques, particularly in valve repair, minimally invasive surgery, and congenital heart surgery. His current focus is on constructing native tissue valves using the patient’s own tissue during surgery, including the novel right atrial appendage valve technique. For more information on his surgical experience, accomplishments, the challenges facing cardiac surgery in Iran today, and more, read this interview.
June 6, 2025
At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, leading surgeons presented various management strategies for a 55-year-old male with a Debakey type 1 aortic dissection and discussed their respective techniques.