A variety of procedures make up CTSNet’s catalog of heart valve content, which has continued to expand as surgeons increasingly focus on perfecting valve surgeries. Explore five of the most popular heart valve videos on the site in the past year and let us know your favorite in the comments.
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Minimally Invasive
March 6, 2023
This video demonstrates the health system’s previously described approach to a total minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy in a hostile abdomen.
March 2, 2023
A retrospective study found that women continue to have a higher mortality and morbidity rate after CABG compared with men.
February 23, 2023
The first minimally invasive artificial heart transplant surgery in China was completed in a patient experiencing severe heart failure. By implanting the left ventricular assist device using only two small incisions, surgeons were able to increase the patient’s quality of life as he waits for a donor heart.
February 21, 2023
This video demonstrates a uniportal VATS right segmentectomy from S7 to S10 with indocyanine green imaging.
February 16, 2023
Sleeve lobectomy is preferred to pneumonectomy for centrally located lung tumors. To report on surgical outcomes of this procedure, The European Society of Thoracic Surgeons database was searched between 2007 and 2021.
February 13, 2023
This video demonstrates a minimally invasive approach to a first rib resection for thoracic outlet syndrome.
February 9, 2023
A retrospective analysis of early experience with a new approach to totally endoscopic aortic valve replacement in 266 patients showed satisfactory results, with acceptable morbidity and low mortality rates.
January 26, 2023
During the 2023 59th Annual STS Meeting, Professor Marc Gerdisch, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the Franciscan Health Heart Center, was kind enough to sit down with CTSNet Associate Editor Jill Ley to share insight into his contribution to the meeting's Contemporary Perioperative Management program.
