This case report describes a successful redo tricuspid valve replacement in a high-risk patient using an annular-preserving electrocautery explantation technique, highlighting key surgical strategies and educational value.
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September 8, 2025
August 26, 2025
This video demonstrates a modified re-do Commando procedure as a third surgery following an initial root replacement with mitral valve reconstruction for endocarditis and a subsequent modified Commando procedure with tricuspid valve repair due to recurrence of endocarditis.
August 20, 2025
This video demonstrates a unique case of rheumatic mitral regurgitation repair using the SCORE technique, a systematic and reproducible approach specifically designed to address the complexities of rheumatic mitral valve pathology.
August 18, 2025
In this outstanding video, Dr. Vince Gaudiani demonstrates how to remove a left atrial myxoma.
August 14, 2025
This randomized control trial evaluated the effect of superficial parasternal intercostal plane block (SPIP) on lung function testing in patients undergoing aortic valve replacement via conventional sternotomy. A total of 74 patients were randomized to receive either SPIP or no treatment.
July 25, 2025
In this video, Dr. Farhad Bakhtiary explains why he uses an endoscopic approach for aortic valve replacement during the 2023 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Meeting.
July 21, 2025
This video demonstrates a coronary operation utilizing two internal thoracic arteries in a Y-configuration.
July 17, 2025
In this video, Dr. Vince Gaudiani demonstrates how to close an upper ministernotomy.
July 4, 2025
At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, Dr. Ruggero De Paulis, professor and Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the Europe Hospital in Italy, delivered a presentation titled “Do Sutureless and Rapid Deployment Prostheses Facilitate the Adoption of Minimal Access Cardiac Surgery?”
June 24, 2025
This video demonstrates a case in which an inferior vena cava filter migrated to the right ventricle and was successfully retrieved surgically, followed by coronary artery bypass grafting.