The well-known cone procedure with detachment, displacement, and rotation of the leaflet has been designed for patients with Ebstein anomaly. However, the authors think that it may be used for any situation in which the septal and/or posterior leaflets are defective or non-functional. This video shows how the cone repair can be used successfully in an endocarditis patient where the septal cusp is completely destroyed.
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Cardiac
April 1, 2024
This video tutorial demonstrates the stepwise technique for a lateral approach surgical repair of supracardiac TAPVC.
March 29, 2024
In this video, we demonstrate an off-pump LIMA to LAD anastomosis performed with a side-to-side technique.
March 28, 2024
This week on CTSNet’s flagship podcast, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning discusses presentations from the SCTS annual meeting on the future of aortic valve replacement surgery and the continued debate among surgeons about the benefits of TAVR versus those of SAVR.
March 28, 2024
In this series of interviews, EIC Joel Dunning speaks with cardiac OR nurses, intensive care unit support staff, and members of the cardiac rehabilitation team at Cleveland Clinic.
March 27, 2024
This study used the German registry of acute aortic dissection type A (GERAADA) score to predict thirty-day mortality in an aortic center in the United States. Six-hundred-eighty-five patients who underwent surgery for acute type A aortic dissection were included. Thirty-day mortality was 12 percent.
March 27, 2024
The frequency of minimally invasive mitral valve (MV) surgery has increased over the last decade. Hence, the number of patients requiring MV reoperations post-minimally invasive MV surgery is increasing.
March 27, 2024
Overall, 4,365 patients were diagnosed and operated on for infective endocarditis (IE) from 2000 to 2021. Long-term survival was significantly higher among patients receiving a mechanical prosthesis than those receiving a biological prosthesis (hazard ratio [HR] 0.546, 95 percent CI: 0.322-0.926, p= 0.025).
March 27, 2024
Watch Yolonda Colson and Jennifer Romano lead a recent webinar including discussions on leadership from Jessica Donington, Nuria Novia, and more.
March 27, 2024
Prof. Faisal Bakaeen discusses his contemporary strategies for safe and effective CABG using patient-specific techniques and then demonstrates CABG and some of these techniques.