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The authors discuss a technique of aortic root remodeling without handling of coronaries ostia and a special technique for the posterior aortic wall anastomosis that avoids risk of hidden leak and... More
September 20, 2016
Hans-Joachim Schaefers of Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg/Saar, Germany, compares the Yacoub and David procedures.
September 8, 2016
Malakh Shrestha of the Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, describes his experience using the frozen elephant trunk technique for complex aortic arch surgery.
May 18, 2016
Jorge Mascaro of Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom, discusses the significant challenge of aortic arch replacement and the various approaches a surgeon can take, giving special attention to the Birmingham approach.
May 17, 2016
This video shows a valve-sparing excision of a papillary fibroelastoma in 74-year-old woman.
May 5, 2016
Is an open, endovascular, or hybrid approach the most effective treatment for thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysm? An international panel debates the merits and pitfalls of each approach.
April 20, 2016
Is open repair or TEVAR the best approach for a patient with chronic type B dissection? An expert panel of cardiothoracic surgeons and an interventional cardiologist met at the 2016 SCTS Annual Meeting in Birmingham, United Kingdom, to discuss this complex issue.
March 16, 2016
In a discussion filmed at the 2015 EACTS Annual Meeting in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, an international panel of experts considers the management of porcelain aorta.
February 25, 2016
At the 2015 SCTS Annual Meeting in Manchester, United Kingdom, Mohamad Bashir and Duke Cameron sat down for an in-depth discussion of valve-sparing aortic root replacement.
February 3, 2016
Filmed at the 2015 SCTS Annual Meeting in Manchester, United Kingdom, Mohamad Bashir interviews John Elefteriades, Director of the Aortic Institute at Yale University and Yale New-Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut.
January 14, 2016
Filmed at the 2015 EACTS Annual Meeting, an international panel of experts discuss the use of the frozen elephant trunk procedure in the treatment of aneurysm and dissection.