In this session from the 2024 London Core Review Cardiothoracic Surgery Course, Dr. Venkatachalam Chandrasekaran discusses minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting (MIDCABG) with a focus on total arterial approaches.
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Cardiac
March 28, 2025
March 27, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning recaps two presentations delivered at the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting 2025.
March 27, 2025
This video demonstrates a rare case of a giant left anterior descending artery aneurysm following coronary stenting, which was managed surgically through stent removal, aneurysm repair, and coronary artery bypass grafting.
March 27, 2025
This study investigated the initial experience of two cardiac centers starting their robotic programs evaluating the impact of previous minimally invasive mitral valve surgery (MIMVS) experience on the learning curve.
March 27, 2025
This study assessed the impact of preoperative airflow limitation, stratified by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) stages, on outcomes after open thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA) repair.
March 26, 2025
The authors present a successful robotic beating-heart totally endoscopic coronary bypass procedure involving a single vessel, specifically, the left internal mammary artery to the left anterior descending artery in a 69-year-old patient with left anterior descending artery disease.
March 25, 2025
This video demonstrates the clinical case of post-myocardial infarction ventricular septal defect repair with coronary artery bypass grafting performed through a left anterior minithoracotomy via the fourth intercostal space.
March 24, 2025
This video demonstrates Dr. Vince Gaudiani’s aortic valve replacement technique in a 69-year-old man with severe stenosis.
March 24, 2025
This introductory video describes the Gaudiani technique and presents the aortic valve replacement series.
March 24, 2025
In Part 1 of this series, experts reviewed the last 12-18 months of presentations and publications on women in CT surgery.