At the 38th EACTS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Jill Ley spoke with Dr. Catherine Fowler, Dr. Graham Cooper, and Bob Harris, from The Aortic Dissection Charitable Trust, about the critical role of patient engagement and advocacy in advancing the treatment and understanding of aortic dissection.
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Cardiac
February 26, 2025
February 26, 2025
This video shows the details of robotic totally endoscopic Cryo-Maze ablation for atrial fibrillation under moderate hypothermic ventricular fibrillatory arrest.
February 25, 2025
In this month’s episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. David Taggart about internal mammary artery harvesting
February 24, 2025
This video demonstrates the redo surgery of a patient with a paravalvular leak and prosthetic mitral valve stenosis, showing the removal of a 23 mm mechanical valve, extensive debridement, and the insertion of a 27 mm Epic biological valve.
February 21, 2025
Dr. Armin Kiankhooy delivered a presentation on “Epicardial Ablation of AF During CABG: Evidence and Video Demonstration of PVI, Encompass, and Convergent Procedures,” explaining the critical steps of surgical epicardial ablation.
February 20, 2025
In this episode of The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Husam Balkhy, Professor of Surgery and the Director of Robotic and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery at University of Chicago Medicine and President of ISMICS, about robotic totally endoscopic cardiac surgery procedures.
February 19, 2025
At the 2025 STS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Mara Antonoff spoke with Dr. J. W. Awori Hayanga about the importance of evidence-based surgery.
February 17, 2025
This video provides a detailed demonstration of how to replace a severely calcified mitral valve, involving both the anterior and posterior leaflets.
February 14, 2025
In this video, Dr. Husam Balkhy and his colleagues perform a robotic-assisted unroofing on a 46-year-old patient with a left anterior descending artery myocardial bridge.
February 14, 2025
In this series, Dr. Balkhy presents totally endoscopic cardiac surgery procedures from the University of Chicago, covering topics including coronary bypass, mitral valve repair, adult congenital, arrythmia, aortic valve surgeries, and more.