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Cardiac

July 9, 2024
Dr. Papageorge’s study aimed to determine if the values of DEI-focused surgeons are aligning with their scholarly activities.
July 8, 2024
The dogma to avoid paravalvular leak was challenged with the use of only nine pairs of sutures without pledget. This video shows a technical variation with pledgets between the pairs of sutures.
July 8, 2024
This video shows the case of a patient with aortic root endocarditis with abscesses treated with a homograft.
July 8, 2024
The patient in this video is a fit seventy-six-year-old man. Twenty-five years previously, he had a Ross procedure, later presenting with aortic root dilation.
July 5, 2024
This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Albert Jauregui Abularach about his work as a pioneer in robotic lung transplantation.
July 5, 2024
Another video in Dr. Tristan Yan’s series demonstrates one way to arrest the heart in a mini-access aortic root replacement.
July 4, 2024
This visual presentation provides a thorough understanding of mitral regurgitation and advanced surgical techniques explained through an old-school doodle.
July 4, 2024
In a single-center series of 502 patients who underwent thoracoscopic ablation and left atrial appendage closure, of whom 333 had preoperative and postoperative computed tomographic imaging, complete left atrial appendage closure (defined as residual stump <1 cm on computed tomography one year postoperatively) was lower with the stapled resection
July 4, 2024
In this paper, the authors completed a propensity matched retrospective observational study to compare long-term outcomes of isolated mechanical versus bioprosthetic mitral valves in different age groups. After propensity matching, analysis was completed in two age groups: < 65 and 65–75 years.
July 2, 2024
This video is made for surgical assistants and shows a breakdown of how to reliably close a midsternal incision.

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