This video demonstrates the removal of a failed Evolut transcatheter aortic valve replacement and its replacement with a 27 mm Mosaic biological aortic valve in a patient with advanced lung cancer.
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Cardiac
October 16, 2025
In this article, the author reflects on 60 years of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), outlining its origins, the role of early surgical-cardiology collaboration, and its place alongside advances in medical therapy. Despite improvements in guideline-directed treatment, patients with extensive coronary disease still rely on CABG.
October 16, 2025
This review evaluates branched and fenestrated thoracic endovascular aortic repair (B-/F-TEVAR) for aortic arch pathologies. Technical success rates are high (84-100 percent), with 30-day mortality ranging from 0–25 percent and stroke rates between 3–36 percent.
October 16, 2025
The authors analyzed 2,748 adults undergoing aortic root replacement between 2004 and 2021. They report an overall stroke rate of 3.4 percent, which was highest in patients aged 80 years and older (9.7 percent).
October 16, 2025
This video demonstrates a patient who previously underwent mitral valve surgery and later received a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR); however, both the TAVR and the tricuspid valves became severely incompetent.
October 15, 2025
Dr. Mara Antonoff, president of Women in Thoracic Surgery, spoke with her colleagues Drs. Stephanie Chang and Amy Fiedler about the program highlights for the upcoming WTS Annual Meeting.
October 15, 2025
This video demonstrates the removal of a four-year-old Evolute transcatheter aortic valve replacement and the placement of a 23 mm surgical aortic valve.
October 15, 2025
This video demonstrates the successful surgical intervention of ascending aorta replacement in a patient following complications from a previously implanted Sapiens TAVR.
October 14, 2025
This video demonstrates the surgical management of a 77-year-old patient with streptococcus endocarditis following a previous transcatheter aortic valve replacement, necessitating an aortic root replacement.
October 14, 2025
This video demonstrates the urgent removal of a transcatheter aortic valve replacement due to a contained aortic annulus rupture and the subsequent repair using a Dacron patch.