This video outlines the operative set-up and minimally invasive approach to left atrial wall ablation (Convergent procedure) and left atrial appendage clip ligation for patients with persistent atrial fibrillation.
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Cardiac
February 9, 2021
February 4, 2021
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) continues to be responsible for major cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the developing world. It constitutes a double tragedy because it disproportionately affects economically disadvantaged people and young people, thereby robbing them of the most productive years of life.
February 2, 2021
This video demonstrates the operative technique of totally endoscopic transaortic extended septal myectomy for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
January 30, 2021
A Canadian multi-centre RCT of immediate baloon-cryoablation of the pulmonary veins: the intervention was compared to the relevant standard of pharmacological care. The target population was treatment-naive sufferers of de novo paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.
January 29, 2021
This video demonstrates subaortic stenosis resection via a right axillary minithoracotomy in a 6-year-old boy with ventricular outflow tract obstruction by subaortic fibrous membrane with a peak gradient of 76 mm Hg and mild aortic valve regurgitation.
January 29, 2021
This study looked into the implementation of concomitant surgical ablation for atrial fibrillation during mitral valve surgery.
January 28, 2021
This video demonstrates a simple and reproducible technique of post-MI VSR repair using the infarct exclusion technique.
January 27, 2021
In this CTSNet To Go podcast episode, Guest Editor Konstadinos A. Plestis and his panelists discuss the clinical videos of his recent Guest Editor Series: Surgical Management of Acute Aortic Dissections.
January 27, 2021
In this CTSNet To Go episode, Jessica Luc speaks with Lars G. Svensson about his career in cardiac surgery.
January 26, 2021
Brian Mitzman presents the latest Beat podcast, focusing on the STS 2021 virtual meeting, as well as recent submissions to CTSNet and the European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery.