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Cardiac

August 8, 2024
This video demonstrates robotic totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass to the left anterior descending and left circumflex arteries, which was then followed by percutaneous coronary intervention to the right coronary artery (advanced hybrid coronary revascularization) in a patient with triple vessel disease.
August 7, 2024
This video demonstrates robotic-assisted minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting (left internal mammary artery to left anterior descending artery) for single vessel disease using a nonrib spreading approach.
August 6, 2024
In this unique webinar on mitral valve guidelines, CTSNet hosted a discussion on, “How Low Can You Go? Should MVR Age Guidelines Be Lowered Due to Better Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve Durability?” in collaboration with Edwards. The webinar was broadcasted to a live audience on July 31, 2024.
August 6, 2024
This video demonstrates the harvest of both right and left internal mammary arteries using the Da Vinci robotic system. Ports are placed on the left side of the chest, which are then used as an in-situ graft through.
August 5, 2024
This video demonstrates a robotic-assisted harvest of bilateral internal mammary arteries to enable total arterial revascularization for multi-vessel coronary artery disease.
August 5, 2024
In the newest CTSNet Guest Editor Series, “Robotic-Assisted Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery—Techniques and Procedures,” consultant cardiac surgeon Dr. M. M. Yusuf brought together cardiac surgery experts from around the world to contribute procedure videos on various techniques.
August 2, 2024
At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Meeting 2024, Rashmi Yadav delivered a speech on approaching surgical revascularization in women.
August 2, 2024
Dr. Tristan Yan demonstrates the mini-access branch-first total arch replacement and frozen elephant trunk procedure.
August 2, 2024
This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning discusses the implementation of the Versius robotic surgical system for thoracic surgery and summarizes the ability of the Versius surgical system to successfully and safely complete a range of thoracic procedures aligned with phase 2a of the (Development) of the Idea, Development, Exploration, Assessment and Long-term follow-up (IDEAL) framework for surgical innovation. 
August 1, 2024
Post Ross procedure dilation of the pulmonary autograft (neo-aorta) is a major long-term draw back that has been dealt with in many ways, including strict blood pressure control for one year, ring and suture annuloplasty techniques, and autologous and prosthetic external graft stabilization techniques.

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