Editor in chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Peyman Sardari Nia during his port-access mitral valve repair training session at the 2023 EACTS annual meeting.
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Cardiac
November 7, 2023
This video illustrates surgical repair of double aortic arch through a sternotomy.
November 6, 2023
An elegant and surprisingly easily read cohort study of mechanical destruction of platelets in ECMO circuits that parallels what we already know in pumps for full cardiopulmonary bypass. The authors propose a biomarker as a target for thrombotic modulation .
November 3, 2023
In this episode, Joel discusses TAVR in low-risk patients and interview with the GGO guideline chairs, among other things.
November 3, 2023
As a part of the 2023 Australian Thoracic Aortic Symposium, Dr. John Elefteriades presented on his state-of-the-art research on the genetics of inheritable aortic diseases. Dr. Elefteriades is a cardiothoracic surgeon at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, United States.
November 2, 2023
At the 2023 EACTS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning and CTSNet senior editors set out to interview the most knowledgeable CT surgeons from around the world. Stay tuned for more interviews from the meeting.
November 2, 2023
In this video, the surgeons approached a giant left atrial aneurysm by transecting the IVC and lifting the heart superiorly and anteriorly, which provided excellent exposure of the LA structures and the aneurysm.
November 1, 2023
SCTS reported that Dr. Marian Ionescu, a pioneer in cardiac surgery, has passed away. In addition to inventing several artificial heart valves, Dr. Ionescu was a medical educator and established numerous fellowships for cardiothoracic surgeons and allied health professionals.
November 1, 2023
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) and the European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) published a joint press release regarding aortic valve replacement in low-risk patients.
November 1, 2023
Surgical tricuspid valve replacement (TVR) is associated with a high risk of postoperative atrioventricular (AV) block. However, placing pacemaker leads through a tricuspid bioprosthesis is discouraged since it might impair bioprosthesis function.