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CTSNet continued its webinar series partnership with the ASAIO Journal on November 14, 2024, by enrolling cardiac surgery and heart failure professionals engaged to discuss the topic, "Non-LVAD and... More
August 19, 2015
Olaf Wendler of King’s College Hospital, London, UK, discusses the surgical treatment of aortic infections, including aortic root endocarditis and mycotic aortic aneurysm.
August 18, 2015
Denton Cooley, founder of the Texas Heart Institute, was the first US surgeon to perform a heart transplant and implant an artificial heart. He discusses his incredible career with Mohamad Bashir in a new CTSNet interview.
August 13, 2015
Recorded via Google Hangouts, Joel Dunning and Ahmad Al Khaddour discuss the current state of cardiothoracic surgery in Syria.
August 12, 2015
Arie Blitz of the McAllen Heart Hospital, Texas, takes an in-depth look at extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
August 10, 2015
This video demonstrates the author’s technique for re-operation on type A aortic dissection.
August 6, 2015
Filmed at the 2015 STS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, a panel of experts discusses how the heart team should respond to cardiac arrests that occur after cardiac surgery.
July 30, 2015
Joel Dunning moderates a discussion on the subxiphoid approach in cardiac and general thoracic surgery with Mark Levinson, Chia Chaun Liu, and Takashi Suda.
July 28, 2015
This video demonstrates the treatment of a 64-year-old male who presented with right-sided heart failure symptoms. The patient had a severely dilated right sub-coronary sinus of Valsalva aneurysm, causing right ventricular outflow tract obstruction.
July 21, 2015
The presence of lymphoma within the heart has both local and systemic effects. This case report describes a patient who presented with evidence of right-sided heart failure secondary to cardiac involvement of systemic lymphoma.
July 16, 2015
Jorge Mascaro of Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom, discusses re-do aortic root surgery, and its growing prevalence as the rates of first-time aortic surgery increase.