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CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Professor Enoch Akowuah about the challenges facing cardiothoracic surgery.
January 16, 2024
Marc Ruel, M.D., Donna May Kimmaliardjuk, M.D., and Gianluca Torregrossa, M.D., discuss the importance of OPCAB procedures and gaining adoption and building an OPCAB practice.
January 15, 2024
A preview of the 2024 London Core Review course.
January 12, 2024
As a part of the 2023 joint international conference of the African Academy for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery and the African Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons, Dr. Dominique Vervoort presented his perspective on access to cardiothoracic surgery resources amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
January 11, 2024
The first video shows the removal of a Sapiens TAVR, which had become stenotic, and a replacement of a dilated ascending aorta through a mini sternotomy. The second video shows redo valve surgery in a patient who had a surgical AVR then a TAVR in place and required SAVR with left ventricular outflow tract reconstruction after removal of both the TAVR and the previous SAVR.
January 10, 2024
This video is a collaboration between Dr. Nirav Patel, Director of Robotic Cardiac Surgery at Northwell Health in New York, and Michelin star chef Fredrick Berzelius.
January 10, 2024
This is a report on the first dedicated minimally invasive right atrial retractor for tricuspid valve surgery.
January 9, 2024
This video presents patch repair of large post-myocardial infarction posterior left ventricular pseudoaneurysm involving the mitral valve apparatus.
January 5, 2024
As a part of the 2023 joint international conference of the African Academy for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery and the African Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons, Dr. Bode Falase presented an update on the Nigeria Open Heart Surgery Registry.
January 4, 2024
In this introductory video, Vincent Gaudiani sets the scene for his outstanding series of videos on preoperative surgery after previous TAVR.
January 2, 2024
This video presents the technique for construction of a freestyle valve-Valsalva graft composite conduit for aortic root replacement.