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May 30, 2019
This lecture was presented during the Glasgow Cardiopulmonary Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support Symposium, a one-day symposium held at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Glasgow, UK.
May 29, 2019
In this Giants of Cardiothoracic Surgery interview, Marco Nardini speaks with Antonio Maria Calafiore of the Prince Sultan Cardiac Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
May 28, 2019
This video demonstrates the laqueation of a giant aneurysm of the left atrial appendage using a left video-assisted thoracoscopic approach.
May 23, 2019
Filmed at the 2019 STS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, Daniel Engelman of Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, moderates a discussion on enhanced recovery after cardiac surgery.
May 21, 2019
The authors describe a novel technique for the placement of a temporary RVAD that does not rely on femoral central venous access and can be discontinued using conscious sedation and local anesthetic.
May 14, 2019
Abdelhadi Ismail of the Southampton University Hospitals Trust in the UK presents an educational series on cardiac anatomy in which he discusses some of the fundamental concepts.
May 9, 2019
In this Giants of Cardiothoracic Surgery interview, Varun Shetty speaks with Devi Shetty, founder and chairman of Narayana Health in Bangalore, India, about his work to make cardiac surgery affordable for the common man.
May 7, 2019
The authors demonstrate the Nicks aortic root enlargement, which extends the aortotomy through the noncoronary annulus into the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve.
May 6, 2019
The authors present a uniportal left videothoracoscopic procedure to remove a cystic lesion, immediately adjacent to the right ventricle, the pulmonary artery, and the pulmonary valve without any infiltration.
May 6, 2019
In this report, the authors present an atypical case of left atrial appendage aneurysm—which has been surgically treated with success—to supplement the literature and to discuss the diagnosis and the treatment.