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In this part 2 video, Dr. Tristan Yan demonstrates the mini-access CAVIAAR procedure and how to restore aortic valve competency.
August 7, 2011
By KiHong Kwon, Robert S. Firpo and Thomas Tzeng
Video:
August 7, 2011
By C. L. Athanasuleas, MD and G. D. Buckberg, MD
August 7, 2011
Case Presentation
August 7, 2011
STSA Surgical Motion Picture 2008 Annual Meeting
August 7, 2011
By Heyman Luckraz, FRCS, Adam Szafranek, MD, Christine NH Tan, MD, and Peter A. O'Keefe, MS, FRCS
Surgical strategies
August 7, 2011
August 7, 2011
By Andreas Zierer, MD, Luis A. Sanchez, MD and Marc R. Moon, MD
STSA 2007
August 2, 2011
Transhiatal esophagectomy (THE) may be used to treat patients with either benign or malignant esophageal disease because the reconstructive result cervical esophagogastric anastomosis yields an excellent functional result with a minimum of gastroesophageal reflux. In practice, the majority of patients who require esophagectomy have malignant disease.
August 2, 2011
The present a case of a 55 year old male with known mitral valve insufficiency. By transesophageal echo the patient was found to have a ruptured chordae on the P2 segment of the posterior leaflet of the mitral valve. He underwent minimally invasive mitral valve repair via right thoracotomy.