In this video, Dr. Vince Gaudiani demonstrates how the MitraClips failed in an 88-year-old patient prior to removing them and performing a mitral valve replacement via a hemisternotomy.
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June 8, 2018
The 2018 Annual Meeting of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery will be held in Vancouver, Canada, June 13-16, 2018. Find out which select cardiac sessions will stream live on CTSNet.
June 8, 2018
New Online Journal CME activities are now available from The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
June 7, 2018
G. Alexander Patterson of the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri, discusses oncologic outcomes after VATS resections.
June 7, 2018
The authors demonstrate the surgical treatment of cor triatriatum sinister, a pathology that may lead to pulmonary hypertension, right ventricular dilation, and eventually right heart failure.
June 6, 2018
This article presents an edited video of the speech given by Alfred Blalock at his 1960 birthday celebration.
June 5, 2018
This video demonstrates a technique of posterior aortopexy to manage airway compression.
June 4, 2018
This video demonstrates a carinal resection, which was a challenging operation.
June 1, 2018
June 1, 2018
CTSNet and the SCTS are excited to bring Perspectives in Cardiothoracic Surgery: The SCTS Ionescu University, Volume III to the cardiothoracic surgery community.
May 31, 2018
Filmed at the 2017 Aortic Live meeting in Essen, Germany, Mohamad Bashir, Joseph Bavaria, Heinz Jakob, Tilo Kolbel, Gebrine El Khoury, and Stephan Haulon discuss endovascular approaches to aortic disease.