Dr. Vince Gaudiani demonstrates a long LAD endarterectomy with vein valve removal, calcium clearance, and LIMA to vein patch.
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December 21, 2023
Joel discusses CT surgery news and the latest clinical videos from CTSNet.
December 21, 2023
A ten-month-old infant who developed progressive branch pulmonary arterial stenosis and hypoplasia post-arterial switch as a neonate underwent bilateral pulmonary arterioplasties.
December 20, 2023
This video demonstrates a left lower lobectomy in a patient with a history of smoking, COPD, and ischemic cardiopathy and a pulmonary epidermoid carcinoma staged T4N0. The patient was first addressed and treated by chemo-immunotherapy before being restaffed and led to surgery.
December 19, 2023
CTSNet congenital editor Prof. Sameh Said spoke with Dr. Hani Najm, the Chair of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery at Cleveland Clinic. They discussed Dr. Najm’s method for the ventricular switch operation and what his team has learned about the procedure as a concept, not just an operation.
December 19, 2023
The technique in this video combines recent positive trends in coronary artery bypass grafting including the use of skeletonized BIMA, no-touch saphenous vein, epiaortic scanning, intraoperative transit time flow measurement, and high-frequency ultrasound assessment.
December 18, 2023
This video demonstrates the short-term safety and efficacy of an emerging operative technique—transconal unroofing of an intraseptal anomalous left coronary artery with patch reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract—in a pediatric patient with impaired coronary perfusion.
December 15, 2023
CTSNet is excited to announce the winner of the 2023 Innovation Video Competition, Prof. Amhad Ali Amirghofran. His submission, “Tricuspid Valve Replacement with the Right Atrial Appendage Valve: The First Report,” he demonstrates how his team’s experience with the use of the right atrial appendage for pulmonary valve position led them to design a technique to use the RAA valve for tricuspid valve replacement.
December 15, 2023
In this recording from the 2023 Transcatheter Heart Valves Greece conference, Dr. Christina Chrysohoou, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the University of Athens, discusses tailoring TEER to individual patients who are in heart failure.
December 14, 2023
In this episode of CTSNet’s flagship podcast, editor in chief Joel Dunning runs through the latest, most popular content on ctsnet.org—the largest online community of CT surgeons and source of CT surgery information—and breaking cardiothoracic surgery news and research from around the world.
December 14, 2023
This video shows two cases of tetralogy of Fallot repair using the right atrial appendage and autologous pericardium for the pulmonary valve reconstruction.