This video demonstrates the use of a double docking technique to harvest bilateral internal mammary arteries with the assistance of a Da Vinci robot for the purpose of multivessel coronary revascularization.
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Coronary disease
March 4, 2024
This video shows a day in the life of Professor Tristan Yan at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, where he performs three heart operations and three thoracic surgeries.
February 29, 2024
The impact of the surgeon’s experience on outcomes following off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB) is widely known. However, there is a lack of safe and effective strategies for OPCAB training.
February 8, 2024
The benefits of early extubation in the operating room (OR) following cardiac surgery remain unproven. In this study, the authors evaluated perioperative outcomes after extubation in the OR versus extubation in the intensive care unit (ICU) in patients who underwent nonemergency isolated coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).
February 7, 2024
Editor in chief Joel Dunning spoke with Professor James Tatoulis, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.
February 1, 2024
In findings presented at the STS annual meeting, the ten-year data showed the survival benefit of multi- over single-arterial grafting in all but patients who are severely obese. The study used data from the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database to look at patients who underwent isolated CABG over a ten-year period.
January 31, 2024
At the 2023 EACTS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning and CTSNet senior editors set out to interview the most knowledgable CT surgeons from around the world. Stay tuned for more interviews from the meeting.
January 9, 2024
This video presents patch repair of large post-myocardial infarction posterior left ventricular pseudoaneurysm involving the mitral valve apparatus.
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.