In response to the release of the updated 2023 AHA/ACC/ACCP/ASPC/NLA/PCNA Guideline for the Management of Patients With Chronic Coronary Disease, authors representing the AATS and STS came together to write a rebuttal explaining their perspective on the controversial guidelines. In an interview with CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning, revascularization specialist and AATS representative Dr. Faisal Bakaeen elaborates on the surgeons’ perspective.
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Coronary disease
August 8, 2023
August 7, 2023
In a research letter on a small pilot genomic study of sampling coronary atheroma, the authors offer a brief explanation on how their technique can be applied to detect stability of coronary plaque.
August 4, 2023
Authors representing the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Society of Thoracic Surgeons published a rebuttal to the Chronic Coronary Disease Guidelines.
August 1, 2023
This video presents a walk-through of a large pulmonary artery aneurysm reconstruction with vascular prosthesis in a patient with concomitant two-vessel coronary artery disease and patent foramen ovale.
July 27, 2023
Alberta’s first minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB) surgery was performed at one of the few sites in Canada offering the procedure. The procedure is less invasive than traditional bypass surgery and provides patients with a faster recovery time.
July 27, 2023
These new guidelines contain wide-ranging recommendations on the use of beta-blockers, sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide-1, and other medical therapies to treat chronic coronary disease.
July 20, 2023
In March 2023, the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland brought together surgeons from around the world to discuss topics in CT surgery. These recordings cover the two sessions focused on coronary surgery.
July 5, 2023
This video presents the author’s technique for harvesting the right gastroepiploic artery in coronary artery bypass grafting.
June 27, 2023
In this video, surgeons demonstrate a Vouhe procedure on a patient with anomalous left coronary artery origin from the right coronary sinus.
June 6, 2023
This video showcases a successful posterior postinfarction ventricular septal defect closure parachuting two composite handmade patches through the aortic valve and the tricuspid valve—without performing a left ventriculotomy.