This study demonstrates a feasible approach to port catheter placement without imaging, offering a practical alternative for low-resource settings.
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Great vessels
March 13, 2025
March 3, 2025
Direct ascending aorta true lumen cannulation, demonstrated in this video, is a fast, safe, and reproducible technique that provides adequate central antegrade flow through the true aortic lumen within two minutes of circulatory arrest.
January 9, 2025
This video demonstrates Alna’s technique for repairing truncus arteriosus (Collett and Edwards) type 1, using a modified Barbero-Marcial approach that utilizes the patient's right atrial appendage to create a neo-pulmonary valve.
January 7, 2025
This video demonstrates a successful Ross procedure with hemiarch replacement using the wrapped pulmonary autograft technique.
September 17, 2024
This video demonstrates the technique of robotic-assisted ligation of an aberrant right subclavian artery using a left-sided thoracoscopic approach followed by an open subclavian to carotid transposition for management of dysphagia lusoria.
September 4, 2024
In this video, a surgeon sketches and explains a surgical procedure using the Bookwalter retractor, emphasizing its role in keeping the surgical site open for better access and visibility. The drawing highlights the retractor's placement and its importance in the operation.
June 27, 2024
This video is a balanced, gripping presentation on an increasingly common emergency problem for the on-call cardiac surgeon. Professor Oo discusses the evolving landscape of surgery for acute De Bakey I and II pathologies of the aortic organ.
September 12, 2023
Survivors of Acute Stanford B (DeBakey III) in Holland: a patient-cantered follow-up indicating that the treatment strategy did not influence quality of life.
November 22, 2022
This video demonstrates correction of anomalous right subclavian artery (aRSA) originating from the distal thoracic aorta by transection and anastomosis of aRSA to the right carotid artery.
November 17, 2022
Pirruccello and associates from Massachusetts General Hospital developed a prediction model for ascending aortic diameter in a cohort of 30,018 asymptomatic individuals based on eleven variables: age (years), gender, body mass index (kg/m2), heart rate (bpm), systolic and diastolic blood pressure (mm Hg), height (cm), weight (kg), and the presence or