This video demonstrates that proximal obstructions can be safely and effectively relieved via a left anterior thoracotomy. This approach is less invasive than a redo median sternotomy, which can be challenging even for experienced surgeons.
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Mechanical circulatory assistance
December 18, 2024
November 11, 2024
This video presents a clinical case of a 44-year-old man with severe respiratory failure and septic shock secondary to streptococcus pyogenes pneumonia. The authors describe a transfer technique from femoro-jugular veno-venous ECMO to veno-pulmonary ECMO with the ProtekDuo cannula.
July 17, 2024
A technique video detailing how Dr. David Morales implants a total artificial heart.
June 26, 2024
CTSNet continued its webinar series with ASAIO Journal on June 20, 2024 by enrolling cardiac surgery and heart failure professionals to discuss the topic, "LVADs and RV Dysfunction: Is It Manageable?" Panelists included Dr. Jennifer A.
May 30, 2024
This video describes the in-house construction of an LVAD plug for closure of a left ventriculotomy following explantation.
May 20, 2024
This video describes the process of patient selection and bedside percutaneous VA ECMO decannulation.
May 18, 2024
Succinct but comprehensive expert viewpoint on Support in Cardiogenic Shock vis -a -vis the manuscript of DanGer trial on promising results of Impella in highly selected subgroup (360 patients in a decade). The important point made is that of careful selection
May 2, 2024
A fifty-four-year-old woman became the first person to simultaneously receive a gene-edited pig kidney transplant and mechanical heart valve implantation. Surgeons performed the heart pump procedure first before performing the transplant days later.
April 18, 2024
This study aimed to describe the use of perioperative mechanical circulatory support (MCS) and its impact on outcomes in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy undergoing surgical revascularization.
April 16, 2024
CTSNet Global Editor Emily Farkas spoke with Professor Rawn Salenger about his strategy for achieving a low perfusion rate when performing CABG surgery.