This excellent review summarizes the existing evidence for use of balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) based on the 2022 European Society of Cardiology and European Respiratory Society (ESC/ERS) guidelines and discusses the safety, efficacy, and its current role in relation to the more established pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) and existing best medic
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Minimally Invasive
September 21, 2023
September 20, 2023
This video presents a case of slipping rib syndrome reconstruction using the costal margin reconstruction technique, which is challenging but addresses the needs of slipping rib syndrome patients with complicating features.
September 13, 2023
This video demonstrates a right upper lobectomy with the ArtiSential wristed instruments, which simulate all movements of robotic surgery for a fraction of the price and a faster duration.
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.
September 7, 2023
This video presents a case in which a typical carcinoid tumor was resected in the left lower bronchus orifice followed by a v-anastomosis through RATS, complicated with an intraoperative contralateral tension pneumothorax.
September 5, 2023
This video demonstrates a new modification to the periareolar approach, periareolar minimally invasive technique (PAMI).
September 4, 2023
This is the clinical case of a totally endoscopic beating-heart second redo tricuspid valve replacement with a mechanical valve in a sixteen-year-old male patient.
August 30, 2023
While much research is ongoing regarding the safety of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) compared to surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) after prior coronary artery bypass (CABG), there is limited data on morbidity outcomes and discharge locations among these two procedures.
August 28, 2023
This video demonstrates a biportal VATS fissure last lower bilobectomy with intraoperative pulmonary artery clamping test to verify functional operability in an eighty-five-year-old frail patient with inconclusive preoperative functional evaluation.
August 24, 2023
During some transcatheter aortic valve implant (TAVI) procedures, complications require conversion to emergency open heart surgery (E-OHS). This study evaluated early and midterm outcomes in a large center over fifteen years. Patients were grouped by surgical risk and the study time was divided into three five-year periods.