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This video discusses the TransMedics Organ Care System, which allows normothermic beating donor heart preservation during transport.
October 6, 2020
The authors discuss their use of bilateral pectoralis major myocutaneous flaps based on the thoraco-acromial pedicle to manage sternal wound dehiscence in 42 patients from 2003 – 2019.
September 2, 2020
The authors present a 77-year-old woman with a history of dyspnea and orthopnea who was diagnosed with a giant saccular aneurysm arising from the right coronary artery ostia, with a coronary artery fistula from the right and left coronary arteries to the coronary sinus.
August 12, 2020
Aorta Tevar Indicator is an application created for the planning of endo-prosthetic corrective treatment for the pathology of the thoracic aorta.
August 5, 2020
The authors demonstrate a technique to manage the complex aortic pathology with coronary artery disease following percutaneous thoracic endovascular arterial repair in Ishimaru's zone 2, 3, and 4 in a complicated type B aortic dissection.
July 15, 2020
In this video, the authors present the clinical case of a 67-year-old woman with an oncological history of endometrial stromal sarcoma treated with surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy who underwent several pulmonary metastasectomies in practically all the pulmonary lobes during the last eight years.
May 6, 2020
The authors discuss the case of a 32-year-old man who was referred with a diagnosis of an extragonadal germ cell tumor in the anterior mediastinum.
March 23, 2020
This case report suggests that recurrent right pleural effusions could be a side effect of hepatic artery infusion pump chemotherapy in the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer.
March 17, 2020
The authors present a minimally invasive approach to surgical pulmonary embolectomy through a left anterior minithoracotomy using peripheral cardiopulmonary bypass that they have found to be safe and reproducible for surgeons around the world.
December 30, 2019
The authors present the case of the surgical treatment of a giant right lung mass, which compresses and displaces adjacent pulmonary parenchyma, mediastinum, and diaphragm, achieving total resection.
November 12, 2019
This case report describes a young woman who presented with severe respiratory distress due to a spontaneous diaphragmatic hernia that was caused by labor contractions, which was managed by the emergency surgical repair of the diaphragm.