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October 28, 2024
This video, narrated by Dr. Vince Gaudiani, provides techniques and advice for cardiac surgeons new to reoperative sternotomy.
October 25, 2024
In this video, a surgeon provides a detailed drawing of a heart with a quadrileaflet aortic valve.
October 24, 2024
A 37-year-old female athlete with severe pectus excavatum with hemodynamic repercussion underwent a successful surgical correction using the cross-bar technique and cryoanalgesia for pain management.
October 23, 2024
A 2-month-old female infant was diagnosed postnatally with a 2/6 ejection murmur. This video demonstrates a modified four-patch closure to repair the supravalvar aortic stenosis.
October 22, 2024
This video demonstrates a redo mitral valve repair and left ventricular myectomy performed through the aorta and roof of the left atrium.
October 21, 2024
This video demonstrates a myectomy and mitral valve repair in a 70-year-old woman with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Dr. Vince Gaudiani shows how to make a septal incision and how to place an annuloplasty ring.
October 14, 2024
This video demonstrates a Cox Maze III procedure and mitral valve repair of a calcified annulus. Dr. Vince Gaudiani shows how to make an incision from the medial tricuspid trigone to the inferior vena cava and how to decalcify the A1 and P1 leaflets.
October 14, 2024
Dr. Vince Gaudiani demonstrates how to perform a complex repair of a calcified posterior leaflet. He shows how to cannulate the femoral vein, remove calcium from under the leaflet, and how to reattach the leaflet.
October 11, 2024
Neonatal epicardial pacemaker implantation is a necessary surgery due to the lack of transcatheter options for neonates. Congenital and post-surgical heart blocks in the neonatal population can only be treated by surgical intervention. The authors present the technical aspects of surgical implantation of an epicardial pacemaker.
October 10, 2024
This video demonstrates a thoracoscopic resection of esophageal leiomyoma in a 51-year-old female patient who presented with shortness of breath, low appetite, weight loss, and thoracic discomfort for a year.