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Dr. Vince Gaudiani demonstrates a long LAD endarterectomy with vein valve removal, calcium clearance, and LIMA to vein patch.
June 12, 2017
This video shows the treatment of a patient suffering from manubrium nonunion after a mini aortic valve replacement.
June 9, 2017
In an interview filmed at the 2016 EACTS Annual Meeting in Barcelona, Spain, CTSNet Associate Editor for Allied Health and clinical nurse specialist, Jill Ley, shares her thoughts on how cardiothoracic surgery nurses at all stages of their careers can become more involved in the profession and improve patient outcomes.
June 8, 2017
This video demonstrates a left video-assisted thoracoscopic enucleation of a giant horseshoe esophageal leiomyoma, and management of an inadvertent mucosal tear during enucleation.
June 7, 2017
Bart Van Putte of St. Antonius Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands, describes his approach to lone atrial fibrillation, and presents a video demonstration of his operative technique.
June 6, 2017
This video shows the laparoscopic approach for Heller myotomy and Dor fundoplication, combined with an epiphrenic diverticulectomy in a 66-year-old patient.
June 5, 2017
In this video, the authors demonstrate the feasibility of performing a complex aortic valve repair for aortic valve endocarditis via an upper partial sternotomy.
June 2, 2017
The author demonstrates the technique for a VATS sleeve lobectomy in an 82-year-old woman.
June 1, 2017
Niv Ad of West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute, Morgantown, West Virginia, discusses the benefits of using a fibrillating-heart technique in minimally invasive mitral surgery.
May 31, 2017
Song Wan of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Rüdiger Lange of the German Heart Center share their opinions on current and future trends in mitral valve repair. Tom Nguyen of the University of Texas Health Science Center moderates this discussion, which focuses on the evolution of patient profiles and surgical techniques.
May 30, 2017
In this video, the final in a seven-part series, Tristan Yan demonstrates how to anastomose the Ante-Flo graft to the Valsalva graft, wean the patient off bypass, and close the mini-sternotomy incision.