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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... More
April 4, 2022
Surgical myectomy represents the gold standard therapy today for patients with symptomatic obstructive HCM.
March 31, 2022
With symptomatic myocardial bridges being fairly common, it’s important to know how to treat them. This video shows present the clinical workup, operative technique, and postoperative course of a myocardial bridge unroofing.
March 30, 2022
Off pump minimally invasive CABG via anterolateral minithoracotomy is safe, reproducible and can be done at a low cost.
March 29, 2022
While aortic dissections can be rare, knowing how to perform an operative repair on one is vital. This video shows an example of one such procedure with the added wrinkle of there being an entry tear in the arch.
March 28, 2022
On Friday, March 25, at 10:00 a.m. ET (US) Edwards Lifesciences, in collaboration with CTSNet, presented a live webinar titled “Lifetime management of aortic valve disease: Key considerations for optimal valve selection.” This is the recording of that webinar.
March 24, 2022
Complex cases are an opportunity for surgeons to unitize unique skills that they have picked up over time. This video shows an interesting off-pump mediastinal complex oncologic vascular operation for a thymic neuroendocrine carcinoma.
March 23, 2022
Complex composite grafting can occasionally be required for total arterial revascularization in patients who need multiple grafts, so it is important for surgeons to learn as many techniques as possible. This video shows how to use double Y grafting utilizing bilateral IMA and a radial artery with endarterectomy to increase a patient’s chance at long-term survival.
March 22, 2022
In this video, a twenty-year-old woman with severe aortic prosthetic dysfunction undergoes a fourth-time sternotomy with modified pulmonary autograft (Ross) aortic root replacement and a revision of pervious ascending-to-descending aortic bypass graft.
March 21, 2022
One of the main worries with aortic valve-in-valve procedures (ViV) is coronary occlusion. This is a devastating complication with a greater than 50 percent mortality rate. This video describes a surgical alternative to the interventional Basilica procedure in a high-risk patient for ViV because of a very low coronary implantation.
March 17, 2022
This interesting video demonstrates a redo David I procedure for a thirty-year-old woman diagnosed with aortic insufficiency with bicuspid aortic valve. This case has the added layer of the patient also having had a PTA repair and reconstruction of right ventricular outflow track with a homograft when she was six.