In Part 2 of this series, experts discuss managing bradyarrhythmias, the use of epicardial pacing wires, preferred methods for postoperative pacing, the role of chronotropes in the absence of functional wires, and considerations for alternative pacing methods.
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Cardiac
July 1, 2025
This case highlights the value of the SCORE technique in managing severe rheumatic mitral stenosis, achieving successful repair through meticulous reconstruction of both the valvular and subvalvular apparatus.
June 30, 2025
This video demonstrates the excision of a subvalvular ring in the left ventricular outflow tract of a 34-year-old woman with minimal aortic regurgitation.
June 27, 2025
This video demonstrates a relatively simple solution for addressing a hostile aorta encountered during a coronary artery bypass grafting operation.
June 27, 2025
At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, Dr. Pedro Catarino, professor and Director of Aortic Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, delivered a presentation on “Transplantation Across the Pond: Is the Grass Really Greener?”
June 26, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. David Kalfa, the incoming Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Co-Director of the Heart Institute at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, about allogenic mitral valve transplants.
June 26, 2025
This video showcases an open harvesting technique for the radial artery.
June 26, 2025
This video demonstrates the Bentall procedure with hemiarch replacement using a continuous suture technique, highlighting the surgical steps and outcomes in a patient with severe aortic stenosis.
June 26, 2025
Surgeons at Baylor St Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, Texas, successfully performed the first robotic heart transplant in the U.S. without opening the chest, using small abdominal incisions. This minimally invasive procedure reduced trauma, blood loss, and infection risk, allowing for quicker recovery.
June 24, 2025
In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Faisal Bakaeen, Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Director of the Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Center at the Cleveland Clinic, about radial artery harvesting.