At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Meeting 2024, Rashmi Yadav delivered a speech on approaching surgical revascularization in women.
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Cardiac
August 2, 2024
August 2, 2024
Dr. Tristan Yan demonstrates the mini-access branch-first total arch replacement and frozen elephant trunk procedure.
August 2, 2024
This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning discusses the implementation of the Versius robotic surgical system for thoracic surgery and summarizes the ability of the Versius surgical system to successfully and safely complete a range of thoracic procedures aligned with phase 2a of the (Development) of the Idea, Development, Exploration, Assessment and Long-term follow-up (IDEAL) framework for surgical innovation.
August 1, 2024
Post Ross procedure dilation of the pulmonary autograft (neo-aorta) is a major long-term draw back that has been dealt with in many ways, including strict blood pressure control for one year, ring and suture annuloplasty techniques, and autologous and prosthetic external graft stabilization techniques.
August 1, 2024
Surgical treatment of pleural mesothelioma remains challenging and carries high morbidity, especially in patients who develop post operative empyema. This interesting article retrospectively studied 400 patients of whom 50 developed postoperative empyema.
July 31, 2024
In this month’s episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Lorena Montes about saphenous vein harvesting.
July 30, 2024
A case of fenestrated atrial septal defect closure in a six-year-old child with severe pectus excavatum and pulmonary hypertension via right vertical axillary thoracotomy. This is one of a series of challenging cases in which the authors will be expanding the limits of the right axillary thoracotomy for a wide variety of congenital heart defects.
July 26, 2024
In this part 2 video, Dr. Tristan Yan demonstrates the mini-access CAVIAAR procedure and how to restore aortic valve competency.
July 26, 2024
This video from Dr. Tristan Yan demonstrates the mini-access CAVIAAR procedure and how to assess aortic valve competency.
July 25, 2024
Atrial fibrillation (AF) increases the risk of stroke and systemic embolism. While oral anticoagulation is the current standard of care, there is a growing body of evidence supporting left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) as an alternative or complementary treatment approach to reduce the risk of stroke or systemic embolism in patients with AF.