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August 30, 2024
At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Meeting 2024, Patrick Klein presented “Durability/Stroke/PVL/PPM—TAVI and SAVR Head-to-Head.”
August 30, 2024
Aortic valve repair for insufficiency is sometimes limited by deficient leaflet tissue. During the past two years, the authors have been using autologous aortic wall as a leaflet substitute, with great success. This video provides an early introduction to this technique, serving as a preliminary step to long-term follow-up studies.
August 29, 2024
This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning discusses the 38th EACTS Annual Meeting in Libson. He provides a comprehensive overview of the conference, including details about the featured speakers and the topics to be addressed by these distinguished surgeons.
August 29, 2024
An 18-year-old male with complex congenital heart defects, including dextrocardia and a functional single ventricle, had his obstructive Fontan conduit replaced with a new PTFE graft. The procedure avoided cardiopulmonary bypass and involved rerouting the conduit, which helped improve his symptoms significantly.
August 28, 2024
The video demonstrates a successful tricuspid valve repair using autologous pericardium to address severe tricuspid regurgitation caused by a large mass on the valve. The surgery resulted in only trivial regurgitation post-repair.
August 28, 2024
CTSNet Senior Editor Sameh Said spoke with Stefan Elde about total beating heart transplants.
August 27, 2024
This video presents the surgical technique for the extended septal myectomy operation, as well as the mobilization of the fibrous trigones and resection of accessory MV chords.
August 26, 2024
This video shows how to prepare Gore-Tex chords for use in mitral repair.
August 26, 2024
This video demonstrates a triangular resection of the posterior leaflet of the mitral valve through an upper hemisternotomy and the roof of the left atrium.
Surgical Extraction of a Watchman Device, Amplatzer Plug, and Failed Transcatheter Mitral Prosthesis
August 26, 2024
This video demonstrates the surgical extraction of a Watchman device, Amplatzer occluder, and a failed transcatheter mitral prosthesis on a seventy-eight-year-old male.