This video demonstrates a simple technique to harvest the mammary artery in a semi-skeletonized fashion.
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Coronary disease
March 28, 2025
In this session from the 2024 London Core Review Cardiothoracic Surgery Course, Dr. Venkatachalam Chandrasekaran discusses minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting (MIDCABG) with a focus on total arterial approaches.
March 27, 2025
This video demonstrates a rare case of a giant left anterior descending artery aneurysm following coronary stenting, which was managed surgically through stent removal, aneurysm repair, and coronary artery bypass grafting.
March 26, 2025
The authors present a successful robotic beating-heart totally endoscopic coronary bypass procedure involving a single vessel, specifically, the left internal mammary artery to the left anterior descending artery in a 69-year-old patient with left anterior descending artery disease.
March 25, 2025
This video demonstrates the clinical case of post-myocardial infarction ventricular septal defect repair with coronary artery bypass grafting performed through a left anterior minithoracotomy via the fourth intercostal space.
March 19, 2025
In this in-depth discussion, CTSNet Senior Editors Drs. Vince Gaudiani and Sameh Said examine the management of an anomalous right coronary artery.
March 7, 2025
Dr. Christopher Lau delivered a presentation on “How to Do a Quick, Safe Posterior Pericardiotomy in Every Case,” examining the factors to consider when performing a pericardiotomy.
March 6, 2025
The debate continues over long-term outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) vs. coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) and multivessel disease.
February 28, 2025
At the 10th Annual International Coronary Congress, Dr. Shahzad G. Raja delivered a presentation on “10-Year Mortality of OPCAB vs ONCAB.”
February 21, 2025
Dr. Armin Kiankhooy delivered a presentation on “Epicardial Ablation of AF During CABG: Evidence and Video Demonstration of PVI, Encompass, and Convergent Procedures,” explaining the critical steps of surgical epicardial ablation.