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.
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Minimally Invasive
June 20, 2025
At the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2025, President Husam H. Balkhy presented “Patience, Passion, and Persistence in the Pursuit of Robotic Cardiac Surgery.”
June 17, 2025
This video demonstrates a totally endoscopic mitral valve replacement using a transcatheter device in a patient who previously underwent mitral commissirotomy.
June 12, 2025
This unique case involved a 5-month-old, 6 kg infant who presented with failure to thrive secondary to a large membranous ventricular septal defect (VSD) with a large left-to-right shunt.
June 10, 2025
This video demonstrates a combined surgical intervention involving aortic valve replacement, mitral valve repair, and tricuspid valve repair through a single minimally invasive approach— a right anterior thoracotomy in the third intercostal space.
June 5, 2025
This video demonstrates a minimally invasive mitral valve repair in a male patient with severe mitral regurgitation and mitral annular disjunction.
June 5, 2025
This video demonstrates the case of a 67-year-old male who was found to have a right lower lobe carcinoid tumor invading bronchus intermedius; thus, a robotic-assisted right middle and lower lobe bilobectomy was performed.
May 29, 2025
This video demonstrates a minimally invasive on-pump beating heart mitral valve repair with neochord creation performed through a right anterior mini thoracotomy in a patient with prior coronary artery bypass grafting.
May 29, 2025
The question of whether minimal invasive extracorporeal circulation (MiECC) represents the optimal perfusion strategy in cardiac surgery remains unanswered.
May 26, 2025
This video demonstrates the steps of a tricuspid valve repair following healed endocarditis with lung adhesions.