This video demonstrates a case presentation of redo sternotomy and mitral valve replacement.
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Sternotomy
February 24, 2026
This video demonstrates a practical approach to explanting a transcatheter aortic valve implantation after previous surgical aortic valve replacement.
February 12, 2026
This video demonstrates an alternative retrograde cardioplegia catheter cannulation site that has proven to be reproducible, reliable, and useful in cases of virgin and reoperative sternotomy.
February 5, 2026
This video demonstrates a patient with a type A dissection repair using an Ascyrus Medical Dissection Stent, who underwent extension of repair with a frozen elephant trunk to treat an arch aneurysm.
January 30, 2026
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January 19, 2026
This video demonstrates the reasons for the failure of the repair of a mitral valve and how these issues were addressed, along with diagrammatic descriptions of how the mitral valve should close.
January 19, 2026
This video presents an extended thymectomy with en bloc left upper lobectomy using a combined video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery and sternotomy approach.
January 14, 2026
This video demonstrates a technique involving the combined Mustard and en bloc rotation of the outflow tracts in a seven-year-old child with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries, ventricular septal defect, and pulmonary valve stenosis in a redo setting.
December 30, 2025
This study from the Mini-Mitral International Registry (2015-2021) compared endo-aortic balloon occlusion (EABO) to transthoracic clamping (TTC) in minimally invasive mitral valve surgery. After propensity matching 733 pairs from 6,884 patients, EABO showed significantly lower rates of conversion to sternotomy, although it was associated with longer
December 11, 2025
The UK Mini Mitral Trial compared minimally invasive (Mini) mitral valve repair (MVr) to conventional sternotomy in patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation. The primary objective was to assess physical function (PF) recovery, using the Short Form 36-Item Health Survey, version 2 (SF-36v2) PF scale 12 weeks post-surgery.