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Vol 13, No 1 (January 30, 2024): Atrial Fibrillation Management I

Simplified technique for bilateral access totally thoracoscopic Maze

Fabrizio Rosati, Giuseppe De Cicco, Elisabetta Lapenna, Lorenzo Di Bacco, Paola Redaelli, Stefano Benussi

Left atrial appendage occlusion techniques for open heart surgery and for minimally invasive thoracotomy

Karel M. Van Praet, Markus Kofler, Christian G. Schneider, Matteo Montagner, Leonhard Wert, Serdar Akansel, Simon H. Sündermann, Axel Unbehaun, Jörg Kempfert, Volkmar Falk, Christoph Starck

Vol 12, No 6 (November 27, 2023): Aortic Disease in Women

Endovascular repair of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms

Matthew J. Rossi, Christian C. Shults, Javairiah Fatima

Hybrid repair of a thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm in female patient with Loeys-Dietz syndrome

Sabine Helena Wipper, Tilo Kölbel, Bernhard Dorweiler, Julia Dumfarth, Alexandra Gratl, Olaf Gorny, Anthony L. Estrera, Harleen K. Sandhu, E. Sebastian Debus

Vol 12, No 5 (September 28, 2023): Spinal Cord Protection

Spinal cord injury after frozen elephant trunk procedures—prevention and management

Giacomo Murana, Francesco Campanini, Costanza Fiaschini, Giuseppe Barberio, Gianluca Folesani, Davide Pacini

Intercostal artery reattachment for prevention of spinal cord ischaemia

Ana Lopez-Marco, Myat Soe Thet, Sarvananthan Sajiram, Benjamin Adams, Aung Y. Oo

A new hybrid graft for open thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair

Sabine Helena Wipper, Tilo Kölbel, Julia Dumfarth, Hubert Schelzig, Anthony L. Estrera, Harleen K. Sandhu, Florian Enzmann, E. Sebastian Debus

Neuromonitoring for descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair

Akiko Tanaka, Hung Nguyen, Holly N. Smith, Anthony L. Estrera

Vol 12, No 4 (July 31, 2023): Three Decades of Aortic Valve-Sparing Operations II

Annular stabilization in remodelling technique

Pichoy Danial, Pouya Youssefi, Mathieu Debauchez, Pierre Demondion, Emmanuel Lansac

Isolated aortic regurgitation in normal-appearing aortic root: what do I do?

John J. Kelly, Nimesh D. Desai, Shanelle Mendes, Yu Zhao, Brittany J. Cannon, Amit Iyengar, Mikolaj Berezowski, Selim Mosbahi, Wilson Y. Szeto, Joseph E. Bavaria

David procedure through an upper ministernotomy

Tomas Holubec, Mustafa Al-Obaidi, Thomas Walther, Arnaud Van Linden

Vol 12, No 3 (May 31, 2023): Three Decades of Aortic Valve-Sparing Operations I

Aortic valve-sparing root replacement (David-I) for acute aortic dissection type A

Erik Beckmann, Tim Kaufeld, Andreas Martens, Linda Rudolph, Mizala Shrestha, Heike Krueger, Axel Haverich, Malakh Lal Shrestha

Vol 12, No 2 (March 31, 2023): Uniportal Robotic-Assisted Thoracic Surgery II

Uniportal fully robotic-assisted bronchovascular sleeve bilobectomy

Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Mugurel Bosinceanu, Veronica Manolache, Javier Gallego-Poveda, Manjunath Bale, Natalia Motas

Uniportal robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery right upper lobectomy for aspergilloma

Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Manjunath Bale, Mugurel L. Bosinceanu, Rohan Chinthareddy

Uniportal hybrid robotic-assisted right upper sleeve lobectomy in an 83-year-old patient with severe pulmonary hypertension

Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Paul-Henri Koziej, Sohal Sediqi, Bertram Ruprecht, Henrike Jostmeyer, Daniel Valdivia

Uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery anatomic segmentectomies

Natalia Motas, Veronica Manolache, Mugurel Liviu Bosinceanu, Manjunath Bale, George Decker, Diego Gonzalez-Rivas

Uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery for mediastinal tumors

Veronica Manolache, Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Mugurel Liviu Bosinceanu, Javier Gallego-Poveda, Alejandro Garcia-Perez, Natalia Motas

Uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery lung-sparing carinal sleeve resection and reconstruction

Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Rawand A. Essa, Natalia Motas, Akif Turna, Mugurel L. Bosinceanu, Veronica Manolache

Vol 12, No 1 (January 31, 2023): Uniportal Robotic-Assisted Thoracic Surgery I

Uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery pneumonectomy

Natalia Motas, Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Mugurel Liviu Bosinceanu, Javier Gallego-Poveda, Alejandro Garcia-Perez, Veronica Manolache

Uniportal robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: resection of the first rib

Anna Ureña, Carlos Déniz, Anna Muñoz, Ivan Macía, Francisco Rivas, Ricard Ramos

Bilateral uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery sleeve lobectomy for a bilateral endobronchial lung cancer

Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Ricardo Fernandez Prado, Alejandro Garcia-Perez, Mugurel Liviu Bosinceanu, Natalia Motas, Veronica Manolache

Vol 11, No 6 (November 29, 2022): Robotic Mitral Valve Surgery II

How I perform totally endoscopic robotic mitral valve repair

Colin C. Yost, Jake L. Rosen, Meagan Wu, Caroline M. Komlo, Jordan E. Goldhammer, T. Sloane Guy

Vol 11, No 5 (September 30, 2022): Robotic Mitral Valve Surgery I

Robotic-assisted double valve surgery

George M. Comas, Lawrence M. Wei, Vinay Badhwar

Robotic mitral valve repair with complete excision of mitral annular calcification

Noritsugu Naito, Eugene A. Grossi, Heidi B. Nafday, Didier F. Loulmet

The periareolar approach to robotic mitral valve repair

Francesco Musumeci, Federico Ranocchi, Antonio Lio

Technical aspects of robotically assisted left atrial myxoma resection

Rachel L. Deitz, Takuya Ogami, Syed Faaz Ashraf, David J. Kaczorowski, Johannes Bonatti

Vol 11, No 4 (July 29, 2022): Bicuspid Aortic Valve

Management of anomalous coronary anatomy during aortic valve repair

Piroze M. Davierwala, Imran Khan, Christian Etz, Michael A. Borger

Vol 11, No 3 (May 31, 2022): Surgical & Non-Surgical Management of Mechanical Complications of AMI

Managing and repairing ventricular free-wall rupture: the triple-patch technique

Roberto Lorusso, Daniele Ronco, Giulio Massimi, Michele Di Mauro, Federica Jiritano, Matteo Matteucci

Emergent repair of post myocardial infarction ventricular septal defect with prophylactic left ventricular assist device

David Drullinsky, Fadi Hage, Ali Hage, Matthew Valdis, Dave Nagpal, Michael W. A. Chu

Extended sandwich patch technique to repair ventricular septal rupture

Tohru Asai, Takeshi Kinoshita, Atsumi Oishi, Kohei Hachiro, Tomoaki Suzuki, Piers Vigers

The worst MitraClip Scenario: acute mitral regurgitation due to papillary muscle rupture

Davide Carino, Paolo Denti, Alessandra Sala, Wobbe Bouma, Alessandro Castiglioni, Ottavio Alfieri, Francesco Maisano, Michele De Bonis

Vol 11, No 2 (March 31, 2022): PTE in Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension and Disease

Balloon pulmonary angioplasty after pulmonary thromboendarterectomy

Massimiliano Palazzini, Francesco Saia, Nevio Taglieri, Daniele Guarino, Mariangela Rotunno, Nazzareno Galiѐ, Fabio Dardi

Surgical management of “ab-extrinseco” main stem left coronary compression during pulmonary thromboendarterectomy

Sofia Martin-Suarez, Giulio Giovanni Cavalli, Gregorio Gliozzi, Carlo Mariani, Antonio Loforte, Davide Pacini

Vol 11, No 1 (January 24, 2022): Thoracic Aortic Endovascular Solutions II

Thoracic endovascular aortic repair for ascending aortic aneurysm or dissection

Derek Serna-Gallegos, Edgar Aranda-Michel, Forozan Navid, Ibrahim Sultan

Endovascular arch repair using the NEXUS arch endograft

Marina Ibrahim, Thomas F. Lindsay, Jennifer C. Y. Chung, Kong T. Tan, Juan Contreras, Maral Ouzounian

Laser fenestration in chronic type B aortic dissection: creating a distal landing zone to facilitate thoracic endovascular aortic repair

Stevan S. Pupovac, Jonathan M. Hemli, Alfio Carroccio, Khalil Qato, Elizabeth Northfield, Derek R. Brinster

Vol 10, No 5 (September 29, 2021): Transcatheter Valve-in-Valve

Transcatheter valve implantation in a failed homograft

Andreas Habertheuer, Morgan T. Harloff, Musa A. Sharkawi, Piotr S. Sobieszczyk, Ashraf A. Sabe, Pinak B. Shah, Tsuyoshi Kaneko

Fracture of a 21 mm failed bioprosthetic aortic valve

Jennifer L. Perri, David Blusztein, Vaikom S. Mahadevan, Tom C. Nguyen

Open transcatheter valve replacement for prosthesis-patient mismatch at redo surgical aortic valve replacement

Davut Cekmecelioglu, Subhasis Chatterjee, Joseph S. Coselli, Ourania Preventza

Vol 10, No 4 (July 30, 2021): Ross Procedure

The Ross procedure: total root technique

Elbert E. Williams, Ismail El-Hamamsy

Valve-sparing procedure for a dilated pulmonary autograft

Karen B. Abeln, Tristan Ehrlich, Alexander Hess, Hans-Joachim Schäfers

The Ross procedure—the loose jacket technique

Ahmed Afifi, Hatem Hosny, Ahmed Mahgoub, Magdi Yacoub

The Ross inclusion technique

Peter D. Skillington, Campbell D. Flynn, Marco Larobina, Michael O’Keefe

The Ross procedure with a bicuspid pulmonary autograft

Fadi Hage, Ali Hage, Linrui Guo, Michael W. A. Chu

The Ross sub-coronary technique

Martin Misfeld, Christian D. Etz, Michael A. Borger, Hans-H. Sievers

The Ross inclusion Dacron graft

Jama Jahanyar, Daniel E. Muñoz, Saadallah Tamer, Gebrine El Khoury, Laurent de Kerchove

Vol 10, No 3 (May 31, 2021): Continuous-Flow MCS in End-Stage Heart Failure II

Continuous-flow biventricular mechanical support implantation strategies

Jaime-Jürgen Eulert-Grehn, Pia Lanmüller, Christoph Starck, Felix Hennig, Stephan Jacobs, Volkmar Falk, Evgenij Potapov

Resolution of sudden left ventricular assist device failure due to outflow graft narrowing

Andrea Montalto, Rocco Stio, Mariano Feccia, Marina Comisso, Romina Pantanella, Francesco Musumeci

Myocardial function recovery interventional assessment and surgical pump removal

Johanna Mulzer, Marcus Mueller, Jan Knierim, Pia Lanmueller, Evgenij Potapov

Vol 10, No 2 (March 31, 2021): Continuous-Flow MCS in End-Stage Heart Failure I

Off-pump left ventricular assist device implantation via bilateral mini-thoracotomy in cardiac reoperations: the extrapericardial subxiphoid route

Matteo Attisani, Marco Pocar, Vittoria Lodo, Cristina Barbero, Giovanni Marchetto, Paolo Centofanti, Mauro Rinaldi, Massimo Boffini

Less-invasive tools and technique for fully magnetically levitated centrifugal pump implantation

Ivan Netuka, Miroslav Konarik, Martin Pokorny, Peter Ivak, Jiri Maly, Ondrej Szarszoi

Sternal-sparing Jarvik 2000 implantation, heart transplantation and driveline pedestal removal

Antonio Loforte, Gregorio Gliozzi, Giuditta Coppola, Giulio Giovanni Cavalli, Sofia Martin Suarez, Davide Pacini

Vol 9, No 6 (November 27, 2020): Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

Bioprosthetic valve fracture to facilitate valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve repair

Keith B. Allen, Adnan K. Chhatriwalla, John T. Saxon, Janarthanan Sathananthan, Danny Dvir, John G. Webb

Master of cardiothoracic surgery: transcaval transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Isida Byku, Norihiko Kamioka, Adam B. Greenbaum, Patrick Gleason, Vasilis C. Babaliaros, Kendra J. Grubb

Snaring technique for explantation of transcatheter aortic valve bioprosthesis

Matthew Valdis, Fadi Hage, Pantelis Diamantouros, Rodrigo Bagur, Patrick Teefy, Michael W. A. Chu

Coronary protection in transcatheter aortic valve replacement: when, how and critical decision making

Emad Uddin Hakemi, Mariusz Wolbinski, Rebecca Hahn, Susheel Kodali, Isaac George

Vol 10, No 1 (January 29, 2021): Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement

Vol 9, No 5 (September 30, 2020): Sutureless and Rapid Deployment Aortic Valve Replacement II

Ultra fast-track trans-axillary mini-aortic valve replacement

Marco Di Eusanio, Jacopo Alfonsi, Paolo Berretta, Hossein Zahedi, Michele D. Pierri, Mariano Cefarelli

Surgery without visible scars—double valve surgery using the right lateral access

Manuel Wilbring, Sebastian Arzt, Konstantin Alexiou, Klaus Matschke, Utz Kappert

Vol 9, No 3 (May 29, 2020): Frozen Elephant Trunk

Use of the frozen elephant trunk technique for type B aortic dissection and aberrant right subclavian artery: an anatomic repair of the “arteria lusoria”

Giacomo Murana, Luca Di Marco, Ciro Amodio, Antonino Costantino, Roberto Di Bartolomeo, Alessandro Leone, Davide Pacini

Frozen elephant trunk: debranch first technique

Paola Redaelli, Igor Belluschi, Luca Bertoglio, Alessandro Verzini, Roberto Chiesa, Alessandro Castiglioni

Aortic valve sparing and hybrid arch frozen elephant trunk repair for mega-aortic syndrome

Fadi Hage, Ali Hage, Jill Gelinas, Adam Power, Michael W. A. Chu

Normothermic frozen elephant trunk surgery without circulatory arrest: how we do it in Ancona

Marco Di Eusanio, Mariano Cefarelli, Jacopo Alfonsi, Paolo Berretta, Emanuele Gatta

Arch replacement for acute type A aortic dissection using a single fenestrated frozen elephant trunk technique

Homare Okamura, Mamoru Arakawa, Atsushi Miyagawa, Yuichiro Kitada, Hideo Adachi

Vol 9, No 4 (July 28, 2020): Sutureless and Rapid Deployment Aortic Valve Replacement I

Step-by-step rapid deployment Intuity Elite implantation using a minimally invasive endoscopic approach

Giovanni Domenico Cresce, Tommaso Hinna Danesi, Massimo Sella, Loris Salvador

Sutureless aortic valve replacement and direct Sapien 3 valve-in-valve implantation: a challenging case

Carlo Savini, Gregorio Gliozzi, Carlo Mariani, Daniela Votano, Alessandro Leone, Davide Pacini

Vol 9, No 2 (March 30, 2020): Total Artificial Heart

Vol 9, No 1 (January 29, 2020): Lung Transplantation

Sternotomy for lung transplantation: a description of technique

Antonio Coppolino, Gita N. Mody, Daniel Rinewalt, Emily Polhemus, Steve K. Singh, Hari R. Mallidi
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