Art of Operative Techniques - Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery

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Art of Operative Techniques is a featured section that publishes illustrated articles, describing the operative procedures in a step-by-step format.

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

Uniportal fully robotic-assisted major pulmonary resections

Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Mugurel Bosinceanu, Veronica Manolache, Javier Gallego-Poveda, Alejandro Garcia, Marina Paradela, Joel Dunning, Natalia Motas, Natalia Motas

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

Robotically assisted mitral valve repair—the string, ruler, and bulldog technique

Matheus Guimaraes Carelli, Martin Misfeld, Ashley R. Wilson-Smith, Tristan D. Yan

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

Bicuspid aortic valve repair: the 180°-Reimplantation technique

Jama Jahanyar, Laurent de Kerchove, Gebrine El Khoury

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

Operative strategies for acute mitral regurgitation as a mechanical complication of myocardial infarction

Giulio Massimi, Matteo Matteucci, Mariusz Kowalewski, Daniele Ronco, Giovanni Chiarini, Maria Elena De Piero, Valeria Lo Coco, Jos G. Maessen, Cesare Beghi, Roberto Lorusso

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

Pulmonary endarterectomy: technique and pitfalls

Stefan Guth, Eckhard Mayer, Diethard Prüfer, Christoph B. Wiedenroth

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Vol 10, No 6 (November 28, 2021): Thoracic Aortic Endovascular Solutions I

Endovascular repair of acute type B thoracic aortic dissection

Alice Le Huu, Ourania Preventza

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

Safeguards and pitfalls for Bioprosthetic or Native Aortic Scallop Intentional Laceration to Prevent Iatrogenic Coronary Artery Obstruction during transcatheter aortic valve replacement—the BASILICA technique

Christopher G. Bruce, Adam B. Greenbaum, Vasilis C. Babaliaros, Toby Rogers, Robert J. Lederman, Jaffar M. Khan

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

The Ross-Konno procedure for congenital aortic stenosis

Sameh M. Said

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

Conventional and alternative sites for left ventricular assist device inflow and outflow cannula placement

Antonio Loforte, Tomaso Bottio, Matteo Attisani, Sofia Martin Suarez, Vincenzo Tarzia, Marco Pocar, Luca Botta, Gino Gerosa, Mauro Rinaldi, Davide Pacini

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

LAMPOON techniques to prevent or manage left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in transcatheter mitral valve replacement

Brian C. Case, John C. Lisko, Vasilis C. Babaliaros, Adam B. Greenbaum, Lowell Satler, Itsik Ben-Dor, Brian J. Forrestal, Charan Yerasi, Norihiko Kamioka, Toby Rogers, Ron Waksman, Robert J. Lederman, Jaffar M. Khan

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

A step-by-step guide to trans-axillary transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Morgan T. Harloff, Edward D. Percy, Sameer A. Hirji, Farhang Yazdchi, Hunbo Shim, Muntasir Chowdhury, Alexandra A. Malarczyk, Piotr S. Sobieszczyk, Ashraf A. Sabe, Pinak B. Shah, Tsuyoshi Kaneko

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