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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Frozen elephant trunk: debranch first technique

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

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

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

Vol 8, No 6 (November 29, 2019): Endocarditis

Minimally invasive approach for infective mitral valve endocarditis

Karel M. Van Praet, Markus Kofler, Simon H. Sündermann, Matteo Montagner, Roland Heck, Christoph Starck, Christof Stamm, Stephan Jacobs, Jörg Kempfert, Volkmar Falk

Tricuspid valve endocarditis

Mateo Marin-Cuartas, Martin Misfeld, Michael A. Borger, Bettina Pfannmüller

Infective aortic valve endocarditis with root abscess formation: a mitral sparing root-Commando operation

Eduard Quintana, Carlos A. Mestres, Elena Sandoval, Cristina Ibáñez, Mathias Van Hemelrijck, José Luis Pomar

Aortic root endocarditis: a Biointegral Bioconduit subannular implantation

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

Vol 8, No 4 (July 01, 2019): Type B Intramural Hematoma and Descending Penetrating Aortic Ulcer

Thoracic endovascular aortic repair for type B intramural hematoma

A. Claire Watkins, Andreas R. de Biasi, Shinichi Iwakoshi, Yukihisa Ogawa, Michael D. Dake

Vol 8, No 3 (May 01, 2019): Advanced Techniques in Aortic Valve Repair

Valve sparing root replacement: remodeling root repair with aortic ring annuloplasty

Pouya Youssefi, Isabelle Di Centa, Nizar Khelil, Mathieu Debauchez, Emmanuel Lansac

Valve sparing root replacement: reimplantation of the aortic valve

Gaby Aphram, Saadallah Tamer, Stefano Mastrobuoni, Gebrine El Khoury, Laurent de Kerchove

Isolated aortic valve repair—how to do it and long-term results: external ring annuloplasty

Mustafa Zakkar, Pouya Youssefi, Isabelle Di Centa, Nizar Khelil, Mathieu Debauchez, Emmanuel Lansac

Isolated aortic valve repair—how to do it and long-term results: suture annuloplasty

Ulrich Schneider, Shunsuke Miyahara, Christian Giebels, Irem Karliova, Hans-Joachim Schäfers

Aortic valve repair for tri-leaflet aortic insufficiency associated with asymmetric aortic root aneurysms

George T. Stavridis, Richard S. Downey, Marc W. Gerdisch, G. Chad Hughes, Marek J. Jasinski, J. Scott Rankin, Domenico Mazzitelli, Diana Aicher, Theodor Fischlein, Yeong-Hoon Choi, Alberto Weber, Ivar Friedrich, Mattia Glauber, Steffen Pfeiffer, Antonio Miceli, Ming-Sing Si, Tomislav Klokocovnik, Lawrence M. Wei, Marek A. Deja, Vinay Badhwar

Unicuspid valve repair—what technique, which patch for which patient?

Shunsuke Matsushima, Christian Giebels, Maximilian Glenske, Irem Karliova, Hans-Joachim Schäfers

Quadricuspid aortic valve repair

Stefano Mastrobuoni, Gaby Aphram, Saadallah Tamer, Emiliano Navarra, Laurent De Kerchove, Gebrine El Khoury

Minimally invasive bicuspid aortic valve repair with external ring annuloplasty

Oleg I. Orlov, Vishal N. Shah, Cinthia P. Orlov, Vasily I. Kaleda, Konstadinos A. Plestis

Minimally invasive aortic valve reconstruction with autologous pericardium: how we do it

Dinh H. Nguyen, Anh T. Vo, Trang T. Nguyen, Khoi M. Le, Binh Q. Truong, Bac H. Nguyen

Vol 8, No 2 (March 30, 2019): Robotic Thoracic Surgery

Robotic thymectomy for myasthenia gravis

Erkan Kaba, Tugba Cosgun, Kemal Ayalp, Alper Toker

Management of robotic bleeding complications

Pierluigi Novellis, Mehmood Jadoon, Umberto Cariboni, Edoardo Bottoni, Alessandro Pardolesi, Giulia Veronesi

Vol 8, No 1 (January 01, 2019): Extracorporeal Life Support in Refractory Heart Failure

Vol 7, No 6 (November 30, 2018): Emerging Technologies in Mitral Valve Surgery

Transcatheter mitral repair: MitraClip technique

Basel Ramlawi, Jeffrey Skiles, Debra Myers, Omar Ali, Claudia Viens

Minimally invasive transatrial mitral valve replacement in mitral annular calcification

Alexander P. Nissen, Joseph Lamelas, Isaac George, Juan Umana-Pizano, Tom C. Nguyen

LAMPOON transseptal mitral valve in ring

Norihiko Kamioka, Jaffar M. Khan, Robert J. Lederman, Peter Block, Vasilis C. Babaliaros, Adam B. Greenbaum

Vol 7, No 4 (July 31, 2018): Coronary Revascularisation—Cardiology for the Surgeon

On-pump total arterial revascularization

Sajjad Raza, Salil V. Deo, Joseph F. Sabik III

Multiple arterial, minimally invasive coronary surgery (MA-MICS)

David R. Hobson, Kevin W. Lobdell, Joseph T. McGinn

Vol 7, No 3 (May 31, 2018): Complex Aortic Arch Surgery

Endovascular arch replacement with an endoprosthesis with three inner branches

Stéphan Haulon, Raphael Soler, A. Claire Watkins, Philippe Amabile, Elie Fadel, Dominique Fabre

Double transposition and single branched TEVAR for total arch replacement in chronic dissection

Nimesh D. Desai, Grace Wang, Ashley Hoedt, Wilson Szeto, Joseph E. Bavaria

Total aortic arch replacement with frozen elephant trunk (Thoraflex)

Luca Di Marco, Davide Pacini, Giacomo Murana, Carlo Mariani, Ciro Amodio, Roberto Di Bartolomeo

Vol 7, No 2 (March 31, 2018): Tracheal Surgery

Tracheal stenosis—resection and reconstruction

Hugh G. Auchincloss, Douglas J. Mathisen

Carinal resections

Leonidas Tapias, Michael Lanuti

Surgical management of tracheoesophageal fistula

Asishana Osho, Uma Sachdeva, Cameron Wright, Ashok Muniappan

Vol 7, No 1 (January 31, 2018): Heart Transplantation

Standard orthotopic heart transplantation

Jérôme G. M. Jungschleger, Sergey Yu Boldyrev, Vasily I. Kaleda, John H. Dark

Vol 6, No 6 (November 30, 2017): Marfan Syndrome

Valve-sparing versus composite root replacement procedures in patients with Marfan syndrome

Joseph S. Coselli, Scott A. Weldon, Ourania Preventza, Kim I. de la Cruz, Scott A. LeMaire

Valve-sparing aortic root replacement in patients with Marfan syndrome—the Homburg experience

Ulrich Schneider, Tristan Ehrlich, Irem Karliova, Christian Giebels, Hans-Joachim Schäfers

Aortic valve repair in patients with Marfan syndrome—the “Brussels approach”

Stefano Mastrobuoni, Saadallah Tamer, Emiliano Navarra, Laurent de Kerchove, Gebrine El Khoury

Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair in Marfan syndrome: how we do it

Rana O. Afifi, Akiko Tanaka, Ibrahim Yazji, Hazim J. Safi, Anthony L. Estrera

Two-Stage Elephant Trunk approach for open management of distal aortic arch and descending aortic pathology in patients with Marfan syndrome

Camilo A. Velasquez, Mohammad A. Zafar, Ayman Saeyeldin, Syed Usman Bin Mahmood, Adam J. Brownstein, Young Erben, Bulat A. Ziganshin, John A. Elefteriades

Vol 6, No 5 (September 30, 2017): Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

Transcarotid approach for TAVI: an optimal alternative to the transfemoral gold standard

Pavel Overtchouk, Ibrahim Alqdeimat, Augustin Coisne, Khalil Fattouch, Thomas Modine

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in patients with aortic regurgitation

Matthias Thielmann, Konstantinos Tsagakis, Mohamad El Gabry, Heinz Jakob, Daniel Wendt

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement using the transaortic approach

Michael Caskey, Hao Pan, Merrick Kirshner, Timothy Byrne, Divya Ratan Verma, James Flaherty, Andrei Churyla

Trans-subclavian approach for transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Daniel Richard Watson, Steven Joseph Yakubov, Jefferson Morton Lyons, Carlos Enrique Sanchez Soto, Nathan Howard Kander, Anthony Theodore Chapekis, Arash Arshi, Aref Mahmoud Abou-Amro, Geoffrey B. Blossom

Vol 6, No 4 (July 01, 2017): Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy

Vol 6, No 3 (May 31, 2017): Tricuspid Valve Surgery

Minimally invasive, beating heart tricuspid valve surgery in a redo case

Martin Misfeld, Piroze Davierwala, Jörgen Banusch, Jörg Ender, Friedrich-Wilhelm Mohr, Bettina Pfannmüller

Vol 6, No 2 (March 01, 2017): Esophageal Surgery

Robotic assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE): the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center initial experience

Olugbenga T. Okusanya, Inderpal S. Sarkaria, Nicholas R. Hess, Katie S. Nason, Manuel Villa Sanchez, Ryan M. Levy, Arjun Pennathur, James D. Luketich

Robotic esophagectomy: the Moffitt Cancer Center experience

Marisa Amaral, Jose Pimiento, Jacques P. Fontaine

Vol 6, No 1 (January 20, 2017): Robotic Heart Surgery (II)

Robotic mitral repair for Barlow’s disease with bileaflet prolapse and annular calcification using pericardial patch technique

Didier F. Loulmet, Michael S. Koeckert, Peter J. Neuburger, Robert Nampiaparampil, Eugene A. Grossi

Complex robotic correction for complex degenerative mitral valve disease

Danny Ramzy, Joshua Chung, Wen Cheng, Michele A. De Robertis, James Mirocha, Alfredo Trento

Vol 5, No 6 (November 25, 2016): Robotic Heart Surgery (I)

Vol 5, No 4 (July 01, 2016): Type A Aortic Dissection (II)

Valve sparing—aortic root replacement with the reimplantation technique in acute type A aortic dissection

Stefano Mastrobuoni, Laurent De Kerchove, Emiliano Navarra, Parla Astarci, Philippe Noirhomme, Gebrine El Khoury

The direct aortic cannulation for acute type A aortic dissection

Tohru Asai, Tomoaki Suzuki, Takeshi Kinoshita, Reo Sakakura, Naoshi Minamidate, Piers Vigers

Vol 5, No 3 (May 01, 2016): Type A Aortic Dissection (I)

Routine use of hemiarch during acute type A aortic dissection repair

Ibrahim Sultan, Jeremy McGarvey, Prashanth Vallabhajosyula, Nimesh D. Desai, Joseph E. Bavaria, Wilson Y. Szeto

Vol 5, No 1 (January 01, 2016): Minimally Invasive Mediastinal Surgery (II)

Minimally invasive radical thymectomy

Gopal Singh, Jason Glotzbach, Joseph Costa, Lyall Gorenstein, Mark Ginsburg, Joshua Sonett

Robotic surgery for posterior mediastinal pathology

Brett L. Broussard, Benjamin Wei, Robert J. Cerfolio

Video assisted transaxillary first rib resection in treatment of thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS)

H. Volkan Kara, Stafford S. Balderson, Betty C. Tong, Thomas A. D’Amico

Vol 4, No 6 (November 30, 2015): Minimally Invasive Mediastinal Surgery (I)

Video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy

David Bleetman, Douglas West, Elaine Teh, Eveline Internullo

Robotic thymectomy for myasthenia gravis

Federico Rea, Marco Schiavon, Giuseppe Marulli

Subxiphoid video-assisted thorascopic thymectomy for thymoma

Marcin Zieliński, Mariusz Rybak, Michal Wilkojc, Edward Fryzlewicz, Tomasz Nabialek, Juliusz Pankowski

Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery thymectomy

Marco Scarci, Alessandro Pardolesi, Piergiorgio Solli

Thoracoscopic diaphragm plication

H. Volkan Kara, Michael J. Roach, Stafford S. Balderson, Thomas A. D’Amico

Vol 4, No 5 (September 25, 2015): Mitral Valve Repair (III)

Vol 4, No 4 (July 13, 2015): Mitral Valve Repair (II)

Contemporary application of the edge-to-edge repair

Alberto Pozzoli, Luca Vicentini, Michele De Bonis, Giovanna Di Giannuario, Giovanni La Canna, Ottavio Alfieri

Sub-valvular repair of ischemic mitral regurgitation in a patient with severe tethering of mitral leaflets

Giampiero Esposito, Giangiuseppe Cappabianca, Samuele Bichi, Antonio Cricco, Camillo Poloni, Cesare Beghi

Vol 4, No 3 (May 28, 2015): Mitral Valve Repair (I)

Mitral valve repair with neo-chordae

Denis R. Merk, Friedrich W. Mohr, Joerg Seeburger

Off-pump transapical neo-chordae implantation

Denis R. Merk, Audrius Aidietis, Joerg Seeburger

Transapical off-pump mitral valve repair with Neochord Implantation (TOP-MINI): step-by-step guide

Andrea Colli, Fabio Zucchetta, Gianluca Torregrossa, Erica Manzan, Eleonora Bizzotto, Laura Besola, Roberto Bellu, Cristiano Sarais, Demetrio Pittarello, Gino Gerosa

Vol 4, No 2 (March 29, 2015): Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Surgery (II)

Sorin Perceval S aortic valve implantation through a mini-sternotomy approach

Giuseppe Santarpino, Francesco Pollari, Steffen Pfeiffer, Theodor Fischlein

Totally endoscopic aortic valve replacement (TEAVR)

Marco Vola, Jean-François Fuzellier, Salvatore Campisi, Michael Faure, Jean-Baptiste Bouchet, Fabrizio Sandri, Michel Cler, Jean-Pierre Favre, Daniel Grinberg

Minimally invasive root surgery: a Bentall procedure through a J-ministernotomy

Marco Di Eusanio, Sebastiano Castrovinci, Mariano Cefarelli, Paolo Berretta, Jacopo Alfonsi, Giacomo Murana, Roberto Di Bartolomeo

Minimally invasive David reimplantation of bicuspid aortic valve

Jaroslav Benedik, Fanar Mourad, Mareike Eißmann (Perrey), Heinz Jakob

Aortic valve replacement with a rapid deployment Edwards Intuity bioprosthesis using a completely video-guided approach

Tommaso Hinna Danesi, Giovanni Domenico Cresce, Alessandro Favaro, Massimo Bilotta, Loris Salvador

David procedure through an upper partial sternotomy

Malakh L. Shrestha, Anna Junge, Axel Haverich, Andreas Martens

Vol 4, No 1 (January 20, 2015): Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Surgery (I)

Vol 3, No 6 (November 30, 2014): Mechanical Circulatory Support (II)

Jarvik 2000: evolution of surgical implantation from conventional to minimally invasive technique

Vincenzo Tarzia, Edward Buratto, Carlo Dal Lin, Michele Gallo, Giacomo Bortolussi, Jonida Bejko, Tomaso Bottio, Gino Gerosa

Surgical implantation of the CardioWest Total Artificial Heart

Vincenzo Tarzia, Edward Buratto, Michele Gallo, Giacomo Bortolussi, Jonida Bejko, Carlo Dal Lin, Gianluca Torregrossa, Roberto Bianco, Tomaso Bottio, Gino Gerosa

Vol 3, No 5 (September 26, 2014): Mechanical Circulatory Support (I)

Implantation of the HeartWare HVAD: from full sternotomy to less invasive techniques

Vincenzo Tarzia, Edward Buratto, Michele Gallo, Giacomo Bortolussi, Jonida Bejko, Roberto Bianco, Tomaso Bottio, Gino Gerosa

Vol 3, No 3 (May 31, 2014): Type B Aortic Dissection (I)

Hybrid arch repair in chronic B dissection

Roberto Di Bartolomeo, Antonio Panataleo, Giovanni Pellicciari, Mariano Cefarelli, Marco Di Eusanio

Vol 3, No 2 (March 31, 2014): Sublobar Resection

Vol 3, No 1 (January 28, 2014): Atrial fibrillation surgery

How I do it: minimally invasive Cox-Maze IV procedure

Lindsey L. Saint, Christopher P. Lawrance, Jeremy E. Leidenfrost, Jason O. Robertson, Ralph J. Damiano Jr

Vol 2, No 5 (September 01, 2013): Frozen Elephant Trunk

Vol 2, No 4 (July 30, 2013): Total arterial revascularization

Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting using skeletonized in situ arterial grafts

Tohru Asai, Tomoaki Suzuki, Hiromitsu Nota, Satoshi Kuroyanagi, Takeshi Kinoshita, Noriyuki Takashima, Masato Hayakawa, Shiho Naito

Endoscopic radial artery harvesting procedure for coronary artery bypass grafting

José L. Navia, Gabriel Olivares, Paul Ehasz, A. Marc Gillinov, Lars G. Svensson, Nicolas Brozzi, Bruce Lytle

Vol 2, No 2 (March 18, 2013): Aortic Arch Surgery (I)

Total arch replacement with selective antegrade cerebral perfusion and mild hypothermic circulatory arrest

Tohru Asai, Tomoaki Suzuki, Hiromitsu Nota, Satoshi Kuroyanagi, Takeshi Kinoshita, Noriyuki Takashima, Masato Hayakawa, Shiho Naito

Vol 2, No 1 (January 28, 2013): Aortic Valve Repair

Root remodeling for aortic root dilatation

Hans-Joachim Schäfers, Diana Aicher

Valve sparing root replacement: the remodeling technique with external ring annuloplasty

Emmanuel Lansac, Isabelle Di Centa, Jan Vojacek, Jan Nijs, Jaroslav Hlubocky, Gianclaudio Mecozzi, Mathieu Debauchez

Video-atlas of aortic valve repair

Saadallah Tamer, Laurent de kerchove, David Glineur, Gebrine Elkhoury

Vol 13, No 5 (September 29, 2024): Robotic Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting II

Vol 13, No 4 (July 31, 2024): Robotic Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting I

Vol 13, No 3 (May 31, 2024): Aortic Annular Enlargement

Updates on Y-incision aortic annular enlargement

Bo Yang, Katelyn Monaghan, Kenneth Hassler, Alexander Brescia, Farhang Yazdchi

Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement with Y-incision aortic root enlargement

Marko T. Boskovski, Mohammad Arammash, Tom C. Nguyen, Elaine E. Tseng

Modified-Manougian aortic root enlargement

W. Clinton Erwin, Michael Simpson, Isaac George

Vol 13, No 2 (March 29, 2024): Atrial Fibrillation Management II

Isolator Synergy EnCompass clamp: surgical notes

Gianluca Torregrossa, Massimo Baudo, Amanda M. Yakobitis, Courtney E. Murray, Armin Kiankhooy

How I do it: simplified Cox-Maze IV via right mini-thoracotomy

Fabrizio Rosati, Francesco Rattenni, Francesca Boldini, Lorenzo Di Bacco, Paola Redaelli, Stefano Benussi

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

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

Simplified technique for bilateral access totally thoracoscopic Maze

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

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

Neuromonitoring for descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair

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

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

Intercostal artery reattachment for prevention of spinal cord ischaemia

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

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

David procedure through an upper ministernotomy

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

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

Annular stabilization in remodelling technique

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

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 thoracic surgery lung-sparing carinal sleeve resection and reconstruction

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

Uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery anatomic segmentectomies

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

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 for mediastinal tumors

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

Uniportal robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery right upper lobectomy for aspergilloma

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Balloon pulmonary angioplasty after pulmonary thromboendarterectomy

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

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

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

Thoracic endovascular aortic repair for ascending aortic aneurysm or dissection

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

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

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

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

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

The Ross procedure with a bicuspid pulmonary autograft

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

Valve-sparing procedure for a dilated pulmonary autograft

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

The Ross sub-coronary technique

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

The Ross inclusion technique

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

The Ross procedure—the loose jacket technique

Ahmed Afifi, Hatem Hosny, Ahmed Mahgoub, Magdi Yacoub

The Ross procedure: total root technique

Elbert E. Williams, Ismail El-Hamamsy

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

Myocardial function recovery interventional assessment and surgical pump removal

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vol 1, No 4 (November 29, 2012): Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

Vol 1, No 3 (September 26, 2012): Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair

Video-atlas of open thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair

Roberto Chiesa, Germano Melissano, Efrem Civilini, Luca Bertoglio, Enrico Rinaldi, Enrico Maria Marone, Yamume Tshomba

Video-atlas of hybrid thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair

Roberto Chiesa, Germano Melissano, Efrem Civilini, Luca Bertoglio, Enrico Rinaldi, Enrico Maria Marone, Yamume Tshomba

Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm: a totally endovascular approach with a branched stent-graft

Marcelo Ferreira, Luiz Lanziotti, Rodrigo Cunha, Guilherme d’Utra

Vol 1, No 2 (July 26, 2012): Transapical Aortic Valve Implantation

Video-atlas of transapical aortic valve implantation

David M. Holzhey, Thilo Noack, Denis R. Merk, Joerg Seeburger, Michael A. Borger