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Featured Aortic Valve Surgical Videos

Featured peer-reviewed, surgical videos in aortic valve surgery

Starnes VA, Elsayed RS, Cohen RG, Olds AP, Bojko MM, Mack WJ, et al. Long-term outcomes with the pulmonary autograft inclusion technique in adults with bicuspid aortic valves undergoing the Ross procedure. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2023;165:43-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2021.01.101

Pulmonary autograft inclusion technique in adults with bicuspid aortic valves

Ross procedure with the pulmonary autograft inclusion technique in an adult patient with critical aortic stenosis due to a calcified bicuspid aortic valve.

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Chauvette V, Bouhout I, Tarabzoni M, Pham M, Wong D, Whitlock R, et al. Pulmonary homograft dysfunction after the Ross procedure using decellularized homografts—a multicenter study. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2022;163:1296-1305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2020.06.139

Decellularized homograft implantation during the Ross procedure

The use of decellularized pulmonary homograft results in a low incidence of homograft dysfunction and reintervention after the Ross procedure.

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Starnes VA, Bowdish ME, Cohen RG, Baker CJ. The Ross procedure utilizing the pulmonary autograft inclusion technique in adults. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Tech. 2021;10:372-376.

The Ross procedure utilizing the pulmonary autograft inclusion technique in adults

The Ross procedure utilizing the pulmonary autograft inclusion technique in a 29-year-old male patient with critical bicuspid aortic valve stenosis and a 6 cm ascending aortic aneurysm at the level of the sinus of Valsalva.

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Skillington P, Tripathy AK, O'Keefe M, Larobina M. Right-sided reconstruction during the Ross procedure—A technical perspective for long-term durability. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Tech. 2021;10:403-407.

Right-sided reconstruction during the Ross procedure: A technical perspective for long-term durability

Technique of autograft harvest.

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Bitargil M, Sareyyupoglu B, Haddad O, Pham SM. Caval isolation with balloon catheters within venous cannulas in cardiac surgery. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Tech. 2022;13:62-64.

Caval isolation with balloon catheters within venous cannulas in cardiac surgery

Reporting of a new technique to occlude the cavae from within by inserting balloon catheters within venous cannulae, thus avoiding caval dissection. Video of the operative details.

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Kageyama S, Ohashi T, Kamikawa Y, Toda K. Composite reconstruction of right ventricle and tricuspid valve for cardiac angiosarcoma. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Tech. 2022;13:67-69.

Composite reconstruction of right ventricle and tricuspid valve for cardiac angiosarcoma

The video demonstrates the composite reconstruction technique used in the present case for recurrent cardiac angiosarcoma.

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Fukuhara S. Secondary Ross procedure after failed transcatheter aortic valve replacement. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Tech. 2022;15:70-72.

Secondary Ross procedure after failed transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Intraoperative video of the secondary Ross procedure for prosthetic valve endocarditis of transcatheter aortic bioprosthesis in the setting of previous coronary artery bypass grafting with patent conduits.

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