Visiting scholarships in cardio-thoracic surgery: a valuable experience for fostering collaboration

Research in cardio-thoracic surgery a European challenge.

The Frozen Elephant Trunk Technique: European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Position and Bologna Experience

Complex lesions of the thoracic aorta are traditionally treated in 2 surgical steps with the elephant trunk technique. A relatively new approach is the frozen elephant trunk (FET) technique, which potentially allows combined lesions of the thoracic aorta to be treated in a 1-stage procedure combining endovascular treatment with conventional surgery using a hybrid prosthesis. These are very comp...

European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery: carrying the torch.

I would like to thank you for the honour of electing me as your President. As many of you might suspect and some of you know, in a well organised society like ours, with the Secretariat ably run by Torkel Aberg and Maud Zingmark, and the Organisational Secretariat efficiently managed by Kathy McGree, the duties of the President are not onerous. But still, a major task rests heavily on the shoul...

Video-on-command for thoracic and cardio-vascular surgery.

Nowadays, new technology for imaging, information storage, and its transmission is almost everywhere. In the medical field, multi-slice computed tomography (CT), allowing for simultaneous acquisition of many images in parallel, and quick three-dimensional reconstruction is just one example that has the potential to make significant changes in the daily practice, not only for thoracic and cardio...

Images in cardio-thoracic surgery. Obstructive mass in pulmonary artery.

A 62-year-old woman was admitted with syncope. A magnetic resonance imaging showed a 6-cm  3-cm mass on the pulmonary valve leaflet (Fig. 1). A 90 mmHg pressure gradient was found (Fig. 2). Angiogram revealed a severely calcified, mobile mass (Fig. 2, Videos 1 and 2), which was treated surgically. On histopathology analysis, a papillary fibro-elastoma diagnosis was confirmed. Fig. 1. Shows a 6...