@FaisalBakaeen@GianTorre610 What is your preferred target for RIMA? For example, if there’s a PDA, OM, and diag that have critical stenosis, are you trying to place RIMA in situ to PDA? OM? Thank you!
Powerful and eye-opening as always from Dr. @FaisalBakaeen - a call for cardiac surgeons to unite and build strong evidence in this era of “gate-evidence.” Look between the lines and remember the field protection CABG offers: healing today’s problems and preventing tomorrow’s.
An aortic prosthesis placed in 1972 which I had to remove almost five decades later in order to gain access for an MVR. It was functioning perfectly. Open AVR on a young patient with a mechanical prosthesis through a full sternotomy is a great operation.
@LuisCastroMD@AspiringCTS@STS_CTsurgery Is this a problem with incomplete proximal dissection of the mammary? Or do you think the way they made their pericardial defect caused the mammary to sit weird and adhere to the chest?