MMCTS Webinar – Aneurysmatic Lesions of the Coronary Arteries: Preoperative Aspects and Surgical Management
Summary
| Time | Chapter |
|---|---|
| 00:00 | Welcome & introduction Roberto Lorusso & Piotr Suwalski |
| 01:37 | Kinsing Ko Surgical treatment of a giant right coronary aneurysm |
| 13:50 | Ilir Hysi Fissurating aneurysm of the right coronary artery repaired with interposition of a Gore-Tex graft |
| 23:13 | Yuichiro Fukumoto Minimally invasive surgical repair of an aneurysmal coronary–pulmonary artery fistula |
| 32:35 | Discussion and audience Q&A |
| 58:13 | Closing remarks Roberto Lorusso & Piotr Suwalski |
Guest Speakers
Prof. Dr. Roberto Lorusso graduated in 1987 as medical doctor at the University of Milan, Italy, and he obtained his degree of cardiovascular surgeon in 1993. PhD research and degree in 1998 at the Maastricht University on surgical alternatives to heart transplantation in dilated cardiomyopathy. EACTS Young Investigator’s Award in 1995, Director of the EACTS School from 2007 to 2012, founder of the EACTS Young Membership and Committee, Editor-in-Chief of the EACTS Multimedia Manual of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. Deputy Director of the Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Department of the Maastricht University Medical Centre. Founder and Past-President of EuroELSO, Past-Member of the ELSO Executive Board, and Chair-Elect of the Cardiovascular Surgery Working Group of the European Society of Cardiology. His areas of interest are mechanical circulatory support, cardiac failure and arrest, valve and coronary surgery, education and training, pre-clinical and clinical research.
Prof. Dr. Piotr Suwalski was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1975. He received a degree from the Medical University of Warsaw, Poland, in 2000 and a Ph.D., from the same University, in 2004. In 2003 and 2004 he worked in the Heart Center Leipzig, University of Leipzig, Germany.
In 2010 he received a professor degree at the Silesian Medical University. From 2011 head and professor of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education.
His research interests focus on the minimally invasive, thoracoscopic and robotic cardiac surgery including among others surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation, reconstructive techniques of the heart valves. 2019-2021 President of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (ISMICS).
Kinsing Ko | Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Kinsing Ko et al., Surgical treatment of a giant right coronary aneurysm. Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg 2024. Link
Ilir Hysi | Department of Cardiac Surgery of Artois, Centre Hospitalier de Lens et Hôpital Privé de Bois Bernard, Ramsay Santé, France
Ilir Hysi |et al., Fissurating aneurysm of the right coronary artery repaired with interposition of a Gore-Tex graft. Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg 2025. Link
Yuichiro Fukumoto | Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nagoya Heart Center, Nagoya, Japan
Yuichiro Fukumoto et al., Minimally invasive surgical repair of an aneurysmal coronary–pulmonary artery fistula. Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg 2025. Link