In this roundtable, cardiac surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with the board members of the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club about minimally invasive endoscopic and robotic surgery.
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Cardiac
MICS and Robotic-Assisted Surgery: A Roundtable Discussion With the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club
December 20, 2025
December 18, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Nasser Altorki and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian about the 10-year results from the JCOG0802 trial.
December 18, 2025
This video demonstrates the technique of using a periareolar incision around the nipple for access to perform endoscopic mitral valve surgery, a method that has been utilized by these authors for 20 years.
December 18, 2025
This case report describes a 62-year-old man with exertional dyspnea due to a massive, serpentine right coronary artery aneurysm with fistulization to the coronary sinus, causing significant left-to-right shunt and right heart dilation. Given the large size and complex anatomy, transcatheter closure was deemed unsuitable.
December 18, 2025
Mesfin Yana Dollar, who received life-saving heart surgery as a teenager in the United States, now collaborates with Dr. Jim Kauten, the surgeon who saved him, as a cardiac perfusionist at the Mayo Clinic. Together, they perform advanced open-heart surgeries and participate in medical missions to help patients in Ethiopia.
December 18, 2025
This comparative study evaluated outcomes between surgical aortic valve replacement with Y-incision aortic annular enlargement (SAVR with Y-AAE) vs transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in 362 low-to-intermediate risk patients with severe native aortic stenosis and small aortic annuli (≤25mm).
December 17, 2025
In this episode of "The Cardiac Recovery Room," moderator Vicki Morton spoke with Alexander Gregory and Dr. V. Seenu Reddy about the 10 things they hate about Enhanced Recovery After Surgery.
December 17, 2025
This video demonstrates a complex mitral valve repair in a 41-year-old male patient with P2 and P3 prolapse and severe mitral annular calcification, which was repaired with papillary muscle relocation.
December 16, 2025
This video describes the repair of an anterior mitral leaflet damaged by endocarditis using a periareolar incision.
December 15, 2025
This video demonstrates the repair of a post-infarction ventricular septal defect.