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With the recent approval for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) across all risk profiles, reintervention is likely to become common practice.
January 4, 2024
In this introductory video, Vincent Gaudiani sets the scene for his outstanding series of videos on preoperative surgery after previous TAVR.
January 2, 2024
This video presents the technique for construction of a freestyle valve-Valsalva graft composite conduit for aortic root replacement.
December 29, 2023
As CTSNet wraps up another year of outstanding cardiothoracic content, our editors looked back over the year and chose some of their favorites. From interviews with big names in CT surgery to innovative clinical content, take a look at the editor’s top articles and videos from 2023.
December 27, 2023
This year, cardiac and congenital submissions to CTSNet spanned a variety of fascinating procedures. Check out this quick overview of the most popular cardiac and congenital videos on CTSNet in 2023, and stay tuned for many more in 2024.
December 26, 2023
This year, CTSNet published a variety of educational content, including interviews, clinical videos, and more. We are closing out another year with a roundup of the top-viewed content published on our global platform throughout 2023.
December 22, 2023
In this recording from the 2023 Transcatheter Heart Valves Greece conference, Dr. Stefan Anker, a cardiothoracic surgeon, professor, and researcher at Charite Medical School in Berlin, Germany, gave the meeting’s keynote lecture. He discussed an update in research for TEER for FMR in heart failure patients.
December 19, 2023
The technique in this video combines recent positive trends in coronary artery bypass grafting including the use of skeletonized BIMA, no-touch saphenous vein, epiaortic scanning, intraoperative transit time flow measurement, and high-frequency ultrasound assessment.
December 15, 2023
In this recording from the 2023 Transcatheter Heart Valves Greece conference, Dr. Christina Chrysohoou, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the University of Athens, discusses tailoring TEER to individual patients who are in heart failure.
December 12, 2023
This video demonstrates how to construct a trileaflet valve from sizes 5 mm to 38 mm that can be implanted into any conduit type.
December 11, 2023
In the second session of this series of webinars, CTSNet hosted a discussion on, “Advanced Aortic Root Surgery—Series 2,” in collaboration with Getinge. The webinar was broadcasted to a live audience on December 6, 2023.