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In this outstanding interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Drs. Mateo Marin-Cuartas, CTSNet JANS Editor and cardiac surgeon at the University Department of Cardiac Surgery at Leipzig Heart Centre University Hospital in Leipzig, SN, Germany; and Samuel Heuts, a cardiothoracic surgeon in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Maastricht University Medical Center in Maastricht, LI, about a paper they authored…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. This video features a left uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) left upper lobe trisegmentectomy, also known as a lingular-sparing S1–3 segmentectomy, performed for a metastatic lung nodule. This case is notable for two reasons: First, a complex anatomical…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. Robotic-assisted mammary dissection is routinely performed using either monopolar or bipolar electrocautery, which confers the risk of thermal injury to the mammary artery and often necessitates frequent instrument changes to allow clip application. In pursuit of an optimal harvest…
The authors present a case of mitral valve repair for acute iatrogenic papillary muscle rupture leading to a flail anterior leaflet. What makes this case unique is the type of pathology, the challenge in exposure of the valve as well as the subvalvular apparatus given the small left atrial size, and the ability to preserve…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. This video demonstrates the many variations of the Konno–Rastan aortoventriculoplasty. Konno and Rastan independently described this anterior aortic annular enlargement technique—Konno in 1975 and Rastan in 1976—in which the enlargement is performed to the left of the…
This video shows an 85-year-old woman who presented to the emergency room with chest pain and a 6.5 cm ascending aorta containing an intramural hematoma and a pericardial effusion. The innominate artery was cannulated to perfuse and cool the brain before any further intervention. The left carotid artery was clamped, allowing the brain to be cooled…
This video demonstrates the complete process of robotic-assisted mitral valve replacement (MVR), showing each step in a simple and clear manner. The goal is to provide a practical guide to how robotic technology is used during mitral valve surgery and how it helps improve accuracy and reduce invasiveness. By utilizing small incisions instead of opening…
In this compelling interview, Cristina Ruiz Segria, CTSNet Senior Editor—Clinical Care Providers and nurse practitioner at James Cook University Hospital, UK, speaks with Joanne Jessup, a clinical nurse specialist at The Marfan Trust, about patients with Marfan syndrome and the vital work of The Marfan Trust. They explore what The Marfan trust does, Jessup’s…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. This video showcases a redo mitral valve replacement performed at the Houston Methodist Hospital. The patient had previously undergone a valve replacement and a valve-in-valve transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) and now presented with severe mitral…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. This report details the surgical management of a post-traumatic intercostal muscle hernia in a 28-year-old male presenting with chronic symptoms following chest trauma one year prior. The patient’s chief complaint was a chronic cough associated with a visible chest…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. This case involves a 69-year-old man who presented with symptomatic severe mitral regurgitation. Preoperative investigations demonstrated a flail anterior leaflet. He also had a history of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, and a small patent foramen ovale was noted. Positioning, Preparation,…
This interview features the winner of the 2025 CTSNet Resident Video Competition. Watch the winning video and all other competition entries. CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Karan Shekar, a cardiac surgery resident at the Narayana Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Bommasandra, Bangalore, India, about his winning video, “Robotic-Assisted Repair of Supracardiac Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return.” They discussed…
In the early 1800s, during the end of the pre-anesthetic era, surgery was defined by speed rather than precision, rendering deliberate intervention on the heart unthinkable. Even after the introduction of anesthesia and the rise of experimental physiology in the mid-19th century, operating on the heart remained elusive and was considered impossible by many surgeons. In…
Patient Data In this video, the authors discuss the case of a 79-year-old female who underwent surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) in 2011 with the implantation of a 19 mm bioprosthesis. In 2018, a transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in SAVR was performed due to bioprosthesis degeneration, and subsequently, in 2024, she underwent balloon dilatation for…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. Robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) has emerged as an invaluable tool in the management of early-stage lung malignancies compared to traditional video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), offering improved operative precision, dexterity, and three-dimensional (3D) visualization. A segmentectomy in a particularly anatomically…
This video demonstrates how robotic-assisted aortic valve replacement (AVR) surgery was performed, showcasing each step of the procedure. It aims to provide a clear picture of how robotic technology improves the precision and safety of the surgery. This video highlights all the important steps of the surgery, showing how the robotic system was used to…
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