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Each month, thoracic surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian spotlights unique surgical cases in cardiothoracic surgery through this Case of the Month series. For more videos in this series, click here. In this episode of the Case of the Month, thoracic surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian is joined by Dr. Danielle Aronowitz, a thoracic fellow at Northwell Health, New…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. This video presents a right uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) right upper lobe sleeve lobectomy performed on a 75-year-old man with a synchronous right upper lobe carcinoid tumor and an incidental adenocarcinoma. The patient was a fit elderly man with…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. This video demonstrates a technically challenging right-sided approach for a left main bronchial sleeve resection in a 27-year-old patient who presented with a chronic cough for six months. On bronchoscopy, a nodular infiltrative growth was identified in the left…
Building on years of surgical experience, the authors developed a standardized mitral valve repair technique that has been refined and disseminated nationwide. Additionally, they established preoperative predictive models based on echocardiography and cardiac computed tomography (CT) that demonstrate superior predictive performance compared with the Wilkins Score. This video presents a 73-year-old female with exertional dyspnea…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. Surgical stabilization of rib fractures (SSRF) has become an important therapeutic option in thoracic trauma, particularly for patients with multiple displaced or flail rib segments. By reducing pain, restoring chest wall mechanics, and facilitating early mobilization, SSRF leads to…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. The patient was a 69-year-old female with an extensive smoking history, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a prior aorto-bifemoral bypass, and atrial fibrillation who presented after a recent hospitalization for staphylococcal bacteremia. She were admitted with what was initially…
In this enlightening interview, Cristina Ruiz Segria, CTSNet Senior Editor—Clinical Care Providers and nurse practitioner at James Cook University Hospital, UK, speaks with Joshua Lowman, a cardiovascular and thoracic surgery physician assistant and non-MD thoracic organ donor recovery surgeon at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. They discuss a recent paper on the…
Click here to view all videos from the 2025 London Core Review Cardiothoracic Surgery Course and register for the 2026 session below. In this session from the 2025 London Core Review Cardiothoracic Surgery Course, Dr. Borut Gersak, Professor of Surgery at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and Chief Medical Officer of Corcym, delivered…
In this remarkable interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Hani Shennib, a Clinical Professor of Vascular and Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, USA, about catheters as a language. They explore the importance of making catheters a language by learning, speaking, and practicing it daily. They also…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. This video demonstrates an alternative approach to positioning the retrograde cardioplegia catheter during coronary artery bypass grafting for three-vessel coronary disease involving the left anterior descending artery (LAD), obtuse marginal artery one (OM1), and obtuse marginal artery two (OM2).…
A 53-year-old female patient had a known diagnosis of a tricuspid valve Ebstein’s anomaly, characterized by elongated septal and posterior leaflets that resulted in moderate regurgitation seven years before the current hospitalization. At that time, the patient and the heart team decided to pursue medical management and annual evaluations to monitor any changes in clinical presentation or increases in the tricuspid regurgitation. Six months prior to this admission, a new transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) with her heart team diagnosed severe tricuspid regurgitation, and more exertional dyspnea was documented. Consequently, the choice for an…
A 4-year-old boy who had been followed for a ventricular septal defect (VSD) and remained asymptomatic had a follow-up echocardiogram that showed enlargement of his cardiac chambers secondary to a left-to-right shunt and a gradient across the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT), with the development of multiple hypertrophied muscle bundles in the right ventricle, creating…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. The patient was a 21-year-old female with a past medical history of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and anxiety who presented to the emergency department (ER) with symptoms of shortness of breath, cough, and chest pain. She was initially diagnosed…
When the initial tear is located within the aortic arch, the surgical strategy often involves a more comprehensive repair (1, 2). Surgical procedures involving the transverse aortic arch are particularly complex (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8). This evolving landscape has led to various innovative strategies to improve patient outcomes (7, 8, 9). The Ascyrus…
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. Constrictive pericarditis is a challenging clinical condition in which the pericardium becomes thickened, fibrotic, and often calcified, resulting in impaired diastolic filling and progressive symptoms of right-sided heart failure. This video demonstrates the step-by-step diagnostic and surgical approach to…
In this highly educational interview, Cristina Ruiz Segria, CTSNet Senior Editor—Clinical Care Providers and nurse practitioner at James Cook University Hospital, UK, interviews April Thomas, an inpatient acute care nurse practitioner specializing in thoracic surgery at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas, USA. They discuss an extraordinary presentation prepared by April Thomas…
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