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This year, CTSNet released more educational content, featuring interviews, clinical videos, webinars, and more than ever. As the end of 2025 approaches, CTSNet editors and staff are reflecting on the most popular content shared across CTSNet’s global platform. Read on to find out which video topped the list, who our leading contributor was, and other…
This video presents a case of combined endoscopic aortic valve replacement (AVR) and left internal mammary artery (LIMA) to left anterior descending artery (LAD). Patient Profile The patient was a 68-year-old male with a history of severe aortic stenosis (AS) and triple vessel coronary artery disease. Over the years, he has undergone multiple coronary stenting procedures.…
In this roundtable, cardiac surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with the board members of the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons (ECS) Club about minimally invasive endoscopic and robotic surgery. The members included CTSNet Senior Editor Mario Castillo-Sang (Saint Elizabeth Healthcare), Piotr Suwalski (National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Center…
In this exceptional interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Nasser Altorki, thoracic surgeon at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, and thoracic surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian about the 10-year results from the JCOG0802 trial. They discuss key aspects of the trial, including the noninferiority primary endpoint. Dr. Altorki shares his…
This video is one of the top 10 entries from the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Video Competition. More videos featuring these outstanding presentations will be showcased in the coming weeks. 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…
This video is one of the top 10 entries from the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Video Competition. More videos featuring these outstanding presentations will be showcased in the coming weeks. In this video, the team from Berlin Heart Center demonstrates a complex mitral valve repair in a 41-year-old male patient with P2 and P3 prolapse…
This video is one of the top 10 entries from the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Video Competition. More videos featuring these outstanding presentations will be showcased in the coming weeks. In this video, the authors describe the repair of an anterior mitral leaflet damaged by endocarditis using a periareolar incision The patient was a 65-year-old male…
This video demonstrates the repair of a post-infarction ventricular septal defect (VSD). Initially, attempts were made at closure in the catheterization lab, but this was unsuccessful, and there was also severe tricuspid regurgitation, so the patient was brought to the operating room. A femoral venous cannula was placed to allow the inferior vena cava (IVC)…
The recent webinar, Optimizing Myocardial Protection in Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery: Contemporary Strategies and Emerging Techniques, brought together three leading experts in robotic cardiac surgery to share practical insights and review emerging evidence supporting myocardial protection in less invasive procedures. Dr. Husam Balkhy (University of Chicago), Dr. Johannes Bonatti (UPMC Presbyterian), and Dr. Douglas Murphy…
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 second episode of the Case of the Month, thoracic surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian is joined by cardiac surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Lorena Montes, nurse…
This video is one of the top 10 entries from the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Video Competition. More videos featuring these outstanding presentations will be showcased in the coming weeks. The patient was a 70-year-old female who presented with New York Heart Association (NYHA) class II-III and a history of mitral and tricuspid regurgitation,…
Fifty-seven US organizations representing the Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) signed a letter of support for Advanced Practice Nursing professionals in response to the US Department of Education’s recently proposed change that would exclude postbaccalaureate nursing programs from the official regulatory definition of a “professional degree program.” This proposal has significant implications for US cardiothoracic nursing…
This video is one of the top 10 entries from the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Video Competition. More videos featuring these outstanding presentations will be showcased in the coming weeks. The patient was a 75-year-old female who had undergone previous tricuspid valve replacement in 2018 by endoscopic surgery. The patient had deterioration of the prosthesis…
This video is one of the top 10 entries from the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Video Competition. More videos featuring these outstanding presentations will be showcased in the coming weeks. In this video, the authors demonstrate an approach to robotic surgery with fibrillatory arrest. For these cases, continuous CO2 insufflation was used in the right…
Foreign bodies that are adherent to or eroding through the gastric mucosa pose particular challenges for removal, with endoscopic or open techniques being the most commonly used. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first report of a laparoscopic transgastric approach for the resection of surgical mesh eroding through the stomach. The…
At the 2025 European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Annual Meeting, CTSNet senior editors set out to interview the most knowledgeable CT surgeons from around the world. Watch for more interviews from the meeting. At the 2025 European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Cristina Ruiz Segria spoke with Karin Hinterbuchner, a registered nurse…
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