Content from the Journal of the American Neurological Surgeons.
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…
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 shows an endoscopic complex left ventricular post-infarction aneurysm repair with concomitant mitral valve repair. The patient was a 55-year-old male who…
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 79-year-old male with dyspnea and a history of acute myocardial infarction 12 months prior, at which time he underwent…
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 is the case of a 34-year-old female who presented with shortness of breath and palpitations, and was found to have an ostium…
This video demonstrates a bilateral thoracoscopic sympathectomy using a modified supine, steep reverse Trendelenburg position to enhance exposure and improve intraoperative safety. The supine positioning facilitates immediate access for cardiopulmonary resuscitation, while the reverse Trendelenburg position lowers the thoracic cavity, improving visualization of the sympathetic chain. The left side was dissected first due to its higher…
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 presents the case of a 64-year-old man with severe aortic stenosis with a mean gradient of 50mmHg. A working port was…
CTSNet is pleased to present the top 10 videos from the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Video Competition. These exceptional presentations will be showcased along with a recorded roundtable discussion featuring cardiac surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Lorena Montes, who will highlight the videos and their presenters. This content will be available on CTSNet on…
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 Dr. Edris A. F. Mahtab,…
At the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes conducted insightful interviews with leading cardiothoracic surgeons from around the world. Stay tuned for more interviews from the meeting. At the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons (ECS) Club Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with Dr. Oleksandr Babliak, Chief of…
