Content from the Journal of the American Neurological Surgeons.
Currently in its 32nd year, the Birmingham Review Course is the longest-running course in the cardiothoracic specialty. The 2025 course promises an immersive learning experience featuring didactic lectures and interactive seminars on cardiac and thoracic topics, along with opportunities to engage with an international faculty. The 2025 Birmingham Review Course will take place from September…
In June 2025, the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs assembled leading cardiothoracic surgeons to share insights and expertise on advanced topics in cardiothoracic surgery. Watch for more ASAIO 2025 videos in the coming weeks. At the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) 2025 Annual Conference, Dr. Yeahwa Hong, a surgical resident at the University of…
The Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club is dedicated to raising global awareness of the benefits of endoscopic cardiac surgery among patients, surgeons, and industry partners. Stay tuned for more ECSC videos in the coming weeks. At the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Meeting 2023, Dr. Farhad Bakhtiary, Director of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Cardiac Surgery at Bonn…
This article is part of CTSNet’s Guest Editor Series, Coronary Arterial Anomalies—Pediatric and Adult Congenital. CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Sameh Said invited both pediatric and adult cardiac surgeons from around the world to contribute clinical videos on various coronary arterial anomalies and different surgical techniques that are used to manage them. Several techniques are…
This article is part of CTSNet’s Guest Editor Series, Coronary Arterial Anomalies—Pediatric and Adult Congenital. CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Sameh Said invited both pediatric and adult cardiac surgeons from around the world to contribute clinical videos on various coronary arterial anomalies and different surgical techniques that are used to manage them. Anomalous aortic origin…
In this remarkable interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Sameh Said, Chief of the Division of Pediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiac Surgery at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the New York Medical College, and Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center,…
This article is part of CTSNet’s Guest Editor Series, Coronary Arterial Anomalies—Pediatric and Adult Congenital. CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Sameh Said invited both pediatric and adult cardiac surgeons from around the world to contribute clinical videos on various coronary arterial anomalies and different surgical techniques that are used to manage them. This video demonstrates unroofing…
In this video, Dr. Vince Gaudiani discusses with Dr. Paul Shuttleworth how they set up a bypass circuit for aortic cases, in which hypothermic blood is perfused to the brain while the body is kept normothermic throughout the aortic surgery. They have been implementing this technique since 2007, and in this video, they explain the…
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Instructional Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. The authors present the case of a 66-year-old male who reported peripheral edema over the past month. He was admitted to a primary healthcare hospital, where transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography revealed a pericardial effusion and…
This article is part of CTSNet’s Guest Editor Series, Coronary Arterial Anomalies—Pediatric and Adult Congenital. CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Sameh Said invited both pediatric and adult cardiac surgeons from around the world to contribute clinical videos on various coronary arterial anomalies and different surgical techniques that are used to manage them. Among the various procedures…
This article is part of CTSNet’s Guest Editor Series, Coronary Arterial Anomalies—Pediatric and Adult Congenital. CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Sameh Said invited both pediatric and adult cardiac surgeons from around the world to contribute clinical videos on various coronary arterial anomalies and different surgical techniques that are used to manage them. Coronary arteries supplying the heart typically…
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Instructional Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. A 23-year-old man presented with chest pain, fever, and a dry cough lasting more than two months. His chest X-ray, CT scan, and chest ultrasound showed a left loculated empyema with complex separations. All…
Porcelain aorta, characterized by extensive circumferential or near circumferential calcification of the ascending aorta, poses a significant risk for embolic events during conventional cardiac surgery requiring aortic cannulation, cross-clamping, and cardioplegia (1). Surgical options include off-pump techniques, alternative perfusion strategies, and transcatheter approaches (2). Beating heart surgery is another alternative with favorable morbidity and mortality…
This article is part of CTSNet’s Guest Editor Series, Coronary Arterial Anomalies—Pediatric and Adult Congenital. CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Sameh Said invited both pediatric and adult cardiac surgeons from around the world to contribute clinical videos on various coronary arterial anomalies and different surgical techniques that are used to manage them. Anomalous aortic origin of coronary arteries…
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Instructional Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. The advantages of multiarterial grafting and aortic bypass are well known; however, their adoption remains low, even in high-volume centers. To date, there is a large amount of data supporting short- and long-term benefits of…
The Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club is dedicated to raising global awareness of the benefits of endoscopic cardiac surgery among patients, surgeons, and industry partners. Stay tuned for more ECSC videos in the coming weeks. At the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Meeting 2023, Dr. Niv Ad, a cardiac surgeon at the Adventist Health system in Maryland…
