Jordan Bloom
On September 25, 2025, a group of esteemed cardiac surgeons gathered for a live webinar titled “Data-Driven Valve Selection for Younger AVR Patients,” presented by Artivion in collaboration with CTSNet. The panelists, S. Chris Malaisrie,...
A 44-year-old female with no past medical history presented with acute onset chest pain and new heart failure. A workup revealed severe aortic insufficiency (AI) with a bicuspid aortic valve...
A sixty-three-year-old man recently developed progressive exercise intolerance, lower extremity edema, and orthostatic hypotension. He had a history of syncope secondary to sick-sinus-syndrome status post permanent pacemaker placement in 2001....
Operative videos are becoming increasingly common on many platforms, yet the quality of these videos in the field of cardiac surgery has room for improvement. Many surgical fields have shifted...
A 74-year-old man with persistent atrial fibrillation, severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR), and pulmonary hypertension underwent a convergent procedure (CP). The CP is a closed chest, transdiaphragmatic laparoscopic hybrid epi- and...
Objectives Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has become the standard of care for high-risk patients and is growing in popularity for lower risk patients. The authors report a case of...




