Joel Dunning
CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Drs. Michael Mack and Tom Nguyen about the proposed US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services changes to how cardiologists and cardiac surgeons interact during transcatheter aortic valve replacement...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Luca Di Marco, a cardiac surgeon in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Bologna University Hospital, Italy, about...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with David Waller, Chair of the EACTS Emphysema Taskforce and Director of the EACTS Fundamentals Course in Thoracic Surgery, about...
This expert consensus document addresses lung volume reduction (LVR) for emphysema, including surgical and endobronchial approaches for appropriately selected patients. It provides guidance on patient selection, techniques, risks, transplantation considerations,...
This article summarizes the surgical treatment of Pope Leo XIV, who was recently diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma. Surgeons performed a uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy. The surgery team reported...
This article is part of CTSNet’s Guest Editor Series, “Mastering Aortic Root Surgery—Learning From Top Surgeons”. Dr. Lorena Montes invited top cardiac surgeons from around the world to contribute clinical...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning speaks with EACTS Secretary General Patrick Myers about the highlights of the upcoming 38th EACTS Annual Meeting. They discuss...
Lead surgeon, Dr. Feras Khaliel has generously shared his video of the first-ever robotic heart transplant. This video is in full resolution and shows his right chest approach with a...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning speaks with lead surgeon Feras Khaliel about the world’s first fully robotic heart transplant. They explore the steps taken...
This study examined the long-term survival of patients undergoing multiarterial grafting (MAG) versus single-arterial grafting (SAG) in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). After analyzing data from more than one million...
A cardiac team at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSHRC) in Riyadh, Saudia Arabia, has achieved a historic milestone by performing the world’s first fully robotic heart transplant....
This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Brian Houseman about VATS vs robotic lobectomy. They discuss training programs, the speed and efficiency of VATS, advanced...
CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Dawn Jaroszewski about optimizing pectus surgery. Dr. Jaroszewski addressed key issues, amounts of bars used in the procedure, and suppressing displacement of bars....



