Joseph Zacharias

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December 20, 2025 | Lorena Montes

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...

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August 1, 2025 | Joseph Zacharias

In this fascinating interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Joseph Zacharias, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the Lancashire Cardiac Center in Blackpool, England, discussing lifetime management of heart...

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August 1, 2025 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Joseph Zacharias, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the Lancashire Cardiac Center in Blackpool, England, about lifetime management of...

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September 27, 2023 | Yancy Wu

An eighty-eight-year-old man with a history of hypertension, pulmonary embolism, prostate cancer, and right hip and femur surgery came to the cardiology clinic with progressive shortness of breath in recent...

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April 28, 2022 | Abdelrahman Abdelbar

This video describes one of the authors’ initial series of combined mitral and aortic valve surgery and highlights the steps involved for an endoscopic approach. The authors hypothesize that this...

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May 13, 2021 | Abdelrahman Abdelbar

In this video, we have used a homemade chord loops for mitral valve repair. We believe that this system is flexible for the mitral surgeons as the number of loops...

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September 8, 2020 | Abdelrahman Abdelbar

In this video, the authors demonstrate the advantage of minimally invasive endoscopic beating mitral valve surgery with cardiopulmonary support in complex redo cases. This technique can simplify the procedure in...

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May 26, 2020 | Abdelrahman Abdelbar

The authors present their experience with totally endoscopic beating mitral valve surgery by presenting this case of mitral repair. They recently moved to beating mitral surgery due to the shortage...

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September 10, 2019 | Abdelrahman Abdelbar

Isolated tricuspid regurgitation has been increasingly diagnosed amongst the population (1). Intracardiac devices and the prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) are now the most common causes of AF (2). Morbidity...

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January 12, 2017 | Joseph Zacharias

Joseph Zacharias of the Lancashire Cardiac Centre, Blackpool, United Kingdom, demonstrates an endoscopic vein harvesting technique, and reviews the evidence for and against endoscopic vein harvesting. This presentation was originally...