Michael Borger
At the 2026 American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Annual Meeting, CTSNet JANS Editor Dr. Mateo Marin-Cuartas, a cardiac surgeon at Leipzig Heart Center, Germany, spoke with Dr. Michael Borger, Chair of the University Clinic...
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...
In May 2024, The Diagnostic and Therapeutic Center of Athens Hygeia organized the Transcatheter Heart Valves Greece 2024. The conference featured pivotal specialty insights from both local faculty and internationally...
CTSNet once more hosted a webinar in collaboration with Edwards Lifesciences on the pivotal topic, “Advances in Valve Tissue Technology and Why It Matters.” The webinar launched to a live...
Filmed at the 2018 EACTS Annual Meeting in Milan, Italy, Mohamad Bashir of the Barts Heart Centre in London, UK, moderates a discussion on the importance of valve repair in...
A vital component of successful mitral valve repair surgery is accurate sizing of the mitral annuloplasty ring or band. In this video, several methods of mitral annular sizing are discussed....
The Current State of the Treatment of Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Disease Filmed at the 2017 EACTS Annual Meeting in Vienna, Austria, Randy Martin moderates a discussion on the current...
Mitral valve repair is the gold standard treatment for degenerative mitral valve (MV) regurgitation, and minimally invasive access allows for excellent exposure of the MV and subvalvular apparatus while minimizing...
Michael Borger of the Leipzig Heart Center in Germany presents an overview of surgical repair for ischemic mitral regurgitation (MR). He discusses the development and prevalence of ischemic MR, when...
Correct graft sizing requires an intrinsic understanding of normal aortic valve anatomy and the role of the functional aortic annulus. Yet sizing methods have generated significant controversy amongst surgeons. Mohamad...
In a discussion filmed at the 2015 EACTS Annual Meeting in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, an international panel of experts considers the management of porcelain aorta. Mohamad Bashir of the Liverpool...
The Frozen Elephant Trunk Technique using a Hybrid Prosthesis is presented as a collaborative Expert Technique by the Heart Center Leipzig and the West-German Heart Center Essen. The keys to...








