Mario Castillo-Sang
As 2025 comes to an end, the CTSNet editor team reflected on another year of incredible cardiothoracic content. The Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning and the senior editors handpicked a collection of top content, showcasing the most...
In this interview, Dr. Mario Castillo-Sang, CTSNet Senior Editor—Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery and Surgical Director of Mitral Valve and Heart Failure Therapies at St. Elizabeth Healthcare in Edgewood, Kentucky, USA,...
As 2025 comes to an end, the CTSNet editor team reflected on another year of incredible cardiothoracic content. The Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning and the senior editors handpicked a collection of...
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...
In May 2025, the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery brought together professionals in the field of cardiothoracic surgery to discuss and share knowledge on minimally invasive techniques. Watch...
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2023 Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. Minimally invasive cardiac surgery has evolved and advanced over the...
Severe mitral annular calcification remains a challenge for the mitral valve surgeon. The past decade has introduced promising new technologies in the mitral valve replacement space, and ongoing clinical trials...
Management of severe posterior mitral annular calcification or posterior deep abscess can be challenging and carries significant risk. The use of the anterior mitral valve leaflet as a posterior annular...
Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery in patients with prior sternotomies is safe and effective in resolving the mitral pathology; this is true for both repairs and replacements (1). Cases of...
The Case The authors present the case of a 47-year-old man who presented to the emergency department with a one-week history of chest pain. At presentation, he was hypotensive and...
The authors present a series of degenerative mitral valve repair cases using nonresectional techniques that include posterior, anterior, bileaflet prolapse pathology, and Barlow’s disease. The leaflet flails and prolapses were...
The authors present the case of complex mitral valve pathology resulting from healed endocarditis. The patient was a 52-year-old otherwise healthy man who presented with severe dyspnea on exertion and...
Case The patient is a 59-year-old woman with severe tricuspid regurgitation from a septal leaflet restriction by a pacemaker lead implanted for sick sinus syndrome. The patient complained of fatigue...









