As the year ends, we’re highlighting the top podcast episodes from The Atrium and The Beat. However, be sure to check out the first two episodes of The Cardiac Recovery Room today! Keep reading to find out which episodes made the list, and please contact us if you’re interested in being a guest on any of our incredible podcasts.
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Cardiac
December 23, 2025
This retrospective analysis of the UNOS registry investigated patients after the latest allocation revision and examined whether ex vivo heart perfusion (EVHP) mitigated ischemic penalties in adult donation-after-brain-death heart transplants with preservation times of six hours or more.
December 23, 2025
This propensity score-matched cohort study compared long-term outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) vs coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in 2,033 matched pairs of women with chronic severe coronary artery disease. The mean age was 66.5 years, with a median follow-up of 5.1 years.
December 23, 2025
As the end of 2025 approaches, CTSNet editors and staff are reflecting on the most popular content shared across CTSNet’s global platform. Read on to find out which video topped the list, who our leading contributor was, and other highlights.
December 22, 2025
This video presents a 68-year-old male with severe aortic stenosis and triple-vessel coronary artery disease who underwent a totally endoscopic aortic valve replacement combined with left internal mammary artery to left anterior descending artery bypass using a dual minithoracotomy approach.
MICS and Robotic-Assisted Surgery: A Roundtable Discussion With the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club
December 20, 2025
In this roundtable, cardiac surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with the board members of the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club about minimally invasive endoscopic and robotic surgery.
December 18, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Nasser Altorki and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian about the 10-year results from the JCOG0802 trial.
December 18, 2025
This video demonstrates the technique of using a periareolar incision around the nipple for access to perform endoscopic mitral valve surgery, a method that has been utilized by these authors for 20 years.
December 18, 2025
This case report describes a 62-year-old man with exertional dyspnea due to a massive, serpentine right coronary artery aneurysm with fistulization to the coronary sinus, causing significant left-to-right shunt and right heart dilation. Given the large size and complex anatomy, transcatheter closure was deemed unsuitable.
December 18, 2025
Mesfin Yana Dollar, who received life-saving heart surgery as a teenager in the United States, now collaborates with Dr. Jim Kauten, the surgeon who saved him, as a cardiac perfusionist at the Mayo Clinic. Together, they perform advanced open-heart surgeries and participate in medical missions to help patients in Ethiopia.