This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Christopher McGregor about the current state of cardiac and kidney xenotransplantation.
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Cardiac
December 4, 2025
While seasonal patterns suggest cold weather influences the incidence of acute type A aortic dissection, the impact of subjective thermal stress on dissection risk remains poorly characterized. This retrospective multicenter study examined environmental triggers of acute type A aortic dissection in 548 German patients between 1996 and 2016.
December 4, 2025
The PROCTOR trial randomized 220 post-coronary artery bypass grafting patients with saphenous vein graft (SVG) failure to native vessel percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (n=108) or SVG PCI (n=112). At one-year, major adverse cardiac events occurred in 34 percent with native PCI vs 19 percent with SVG PCI (HR 2.14; P=0.006).
December 4, 2025
This meta-analysis of eight randomized clinical trials (RCT) compared no-touch (NT) vs conventional (CON) saphenous vein (SV) harvesting in coronary bypass surgery. At a 3.7-year follow-up, NT-SV harvesting showed significantly lower graft failure rates compared to CON-SV.
December 4, 2025
This video demonstrates an endoscopic approach to a post-infarction ventricular septal defect using the three-port technique.
December 3, 2025
This video demonstrates an endoscopic closure of an atrial septal defect.
December 2, 2025
This video demonstrates a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery sympathectomy for the termination of ventricular tachycardia electrical storm, featuring an exceptional view and excision of Kuntz's fibers.
December 1, 2025
This video demonstrates a robotic aortic valve replacement procedure for a 64-year-old man with severe aortic stenosis.
December 1, 2025
CTSNet is pleased to present the top 10 videos from the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Video Competition.
November 27, 2025
At the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons (ECS) Club Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with Dr. Oleksandr Babliak, Chief of the Cardiac Surgery Division at the Dobrobut Medical Network in Kyiv, Ukraine, about utilizing minimally invasive approaches in complex cardiac procedures.