This video presents the case of a 34-year-old male who experienced military heart trauma, for which the surgeons performed a totally endoscopic extraction of a cardiac foreign body.
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Cardiac
November 25, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Evgenij Potapov about the guidelines on temporary mechanical circulatory support in adult cardiac surgery.
November 25, 2025
This article examines both preclinical and clinical results in cardiac xenotransplantation, highlighting the ongoing challenges in achieving consistent and durable clinical graft survival.
November 25, 2025
The DECAF randomized clinical trial investigated whether caffeinated coffee influences the recurrence of atrial fibrillation (AF) after cardioversion. Two hundred patients with persistent AF were randomized to either continue consuming caffeinated coffee (≥1 cup daily) or abstain entirely for six months.
November 25, 2025
While seasonal patterns suggest that 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.
November 25, 2025
This video demonstrates a complex case of aortic reintervention, in which a frozen elephant trunk was performed following the failure of an endovascular arch repair.
November 24, 2025
This video demonstrates the management plan for anomalous right coronary arteries and their treatment in a patient who also has mitral valve prolapse, performed via hemisternotomy.
November 21, 2025
At the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons (ECS) Club Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with Dr. T. Sloane Guy, a cardiovascular surgeon at Georgia Heart Institute at Northeast Georgia Medical Center, about the evolution of robotic cardiac surgery.
November 20, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Randas Batista, cardiac surgeon and founder of Vilela Batista Heart Foundation, about the surgical treatment of Eisenmenger syndrome.
November 20, 2025
This video demonstrates a minimally invasive strategy for combined aortic valve replacement using a sutureless bioprosthesis and total coronary revascularization via left anterior minithoracotomy, highlighting the technical details and feasibility of this sternum-sparing approach.