This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning shares insights from his recent trip to Ghana.
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Cardiac
October 9, 2025
This video demonstrates that while intravascular ultrasound and transesophageal echocardiography are valuable tools for establishing true lumen access during both type A and B aortic dissection repair, these techniques require significant experience to understand and interpret.
October 9, 2025
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVR) has transformed treatment for high-risk aortic stenosis patients, but its recent use in low-risk younger populations and those with bicuspid aortic valves (BAV) raises concerns about valve durability and increased mortality and stroke rates.
October 9, 2025
The 2025 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease (VHD) are an update to the 2021 version of this document.
Primary Repair of Common Arterial Trunk: A Systematic Meta-Analysis of Short- and Long-Term Outcomes
October 9, 2025
The authors performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the pooled mortality, morbidity, and reoperation rates after common arterial trunk primary repair. Among 319 articles retrieved, 43 studies including 4,844 patients met the inclusion criteria. The pooled early mortality was 11.23 percent (95 percent CI, 9.4-13.37).
October 9, 2025
The authors conducted the NEWTON-CABG CardioLink-5 trial to assess whether intensive lowering of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) lowering with evolocumab reduces saphenous vein graft (SVG) failure after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).
October 8, 2025
Dr. Joel Dunning, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief, had the chance to speak with Dr. Mara Antonoff, president of Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS) and Associate Professor and Program Director of Education at MD Anderson Cancer Center, about the vision for the upcoming WTS Annual Meeting.
October 8, 2025
CTSNet is excited to present a video series from Mara Antonoff, MD, President of Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS).
October 6, 2025
This video demonstrates a redo tricuspid valve replacement under right heart bypass without the use of an oxygenator for a previously repaired tricuspid valve for native valve endocarditis.
October 3, 2025
At the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2025, Dr. Rui Li, a surgeon in the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery at Tongji Hospital, Wuhan, China, delivered a presentation titled “Transapical Beating-Heart Septal Myectomy (TA-BSM) in Patients With Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.”