At the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) 2025 Annual Conference, Dr. Andrew M. Acker, a cardiothoracic surgery resident at Penn Medicine, delivered a presentation titled “Impella 5.5 Is Safe in Small Ventricles.”
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Cardiac
September 25, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Drs. Daniel Brockman, Professor of Small Animal Surgery at The Royal Veterinary College, London, England, and Matteo Rossanese, Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery at The Royal Veterinary College, about performing cardiothoracic surgery in animals.
September 25, 2025
This video demonstrates a detailed technique to close the left atrial appendage through a right minithoracotomy.
September 25, 2025
This single-center ambidirectional cohort study analyzed 617 patients with acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) who had coronary ostial involvement from 2019–2023.
September 25, 2025
This article argues that emergency resternotomy should be routinely practiced in all cardiac surgery centers, as it is a critical procedure for managing cardiac arrest such as tamponade or refractory bleeding.
September 25, 2025
This single-center retrospective study compared the outcomes of mitral valve (MV) surgery vs transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) in octogenarians with moderate-to-severe or severe mitral regurgitation (MR). Between 2014 and 2024, 744 patients aged 80 years and older underwent MV intervention.
September 24, 2025
In this engaging interview, Dr. Amr Alsalakawy, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Aswan Heart Center and Research, Magdi Yacoub Foundation, spoke with Dr. Magdi Yacoub, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the National Heart and Lung Institute at the Imperial College London, and Founder and Director of Research at the Harefield Heart Science Center, Magdi Yacoub Institute, about the Aswan technique for common arterial trunk repair.
September 24, 2025
This video demonstrates a clampless aortic valve replacement technique in a partial porcelain aorta, along with aortic root enlargement and coronary artery bypass grafting utilizing two grafts.
September 23, 2025
This educational video demonstrates how to perform an endovascular arch repair with a triple inner-branch custom-made device in a patient with a zone 2 penetrating aortic ulcer.
September 22, 2025
This video provides a step-by-step tutorial on pulmonary autograft reinforcement—a method aimed at preserving valve geometry and preventing dilatation of the neo-aortic root.