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.
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Cardiac
November 25, 2025
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.
November 20, 2025
This video demonstrates a standardized robotic pedicled left internal mammary artery harvest technique guided by patient-specific 3D computed tomography reconstruction and chest modeling to optimize safety, visualization, and conduit integrity.
November 20, 2025
This 10-year, single institution propensity-matched study investigated the outcomes of supervised resident-led emergency cardiac surgery compared to consultant-led procedures. Among 1,241 emergency cases, 364 matched pairs were analyzed, and overall outcomes were noted to be similar.
November 20, 2025
This cross-sectional study compared the personality traits of 224 Dutch vascular surgeons, cardiothoracic surgeons, and interventional radiologists using the validated Big Five Inventory-2.
November 20, 2025
This multicenter study from the TITAN trial examined the quality of life in 157 patients with moderate ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms (ATAA) undergoing surgery (n=52) or surveillance (n=105) between 2019 and 2022.