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.
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Cardiac
November 20, 2025
November 19, 2025
In this inaugural episode of CTSNet’s new podcast, The Cardiac Recovery Room, moderator Dr. Daniel Engelman spoke with Drs. Rakesh Arora and Michael C. Grant about cardiac surgery myths.
November 19, 2025
This video presents a hydatid cyst of the interventricular septum surgically treated under cardiopulmonary bypass using Barrett’s technique.
November 19, 2025
This video demonstrates the en bloc heart and lung donation after circulatory death rapid recovery protocol combined with abdominal normothermic regional perfusion, proving safe and feasible.
November 18, 2025
This video demonstrates a patient who underwent a Bentall procedure via a minimally invasive right anterior minithoracotomy.
November 18, 2025
This video demonstrates a double-patch modification of the Manougian technique, which offers a simple and reproducible method for achieving true annular plane enlargement.
November 17, 2025
This video demonstrates the repositioning of an anomalous right coronary artery.
November 17, 2025
This video demonstrates a high-risk patient with infective endocarditis of a transcatheter aortic valve replacement prosthesis, complicated by aortic root abscess, which was successfully repaired with aortic valve replacement and posterior unroofing of the abscess cavity, followed by patch closure.
November 14, 2025
At the 2025 EACTS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Cristina Ruiz Segria spoke with Drs. Emily Farkas and Baffoe Gyan about training in low-income countries.
November 14, 2025
At the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons (ECS) Club Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with Dr. Patrick Perier, chairman of the ECS Club and staff surgeon at the Herz und Gefäss Klinik in Bad Neustadt, Germany, about minimally invasive mitral valve surgery.