At the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with Dr. Husam Balkhy about robotic cardiac surgery and simulation training in cardiothoracic surgery.
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Cardiac
October 30, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning explores the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in writing medical articles.
October 30, 2025
The EACTS recently released an expert consensus statement on the Ross procedure in adult patients, highlighting the renewed focus in this area due to increasing evidence of excellent long-term outcomes. These outcomes include restoration of life expectancy and improved valve-related outcomes.
October 30, 2025
In this study, the authors evaluated a novel aortic anastomotic stapler for repairing acute type A aortic dissections using a human cadaver model. Ten felt sandwich repairs were performed, with half completed using conventional sutures and the other half using the stapler.
October 30, 2025
An analysis of 10 trials involving more than 10,000 patients with non-acute heart disease compared outcomes for three treatment strategies: optimal medical therapy (OMT), percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with OMT, and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with OMT.
October 30, 2025
The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) has developed a unified Core Curriculum for cardiac surgical training to address variations in training standards across Europe.
October 30, 2025
This video demonstrates, to the authors’ knowledge, the first reported case of a single-stage hybrid procedure that combines transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement, off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting, and ascending aortic wrapping in a high-risk patient with severe aortic stenosis, an ascending aortic aneurysm, and multivessel coronary artery disease.
October 29, 2025
Dr. Mara Antonoff, president of Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS), spoke with Dr. Leah Backhus, vice president of WTS, about social events and networking opportunities at the WTS Annual Meeting.
October 28, 2025
This video demonstrates a total 3D endoscopic repair of a left ventricular (LV) aneurysm using the Dor technique, followed by mitral repair for a patient with a post-ischemia posterior LV aneurysm and mitral regurgitation.
October 28, 2025
This video demonstrates a democratized technique to preoperative planning and operative approaches for minimally invasive mitral valve repair.