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.
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Thoracic
November 13, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Zara Shirazi, a congenital cardiac surgery post-fellow at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, about advancing pediatric cardiac surgery in Pakistan using what she learned from her fellowship in Austria.
November 7, 2025
In this first episode of the Case of the Month, thoracic surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian is joined by CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning to discuss “The Case of a Foreign Body.”
November 6, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Liam Burns, CEO of Qaelon Medical, about turning ideas into companies.
November 6, 2025
This article explores the challenges and benefits of growing up with a mother in cardiothoracic (CT) surgery. Through a preliminary survey of 12 adult children of women CT surgeons, the study highlights both positive and negative impacts.
November 6, 2025
This video presents an advanced surgical workflow that combines 3D planning and mixed reality to enhance precision, safety, and case-specific strategy in robotic thoracic surgery.
November 5, 2025
This video illustrates how teleproctoring allows the performance of complex robotic-assisted thoracic surgery lung resections, even in the early phases of a robotic program.
November 4, 2025
This video demonstrates a 42-year-old woman with seropositive myasthenia gravis who underwent successful bilateral robotic extended thymectomy for a 9 cm thymoma infiltrating the pericardium, right phrenic nerve, and right lung. Clear margins were achieved, and surgical clips were placed for potential adjuvant radiotherapy.
October 31, 2025
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.
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.