Conference Sessions
At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, leading surgeons presented on and debated over segmentectomy vs wedge resection. Dr. Alessandro Brunelli, a consultant thoracic surgeon and Honorary Clinical Associate...
This cardiac session features leading surgeons providing updates on complex cardiac surgical interventions at the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2026. To begin, Danny Ramzy,...
This thoracic session features leading surgeons presenting on advancements in robotic and complex thoracic surgery at the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2026. To begin,...
This cardiac session features leading surgeon Mario Castillo-Sang presenting on intraoperative pearls and pitfalls at the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2026. CTSNet Senior Editor—Cardiac...
This session features leading surgeons discussing the tricuspid valve at the Transcatheter Heart Valves Greece (THVGreece) 2026 conference. Moderators Vassilis Voudris, Director of the Cardiology/Interventional Cardiology Division, Onassis Cardiac Surgery...
Blase Carabello of the East Carolina Heart Institute in Greenville North Carolina, USA, and Jean-François Obadia of the Hopital Cardiothoracique Louis Pradel in Lyon, France, discuss the COAPT and the...
John Dark, of Freeman Hospital and Newcastle University in the UK, is the National Clinical Lead for Governance within Organ Donation and Transplantation at NHS Blood and Transplant. Professor Dark...
Pouya Youssefi is a UK trained cardiac surgeon and winner of the SCTS Ethicon Scholarship, with which he is currently working with Emmanuel Lansac at Institut Mutualiste Montsouris (Paris) in...
Objectives Pulmonary sequestration is a rare congenital lung malformation that more commonly occurs in the left lung, mainly near the lower mediastinum. It is rarely observed in adult patients. The...
Objectives Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is usually associated with left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. It is rare to have a concomitant obstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract requiring resection. Patients with...
Objectives Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) with absent pulmonary valve syndrome and massively dilated pulmonary arteries may present with severe airway compression. Neonates who present with severe airway compression are difficult...
Simon Messer, a specialist trainee registrar in cardiothoracic surgery and a researcher on heart donation after cardiac death (DCD) at the Royal Papworth Hospital in the UK, presents his center’s...
Disclosure This presentation describes the off-label use of the Centrimag™ Ventricular Assist Device (Abbott). Objectives Right ventricular (RV) failure is a life-threatening complication after left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation....





