In this roundtable, cardiac surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with the board members of the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club about minimally invasive endoscopic and robotic surgery.
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2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Video Competition
MICS and Robotic-Assisted Surgery: A Roundtable Discussion With the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club
December 20, 2025
December 18, 2025
This video demonstrates the technique of using a periareolar incision around the nipple for access to perform endoscopic mitral valve surgery, a method that has been utilized by these authors for 20 years.
December 17, 2025
This video demonstrates a complex mitral valve repair in a 41-year-old male patient with P2 and P3 prolapse and severe mitral annular calcification, which was repaired with papillary muscle relocation.
December 16, 2025
This video describes the repair of an anterior mitral leaflet damaged by endocarditis using a periareolar incision.
December 12, 2025
This video demonstrates a complex case involving a double valve repair and anomalous pulmonary venous return with atrial septal defect repair managed endoscopically.
December 11, 2025
This video demonstrates an endoscopic approach to a high-risk operation for a deteriorating tricuspid valve bioprosthesis (high attenuating leaflet thickening).
December 10, 2025
This video demonstrates an approach to robotic surgery with fibrillatory arrest.
December 5, 2025
This video shows an endoscopic complex left ventricular post-infarction aneurysm repair with concomitant mitral valve repair.
December 4, 2025
This video demonstrates an endoscopic approach to a post-infarction ventricular septal defect using the three-port technique.
December 3, 2025
This video demonstrates an endoscopic closure of an atrial septal defect.