Cardiac
The authors present a video describing the surgical management of a 38-year-old female patient with a 5.1 cm ascending aortic aneurysm, aortic root dilation, and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation that required operative treatment. Both valve-sparing aortic...
This talk features Joseph Zacharias, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the Lancashire Cardiac Center in Blackpool, England, delivering a presentation on “Can the Endoscope ‘Challenge’ the Catheter?” at the Endoscopic...
This session features Yasmeen Taha from the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, USA, presenting on “Does Perioperative Catheter Ablation Improve Outcomes in LVAD...
In this informative interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Traves Crabtree, Professor and Chair of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Medical Director of the Surgical Skills Laboratory at...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Traves Crabtree, Professor and Chair of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Medical Director of the Surgical Skills Laboratory...
This session features Armaan Saith, an internal medical resident at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, delivering a presentation on “Stepdown-Bound: Stepdown Unit Management of Hemodynamically Stable Patients on...
In this single-center propensity-matched analysis of 659 patients undergoing minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB), bilateral internal mammary artery grafting achieved short- and mid-term clinical outcomes comparable to single...
In this 27-year single-center retrospective study, the authors compared radial artery (RA) vs saphenous vein graft (SVG) as the third conduit in patients receiving bilateral internal mammary arteries (BIMA) for...
This case report describes a rare Type A aortic dissection that caused a pulmonary artery intramural hematoma and compression, which mimicked a saddle pulmonary embolism. The findings highlight the importance...
In this episode of The Cardiac Recovery Room, moderator Subhasis Chatterjee, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas, USA, spoke with J. W. Awori Hayanga, Professor of...
This talk features Joerg Kempfert, Senior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center, Berlin, Germany, presenting on “Endoscopic Team Training and Surgeon Mentorship: My Personal...
CTSNet hosted a webinar on September 15, 2026, titled “The TAVR Heart Team in 2026: Navigating the CMS Decision,” featuring leading surgeons Tom B. Nguyen, Michael Mack, and Tsuyoshi Kaneko,...
This talk features Tomas Holubec, Professor of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at University Hospital Frankfurt and Goethe-University in Germany, delivering a presentation titled “A...








