Aortic Regurgitation
A 69-year-old woman with a body surface area of 1.8 m² presented with progressive dyspnea on exertion (New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III), severe aortic regurgitation, and an ascending aortic aneurysm measuring 4.4 cm....
Tuesday, February 2, 2027 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) continues to expand beyond its traditional indications, raising important questions regarding patient selection, procedural...
Thursday, November 5, 2026 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Following the success of last year, the Aortic Disease Domain is proud to present another special edition of their...
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 week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with James Cox, Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, USA,...
This propensity-matched study from the Montreal Heart Institute Ross Registry examined sex-based differences in outcomes following the Ross procedure. Among 816 adults undergoing full-root pulmonary autograft replacement (2011 to 2025),...
A 32-year-old man presented with shortness of breath, exertional fatigue, and chest pain. He underwent a Ross procedure in early childhood for rheumatic aortic valve disease, during which a 22...
The frozen elephant trunk (FET) technique provides a useful surgical approach for managing complex aortic arch pathologies (1). One of the critical challenges of this procedure is the reimplantation of...
This video presents a forty-seven year-old woman who, when she was two years old, had a balloon valvuloplasty, then, as a teen, she had a Ross procedure. This procedure failed,...







