Aortic Surgery
In this edition of the CTSNet podcast, The Lifeline, host and nurse educator Jill Ley, Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, Founder of the Essentials of Cardiac Surgical Resuscitation,...
In this edition of the CTSNet podcast, The Lifeline, host and nurse educator Jill Ley, Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, Founder of the...
The authors present a 75-year-old woman with dyspnea on exertion. She was diagnosed with an aortic valve stenosis and moderate-to-severe mitral valve regurgitation due to a localized A2 prolapse. This...
Mediastinal lipomas are benign, slow-growing masses that can present as large masses due to their insidious onset (1). Symptoms associated with these lipomas are generally due to mass effect, such...
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 week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Drs. Michael Mack and Tom Nguyen about the proposed US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services changes to how...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Chris Malaisrie, a Professor of Surgery in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at Northwestern University and an Attending...
This propensity-matched analysis compared 10-year outcomes after SAPIEN 3 transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in the PARTNER 2 SAPIEN 3 Intermediate-risk Registry with surgery in the PARTNER 2A trial. Among...
This single-center retrospective study evaluated 61 patients who underwent cardiac surgery after prior transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) during a 10-year period at a high-volume academic center. Cardiac surgery following...
This special “Great Debate” article discusses whether surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) should remain the first choice for aortic stenosis in patients with a life expectancy beyond five years. The...
This Wall Street Journal article documents the dramatic rise in the popularity of transcatheter aortic valves, but it also discusses the issue of early valve failure and the impact it...
This video demonstrates a Cox-Maze III operation combined with a left internal mammary artery (LIMA) to left anterior descending artery (LAD), as well as an ascending aortic replacement and aortic...
This session features leading surgeons presenting on advanced techniques—including robotic implantation, carinal resection, and aortic valve replacement (AVR)—at the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2026....





