Coronary Disease

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A Promising Heart Drug Fails, Challenging a Long-Held Theory of Disease

September 10, 2026 | Vincent SierGold Contributor

Novo Nordisk reported that the ZEUS study, which involved more than 6,300 patients with heart disease or advanced kidney disease, failed to show a benefit for ziltivekimab vs placebo. Ziltivekimab lowered interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein,...

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Comparison of RA and Saphenous Vein as the Third Conduit With BIMA in Coronary Bypass Surgery

September 24, 2026 | Vincent SierGold Contributor

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...

Podcast

The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 174: Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation

September 17, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

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,...

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The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 173: Uniportal Robotics in the UAE

September 10, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Taj Mohammed Fiyaz Chowdhry, a consultant thoracic surgeon at Burjeel Specialty Hospital, Sharjah, UAE, about uniportal robotics in the...

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Hybrid Revascularization With Robotic Totally Endoscopic Coronary Bypass and Stents

September 10, 2026 | Vincent SierGold Contributor

This single-center retrospective study examined 418 intent-to-treat hybrid coronary revascularization (HCR) patients undergoing robotic beating-heart totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass (TECAB) from 2013 to 2025, comparing those who completed planned...

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Coronary Plaque Sampling Reveals Molecular Insights Into Coronary Artery Disease

August 7, 2023 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

In a research letter on a small pilot genomic study of sampling coronary atheroma, the authors offer a brief explanation on how their technique can be applied to detect stability...

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2023 AHA/ACC/ACCP/ASPC/NLA/PCNA Guideline for the Management of Patients With Chronic Coronary Disease: A Report of the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines

July 27, 2023 | Cameron LindSilver Contributor

These new guidelines contain wide-ranging recommendations on the use of beta-blockers, sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide-1, and other medical therapies to treat chronic coronary disease. They also contain...

Video

Patch Augmentation of Anomalous Left Main Coronary Artery from Right Coronary Sinus

June 27, 2023 | Anibal Ibanez…

The Patient The patient is a fifty-three-year-old male with medical history notable for neuroendocrine tumor, which was treated with a pylorus-preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy. The patient was symptomatic and complained of shortness...

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Postinfarction Ventricular Septal Defect Closure Without Ventriculotomy—A Novel Method

June 6, 2023 | Mario Torre…

Postinfarction ventricular septal defect is a rare complication of myocardial infarction with a high mortality rate (1). Standard repair techniques—infarcectomy and infarct exclusion—are performed through a left ventriculotomy. These methods...

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Internal Mammary Artery Harvest: Two Techniques with Tips and Tricks

May 30, 2023 | Stephen Spindel…

This video describes the pedicle and skeletonization techniques for internal mammary artery harvest. Tips and tricks are discussed, as well as how to increase mammary length. Disclaimer The information and...

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How to Deal with a “Seagull Deformity” in Diamond-Shaped Sequential Coronary Anastomoses

March 20, 2023 | Vasily Kaleda…

One of the most frequent and feared complications of sequential diamond-shaped coronary anastomoses is the so-called seagull deformity, which causes a turbulence flow within the graft and the risk of...

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Adjunctive Radial Artery Grafts No Better Than SVGs in Multivessel CABG

October 13, 2022 | Cameron LindSilver Contributor

The CSP 474 trial challenges some of the conventional knowledge around graft choice in CABG surgery, as was presented at the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS) conference. The trial...

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Dual Therapy Offers Both Benefit and Risk After Common Type of Cardiac

August 19, 2022 | Mary Hammon

A new analysis by a team led by Dr. Mario Gaudino of Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian shows that a combination of two antiplatelets drugs can benefit patients after coronary...

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