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ISMICS 2026 | How to Do It Movie Session, Part 1

July 10, 2026 | Danny Ramzy…

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. To begin, Dr. Danny Ramzy,...

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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...

JANS Article

Building Bridges: Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Versus Mechanical Ventilation as Bridge to Lung Transplant—A Nationwide Analysis

September 3, 2026 | Akshay PatelSilver Contributor

In this nationwide United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) analysis (2005–2025), Potel et al. compared extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), pretransplant mechanical ventilation (pMV), and combined ECMO plus pMV as bridges...

Podcast

The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 165: Valve-Sparing Aortic Root Replacement Techniques

July 16, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

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...

Video

ISMICS 2026 | How to Do It Movie Session, Part 1

July 10, 2026 | Danny Ramzy…

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....

JANS Article

Lung Donation After Circulatory Determined Death: A Single-Centre Experience

August 17, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A useful if somewhat belated account of the Papworth experience in lung donation after circulatory determined death (DCD) until 2015. There are no data on heart and lung transplants in...

JANS Article

Time Is Your Best Friend, but It Soon Becomes Your Worst Enemy: The Conflict of Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Cardiac Surgery

June 27, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A brief, readable, sensibly balanced, and well-referenced editorial on the occasion of the retrospective Austrian paper on venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Taken in the context of the recent New...

JANS Article

Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

May 24, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A severe blow to the concept of venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for acute respiratory distress syndrome in the form of a well-executed randomized controlled trial.

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JANS Article

Discussion of “Intraoperative Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and the Possibility of Postoperative Prolongation Improve Survival in Bilateral Lung Transplantation”

May 3, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A stimulating discussion of the Vienna paper that advances elective ECMO support for bilateral pulmonary transplantation.

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JANS Article

Retrieval of Severe Acute Respiratory Failure Patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: Any Impact on Their Outcomes?

May 3, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

The latest on portable venovenous ECMO in a cohort in which half of the subjects died after a resource-intensive treatment. The results of the relevant EOLIA trial are keenly awaited.

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JANS Article

Predicting 1-Year Cardiac Transplantation Survival Using a Donor–Recipient Risk-Assessment Tool

May 3, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A somewhat delayed publication of a 2016 paper that discusses important trends in cardiac transplanation in the light of increasing use of ECMO.

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JANS Article

Timing of Surgery for Pulmonary Embolism: An Evolving Paradigm

March 27, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A succinct balanced editorial advancing, amongst other things, the position for initial nonintervention for submassive pulmonary embolism.

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JANS Article

Selective Implantation of Durable Left Ventricular Assist Devices as Primary Therapy for Refractory Cardiogenic Shock

February 28, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A retrospective Mount Sinai small series on selective emergent implantation of long-term ventricular assist devices in cardiogenic shock. It challenges the traditional concept of short-term stabilisation with ECMO or short-term...

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