Endovascular

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A 30-Year-Old Bullet Injury Causing Carotid Stenosis—Simultaneous Carotid Endarterectomy and Off-Pump CABG

July 22, 2026 | FARID GOJAYEV

This case presents an exceptionally rare and previously unreported combination of intrinsic carotid stenosis and chronic external compression due to a retained ballistic injury. A retained stray bullet injury from 1995 remained untreated for nearly...

Podcast

The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 167: Insights on Robotic Cardiac Surgery Adoption and Training 

July 30, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Ahmed Ghazy, Head of Minimally Invasive Surgery at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, about robotic cardiac surgery...

Video

A 30-Year-Old Bullet Injury Causing Carotid Stenosis—Simultaneous Carotid Endarterectomy and Off-Pump CABG

July 22, 2026 | FARID GOJAYEV

This case presents an exceptionally rare and previously unreported combination of intrinsic carotid stenosis and chronic external compression due to a retained ballistic injury. A retained stray bullet injury from...

Journal

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

June 3, 2025 | Martin ANOTHER
JANS Article

Paclitaxel coated devices (PCD) used in the treatment of peripheral arterial disease: update to previous MHRA guidance on use. Where indicated, PCD can be considered as a treatment option for both critical limb ischaemia (CLI) and intermittent claudicatio

February 12, 2024 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Level IV evidence from the Broitish government in the most prominent debate on cardiovascular pharmacology of the last few years: Since December 2018, the paclitaxel coated devices have been scrutinised...

JANS Article

Has the Time Come for Regionalization of Surgery for Acute Type A Dissection?

May 11, 2021 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

The updated version of an expert viewpoint on resources for management of acute aortic syndrome in the United States is presented. The esteemed authors advance the position of positive volume–outcome...

JANS Article

Ischemic Spinal Cord Injury – Experimental Evidence and Evolution of Protective Measures

January 25, 2021 | Wei-Guo Ma

This is a comprehensive review on ischemic spinal cord injury following of descending and thoracoabdominal aortic repair, including monitoring, early diagnosis, blood and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers, and preventive measures.

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JANS Article

Silent Brain Infarction After Endovascular Arch Procedures: Preliminary Results From the STEP Registry

January 16, 2021 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Advances in neuromonitoring and related screening by imaging constitute an expanding field of cardiovascular perioperative care, attracting the readership of interventional and conventional surgical providers. This pilot retrospective case series...

JANS Article

Mortality with Paclitaxel-Coated Devices in Peripheral Artery Disease

December 10, 2020 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

An ad hoc interim analysis pursuant to previous publications raising concerns on Paclitaxel DCS in chronic critical and not-critical lower limb ischaemia. The short manuscript requires careful reading to form...

JANS Article

Current Options and Recommendations for the Use of Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair in Acute and Chronic Thoracic Aortic Disease

October 8, 2020 | Wei-Guo Ma

At the first day of its 34th Annual Meeting, the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) released the “Current Options and Recommendations for the Use of Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair...

JANS Article

Reassessing the Operative Threshold for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair in the Context of COVID-19

September 7, 2020 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Patients with aneurysms 7 cm or greater demonstrated a higher probability of survival when treated immediately, compared to delayed repair, for patients under 80 years of age. An interesting attempt...

JANS Article

Results of Frozen Elephant Trunk From the International E-vita Open Registry

June 22, 2020 | Thomas Theologou

Over the years, frozen elephant trunk (FET) has become the treatment of choice for multisegmental thoracic aortic disease. This multicenter study presents the evolution of FET results using the E-vita...

JANS Article

The 2020 Update of the CEAP Classification System and Reporting Standards

May 6, 2020 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Use of anatomic abbreviations instead of numbers seems pro-intuitive …

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