TAVR (TAVI)
This talk features Joseph Zacharias, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the Lancashire Cardiac Center in Blackpool, England, delivering a presentation on “Can the Endoscope ‘Challenge’ the Catheter?” at the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Meeting 2025....
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with David Waller, Chair of the EACTS Emphysema Taskforce and Director of the EACTS Fundamentals Course in Thoracic Surgery, about...
In this discussion, CTSNet Senior Editor—Education Vincent Gaudiani, a Clinical Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University in Stanford, California, USA, and Chad Rammohan, an interventional and structural cardiologist...
This talk features Joseph Zacharias, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the Lancashire Cardiac Center in Blackpool, England, delivering a presentation on “Can the Endoscope ‘Challenge’ the Catheter?” at the Endoscopic...
CTSNet hosted a webinar on September 15, 2026, titled “The TAVR Heart Team in 2026: Navigating the CMS Decision,” featuring leading surgeons Tom B. Nguyen, Michael Mack, and Tsuyoshi Kaneko,...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Isaac George, CTSNet Board Member and Co-Director of the Structural Heart and Valve Center, Surgical Director of Structural...
The 79-year-old male patient had a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) placed at another institution in another state, although he presented with more complex issues than only aortic stenosis. The...
In this article, the authors report six-year outcomes from the Evolut Low Risk trial, which randomized 1,414 low-risk patients with severe aortic stenosis to transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) (n=730)...
In this article, the authors present a bench-to-animal-to-human proof of concept for valve-in-mechanical (ViMech) transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in patients with failed bileaflet mechanical aortic valves. Bench testing showed...
This comparative study evaluated outcomes between surgical aortic valve replacement with Y-incision aortic annular enlargement (SAVR with Y-AAE) vs transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in 362 low-to-intermediate risk patients with...
As interventional techniques continue to gain popularity in cardiothoracic surgery, familiarity and mastery of these techniques are increasingly important for trainees and early career surgeons. The authors discuss core endovascular...
With the improvement in survival rates for heart transplant recipients, cardiac valvular disease is more frequently being encountered in this group of patients. This includes conditions such as aortic stenosis...


