Transplantation - Heart
In this article, the authors review the current and emerging role of robotic-assisted surgery in vascular surgery. They describe the evolution of surgical robotic systems and summarize evidence on robotic procedures such as aortoiliac reconstruction,...
Cleveland and colleagues present a translational study evaluating porcine cardiac xenotransplantation as a potential bridge to allotransplantation in infants with congenital heart disease. A total of 15 baboons underwent implantation...
This video series showcases a robotic mitral valve replacement performed by Dr. Feras Khaliel, a world leader in robotics, at King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel...
At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, leading surgeons presented on mesenchymal stem cells and transplants. Dr. Laurens Ceulemans, a thoracic and transplant surgeon...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Nikki Stamp, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Mount Private Hospital in Perth, Western Australia, who also serves as an...
Patient Care and General Interest The Donor Alliance observes National Donor Day on February 14th in the US, encouraging people to #StartTheConversation about being an organ donor with their families....
Patient Care and General Interest Air pollution tops the World Health Organization’s list of Top 10 threats to global health. A US woman had an aortic dissection while simultaneously going...
Ibezim and colleagues examined outcomes for patients undergoing their first mechanical mitral valve replacement (M-MVR) before 21 years of age. Using information from the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium database, the...
History The patient was a 23-year-old woman, born with single ventricle physiology (pulmonary atresia, hypoplastic tricuspid valve and hypoplastic right ventricle). She presented to the authors’ hospital with end stage...
Patient Care and General Interest A patient who had been admitted to the intensive care unit for chronic heart failure coughed up a cast of his right bronchial tree made...
Patient Care and General Interest Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi in the UAE used a metal stent for an emergency repair of a patient’s windpipe, which had been...
This patient was a 15-year-old male with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, status post extracardiac Fontan. The left pulmonary artery was stented and the tricuspid valve ring was placed years previously....
In this Giants of Cardiothoracic Surgery interview, Shruti Jayakumar of King’s College London School of Medicine in the UK speaks with Kumud Dhital of St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, Australia,...




