Valve
This talk features W. Randolph Chitwood, a retired cardiac surgeon and Founding Director of the East Carolina Heart Institute at East Carolina University, receiving the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club...
Mitral valve replacement in infants with a very small annulus remains challenging when the annulus cannot accommodate even the smallest prosthesis. This video shows a supra-annular technique using a bovine...
Historically, mitral valve repair has been seen as an art mastered by few and guided by experience. This video demonstrates an innovative, measurement-based approach developed by Dr. McCarthy at Northwestern...
In the clinical case reported herein, a 62‑year‑old female patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and systolic anterior motion syndrome, with a EuroSCORE II risk of 4.07 percent, was treated with a...
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...
The authors present a case of post-myocardial infarction ventricular pseudoaneurysm repair with mitral valve replacement and coronary revascularization performed through a minimally invasive left anterior minithoracotomy via the fourth intercostal...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Bart P. van Putte, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the St. Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein, Netherlands, and the Amsterdam University...
Thursday, January 14, 2027 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Returning for 2026, join this engaging webinar where our experts will discuss the latest advancements in tricuspid valve surgery.
...The authors present a video describing the surgical management of a 38-year-old female patient with a 5.1 cm ascending aortic aneurysm, aortic root dilation, and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation that required...
This session features Armaan Saith, an internal medical resident at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, delivering a presentation on “Stepdown-Bound: Stepdown Unit Management of Hemodynamically Stable Patients on...
This talk features Tomas Holubec, Professor of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at University Hospital Frankfurt and Goethe-University in Germany, delivering a presentation titled “A...
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,...
An 8-year-old male (24 kg) presented with intermittent fever for 45 days. Echocardiography demonstrated infective endocarditis of a bicuspid aortic valve with multiple vegetations (largest 8 × 6 mm), severe...









