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This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Jeffrey Velotta, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine in San Francisco, California, USA, and a...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Jacques Kpodonu, a cardiac surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and Assistant Professor of Surgery...
A 16-year-old male presented with shortness of breath and exertional fatigue. He had a history of repeat hospitalization due to acute episodes of suspected pulmonary edema. He had previously undergone...
This 2026 joint expert consensus document from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, and the European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association addresses...
This US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved prospective, single-arm, multicenter early feasibility study evaluated the Autus Size-Adjustable Valve (ASAV), a surgically implanted, fully synthetic, balloon-expandable pulmonary valve for children requiring...
At the 2026 American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Annual Meeting, CTSNet JANS Editor Dr. Mateo Marin-Cuartas, a cardiac surgeon at Leipzig Heart Center, Germany, spoke with Dr. Michael Borger,...
Tricuspid valve endocarditis with extensive leaflet destruction presents a major surgical challenge, particularly when durable valve repair is no longer feasible and conventional prosthetic valve replacement may be undesirable. In...
This interesting study evaluated four central cannulation strategies in an acute sheep model to identify an optimal configuration for ambulatory veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO). Researchers tested custom single-site (SS)...
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...
This retrospective observational study evaluated long-term survival in 212 patients undergoing restrictive mitral valve repair (MVr) with concomitant coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) for moderate to moderately severe chronic ischemic...
This 2026 meta-analysis pooled 13 studies, including 356 pregnancies in 251 women after aortic valve replacement (AVR). Pregnancy outcomes differed substantially by valve type. Mechanical prostheses carried the highest maternal...
In this article, the authors evaluated perioperative sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor use in 2,930 patients undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR), with or without coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG),...
This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated outcomes after aortic valve replacement in patients aged 50 to 70 years, including 30 studies and more than 120,000 patients. The findings indicated that...



