Vascular
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, and Patrick McCarthy, Executive Director...
Across 252,408 angiograms performed by 40 interventional cardiologists in British Columbia (2010–2024), the proportion of patients referred for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) varied 13-fold (2.03 percent–26.4 percent) and was...
The video begins with an interview featuring CTSNet Senior Editor—Education Vincent Gaudiani, a Clinical Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University in Stanford, California, USA, and Lorena Montes, 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,...
This single-center retrospective study examined 418 intent-to-treat hybrid coronary revascularization (HCR) patients undergoing robotic beating-heart totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass (TECAB) from 2013 to 2025, comparing those who completed planned...
Interesting case-control study on variations of aortovascular compliance
...A useful short review accompanied by media , related to the background of the ARISE Study. The esteemed authors discuss the potential endovascular options for zone 0 for inoperable Acute...
A scholarly update on the previous (2016) guidelines, with an interesting Chapter 9 Gaps in evidence and future perspectives. The guidelines have been extensively reviewed by European and other experts....
An extremely useful and free-access update on a major vascular entity. The ‘Areas of Uncertainty’ is a particularly useful chapter, discussing the available technology and its current supra-renal limitations and...
A comprehensive update on the evidence on the management of acute aortic syndromes, including IMH. Of particular interest is the robust recommendation to bypass non-dedicated aortic centers even to the...
Interesting multi-center RCT that paves the way for potential paradigm shifts in antithrombotic modulation. The abcence of symptomatic pulmonary embolism warrants further investigation…
...In this article, Dr. Sandhu et al. review their 22-year experience in managing patients with thoracic aortic graft infection. They demonstrate that this infection is highly morbid and requires prompt...
In this article, Dr. Farber et al. describe the acceptable five year outcomes of using the Conformable GORE® TAG® thoracic endoprosthesis (CTAG) device (W.L. Gore and Associates, Flagstaff, AZ) for...


