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Rheumatic mitral valve repair remains challenging in reconstructive valve surgery. Although rerepair is even more...
Managing chronic, multidrug-resistant post-lobectomy empyema with a trapped lung and an active air leak represents...
This video features a presentation by Valdano Manuel from the session “Risk Stratification, Quality, and...
This video features a presentation by Jaymie Ang Henry from the session “Risk Stratification, Quality,...
This interview centers on the state of minimally invasive cardiac surgery in Turkey. At the...
This video features a presentation by Keith Dindi from the session “Risk Stratification, Quality, and...
This video features a presentation by Bode Falase from the session “Risk Stratification, Quality, and...
This talk features W. Randolph Chitwood, a retired cardiac surgeon and Founding Director of the...
This comprehensive discussion focuses on robotic coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), including the challenges and...
This video features a presentation by keynote speaker Bruce Keogh from the session “Risk Stratification,...
Renal cell carcinoma extends into the venous system in up to 10 percent of cases....
This talk features Farhad Bakhtiary, Director of the Clinic for Cardiac Surgery at the University...
This video features a presentation by Francis Smit from the session “Training and Capacity Building”...
In this single-center study of 651 patients undergoing combined aortic and mitral valve surgery, mitral...
In this 32-year, single-center retrospective study, the authors evaluated outcomes of total arch replacement (TAR)...
Most Popular
…This video shows an 85-year-old woman who presented to the emergency room with chest pain...
Introduction On behalf of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at St. James’s Hospital, two cases...
This study conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials comparing transcatheter aortic...
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the...
This article discusses the underrepresentation of women in cardiothoracic surgery, where they constitute less than...
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the...
Editors' Picks
In this educational interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Luca Di Marco, a cardiac...
Primary tracheal tumors are rare, with adenoid cystic carcinoma being a common subtype with a...
This video is one of the top 10 entries from the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons...
Minimally invasive cardiac surgery is increasingly becoming a standard approach for the treatment of various...
This video outlines the surgical technique of beating heart transplantation using the Organ Care System...
In this remarkable interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Fraser Sutherland, a consultant...
This video presents the case of totally endoscopic partial atrioventricular septal defect (AVSD) repair in...
The common approach to a Bex-Nikaidoh procedure in a symptomatic neonate with dextro-transposition of the...
…This is the first-place video from the 2025 CTSNet Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries...
CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Dr. Joel Dunning recently had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Jeffrey Velotta,...
This video presents the case of a 79-year-old male with an unpredictable adhesive process in...
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Instructional Video Competition. Watch all entries from...
In this exceptional interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Robert Cerfolio, Chief of...
…In this remarkable interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Sameh...
…In this video, Dr. Vince Gaudiani discusses with Dr. Paul Shuttleworth how they set up...
Favorites
…This video details how to enter the sternum when patients have undergone previous sternotomy. This...
This video highlights important hints, tips, and techniques for performing a reoperative sternotomy. In this...
This video demonstrates Dr. Vince Gaudiani’s technique for performing an upper ministernotomy. The manubrium was...
This video demonstrates the author’s technique for creating a Y-composite bilateral internal thoracic artery (BITA)...
…A 37-year-old man with a bicuspid aortic valve had previously undergone aortic valve replacement and...
The authors present their technique for axillary Impella 5.5 insertion. The preferred incision was made...
This article describes transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) vs surgical aortic valve implantation (SAVR), framed...
The clinical case presented in this video concerns a 67-year-old female patient who came to...
Anomalous origins of the coronary arteries are rare, occurring in 1-2 percent of the general...
At the 2026 Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, leading...
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries from...
…In this video, Dr. Vince Gaudiani demonstrates his closure technique for an upper ministernotomy. He...
…This video demonstrates a myectomy for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a 70-year-old woman with a 100-mmHg...
In this video, the authors present a case of anomalous origin of the right coronary...
This talk features Jae Suk Yoo from the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at...
Proven Techniques
Rheumatic mitral valve repair remains challenging in reconstructive valve surgery. Although rerepair is even more...
This video demonstrates skeletonized harvesting of the left internal thoracic artery (LITA) through a left...
This surgical video demonstrates they key steps, safeguards, and pitfalls of a Konno-Rastan aortoventriculoplasty. The...
This video demonstrates hemi-commando reconstruction for destructive infective endocarditis of a prior transcatheter aortic valve...
…The authors present a case of left atrial tumor excision combined with mitral and tricuspid...
A 69-year-old woman with a body surface area of 1.8 m² presented with progressive dyspnea...
Patient selection includes infants requiring aortic arch reconstruction with concomitant intracardiac repair, particularly those with...
Complex distal aortic arch aneurysms involving the subclavian arteries present major challenges because of limited...
The neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy pathway has become the standard of care for patients with resectable, locally...
A 24-year-old female with no significant past medical history presented with progressive exercise intolerance. Further...
This video presents the authors’ standardized technique for multiportal robotic-assisted left pneumonectomy after neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy,...
The authors present a video describing the surgical management of a 38-year-old female patient with...
Novel Cases
Resection of locally advanced lung cancer after neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy can be technically challenging when induction...
In the clinical case reported herein, a 62‑year‑old female patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and systolic...
…A 37-year-old man with a bicuspid aortic valve had previously undergone aortic valve replacement and...
Mediastinal and intrathoracic germ cell tumors are rare in the pediatric population, and extragonadal yolk...
…The authors present a case of post-myocardial infarction ventricular pseudoaneurysm repair with mitral valve replacement...
The authors present a novel operative technique for an aortopulmonary window. The patient was a...
Tracheal rupture after endotracheal intubation is uncommon, occurring in approximately 0.005 percent to 0.37 percent...
Kartagener syndrome is a rare manifestation of primary ciliary dyskinesia characterized by chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis,...
A 27-year-old male previously underwent bilateral T2–T3 sympathicotomy for severe palmar hyperhidrosis. Compensatory hyperhidrosis involving...
Anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery from the opposite sinus is uncommon, and an...
A 16-year-old male presented with shortness of breath and exertional fatigue. He had a history...
The surgical technique used in this video is suitable for patients with mixed supracardiac total...
Innovation
Historically, mitral valve repair has been seen as an art mastered by few and guided...
Off-pump totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass (TECAB) requires effective and reliable coronary stabilization. Although the...
…A 37-year-old man with a bicuspid aortic valve had previously undergone aortic valve replacement and...
The authors present a novel operative technique for an aortopulmonary window. The patient was a...
Aortic uncrossing is indicated for symptomatic patients with a circumflex aorta causing significant tracheoesophageal compression....
A 16-year-old male presented with shortness of breath and exertional fatigue. He had a history...
Pulmonary artery banding (PAB) remains an important palliative strategy in selected congenital cardiac patients. Traditionally,...
…A four-month-old girl weighing 4.9 kg with trisomy 21 syndrome was referred for the repair...
An 8 cm left sub-areolar thoracotomy was performed as the working port. The pericardium was...
Three dimensional (3D) endoscopic aortic valve replacement combined with extended septal myectomy (the Morrow procedure)...
Mixed reality–guided anatomical segmentectomy represents an emerging strategy to improve intraoperative spatial understanding during sublobar...
Conventional transvenous pacing is standard care; however, patients with limited venous access often face a...
Cardiac
Rheumatic mitral valve repair remains challenging in reconstructive valve surgery. Although rerepair is even more...
This video features a presentation by Valdano Manuel from the session “Risk Stratification, Quality, and...
This video features a presentation by Jaymie Ang Henry from the session “Risk Stratification, Quality,...
This interview centers on the state of minimally invasive cardiac surgery in Turkey. At the...
This video features a presentation by Keith Dindi from the session “Risk Stratification, Quality, and...
This video features a presentation by Bode Falase from the session “Risk Stratification, Quality, and...
This talk features W. Randolph Chitwood, a retired cardiac surgeon and Founding Director of the...
This comprehensive discussion focuses on robotic coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), including the challenges and...
This video features a presentation by keynote speaker Bruce Keogh from the session “Risk Stratification,...
Renal cell carcinoma extends into the venous system in up to 10 percent of cases....
This talk features Farhad Bakhtiary, Director of the Clinic for Cardiac Surgery at the University...
This video features a presentation by Francis Smit from the session “Training and Capacity Building”...
In this single-center study of 651 patients undergoing combined aortic and mitral valve surgery, mitral...
In this 32-year, single-center retrospective study, the authors evaluated outcomes of total arch replacement (TAR)...
In this analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Adult Cardiac Surgery Database, involving...
Thoracic
Managing chronic, multidrug-resistant post-lobectomy empyema with a trapped lung and an active air leak represents...
This video features a presentation by Valdano Manuel from the session “Risk Stratification, Quality, and...
This video features a presentation by Jaymie Ang Henry from the session “Risk Stratification, Quality,...
This video features a presentation by keynote speaker Bruce Keogh from the session “Risk Stratification,...
This video features a presentation by Francis Smit from the session “Training and Capacity Building”...
In this single-center randomized trial, 48 patients aged 12–24 undergoing the Nuss procedure for pectus...
This interview focuses on a clinical trial evaluating autologous blood pleurodesis for postoperative air leakage...
Resection of locally advanced lung cancer after neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy can be technically challenging when induction...
This video features a presentation by Jacques Janson from the session “Training and Capacity Building”...
This video features a presentation by Uvie Onakpoya from the session “Training and Capacity Building”...
This interview focuses on AfroScore for risk stratification in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). At...
This video features a presentation by Yonas Teferi from the session “Training and Capacity Building”...
Saturday, December 5, 2026 @ 8:00 am – 6:00 pm – Overview The SCTS Student...
This video features a presentation by Tim Pennel from the session “Training and Capacity Building”...
…This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Luca Di Marco, a...
Congenital
This video features a presentation by Valdano Manuel from the session “Risk Stratification, Quality, and...
This video features a presentation by Jaymie Ang Henry from the session “Risk Stratification, Quality,...
This video features a presentation by Keith Dindi from the session “Risk Stratification, Quality, and...
This video features a presentation by Bode Falase from the session “Risk Stratification, Quality, and...
This video features a presentation by keynote speaker Bruce Keogh from the session “Risk Stratification,...
This video features a presentation by Francis Smit from the session “Training and Capacity Building”...
In this single-center randomized trial, 48 patients aged 12–24 undergoing the Nuss procedure for pectus...
Mitral valve replacement in infants with a very small annulus remains challenging when the annulus...
This video features a presentation by Jacques Janson from the session “Training and Capacity Building”...
This video features a presentation by Uvie Onakpoya from the session “Training and Capacity Building”...
This interview focuses on AfroScore for risk stratification in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). At...
This video features a presentation by Yonas Teferi from the session “Training and Capacity Building”...
Saturday, December 5, 2026 @ 8:00 am – 6:00 pm – Overview The SCTS Student...
This video features a presentation by Tim Pennel from the session “Training and Capacity Building”...
…This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Luca Di Marco, a...
Clinical Care Professionals
This video features a presentation by keynote speaker Bruce Keogh from the session “Risk Stratification,...
This interview focuses on AfroScore for risk stratification in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). At...
This video features a presentation by Tim Pennel from the session “Training and Capacity Building”...
This video features a presentation by Maurice Goodman from the session “Healthcare Systems—Development & Scaling”...
These videos feature presentations by Gina Portella and Ahmed Afifi from the session “Healthcare Systems—Development...
These videos feature presentations by Francis Smit and R. Morton “Chip” Bolman III from the...
Join Us in Cape Town for the EACTS/STS/CSIA Cardio-Thoracic Conference, ‘In Africa for Africa’ The...
This session features the presidential address delivered by Dr. Gry Dahle at the International Society...
This interview centers around improving and evaluating surgical programs. At the 2026 American Association for...
…This interview highlights the Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery, situated on the outskirts of Khartoum,...
…This interview focuses on tracking burnout and recovery in surgical trainees. At the 2026 American...
…In this top-notch interview, Cristina Ruiz Segria, CTSNet Senior Editor—Clinical Care Providers and nurse practitioner...