Announcing the Winners of the 2025 CTSNet Innovation Video Competition

CTSNet is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 Innovation Video Competition, which highlights and rewards innovative solutions to today’s cardiothoracic surgical challenges. The creativity and ingenuity displayed in this year's submissions are exceptional, and CTSNet is pleased to showcase all video submissions in the coming weeks.  

Congratulations to the winning surgeons for their remarkable videos and thank you to all participants who shared their work! 

View all submissions to the 2025 Innovation Video Competition, to be published in the coming months. 

First Place:  

EXIT-to-Open Atrial Septectomy for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome With Intact Atrial Septum: Gone in 90 Seconds! by Sameh Said, Ali Mashadi, Yasin Essa 

Second Place:  

Second Place: Isolated Pulmonary Leaflet Autograft: A New Solution for Aortic Valve Repair by Ahmad Ali Amirghofran 

Third Place: 

Robotic Mitral Valve Replacement in a Patient With Patent Bilateral Internal Mammary Grafts: A Case Video by Omar Toubat, John J. Kelly, Michael Catalano, Amit Iyengar, Michael A. Acker, Wilson Y. Szeto, Michael E. Ibrahim 

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