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December 5, 2025
At the 2025 EACTS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Cristina Ruiz Segria spoke with Karin Hinterbuchner, a registered nurse at Tirol Kliniken GmbH in Austria, about EACTS fellowships.
September 24, 2025
In this engaging interview, Dr. Amr Alsalakawy, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Aswan Heart Center and Research, Magdi Yacoub Foundation, spoke with Dr. Magdi Yacoub, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the National Heart and Lung Institute at the Imperial College London, and Founder and Director of Research at the Harefield Heart Science Center, Magdi Yacoub Institute, about the Aswan technique for common arterial trunk repair.
September 24, 2025
This video illustrates a step-by-step technique for controlling vascular injuries during robotic thoracic surgery using a collagen-based hemostatic patch, preserving the minimally invasive approach and avoiding conversion to open surgery.
September 24, 2025
This video demonstrates a clampless aortic valve replacement technique in a partial porcelain aorta, along with aortic root enlargement and coronary artery bypass grafting utilizing two grafts.
September 23, 2025
This video demonstrates that repeat right axillary thoracotomy is safe and feasible, even in redo settings, as it maintains cosmetic superiority and facilitates rapid functional recovery while achieving the anatomical repair as needed.
September 23, 2025
This educational video demonstrates how to perform an endovascular arch repair with a triple inner-branch custom-made device in a patient with a zone 2 penetrating aortic ulcer.
September 22, 2025
This video provides a step-by-step tutorial on pulmonary autograft reinforcement—a method aimed at preserving valve geometry and preventing dilatation of the neo-aortic root.
September 22, 2025
This video demonstrates video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for managing refractory Paget-Schroetter syndrome, featuring minimally invasive first rib resection with enhanced visualization and precision.
September 19, 2025
At the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) 2025 Annual Conference, Dr. Martin Cook, chief executive officer and cofounder of VenstraMedical, presented on “Development and Chronic Animal Implantation of the VenstraMedical Transcatheter pVAD System.”
September 19, 2025
At the 2024 Birmingham Review Course, Dr. Adnan Nadir, a consultant cariologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, delivered a presentation titled “Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI).”
September 18, 2025
In this remarkable interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Alexis Shafii, professor of surgery and surgical director of heart transplantation at The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine, about the first in-human BiVACOR total artificial heart implantation.

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