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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.
October 21, 2025
Renowned cardiac surgeons Ibrahim Sultan, MD, Malakh Shrestha, MBBS, Ph.D., Patrick Vargo, MD, and Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD, joined together on October 14, 2025, for a new webinar titled “Rooted in Excellence—Evolving Strategies in Aortic Surgery.”
October 21, 2025
This video demonstrates a step-by-step guide to Y-incision aortic annular enlargement from a fellow’s learning perspective, providing tips, tricks, and common pitfalls for achieving a successful annular enlargement by three to four valve sizes.
October 20, 2025
This video demonstrates a clinical case of totally endoscopic partial atrioventricular septal defect repair in an adult.
October 20, 2025
This video presents a seven-ring extended tracheal resection for recurrent thyroid carcinoma with laryngeal preservation, followed by reconstruction using a pedicled myocutaneous flap from the left pectoralis major.
October 17, 2025
At the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2025, Dr. Peyman Sardari Nia, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Maastricht University Medical Center, Netherlands, delivered a presentation titled “Beating Heart Redo Mitral Valve Repair With Neochords.”
October 17, 2025
This video demonstrates a redo sternotomy for aortic regurgitation, mitral valve replacement, and revision of a calcified graft in a patient with a history of coronary artery bypass grafting and transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
October 16, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Marc Pelletier, division chief of cardiac surgery for the Department of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine, about patient blood management.
October 16, 2025
This video demonstrates the removal of a failed Evolut transcatheter aortic valve replacement and its replacement with a 27 mm Mosaic biological aortic valve in a patient with advanced lung cancer.
October 16, 2025
This video demonstrates a patient who previously underwent mitral valve surgery and later received a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR); however, both the TAVR and the tricuspid valves became severely incompetent. 
October 15, 2025
Dr. Mara Antonoff, president of Women in Thoracic Surgery, spoke with her colleagues Drs. Stephanie Chang and Amy Fiedler about the program highlights for the upcoming WTS Annual Meeting.

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