This video demonstrates strategies for performing patch repair of aortic root abscess in patients with native valve endocarditis.
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November 5, 2025
This video demonstrates a technique for the implantation of a robotic mitral valve annuloplasty band.
November 5, 2025
This video illustrates how teleproctoring allows the performance of complex robotic-assisted thoracic surgery lung resections, even in the early phases of a robotic program.
November 4, 2025
This video demonstrates a 42-year-old woman with seropositive myasthenia gravis who underwent successful bilateral robotic extended thymectomy for a 9 cm thymoma infiltrating the pericardium, right phrenic nerve, and right lung. Clear margins were achieved, and surgical clips were placed for potential adjuvant radiotherapy.
November 4, 2025
This video demonstrates a simple technique for simultaneous box lesion ablation for atrial fibrillation during non-mitral cardiac surgery.
November 3, 2025
This video demonstrates an operative technique for the insertion of a Thoraflex Hybrid graft to replace the aortic arch.
October 31, 2025
At the 2025 EACTS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with Professor Michael A. Borger and Dr. Mateo Marin-Cuartas about the 2025 ESC/EACTS guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease.
October 31, 2025
This video presents a case of tricuspid and pulmonary valve endocarditis in a patient with a perimembranous ventricular septal defect and a double chambered right ventricle.
October 31, 2025
At the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with Dr. Husam Balkhy about robotic cardiac surgery and simulation training in cardiothoracic surgery.
October 30, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning explores the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in writing medical articles.
October 30, 2025
This video demonstrates, to the authors’ knowledge, the first reported case of a single-stage hybrid procedure that combines transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement, off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting, and ascending aortic wrapping in a high-risk patient with severe aortic stenosis, an ascending aortic aneurysm, and multivessel coronary artery disease.