Aorta
The surgical technique used in this video is suitable for patients with mixed supracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) in whom the right and left pulmonary venous systems drain through separate vertical veins and...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with James Cox, Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, USA,...
This propensity-matched study from the Montreal Heart Institute Ross Registry examined sex-based differences in outcomes following the Ross procedure. Among 816 adults undergoing full-root pulmonary autograft replacement (2011 to 2025),...
This technical report describes the SUpra-annular PERceval Bentall (SUPERB), which utilized a Perceval Plus XL sutureless bovine pericardial valve inside a 28 mm Valsalva Dacron graft. Ex vivo testing involved...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Taj Mohammed Fiyaz Chowdhry, a consultant thoracic surgeon at Burjeel Specialty Hospital, Sharjah, UAE, about uniportal robotics in the...
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. The authors present the case of a 4-month-old male infant...
The patient was a 13-year-old boy who was born with a congenital unicuspid or bicuspid aortic valve. He developed progressive aortic valve stenosis and became symptomatic. The decision was made...
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. This is the case of a 27-year-old female with a...
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. Clinical Vignette A 41-year-old male with a unicuspid aortic valve...
This presentation details a redo Commando procedure converting biological to mechanical valves in a patient in his early 40s with end-stage renal disease. Three years after his initial Commando procedure...
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. In this video, the authors demonstrate the surgical steps of...
The authors previously demonstrated the feasibility of the Ross procedure following a bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement (1). In this case, they showed its feasibility after a previous mechanical valve replacement....
The patient was suffering from hemolysis and mitral regurgitation. A hemisternotomy was performed after femoral vein cannulation. A new cross-clamp was used and is shown in the video. Cardioplegia was...










