Aorta
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, and Patrick McCarthy, Executive Director...
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 report illustrates the lifesaving single-stage management of a ruptured pre-coarctation aortic arch in a 50-year-old female patient accompanied by a mediastinal false aneurysm. The principles were dual right subclavian...
Functional (secondary) mitral regurgitation (MR) commonly accompanies aortic valve pathology as a consequence of left ventricular dilatation, which increases interpapillary muscle distance and impairs mitral leaflet coaptation. While correction of...
Tuesday, June 22, 2027 – Wednesday, June 23, 2027 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm – This two-days Symposium is designed for anesthesiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, cardiologists, interventional radiologists, internists, perfusionists,...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Jeffrey Velotta, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine in San...
Valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is a valuable therapeutic option for managing degenerated bioprosthetic valves, particularly in elderly, high-risk patients. However, careful patient selection and thorough anatomical assessment are...
The frozen elephant trunk (FET) technique provides a useful surgical approach for managing complex aortic arch pathologies (1). One of the critical challenges of this procedure is the reimplantation of...
This article highlights the establishment of the Cardiac Surgery Intersociety Alliance (CSIA), a global coalition of all major cardiac surgical societies working with the World Heart Federation. Its mission is...
This prospective cohort study evaluated whether cardiac troponin I measured in pericardial drainage fluid (PCF-cTnI) enhances risk stratification for postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). In...





