Coronary Artery
This interview centers on the artificial intelligence (AI) electrocardiogram (ECG)-derived age model. At the 40th European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) Annual Meeting, CTSNet Associate Editor—Cardiac Defne Gunes Ergi, a cardiovascular surgeon based at the...
This interview centers on the artificial intelligence (AI) electrocardiogram (ECG)-derived age model. At the 40th European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) Annual Meeting, CTSNet Associate Editor—Cardiac Defne Gunes Ergi, a...
This study integrated proteomics and genomics to investigate sex-specific plasma protein associations with incident coronary artery disease (CAD). In 40,829 CAD-free UK Biobank participants, 55 percent were women, the mean...
This video demonstrates the author’s technique for creating a Y-composite bilateral internal thoracic artery (BITA) conduit by performing an end-to-side anastomosis between the left and right internal thoracic arteries. The...
In this video, the authors present a case of anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ARCAPA) repaired via right axillary thoracotomy. A 5-month-old, 6 kg...
The video begins with an interview featuring CTSNet Senior Editor—Education Vincent Gaudiani, a Clinical Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University in Stanford, California, USA, and Lorena Montes, a...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Traves Crabtree, Professor and Chair of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Medical Director of the Surgical Skills Laboratory...
In this single-center propensity-matched analysis of 659 patients undergoing minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB), bilateral internal mammary artery grafting achieved short- and mid-term clinical outcomes comparable to single...
In this 27-year single-center retrospective study, the authors compared radial artery (RA) vs saphenous vein graft (SVG) as the third conduit in patients receiving bilateral internal mammary arteries (BIMA) for...
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,...
Anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery from the opposite sinus is uncommon, and an interarterial course of an anomalous right coronary artery (RCA) carries a recognized risk of ischemia...
This video demonstrates the modified trapdoor technique for direct reimplantation of an anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery. Case Presentation Following cardiopulmonary resuscitation, a three-month-old, 4.7 kg infant,...
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...







