Coronary Artery
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Bart P. van Putte, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the St. Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein, Netherlands, and the Amsterdam University Medical Center about the excimer...
This international consensus document from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Heart Association (AHA), and World Heart Federation (WHF) updates myocardial infarction (MI) classification...
The authors present a case of post-myocardial infarction ventricular pseudoaneurysm repair with mitral valve replacement and coronary revascularization performed through a minimally invasive left anterior minithoracotomy via the fourth intercostal...
This single-center retrospective study evaluated whether stenosis in the intervening left anterior descending artery (iLAD), between the internal thoracic artery (ITA) anastomosis and diagonal bifurcation, affects ITA-LAD graft events after...
Across 252,408 angiograms performed by 40 interventional cardiologists in British Columbia (2010–2024), the proportion of patients referred for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) varied 13-fold (2.03 percent–26.4 percent) and was...
This video demonstrates the surgical repair of a ruptured right coronary artery aneurysm. A 62-year-old man with hypertension presented with an acute onset of chest pain and was hemodynamically stable....
This article is part of CTSNet’s Guest Editor Series, Coronary Arterial Anomalies—Pediatric and Adult Congenital. CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Sameh Said invited both pediatric and adult cardiac surgeons from around...
This article is part of CTSNet’s Guest Editor Series, Coronary Arterial Anomalies—Pediatric and Adult Congenital. CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Sameh Said invited both pediatric and adult cardiac surgeons from around...
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Instructional Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. The advantages of multiarterial grafting and aortic bypass are...
In May 2025, the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery brought together professionals in the field of cardiothoracic surgery to discuss and share knowledge on minimally invasive techniques. Watch...
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Instructional Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. In this video, the authors discuss the surgical repair...
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Instructional Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. This video shows the technique for harvesting the left...
Introduction Mitral regurgitation is a common valvular heart disease that can lead to significant morbidity and mortality if left untreated. This case report describes the surgical management of severe mitral...











