Mechanical Support & Transplant
This retrospective United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database study evaluated the evolving strategies and outcomes of lung re-transplantation for restrictive allograft syndrome (RAS) over two decades (2005–2025), stratifying 293 patients into early (2005–2015) and...
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...
This case report describes a 75-year-old patient with a centrally located squamous cell carcinoma extending from the carina to the right intermediate bronchus and the superior segment of the lower...
This session features Rishav Bhattacharya from the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA, presenting on “Celsior Cold Storage Attenuates Myocardial Edema in...
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,...
Patient selection for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) surgery is based on clinical presentation risk factors and imaging studies. The main modalities of imaging are echocardiography and cardiac MRI. It is...
Functional Mitral and Tricuspid RegurgitationKok Meng John Chan, EditorSpringer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2017ISBN 978-3-319-82842-8, 222 pages, $109.99 (USD) Functional mitral and tricuspid insufficiency are stout nuts to crack for any...
Summary This video demonstrates the technique associated with the recipient cardiectomy procedure using the bicaval technique originally described by Sievers et al. in 1991. Donor selection, donor cardiectomy, recipient preoperative...
Can you believe it’s already July? In the first half of 2022, CTSNet has had surgeons from countless parts of the world share their valuable experience and expertise with our...
Watch the June 17 recording of the ISMICS 2022 Cardiac Masters Session 2A: Aortic Valve and Aorta. Topics discussed include minimally invasive cardiac surgery aortic valve replacement (MICS AVR), truly...
This video demonstrates the authors’ technique for the recovery of organs from donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors using normothermic regional perfusion (NRP). Withdrawal of Care To start, heparin is...
The development of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) has revolutionized cardiac surgery (1). To improve the outcome of patients undergoing cardiac surgery, a task force has developed evidence-based guidelines for the use...
Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation has two approaches. Of the two, the right mini thoracotomy is the less invasive, as it is sternal sparing. This approach assists with chest...





