Robotic & Endoscopic Cardiac
This talk features Tomas Holubec, Professor of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at University Hospital Frankfurt and Goethe-University in Germany, delivering a presentation titled “A Surgeon’s Journey: Direct-Vision, Endoscopic-Assisted, Endoscopic,...
The authors present a case of left atrial tumor excision combined with mitral and tricuspid valve repair and coronary revascularization, performed through a left anterior minithoracotomy in the fourth intercostal...
This talk features Maurice Enriquez-Sarano, a senior research scientist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation’s Valve Science Center, Minnesota, USA, delivering a presentation titled “Mitral Valve Intervention in Asymptomatic Patients:...
In this episode of The Cardiac Recovery Room, moderator Rawn Salenger, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, USA, spoke with T. Sloane Guy,...
This talk features Jae Suk Yoo from the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, and Asan Medical Center, speaking...
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. A 38-year-old male with a history of non-seminomatous germ cell...
In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Randolph Chitwood, retired cardiac surgeon and Founding Director of the East Carolina Heart Institute at East Carolina...
The authors present a case of endoscopic saphenous vein harvesting for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) using a reusable retractor with an open CO₂ insufflation system. Prior to the 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 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...
This video is the third-place winner from CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the other winning videos. The patient was a 63-year-old man with...
This is the winning video from the 2025 CTSNet Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the second and third place winners. Click here to watch Dr....
Introduction Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the bronchial tree is a rare pulmonary neoplasm, accounting for less than one percent of all lung malignancies (1–3). It typically arises from the submucosal glands...










