Robotic & Endoscopic Cardiac
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 space. Patient Selection and Evaluation...
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 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 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 single-center retrospective study examined 418 intent-to-treat hybrid coronary revascularization (HCR) patients undergoing robotic beating-heart totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass (TECAB) from 2013 to 2025, comparing those who completed planned...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Jacques Kpodonu, a cardiac surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and Assistant Professor of Surgery...
The patient was a 67-year-old man who was referred for surgical revascularization of coronary artery disease. Three months earlier, he had undergone emergency percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to the right...
A 44-year-old woman undergoing preoperative evaluation for a uterine myomectomy was incidentally diagnosed with a cardiac mass. She reported a three-month history of mild dyspnea, palpitations, and tachycardia, with no...
This cardiac session features leading surgeons providing updates on imaging, robotics, and autonomy at the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2026. To begin, Feras Khaliel,...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Timur Kyashif, a cardiac resident at Jena University Hospital in Jena, Germany, about the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac,...






