This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning discusses how to get involved with Pace4Life, a charity he supports that provides reconditioned pacemakers to Ghana.
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December 25, 2025
The most popular videos covered a range of cardiac procedures, from robotic beating-heart totally endoscopic coronary bypass to how to perform an upper ministernotomy. Read on for a glance at each procedure and be sure to explore the complete catalog of cardiac surgical videos available on CTSNet.
December 24, 2025
As the year ends, we’re highlighting the top podcast episodes from The Atrium and The Beat. However, be sure to check out the first two episodes of The Cardiac Recovery Room today! Keep reading to find out which episodes made the list, and please contact us if you’re interested in being a guest on any of our incredible podcasts.
December 23, 2025
Alessandro Tamburrini, a consultant thoracic surgeon, reflects on how Professor Peter Altman saved his life as a child with an advanced pelvic rhabdomyosarcoma through innovative treatment and surgery. Inspired by Altman’s compassion and expertise, Tamburrini dedicated his career to medicine, aiming to pay forward the second chance he received.
MICS and Robotic-Assisted Surgery: A Roundtable Discussion With the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club
December 20, 2025
In this roundtable, cardiac surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with the board members of the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club about minimally invasive endoscopic and robotic surgery.
December 18, 2025
This video demonstrates the technique of using a periareolar incision around the nipple for access to perform endoscopic mitral valve surgery, a method that has been utilized by these authors for 20 years.
December 17, 2025
In this episode of "The Cardiac Recovery Room," moderator Vicki Morton spoke with Alexander Gregory and Dr. V. Seenu Reddy about the 10 things they hate about Enhanced Recovery After Surgery.
December 17, 2025
This video demonstrates a complex mitral valve repair in a 41-year-old male patient with P2 and P3 prolapse and severe mitral annular calcification, which was repaired with papillary muscle relocation.
December 16, 2025
This video describes the repair of an anterior mitral leaflet damaged by endocarditis using a periareolar incision.
December 15, 2025
This video demonstrates the repair of a post-infarction ventricular septal defect.