At the 2025 European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Cristina Ruiz Segria spoke with Dr. Edris A. F. Mahtab and Laurent Coopmans about optimizing operation planning.
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November 28, 2025
November 27, 2025
At the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons (ECS) Club Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with Dr. Oleksandr Babliak, Chief of the Cardiac Surgery Division at the Dobrobut Medical Network in Kyiv, Ukraine, about utilizing minimally invasive approaches in complex cardiac procedures.
November 21, 2025
At the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons (ECS) Club Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with Dr. T. Sloane Guy, a cardiovascular surgeon at Georgia Heart Institute at Northeast Georgia Medical Center, about the evolution of robotic cardiac surgery.
November 13, 2025
This study explores the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for auscultation in diagnosing heart failure in Sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting its potential to improve access to cardiovascular care in resource-limited settings.
November 6, 2025
This video presents an advanced surgical workflow that combines 3D planning and mixed reality to enhance precision, safety, and case-specific strategy in robotic thoracic surgery.
October 30, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning explores the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in writing medical articles.
October 23, 2025
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being embedded into clinical research workflows, covering aspects from data processing and modeling to manuscript drafting. While the human role remains essential—particularly in hypothesis formulation, clinical interpretation and ethical oversight—it is becoming more supervisory, curatorial, or interpretive.
September 24, 2025
This video illustrates a step-by-step technique for controlling vascular injuries during robotic thoracic surgery using a collagen-based hemostatic patch, preserving the minimally invasive approach and avoiding conversion to open surgery.
September 19, 2025
At the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) 2025 Annual Conference, Dr. Martin Cook, chief executive officer and cofounder of VenstraMedical, presented on “Development and Chronic Animal Implantation of the VenstraMedical Transcatheter pVAD System.”
September 18, 2025
In this remarkable interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Alexis Shafii, professor of surgery and surgical director of heart transplantation at The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine, about the first in-human BiVACOR total artificial heart implantation.