This week on The Beat, 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.
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Medical technology
September 18, 2025
September 17, 2025
This video demonstrates how to use visual cues to compensate for the lack of tactile feedback during robotic pulmonary resections, enabling the accurate identification of lesions despite the absence of physical palpation.
September 11, 2025
This article explores emerging innovations aimed at addressing the critical challenges of organ transplantation, particularly organ scarcity, rejection, and the burden of lifelong immunosuppression.
September 4, 2025
Surgical outcomes traditionally rely on time-to-event analysis models, such as the Cox Proportional Hazards (CPH) model, which adjusts for covariates. These models, however, have certain limitations that must be taken into account when interpreting their results.
September 4, 2025
Arfaee et al. present the first proof of concept of a soft robotic total artificial hybrid heart (Hybrid Heart) designed to overcome the limitations of current total artificial hearts (TAHs).
August 29, 2025
At the 2024 Birmingham Review Course, Dr. Will Moody, a consultant cardiologist in imaging and inherited cardiovascular conditions at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, delivered a presentation titled “Etiology, Definition, and Assessment of Mitral Regurgitation, Including Evidence for Intervention.”
August 29, 2025
At the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2025, Dr. Sudhir Srivastava, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of SS Innovations Group Companies, delivered a presentation titled “My Journey From Heart Surgeon to Maker of Robots.”
August 22, 2025
This video highlights Dr. Ludwig Mueller’s acceptance speech for the Lifetime Achievement Award presented at the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Meeting 2024.
August 21, 2025
As interventional techniques continue to gain popularity in cardiothoracic surgery, familiarity and mastery of these techniques are increasingly important for trainees and early career surgeons.
August 15, 2025
At the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2025, Dr. Juan A. Crestanello, cardiothoracic surgeon in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Mayo Clinic, delivered a presentation titled “I Can Tell Your Gender From Your ECG: AI and Big Data.”