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.
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Minimally Invasive
August 15, 2025
In this video, Dr. Frank Van Praet discusses his experience with redo mitral valve surgery performed using an endoscopic approach.
August 14, 2025
This multicenter randomized trial demonstrated that epicardial-endocardial hybrid ablation (HA) maintained superior effectiveness over endocardial catheter ablation (CA) for nonparoxysmal atrial fibrillation at 24 months (66.3 percent vs.
August 8, 2025
In this video, Dr. Ramprassath M. Siddhan recounts his journey to adopting and developing an endoscopic cardiac surgery program in Madurai, India.
August 1, 2025
In this fascinating interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Joseph Zacharias, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the Lancashire Cardiac Center in Blackpool, England, discussing lifetime management of heart valve disease.
August 1, 2025
At the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2025, Dr. Jacques Marescaux delivered a presentation titled “How AI Will Revolutionize Minimally Invasive Surgery.”
August 1, 2025
In this video, Drs. Svetozar Putnik and Milos Matkovic describe their experiences developing an endoscopic cardiac surgery program in Serbia.
July 29, 2025
This video demonstrates the successful management of a challenging case of a centrally located left upper lobe tumor through a minimally invasive bronchial sleeve lobectomy, which led to excellent outcomes.
July 25, 2025
In this video, Dr. Farhad Bakhtiary explains why he uses an endoscopic approach for aortic valve replacement during the 2023 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Meeting.
July 22, 2025
This video shows a patient with an aberrant right coronary artery originating from the left sinus, accompanied by an interaorto-pulmonary path that caused dynamic compression of the artery. A minimally invasive reimplantation of the coronary artery to the right sinus was performed to alleviate the symptoms.