This video demonstrates an endoscopic closure of an atrial septal defect.
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December 1, 2025
This video demonstrates a robotic aortic valve replacement procedure for a 64-year-old man with severe aortic stenosis.
December 1, 2025
CTSNet is pleased to present the top 10 videos from the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Video Competition.
November 28, 2025
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.
November 26, 2025
The five-year results of JCOG0802, the largest RCT ever conducted to determine which approach to lung cancer surgery is superior, segmentectomy vs lobectomy, indicated that segmentectomy was superior to lobectomy; however, the 10-year results show the complete opposite and JCOG now recommends that lobectomy is superior for all primary lung cancer patients.
November 25, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Evgenij Potapov about the guidelines on temporary mechanical circulatory support in adult cardiac surgery.
November 24, 2025
This video demonstrates the management plan for anomalous right coronary arteries and their treatment in a patient who also has mitral valve prolapse, performed via hemisternotomy.
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 21, 2025
At the 2025 EACTS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Cristina Ruiz Segria spoke with Dr. Ivy Susanne Modrau and Marianne Saugbjerg about their presentation on taking a clinical question and turning it into research.
November 19, 2025
In this inaugural episode of CTSNet’s new podcast, The Cardiac Recovery Room, moderator Dr. Daniel Engelman spoke with Drs. Rakesh Arora and Michael C. Grant about cardiac surgery myths.