Winners of the 2026 CTSNet Innovation Video Competition
CTSNet is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2026 Innovation Video Competition, which highlights and rewards innovative solutions to today’s cardiothoracic surgical challenges. This year’s submissions showcased impressive ingenuity and inspired the judges.
Congratulations to the winning surgeons and thank you to everyone who shared their innovative work!
View all submissions to the 2026 Innovation Video Competition, to be published in the coming months.
First Place
A Measurement-Guided Approach for Degenerative Mitral Valve Repair With Folding Plasty Technique by Patrick McCarthy, Daniel Romary
Second Place
Supra-Annular Mitral Valve Replacement Using a Bovine Pericardial Tube in Infants With a Very Small Annulus by Ahmad Ali Amirghofran, Hamid Amoozgar, Ali Mohammad Shakiba
Third Place:
Borrowing From Liver Transplantation: Piggyback Caval Exposure and Arch-Isolated Cerebral Perfusion for Level IV Tumor Thrombus by Sarju Ralhan, Gursagar Sohota, Sandeep Sharma, Harmandeep Singh Chahal, Vikram Pal Singh, Gurmeet Singh, Dinesh Garg, Eeshan Ralhan
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