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Cardiac

October 30, 2025
This video demonstrates, to the authors’ knowledge, the first reported case of a single-stage hybrid procedure that combines transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement, off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting, and ascending aortic wrapping in a high-risk patient with severe aortic stenosis, an ascending aortic aneurysm, and multivessel coronary artery disease.
October 29, 2025
Dr. Mara Antonoff, president of Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS), spoke with Dr. Leah Backhus, vice president of WTS, about social events and networking opportunities at the WTS Annual Meeting.
October 28, 2025
This video demonstrates a total 3D endoscopic repair of a left ventricular (LV) aneurysm using the Dor technique, followed by mitral repair for a patient with a post-ischemia posterior LV aneurysm and mitral regurgitation.
October 28, 2025
This video demonstrates a democratized technique to preoperative planning and operative approaches for minimally invasive mitral valve repair.
October 27, 2025
This video demonstrates the Bentall-de Bono procedure using an innovative mattress-type pledgeted suture technique to achieve rapid and hemostatic aortic root anastomosis with a single suture line.
October 24, 2025
CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Sameh Said about his innovative solution aimed at improving the survival rates of neonates and increasing the likelihood of completing their palliative staged surgeries, as demonstrated in “EXIT-to-Open Atrial Septectomy for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome With Intact Atrial Septum: Gone in 90 Seconds!"
October 24, 2025
This video demonstrates a minimally invasive approach for the closure of the coronary sinus atrial septal defect.
October 23, 2025
In this remarkable interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Fraser Sutherland about the world’s first transcervical robotic aortic valve replacement (AVR) procedures.
October 23, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Fraser Sutherland, a consultant cardiac surgeon at Ross Hall Hospital and the Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Scotland, about the world’s first transcervical robotic aortic valve replacement (AVR) procedures.
October 23, 2025
This video demonstrates the surgical repair of a giant right coronary artery aneurysm using saphenous vein interpositional grafting.

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