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Cardiac

October 13, 2025
This video demonstrates a redo surgical aortic valve replacement after the removal of both a valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve replacement and a previous surgical aortic valve. 
October 13, 2025
This video demonstrates the removal of a functional transcatheter aortic valve replacement in an 83-year-old patient with mitral disease.
October 10, 2025
At the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) 2025 Annual Conference, Dr. James Long, a thoracic surgeon at INTEGRIS Health Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, delivered a presentation titled “Disruptive Innovation.”
October 9, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning shares insights from his recent trip to Ghana.
October 9, 2025
This video demonstrates that while intravascular ultrasound and transesophageal echocardiography are valuable tools for establishing true lumen access during both type A and B aortic dissection repair, these techniques require significant experience to understand and interpret.
October 9, 2025
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVR) has transformed treatment for high-risk aortic stenosis patients, but its recent use in low-risk younger populations and those with bicuspid aortic valves (BAV) raises concerns about valve durability and increased mortality and stroke rates.
October 9, 2025
The authors performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the pooled mortality, morbidity, and reoperation rates after common arterial trunk primary repair. Among 319 articles retrieved, 43 studies including 4,844 patients met the inclusion criteria. The pooled early mortality was 11.23 percent (95 percent CI, 9.4-13.37).
October 9, 2025
The authors conducted the NEWTON-CABG CardioLink-5 trial to assess whether intensive lowering of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) lowering with evolocumab reduces saphenous vein graft (SVG) failure after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).
October 8, 2025
Dr. Joel Dunning, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief, had the chance to speak with Dr. Mara Antonoff, president of Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS) and Associate Professor and Program Director of Education at MD Anderson Cancer Center, about the vision for the upcoming WTS Annual Meeting.

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