CTSNet is excited to present a video series from Mara Antonoff, MD, President of Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS).
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Cardiac
October 6, 2025
This video demonstrates a redo tricuspid valve replacement under right heart bypass without the use of an oxygenator for a previously repaired tricuspid valve for native valve endocarditis.
October 3, 2025
At the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2025, Dr. Rui Li, a surgeon in the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery at Tongji Hospital, Wuhan, China, delivered a presentation titled “Transapical Beating-Heart Septal Myectomy (TA-BSM) in Patients With Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.”
October 3, 2025
At the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) 2025 Annual Conference, Dr. Randall C. Sterling, a Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the Kaufman Center for Heart Failure Treatment and Recovery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, delivered a presentation titled “My Personal Journey With MCS: History and Milestones.”
October 2, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Anders Jeppsson, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, about his paper on “Ticagrelor and Aspirin or Aspirin Alone After Coronary Surgery for Acute Coronary Syndrome,” published in "The New England Journal of Medicine."
October 2, 2025
This video demonstrates anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery reimplantation with coronary elongation onto the proximal ascending aorta from the main pulmonary artery.
October 2, 2025
This study analyzed data from the UK Mini Mitral trial, which compared recovery in patients undergoing either a sternotomy or a minimally invasive thoracoscopically-guided right minithoracotomy procedure for mitral valve repair, using wrist-worn triaxial accelerometers to track physical activity and sleep.
October 2, 2025
The article aimed to assess the long-term survival outcomes following surgical repair in patients with type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) and to evaluate the correlation with the preoperative German Registry for Acute Type A Aortic Dissection (GERAADA)-score value. The authors enrolled patients from nine hospitals.
October 2, 2025
Sanad and colleagues report promising early- to mid-term outcomes of aortic valve neocuspidization (AVNeo), commonly known as the Ozaki procedure, in patients with rheumatic heart disease.
October 2, 2025
The authors measured inlet and outlet orifice diameters and flow channel height of eight surgical bioprosthetic aortic stented valve models using an optical method.