This study reported favorable early outcomes in 11 intermediate- and high-risk patients who underwent a modified Bio-Bentall procedure with a rapid deployment valve between January 2018 and December 2022.
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September 18, 2025
The authors report the first Dutch experience with Personalized External Aortic Root Support (PEARS) in patients at risk of aortic dissection due to connective tissue disorders or bicuspid aortic valve. Between 2018 and 2023, 90 patients underwent surgery in Amsterdam and Leiden.
September 18, 2025
This manuscript reports a pregnant patient who developed thrombosis of her mechanical pulmonary valve, necessitating re-replacement of the valve and the trunk.
September 18, 2025
This narrative review examines the impact of depression on outcomes after cardiac surgery. The authors synthesized evidence from PubMed and Google Scholar, focusing on the epidemiology, mechanisms, and management of depression in this context.
September 17, 2025
This video is the second-place winner from the 2025 CTSNet Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the other winning videos.
September 16, 2025
This video demonstrates an innovative solution that has the potential to improve the survival of neonates and increase the likelihood of completing their palliative staged surgeries, presenting the first successful ex-utero intrapartum treatment-to-open atrial septectomy in a neonate with hypoplastic left heart syndrome with an intact atrial septum.
September 15, 2025
This video demonstrates a modified Yasui performed under deep hypothermic circulatory arrest for interrupted aortic arch type B with posterior malaligned ventricular septal defects.
September 12, 2025
At the 2024 Birmingham Review Course, Dr. Moninder Bhabra, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at New Cross Hospital, delivered a presentation titled “Mitral Valve Surgery.”
September 12, 2025
At the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2025, Dr. Danny Ramzy, professor and chief of cardiac surgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, delivered a presentation titled “Robotic Myectomy: Transaortic Approach.”
September 11, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Adanna Akujuo, a cardiothoracic surgeon and the surgical director of the Structural Heart Program at UVA Health University Medical Center, about the Voom Foundation and its trips to Africa.