This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Tom D’Amico, professor and vice chairman of surgery and chief medical officer of the Duke Cancer Institute, about oligometastatic disease.
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Cardiac
February 13, 2025
Infective endocarditis (IE) remains one of the most challenging diseases of modern times. It is associated with high mortality and morbidity despite significant improvements in diagnostic and surgical skills, and antibiotic pretreatment.
February 13, 2025
Researchers have shown that patches of muscle grown from stem cells can help repair a failing heart. A laboratory-grown biological transplant with the potential to stabilize and strengthen the heart muscle can be implanted onto the heart surface.
February 13, 2025
Proper preservation of the myocardium during intraoperative ischemia is a critical predictor of satisfactory clinical outcomes. However, there can be a wide degree of diversity in myocardial damage among patients receiving the same cardioplegic solution.
February 12, 2025
At the first annual Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS) meeting, CTSNet had the opportunity to speak with some of the leading women in cardiothoracic surgery.
February 11, 2025
This video demonstrates the case of a 3D totally endoscopic beating-heart third tricuspid valve replacement via the periareolar approach.
February 10, 2025
In this video, Dr. Vince Gaudiani uses a pig heart to provide hints and tips on how best to perform a mitral valve replacement.
February 7, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Vinay Badhwar, the current vice president of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), about his groundbreaking achievement in combining robotic aortic valve replacement (AVR) and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) through a single small incision.
February 7, 2025
At the 10th Annual International Coronary Congress, Dr. Marisa Cevasco delivered a presentation on “How I Use the Impella for On-Pump CABG in Patients With Low EF: Insertion, Intraoperative Management, and Weaning/Removal.”
February 6, 2025
In this month’s episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Kim Thompson about cardiopulmonary bypass.