This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Niv Ad, Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery" and professor of surgery at John Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, about the journal.
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February 25, 2026
CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Karan Shekar, a cardiac surgery resident at the Narayana Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Bommasandra, Bangalore, India, about his winning video, “Robotic-Assisted Repair of Supracardiac Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return.”
February 20, 2026
In this extraordinary interview, Cristina Ruiz Segria, CTSNet Senior Editor—Clinical Care Providers, speaks with Dr. Tara Mastracci about social prescribing and the ramifications of social deprivation.
February 19, 2026
In this episode of The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Puja Khaitan, thoracic consultant at Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE, and Founder and Congress Chair of the Emirates International Thoracic Surgery Congress, about thoracic surgery in the United Arab Emirates.
February 19, 2026
This individual participant data meta-analysis included 23 large double-blind randomized trials with a total of 154,664 participants.
February 18, 2026
In this episode of The Cardiac Recovery Room, moderator Dr. Daniel Engelman and co-moderator Dr. Kevin Lobdell spoke with Dr. Rawn Salenger and Dr. Serdar Gunaydin about patient blood management.
February 12, 2026
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Hani Shennib, a Clinical Professor of Vascular and Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, USA, about catheters as a language.
February 12, 2026
This state-of-the-art review examines how trial design and sample size affect the assessment of sex-related treatment effects. Traditional unstructured recruitment often underrepresents women and limits the evaluation of sex-by-treatment interactions.
February 11, 2026
This video demonstrates the case of an adult patient with Ebstein anomaly who underwent tricuspid valve repair through a minimally invasive approach at a tertiary cardiovascular hospital as part of an international cardiac surgery program in the Xiamen Cardiovascular Hospital.
February 10, 2026
This video demonstrates the technical aspects of repairing multiple heart defects in a child, including double-chambered right ventricle, ventricular septal defect closure, and subaortic membrane resection, all through a minimally invasive right axillary thoracotomy approach.