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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Vascular
February 24, 2026
In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Maninder Kalkat, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon in the Regional Department of Thoracic Surgery at University Hospital Birmingham, about extended resections.
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 16, 2026
This video presents the use of an ascending aortic thoracic endovascular aortic repair for the treatment of two ascending aortic pseudoaneurysms with contained rupture and an associated aorto-pulmonary fistula.
February 12, 2026
In this remarkable interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Hani Shennib about catheters as a language.
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 9, 2026
This video demonstrates that for type A aortic dissection involving the aortic arch, the Ascyrus Medical Dissection Stent combined with partial replacement and distal implantation in zones 1 or 2 offers an effective treatment strategy.