In this exceptional interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Nasser Altorki and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian about the 10-year results from the JCOG0802 trial.
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December 18, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Nasser Altorki and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian about the 10-year results from the JCOG0802 trial.
December 18, 2025
Mesfin Yana Dollar, who received life-saving heart surgery as a teenager in the United States, now collaborates with Dr. Jim Kauten, the surgeon who saved him, as a cardiac perfusionist at the Mayo Clinic. Together, they perform advanced open-heart surgeries and participate in medical missions to help patients in Ethiopia.
December 18, 2025
This retrospective study from a high-volume aortic center examined the surgical outcomes of endograft infection following thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) over a 35-year period. Among 2,220 patients undergoing descending thoracic or thoracoabdominal aortic repair, 20 (0.9 percent) required surgery for endograft infection.
December 12, 2025
In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Samer Nashef, a consultant cardiac surgeon at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, about complications in cardiothoracic surgery.
December 11, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Laurens Ceulemans, thoracic surgeon at the University Hospitals Leuven in Belgium, about lung volume reduction.
December 11, 2025
This meta-analysis examined 2,732 patients with spontaneous pneumothorax undergoing bullectomy combined with either parietal pleurectomy (PP) or pleural abrasion (PA).
December 9, 2025
This video demonstrates a clinical case report and accompanying intraoperative footage of a laparoscopic transgastric resection of surgical mesh that was previously placed for hiatal hernia repair and had eroded through the gastroesophageal junction.
December 4, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Christopher McGregor about the current state of cardiac and kidney xenotransplantation.
December 2, 2025
This video demonstrates a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery sympathectomy for the termination of ventricular tachycardia electrical storm, featuring an exceptional view and excision of Kuntz's fibers.