This video demonstrates a case presentation of redo sternotomy and mitral valve replacement.
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2025 Resident Video Competition
February 27, 2026
This video shows the steps of mesh insertion via video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in a post-traumatic lung herniation.
February 26, 2026
This video demonstrates a robotic mitral valve repair, biatrial CryoMaze procedure, left atrial appendage closure, and patent foramen ovale closure.
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 23, 2026
This video demonstrates a robotic S8 segmentectomy for a deep pulmonary metastasis uniquely guided by high-resolution 3D reconstruction imaging.
February 19, 2026
This video demonstrates a right uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery and right upper lobe sleeve lobectomy for a case of synchronous right upper lobe carcinoid tumor and lung adenocarcinoma.
February 18, 2026
This video demonstrates a rare right-sided approach for left main bronchial sleeve resection in a young patient with adenoid cystic carcinoma.
February 16, 2026
This video demonstrates a step-by-step procedure for the surgical stabilization of rib fractures using pre-contoured titanium plates, highlighting exposure, reduction, and fixation for optimal chest wall reconstruction and recovery.
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
This video demonstrates an alternative retrograde cardioplegia catheter cannulation site that has proven to be reproducible, reliable, and useful in cases of virgin and reoperative sternotomy.