This article highlights the importance of redefining success in cardiac surgery by aligning training, patient demographics, and outcomes with the unique challenges faced in Africa.
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Approaches/Techniques
January 22, 2026
January 8, 2026
This video demonstrates a step-by-step technique for robotic bronchial sleeve right upper lobectomy.
December 12, 2025
The recent webinar, "Optimizing Myocardial Protection in Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery: Contemporary Strategies and Emerging Techniques," brought together three leading experts in robotic cardiac surgery to share practical insights and review emerging evidence supporting myocardial protection in less invasive procedures.
December 4, 2025
This video demonstrates an endoscopic approach to a post-infarction ventricular septal defect using the three-port technique.
November 27, 2025
At the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons (ECS) Club Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with Dr. Oleksandr Babliak, Chief of the Cardiac Surgery Division at the Dobrobut Medical Network in Kyiv, Ukraine, about utilizing minimally invasive approaches in complex cardiac procedures.
November 19, 2025
This video presents a hydatid cyst of the interventricular septum surgically treated under cardiopulmonary bypass using Barrett’s technique.
November 13, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Zara Shirazi, a congenital cardiac surgery post-fellow at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, about advancing pediatric cardiac surgery in Pakistan using what she learned from her fellowship in Austria.
November 11, 2025
In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Marc Moon, Chief of Adult Cardiac Surgery at Texas Heart Institute, Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, and Chief of Adult Cardiac Surgery section at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, about aortic dissection.
November 4, 2025
This video demonstrates a simple technique for simultaneous box lesion ablation for atrial fibrillation during non-mitral cardiac surgery.
October 23, 2025
The authors conducted a randomized study involving 40 patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) to compare techniques for preparing internal thoracic arteries.