In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. John Puskas, professor of surgery at Emory University, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Emory University Hospital Midtown, and Wilton Looney Director at the Emory Carlyle Fraser Heart Center in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, about proximal coronary anastomosis.
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September 29, 2025
CTSNet invites you to participate in one of three live learning roundtable discussions on the technical aspects of aortic valve replacement after TAVR.
September 29, 2025
On September 25, 2025, a group of esteemed cardiac surgeons gathered for a live webinar titled “Data-Driven Valve Selection for Younger AVR Patients,” presented by Artivion in collaboration with CTSNet.
September 26, 2025
At the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) 2025 Annual Conference, Dr. Andrew M. Acker, a cardiothoracic surgery resident at Penn Medicine, delivered a presentation titled “Impella 5.5 Is Safe in Small Ventricles.”
September 25, 2025
This article argues that emergency resternotomy should be routinely practiced in all cardiac surgery centers, as it is a critical procedure for managing cardiac arrest such as tamponade or refractory bleeding.
September 24, 2025
In this engaging interview, Dr. Amr Alsalakawy, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Aswan Heart Center and Research, Magdi Yacoub Foundation, spoke with Dr. Magdi Yacoub, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the National Heart and Lung Institute at the Imperial College London, and Founder and Director of Research at the Harefield Heart Science Center, Magdi Yacoub Institute, about the Aswan technique for common arterial trunk repair.
September 19, 2025
At the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) 2025 Annual Conference, Dr. Martin Cook, chief executive officer and cofounder of VenstraMedical, presented on “Development and Chronic Animal Implantation of the VenstraMedical Transcatheter pVAD System.”
September 16, 2025
This video demonstrates an innovative solution that has the potential to improve the survival of neonates and increase the likelihood of completing their palliative staged surgeries, presenting the first successful ex-utero intrapartum treatment-to-open atrial septectomy in a neonate with hypoplastic left heart syndrome with an intact atrial septum.
September 12, 2025
At the 2024 Birmingham Review Course, Dr. Moninder Bhabra, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at New Cross Hospital, delivered a presentation titled “Mitral Valve Surgery.”
September 10, 2025
CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Dr. Joel Dunning recently had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Jeffrey Velotta, thoracic surgeon at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, regarding his paper, Time to Surgery in Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Defining the Optimal Diagnosis-to-Resection Interval to Reduce Mortality.