This video highlights the beginnings of cardiac surgery in the 1800s.
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History
February 6, 2026
In this session from the 2025 London Core Review Cardiothoracic Surgery Course, Dr. Pieter Kappetein delivered a presentation on “Future-Forward Cardiac Surgery: Device Innovation, Leadership Dynamics, and Surgeon Training.”
January 30, 2026
In this episode of the Case of the Month, thoracic surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian is joined by Dr. John Pilling, a consultant thoracic surgeon at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, to discuss “Noisy Breathing.”
January 27, 2026
In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Randolph Chitwood about the future of minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS).
January 15, 2026
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Drs. Michael Lanuti and Leanne Ashrafian about Dr. Lanuti’s thoughts on the JCOG0802 trial and how he believes the wrong parameters were measured.
December 4, 2025
Sir Terence English, the pioneering cardiac surgeon who performed the United Kingdom’s first successful heart transplant in 1979, has died at the age of 93. His groundbreaking work helped Royal Papworth Hospital achieve an international reputation for heart transplantation and, later, heart-lung and lung transplants.
November 26, 2025
The five-year results of JCOG0802, the largest RCT ever conducted to determine which approach to lung cancer surgery is superior, segmentectomy vs lobectomy, indicated that segmentectomy was superior to lobectomy; however, the 10-year results show the complete opposite and JCOG now recommends that lobectomy is superior for all primary lung cancer patients.
November 20, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Randas Batista, cardiac surgeon and founder of Vilela Batista Heart Foundation, about the surgical treatment of Eisenmenger syndrome.
November 14, 2025
At the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons (ECS) Club Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with Dr. Patrick Perier, chairman of the ECS Club and staff surgeon at the Herz und Gefäss Klinik in Bad Neustadt, Germany, about minimally invasive mitral valve surgery.
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.