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At the 40th EACTS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor—Cardiac @MCastilloSang spoke with Serkan Ertugay about the state of minimally invasive cardiac surgery in Turkey. Watch and listen to this interview on CTSNet! 🔗ow.ly/pBc05104CZx #EACTS #interview #MICS #Turkey

Check out this presentation by Keith Dindi on the COSECSA Cardiac Surgical Database from the session “Risk Stratification, Quality, and Databases” at the inaugural In Africa for Africa Cardio-Thoracic Conference. Discover now on CTSNet! #conference 🔗ow.ly/MPx05104CfL

View this presentation by Bode Falase on the Nigeria Open-Heart Surgery Registry from the session “Risk Stratification, Quality, and Databases” at the inaugural In Africa for Africa Cardio-Thoracic Conference. Explore the full presentation on CTSNet! 🔗ow.ly/zjJ35104C37

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This talk features W. Randolph Chitwood receiving the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Meeting 2025. 🔗ow.ly/iQvp5104FlM #award #presentation #endoscopic

Check out this comprehensive discussion featuring @loremontesvilla Wouter Oosterlinck, Sudhir Shrivastava, and @drbypass It focuses on robotic coronary artery bypass grafting. 🔗ow.ly/yCPQ5104BLf #roundtable #robotic #cardiac #CABG

Discover this presentation by Bruce Keogh on how database development and minimum requirements drive quality Africa from the session “Risk Stratification, Quality, and Databases” at the inaugural In Africa for Africa Cardio-Thoracic Conference. 🔗ctsnet.org/article-video/in-…

Discover the third-place winner of the CTSNet Innovation Video Competition, which demonstrates a single-stage resection of a Mayo level IV renal cell carcinoma tumor thrombus extending into the right atrium. 🔗ow.ly/FOx15104k6T #cardiac #perfusion #cannulation

This talk features Farhad Bakhtiary delivering a presentation on “The Ascending Aorta and Root Through the Scope" at the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Meeting 2025. 🔗ow.ly/lSvx5104inK #cardiac #aorta #root #endoscopic

Discover this presentation by Francis Smit on integrated interdisciplinary simulation training for Africa from the session “Training and Capacity Building” at the inaugural In Africa for Africa Cardio-Thoracic Conference. 🔗ow.ly/TnJy5104hzC #conference #training

This week in JANS, researchers examined mitral annular constraint shaping aortic prosthesis size and early hemodynamics in combined aortic and mitral valve surgery. Explore this week’s JANS articles for more! 🔗ow.ly/TCIe5104fyR #articles #subscribe #journal

Coming this Friday on CTSNet: A closer look at robotic coronary artery bypass grafting. Lorena Montes moderates a roundtable with Wouter Oosterlinck, Sudhir Shrivastava, and Husam Balkhy, moderated by Lorena Montes. Watch the recording on November 6, 2026! #CABG #robotic

At the 40th EACTS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor—Residents and Training @ACopperwheat spoke with Finn Amundsen Dittberner about autologous blood pleurodesis for postoperative air leakage following VATS. 🔗ow.ly/VNKI5103Ws0 #EACTS #interview #airleaks #pleurodesis

Check out the second-place winner of the 2026 CTSNet Innovation Video Competition, which demonstrates a supra-annular technique using a bovine pericardial tube in a 16-month-old. 🔗ow.ly/j1bN5103W5y #congenital #replacement #annulus

This outstanding video demonstrates skeletonized harvesting of the left internal thoracic artery through a left anterior minithoracotomy. 🔗ow.ly/FF4W5103QTO #cardiac #coronary #artery

Explore the first-place winner of the 2026 CTSNet Innovation Video Competition, which shows a measurement-based approach to degenerative mitral valve repair. @NMCardioVasc 🔗ow.ly/pnFF5103uz1 #cardiac #approach #valve

This fantastic video demonstrates a robotic right middle and lower bilobectomy and highlights several valuable techniques for complex robotic lung resections. 🔗ow.ly/KX0m5103tch #thoracic #robotic #lung

This excellent video from @Kareem_Bedeir highlights the key steps of a Konno-Rastan aortoventriculoplasty. 🔗ow.ly/pAXr5103b11 #cardiac #valve #solution

This incredible video by @HirotoKitahara demonstrates a robot-arm stabilizer technique for off-pump TECAB using a current-generation robotic system. 🔗ow.ly/UGt65103aKo #cardiac #robotic #technique