Diego Gonzalez Rivas
At the 2026 American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief, Joel Dunning, a cardiothoracic surgeon at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, UK, engaged in a discussion with Dr. Diego Gonzalez Rivas,...
The Diego Gonzalez Rivas Foundation now has a fully equipped truck in which teams can perform state-of-the-art thoracic surgeries. This is the first time the foundation’s mobile surgery unit was...
At the 2024 ESTS Conference in Barcelona, Spain, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning interviewed some of the most knowledgeable thoracic surgeons from around the world to highlight the fascinating work...
This quick video documents the first four cases of uniportal robotic surgery taught by Diego Gonalez Rivas in the UK. Patients and surgeons at James Cook University Hospital were very...
This interview with Diego Gonzalez Rivas, performed during his recent visit to the James Cook University Hospital in the UK, covers the evolution of his new technique to combine uniportal...
Diego Gonzalez Rivas and Mugurel Bosânceanu visited James Cook University Hospital in the UK in order to demonstrate the novel technique of uniportal thoracic robotic surgery that they have been...
This video displays a uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (URATS) left upper sleeve lobectomy for a carcinoid tumor (live surgery from Brasilia, Brazil, on July 14, 2022). The tumor was in...
A segmentectomy is typically defined as a sublobar anatomic resection containing one segment or a group of segments. The treatment takes an individual approach of the artery, vein, and bronchus....
A segmentectomy is typically defined as a sublobar anatomic resection containing a segment—or a group of segments—by means of an individual approach to the artery, vein, and bronchus. This video...
Bronchial sleeve resection with end-to-end anastomosis is described as the most complex bronchoplasty procedure (1). Cases performed by an experienced surgeon are either done using double or triple port VATS...
A 19-year-old patient, known case of pulmonary hypoplasia, admitted to chest diseases hospital as a case of persistent pneumothorax. CT angiography was done which showed a left pulmonary artery agenesis...
This video demonstrates an anatomic variation encountered during a uniportal VATS right lower lobectomy – the absence of right segment arterial branch six.
...Uniportal VATS resection, done through a single port, adds advantages over multiport VATS approaches regarding pain and cosmesis, yet some surgeons do not adopt it as they fear difficulty manipulating...





