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 used for treating patients in...
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...
This video demonstrates a complex segmental resection via the uniportal VATS technique in a 65-year-old woman with a lesion located between S2 and S6 of the right lung. The lesion...
This video shows a uniportal VATS left lower lobectomy. The dissection was performed down to up, and an aberrant vein was incidentally found.
...This video displays the identification and preservation of aberrant superior pulmonary vein during a uniportal VATS right lower lobectomy. The pulmonary vein passed below the bronchus intermedius and tracked back...
Case Summary A 57-year-old asthmatic, non-smoker presented with a cough. This female patient had previously undergone a surgical excision of a chondrosarcoma from her right femur (during 2010). A CT...
Background Intubated general anesthesia with one-lung ventilation is commonly considered necessary for thoracoscopic major pulmonary resections. However, non-intubated thoracoscopic lobectomy has been reported recently using conventional and uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic...
The left upper lobectomy is considered by many surgeons to be the most difficult lobectomy performed using minimally invasive VATS approaches. Part of this difficulty is due to the frequent...
Diego Gonzalez Rivas, MD, FETCS, is the creator of the uniportal VATS lobectomy procedure. Joel Dunning, FRCS, PhD sat down with Dr. Gonzalez Rivas at the 2013 Annual EACTS Meeting...
Background Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM) of the lung is a rare congenital malformation.This anomaly has been rarely described in adults when in association with bronchial and vascular atresia. There...











