Joel Dunning
Pectus excavatum is the most common congenital chest wall deformity, and severe cases may require operative correction to improve both physiological and cosmetic outcomes. The authors present the case of a 16-year-old male with severe...
This video shows the successful removal of a 10 cm anterior mediastinal mass. Initially, a sternotomy was considered due to the significant size of the mass. However, a camera was...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Taj Mohammed Fiyaz Chowdhry, a consultant thoracic surgeon at Burjeel Specialty Hospital, Sharjah, UAE, about uniportal robotics in the...
This video demonstrates the implantation of bilateral phrenic nerve pacing leads using a robotic subxiphoid approach without lung isolation. This approach was utilized because the patient presented with central hypoventilation...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Jacques Kpodonu, a cardiac surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and Assistant Professor of Surgery...
This is a Ravitch procedure that was modified to maximize the relief of cardiac compression. The usual version of the Ravitch operation involves leaving the lateral ribs in situ, and...
This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Enoch Akowuah and the cardiac surgery team operating in Ghana as they visit the James Cook University Hospital...
This patient had a severely calcified aorta with severe aortic regurgitation, calcified ascending aorta, and an occluded distal aorta with claudication. The aorta had to be cannulated at the back...
This video presents a forty-seven year-old woman who, when she was two years old, had a balloon valvuloplasty, then, as a teen, she had a Ross procedure. This procedure failed,...
This patient had a severely calcified valve which then became infected with endocarditis with abscess cavities under the left main coronary artery and right coronary artery. To begin the procedure,...
The patient in this video is a fit and active seventy-six-year-old man. Twenty-five years previously, he had a Ross procedure, but now presents with aortic root dilation. A percutaneous femoral...
This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Albert Jauregui Abularach about his work as a pioneer in robotic lung transplantation. Joel also talks about...
This video demonstrates a right upper lobectomy. Although there is never a perfect case, the authors believe they are doing many things correctly with this technique. First, this is a...








