Jeffrey Velotta
In this noteworthy interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Jeffrey Velotta, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine in San Francisco, California, USA, and a thoracic...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Jeffrey Velotta, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine in San...
In this series, CTSNet invites top cardiothoracic surgeons from around the world to engage in in-depth discussions about important topics in the field of CT surgery by examining specific cases...
CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Dr. Joel Dunning recently had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Jeffrey Velotta, thoracic surgeon at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, regarding his paper, Time to Surgery in...
This video is the second-place winner from CTSNet’s 2024 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the other winning videos. Clinical Presentation and Preoperative Course A 72-year-old...
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2023 Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. Anastomotic leaks of the esophagogastric conduit in minimally invasive esophagectomies...
This is a case of a twenty-nine-year-old woman who initially presented to the emergency department with right-sided pleuritic chest pain, syncope, and leukocytosis. A CT angiogram revealed bilateral segmental and...
Total minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy can be a feasible approach in patients with history of multiple intraabdominal surgeries, as demonstrated in the video below. This suggests generalizability of the...
The authors present a case of successful minimally invasive esophagectomy after prior open Nissen fundoplication and gastrostomy, not previously described in the literature. A 43-year-old man presented with dysphagia to...





