At the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2025, President Husam H. Balkhy presented “Patience, Passion, and Persistence in the Pursuit of Robotic Cardiac Surgery.”
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Thoracic
June 19, 2025
This video demonstrates a case of robot-assisted intrapericardial pneumonectomy with bronchoplasty and thymic flap reinforcement for a centrally located, post-neoadjuvant lung adenocarcinoma, highlighting advanced techniques in vascular control and intraoperative decision-making for complex thoracic oncologic surgery.
June 19, 2025
This video demonstrates the case of a 40-year-old patient with dysphagia who underwent a successful right-sided robot-assisted resection of an esophageal leiomyoma with no complications and discharge on postoperative day three.
June 18, 2025
In this episode of The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with CTSNet Board Member Dr. Keith Naunheim, Vallee L. and Melba Willman Professor and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, about artificial intelligence (AI) in cardiothoracic (CT) surgery.
June 18, 2025
This prospective observational study examined the association between Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) scores and postoperative pain in 100 patients undergoing multiportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomy.
June 13, 2025
At the SCTS Annual Meeting, Dr. Yolanda L. Colson delivered a presentation on “Nano and Cell-Based Technologies for Thoracic Surgeons.”
June 13, 2025
This video demonstrates a robotic-assisted approach to diaphragm plication in a patient with symptomatic diaphragm paralysis.
June 12, 2025
In this episode of The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with CTSNet JANS Editor Dr. Mateo Marin-Cuartas about surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) vs transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).
June 12, 2025
This video demonstrates the successful video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery repair of a tracheoesophageal fistula in a 43-year-old patient.
June 12, 2025
This single-center prospective trial evaluated same-day discharge (SDD) following subxiphoid thoracoscopic thymectomy in 39 patients with thymic tumors. The SDD completion rate was 92.3percent, with all patients achieving R0 resection.