This video demonstrates robotic assisted thoracoscopic bilateral lobectomy and tangential resection of left main pulmonary artery via subxiphoid approach for synchronous non-small cell lung carcinoma.
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Thoracic
July 28, 2023
In this episode of The Beat, Joel discusses the latest content on CTSNet and cardiothoracic surgery news.
July 25, 2023
In Colombia, undertaking a lung transplant procedure comes with some unique challenges. In an interview at AATS 2023, Dr. Eric Vinck speaks on the socioeconomic, structural, and geographic challenges of lung transplantation in Colombia.
July 20, 2023
In this episode of The Beat, CTSNet EIC Joel Dunning discusses a new dissolving cardiac monitor used to treat heart disease and reviews a video demonstrating the Nikaidoh operation for aortic translocation repair, among other news and clinical content.
July 20, 2023
This study aimed to determine if socioeconomic status and region had any effect on post-transplant outcomes across different races and ethnicities. After another study found that transplant outcomes varied greatly based on multiple factors, researchers wanted to know if socioeconomic factors played into differences based on race.
July 20, 2023
This study aimed to determine whether inferior pulmonary ligament (IPL) division leads to pulmonary dysfunction in 213 upper lobectomy (UL) patients divided into two groups with division or preservation of the IPL. The authors found no difference in complication rate, dead space area, forced vital capacity, or forced expiratory volume in 1 s.
July 19, 2023
This video shows minimally invasive sleeve resection and reconstruction of the distal bronchus intermedius for a carcinoid tumor.
July 18, 2023
This video presents the use of indocyanine green (ICG) to localize and quantify thoracic duct leakage in real time during a thoracic duct ligation.
July 12, 2023
This video demonstrates multidisciplinary management of oligometastatic ALK+ NSCLC in a patient with advanced disease previously managed with targeted therapy and eventual left upper lobectomy who on follow-up was noted to have oligoprogressive disease.
July 10, 2023
Minimally invasive right pneumonectomy can be a complicated procedure, but in the absence of hilar involvement by both neoplasm and lymph nodes, it does not show considerable technical difficulties and is feasible for all surgeons with minimally invasive experience.