This article presents the first comparative analysis of outcomes after tracheobronchoplasty (TBP) for excessive dynamic airway collapse (EDAC) and tracheobronchomalacia (TBM), two distinct but often conflated causes of excessive central airway collapse (ECAC).
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October 30, 2025
October 29, 2025
Dr. Mara Antonoff, president of Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS), spoke with Dr. Leah Backhus, vice president of WTS, about social events and networking opportunities at the WTS Annual Meeting.
October 27, 2025
This video demonstrates a robotic left upper lobar bronchial reimplantaion into the mainsteam bronchus for a 30-year-old man with a typical carcinoid obstructing the left lower lobar bronchus.
October 23, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Fraser Sutherland, a consultant cardiac surgeon at Ross Hall Hospital and the Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Scotland, about the world’s first transcervical robotic aortic valve replacement (AVR) procedures.
October 23, 2025
This video demonstrates a Collis gastroplasty combined with Nissen fundoplication to manage esophageal shortening and prevent reflux, providing step-by-step surgical guidance and a review of postoperative outcomes.
October 23, 2025
This retrospective study analyzed 35,038 U.S. lung transplant recipients, of which 526 also received kidney transplants for renal replacement or chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages 3b-5.
October 23, 2025
The authors conducted a randomized study involving 40 patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) to compare techniques for preparing internal thoracic arteries.
October 23, 2025
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being embedded into clinical research workflows, covering aspects from data processing and modeling to manuscript drafting. While the human role remains essential—particularly in hypothesis formulation, clinical interpretation and ethical oversight—it is becoming more supervisory, curatorial, or interpretive.
October 23, 2025
The NeoCOAST-2 trial, published in Nature Medicine, evaluates the efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant durvalumab-based combination regimens for resectable stage IIA–IIIB non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
October 22, 2025
In this video, Dr. Mara Antonoff, president of Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS) speaks with Dr. Tanisha Rajah about why the WTS Annual Meeting is important for trainees.