This video illustrates how teleproctoring allows the performance of complex robotic-assisted thoracic surgery lung resections, even in the early phases of a robotic program.
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November 4, 2025
This video demonstrates a 42-year-old woman with seropositive myasthenia gravis who underwent successful bilateral robotic extended thymectomy for a 9 cm thymoma infiltrating the pericardium, right phrenic nerve, and right lung. Clear margins were achieved, and surgical clips were placed for potential adjuvant radiotherapy.
October 31, 2025
At the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with Dr. Husam Balkhy about robotic cardiac surgery and simulation training in cardiothoracic surgery.
October 30, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning explores the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in writing medical articles.
October 30, 2025
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).
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.