Innovation Video Competition
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. The integration of mixed reality (MR) into robotic thoracic surgery represents a transformative step...
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. Robotic harvesting of the left internal mammary artery (LIMA)...
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. The en bloc heart and lung donation after circulatory...
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. The authors present a novel technique utilizing an endoloop...
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is the most common sustained arrhythmia...
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2023 Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. Various surgical techniques have been used for aortic arch repair,...
This video is the third-place winner from CTSNet’s 2023 Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the other winning videos. Patients who undergo rapid cannulation for ECMO...
This video is the second-place winner from CTSNet’s 2023 Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the other winning videos. The near-infrared fluorescence imaging system is an...
This is the first-place winning video from the 2023 CTSNet Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the runner-up and third place winner. Watch Prof. Amirghofran’s Interview...
In this video, the authors discuss congenitally-corrected transposition of the great arteries. In order to describe a congenital heart defect adequately, the relationships between heart chambers and great vessels are...
The author reports the case of a vats left S8 segmentectomy. In this case, they used a coil to precisely localize the small lesion. The surgery began with pleural inspection,...
With this video, the authors present the case of a 53-year-old patient with synchronous NSCLC (adenocarcinoma) in the segments 2 and 9 of the right lung. The patient had limited...
A 69-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and a 20-pack-year smoking history was found to have a 20 mm x 8 mm lung nodule concerning for malignancy in the...













