Thoracic
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Taj Mohammed Fiyaz Chowdhry, a consultant thoracic surgeon at Burjeel Specialty Hospital, Sharjah, UAE, about uniportal robotics in the UAE. They discussed the advantages...
This video demonstrates the implantation of bilateral phrenic nerve pacing leads using a robotic subxiphoid approach without lung isolation. This approach was utilized because the patient presented with central hypoventilation...
In this Memorial Sloan Kettering series, 11 patients with metastatic DLL3-high pulmonary carcinoid received the DLL3/CD3 bispecific T-cell engager tarlatamab. Eight patients (73 percent) achieved an objective response; all had...
Based on the international multicenter ECLS in Lung Transplantation Registry, this study compared the three surgical approaches to bilateral lung transplantation (BLTx) (clamshell, n=451; isolated bilateral thoracotomies, n=624; and median...
A 63-year-old woman presented with myasthenia crisis and ptosis, for which she was treated with immunoglobulin. Her medical history included type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension, and hypothyroidism. A computed...
