Diaphragm
The patient in this case is a sixty-year-old woman with increasing shortness of breath, especially in a horizontal position. She was diagnosed with right-sided diaphragmatic paralysis. Surgeons suspected trauma or a viral infection to be...
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 panel discussion, surgeons Leanne Ashrafian and Andrea Bille, both consultant thoracic surgeons in the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Guy’s St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, join Ammara Watkins,...
Diaphragmatic defects involving the central tendon are uncommon and may present diagnostic uncertainty, particularly when identified incidentally on imaging. Surgical management can be technically challenging due to attenuated tissue quality...
The patient in this case is a sixty-year-old woman with increasing shortness of breath, especially in a horizontal position. She was diagnosed with right-sided diaphragmatic paralysis. Surgeons suspected trauma or...
In the last EACTS meeting celebrated in Milan, presented by A. Kerr nee Bradley and colleagues from Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, are the first data in humans showing the improvement in...
This video demonstrates a VATS diaphragm plication. The patient had phrenic nerve paralysis of the left hemidiaphragm from an unknown cause. The patient had to give up his job due...
Introduction The Novalung Interventional Lung Assist (iLA) device is a membrane ventilator that allows for oxygen and carbon dioxide gas exchange to occur by simple diffusion. It has been used...
Introduction Chordomas are rare, slow-growing neoplasms derived from notochord remnants which form the early spine in fetal development. Most of the notochord is replaced by spine during the first six...
Patient Selection Figure 1. Barium swallow demonstrating a giant paraesophageal hernia. Gastroesophageal reflux disease is extremely common in North America. The majority of these patients will have a simple type...
In 1932, the radiologist Henry Pancoast first described a superior pulmonary sulcus tumor (SST) as a carcinoma (of uncertain origin) developing in the apex of the chest. Patient Selection In...
Introduction Pericardial cysts are an uncommon benign congenital anomaly in the middle mediastinum. They represent 6% of mediastinal masses, and 33% of mediastinal cysts. Other cysts in the mediastinum are...
Hemodynamically stable patients with an undiagnosed pericardial effusion are well suited for a thoracoscopic window. When pericardial, pleural, or pulmonary pathology co-exist and require diagnosis or therapy, a thoracoscopic approach...








