Minimally Invasive Surgery
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...
In this single-center propensity-matched analysis of 659 patients undergoing minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB), bilateral internal mammary artery grafting achieved short- and mid-term clinical outcomes comparable to single...
This talk features Joerg Kempfert, Senior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center, Berlin, Germany, presenting on “Endoscopic Team Training and Surgeon Mentorship: My Personal...
A 27-year-old male previously underwent bilateral T2–T3 sympathicotomy for severe palmar hyperhidrosis. Compensatory hyperhidrosis involving the trunk developed one year after the initial procedure and progressively became debilitating. Seven years...
CTSNet hosted a webinar on September 15, 2026, titled “The TAVR Heart Team in 2026: Navigating the CMS Decision,” featuring leading surgeons Tom B. Nguyen, Michael Mack, and Tsuyoshi Kaneko,...
The patient was a 38-year-old man with dyspnea on exertion class II and severe mitral regurgitation seen on transthoracic echocardiography. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) revealed a flail A2/A3 segment and...
The patient was a 65-year-old man with a newly identified systolic murmur in the mitral position on routine examination, who was asymptomatic without history of atrial fibrillation, pulmonary hypertension, or...
A number of interesting findings in early follow up of this randomized controlled trial on one type of transcatheter aortic valve against conventional surgery: the mechanics of the valve and...
The institution-specific uptake of VATS for lung cancer resection in the US Veterans Affairs system was evaluated over the past 15 years. Uptake more than tripled during the study period,...
This video shows a complex mitral valve repair using a modification of the Leipzig loop technique (1) with a modular Gore-Tex neochord system to address the anterior and the posterior...
Gaetano Rocco of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, USA, discusses the future of minimally invasive thoracic surgery. He proposes that improved training and educational tools for...
The authors present the repair of a ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm via a right anterior minithoracotomy. The patient presented with sinus tachycardia, a grade 4/6 pansystolic murmur, and bilateral...
A very useful synopsis of treatment strategies for a vexing lethal condition.
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