Minimally Invasive Surgery
In this session, cardiothoracic surgery experts gathered to discuss AFib ablation, AF surgery strategies, and the importance of ERAS protocols. These presentations were recorded during the Ancona Minimally Invasive and Trans-Catheter Cardiac Surgery Course on...
The authors present a 75-year-old woman with dyspnea on exertion. She was diagnosed with an aortic valve stenosis and moderate-to-severe mitral valve regurgitation due to a localized A2 prolapse. This...
This cardiac session features leading surgeon Mario Castillo-Sang presenting on intraoperative pearls and pitfalls at the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2026. CTSNet Senior Editor—Cardiac...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Aamir Amin, a cardiothoracic surgery resident at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, UK, about humanoid robots and artificial...
An 8 cm left sub-areolar thoracotomy was performed as the working port. The pericardium was opened vertically over the left ventricular apex and suspended with retraction sutures. Using 3-0 polypropylene...
For high volume surgeons (defined as 20 or more annual lobectomies), the use of a robotic approach had a lower conversion to open rate and a lower complication rate, while...
The 2018 Annual Meeting of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS) took place in Vancouver, Canada, in June. Among the meeting sessions were the Subramanian Innovation Award...
This video shows one of the first totally endoscopic mitral valve repairs using the lateral endoscopic approach with robotics (LEAR) technique performed in the UK, and it follows a patient’s...
Introduction Since the early 1990s, minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS) has evolved worldwide. It started with mitral valve procedures and then gradually expanded toward other valve procedures, coronary artery bypass...
Filmed at the 2018 STS Annual Meeting in Ft Lauderdale, FL, Joel Dunning of the James Cook University Hospital in London, UK, interviews Raja Flores of the Mount Sinai School...
Mitral valve repair is shown to have better survival, better preservation of ventricular function, and decreased thromboembolic complications compared to mitral valve replacement for mitral regurgitation (1-2). The Cardiovascular Institute...
In this video and article, the author details tips and tricks to help practicing surgeons complete a minimally invasive esophagectomy. Position of the PatientThe patient lies supine on the bed...
Did you miss the livestream? View the ISMICS 2018 educational sessions that streamed on CTSNet below: Masters Session: Minimally Invasive Surgical Approaches to Atrial FibrillationAnthony C. DeSouza and Andy C....











