Minimally Invasive Surgery
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Timur Kyashif, a cardiac resident at Jena University Hospital in Jena, Germany, about the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac, and Vascular Surgery Quiz League....
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,...
This video demonstrates a procedure performed for a 56-year-old woman with a cT1BN1M0 stage IIB adenocarcinoma of the left upper lobe. She underwent endobronchial ultrasound for mediastinal staging, which ruled...
The procedure illustrated in this video was performed for a 67-year-old female nonsmoker who presented with hemolysis and a cough. She was found to have a 5 cm centrally-located clinical...
The use of the robotics in thoracic surgery, including segmentectomy, has increased substantially over the last decade. In the authors’ experience, for small pulmonary nodules, pulmonary segmentectomy allows for a...
Minimally invasive surgical management can be performed safely with R0 resection, utilizing the same technique that would be applied through thoracotomy. The robotic platform provides the surgeon with the opportunity...
This video demonstrates the feasibility of a complex double valve repair performed via a right minithoracotomy. The operation is done via a two-inch incision with caval isolation and access to...
Objectives In the past, atrial septal defects (ASD) have been repaired via open heart surgery through a median sternotomy. Recent advances have allowed ASD closure via catheter inserted devices and...
Anterior segment resection of the left upper lobe is rarely performed. It is, however, usually incorporated within resection of the upper three segments of the left upper lobe. A 56-year-old...
Introduction Multifocal lung cancer is an increasingly common clinical scenario, but there is a lack of high-level evidence for its optimal treatment [1]. Staging is an important first step in...










