Robotic Thoracic Surgery
This article explores the pathways for and challenges and implications of integrating artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled humanoid robotic systems, or embodied AI, into operating rooms (ORs). While AI is being integrated into every area of life...
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,...
This thoracic session features leading surgeons presenting on advancements in robotic and complex thoracic surgery at the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2026. To begin,...
This video demonstrates the case of a 51-year-old female patient with a history of smoking who presented with progressive dyspnea, hemoptysis, and status alteration. Computed tomography (CT) of the chest...
Treating patients with both gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and severe obesity can be challenging. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy alone can exacerbate GERD symptoms and can induce GERD in asymptomatic patients (1)....
Because of the recent advancement in robotic thoracic surgery, this retrospective study aimed to evaluate post-operative chronic pain in robotic versus video-assisted approaches. Although patients who undergo RATS are known...
This quick video documents the first four cases of uniportal robotic surgery taught by Diego Gonalez Rivas in the UK. Patients and surgeons at James Cook University Hospital were very...
A giant mediastinal mass has traditionally been operated on using an open approach. However, a minimally invasive approach can be done with good results. Robotic surgery has been proven...
This video presents a robotic left lateral basilar (S9) segmentectomy. The patient was a fifty-six-year-old female with a sixty-pack-per-year smoking history and a two-year history of left lower lobe nodule...
This video shows a robotic right upper lobectomy in twelve steps with a focus on technique, technical pearls, and anatomy. The patient is a sixty-four-year-old woman with a 10.5 pack-per-year...
A glimpse of what could be a future for surgery……….
...In this article, the authors demonstrate a novel technique of antegrade cardioplegia decannulation using the Cor-Knot system with phenomenal video and description on their case series. This technique has great...
The authors present a procedure performed for a woman who had a peripheral nodule in the lower lobe of her right lung, together with a significant hilar lymphadenopathy, PET-positive, which...







