Robotic Thoracic 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....
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Traves Crabtree, Professor and Chair of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Medical Director of the Surgical Skills Laboratory...
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...
This study evaluated the Autonomous Blood Drawing Optimization and Performance Testing (ADOPT) trial, which assessed the performance, safety, and patient experience of an autonomous robotic phlebotomy device (ARPD) utilizing multimodal...
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 narrated video, Choe and Park present the case of a 56-year old woman with T3N0M0 lung cancer, who underwent robotic lobectomy with concomitant chest wall resection.
...This video demonstrates a robot-assisted upper left lobectomy as surgical treatment for a patient with a lung adenocarcinoma that had been previously submitted to immunotherapy. It was performed with the...
In this surgical video, Durand presents a four-arm robotic sleeve right upper lobectomy and node harvest. The patient was a 60-year old man who had been diagnosed with a proximal...
Melfi and colleagues present a keynote lecture outlining the evolution of robotic thoracic surgery. The robotic technique in thoracic surgery has progressively become widespread, particularly for the treatment of mediastinal...
This presentation is about a robotic S9-S10 segmentectomy assisted by a multimodal reconstruction imaging system. In the literature, several series report experiences of robot-assisted segmentectomy for benign or malignant pathologies....
Buitrago and Restrepo report the largest series to date from Latin America of patients undergoing robot-assisted thoracic surgery. A total of 69 patients underwent robot-assisted procedures with 47 undergoing pulmonary...
Find it here: The SCTS “Take on the Experts” Video Competition On Tuesday, March 12, the top four cardiac and top three thoracic videos submitted for this session of the...
The authors demonstrate a robotic right lower lobectomy with utilization of subxiphoid assistant port. The patient was a 73-year-old man who underwent surgery for a 35 mm lung nodule secondary...




