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This video illustrates how surgeons decide on the method, either ipsilateral or contralateral, for placing an extracardiac conduit in a patient with right isomerism, left-sided IVC, and apicocaval... More
July 13, 2016
Shanda Blackmon of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, gives an in-depth talk on the prevention and management of intraoperative events during VATS lobectomies.
July 12, 2016
This video shows the reconstruction of the pulmonary artery in an 8-year-old girl, who had undergone repair of truncus arteriosus at the age of one.
July 11, 2016
The authors present a video showing a VATS left lower lobectomy for bronchiectasis.
July 7, 2016
Computer-assisted surgery and intraoperative navigation are novel tools used to enhance patient treatment and surgical safety.
July 6, 2016
What effect has the SYNTAX trial had on practice in Europe? Philippe Kolh reviews the trial and its guidelines.
July 5, 2016
This video demonstrates the technique for performing a trans-thoracic robot-assisted esophageal diverticulectomy and Heller myotomy.
July 4, 2016
This video demonstrates the use of a ring-reinforced ePTFE graft placed in the right ventricle through a limited ventriculotomy for the treatment of hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
June 30, 2016
The authors performed a combined atrial myxoma resection with bypass grafting, using a right minithoracotomy approach. The case demonstrates the feasibility of combined minimally invasive heart surgery procedures (MICS).
June 29, 2016
Joe Bavaria, current President of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and Vice Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delivers an informative talk on hybrid approaches to aortic arch aneurysm repair.
June 28, 2016
This video shows a uniportal subxiphoid lobectomy in a patient with a proven adenocarcinoma of the middle lobe.