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In this video, Diego Gonzalez Rivas demonstrates his new uniportal technique for robotic thoracic surgery, marking the first time this procedure was performed in the United Kingdom.
October 3, 2022
This video presents a case of an off pump re-do CABG using a recycled LIMA graft in combination with the right internal mammary artery and the right gastroepiploic artery.
September 30, 2022
A roundup of the most popular CTSNet articles from September 2022.
September 29, 2022
This video demonstrates the technique for placement of subpleural On-Q catheters for prolonged continuous infusion of local anesthetic following robotic thoracic surgery.
September 28, 2022
The frozen elephant trunk procedure has evolved immensely in the past few years. For your viewing convenience, we have gathered a list of CTSNet's most popular content involving the procedure.
September 27, 2022
This video shows the technique of double annular enlargement for aortic and mitral valve replacement in a fifteen-year-old boy. The principle of the procedure is based on combined extended Manouguian and Guiraudon incisions to provide adequate enlargement of both aortic and mitral annuli.
September 22, 2022
A seventy-one-year-old man with biopsy-proven right upper lobe adenocarcinoma and a prior surgical history of right upper lobe apical posterior segmentectomy underwent a robotic assisted extrapleural completion lobectomy.
September 21, 2022
Aortic dissection is a life-threatening condition, and it is important to understand how to manage it in the varying circumstances under which it can occur. This informative collection of videos, published over the last couple of years on CTSNet, features a wide variety of procedures involving the repair of aortic dissection.
September 20, 2022
This video shows a uniportal robotic right lower lobectomy for a large right lower lobe tumor.
September 19, 2022
This technique of right axillary artery cannulation—inserting the inflow cannula through the Dacron graft into the vessel—improves arterial inflow and reduces the incidence of complications.
September 19, 2022
This episode of Brompton Grand Rounds features Nasser Altorki, professor of cardiothoracic surgery and the Director of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center with expertise in minimally invasive lung and esophageal surgery in the US. In this video, he discusses sub-lobar resection for lung cancer.