This video demonstrates the technique of using a periareolar incision around the nipple for access to perform endoscopic mitral valve surgery, a method that has been utilized by these authors for 20 years.
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March 16, 2016
In a discussion filmed at the 2015 EACTS Annual Meeting in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, an international panel of experts considers the management of porcelain aorta.
March 15, 2016
This video presents a surgical technique for sequential hepatic resection followed by a transdiaphragmatic lung metastasectomy.
March 14, 2016
This video shows a tricuspid valve replacement in a patient with severe endocarditis.
March 11, 2016
CTSNet is excited to announce the winners of the 2015 Resident Video Competition. Congratulations to Paul Perry, Vivek Srivastava, and Habiba Hashimi on their winning videos!
March 10, 2016
This video show a mitral valve repair in a 64-year-old woman with class III dyspnea and severe mitral regurgitation.
March 9, 2016
This video shows a thoracoscopic superior segmentectomy of the right lower lobe in a patient who had previously undergone resection and chemotherapy for rectal cancer.
March 8, 2016
This video shows a complex robotic-assisted mitral valve repair performed for active endocarditis with persistent bacteremia, fevers, and embolic neurologic events.
March 7, 2016
This video shows a middle lobectomy performed via a uniportal approach on a 55-year-old woman who had previously undergone a right upper lobectomy.
March 4, 2016
Applicants for Active and International Membership in The Society of Thoracic Surgeons won’t have to wait so long to be elected into the Society.
March 3, 2016
This video demonstrates a micropneumonectomy, a technique that uses 5 mm ports in the intercostal space and a subxiphoid incision for the stapler.