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A forty-seven-year-old woman presented multiple times with a reoccurring bronchopleural fistula and post-pneumonectomy multi-drug resistant empyema. In challenging cases like this, a... More
October 11, 2014
EACTS President Paul Van Schil and Past President Jose Pomar discuss exciting aspects and special features of the 2014 EACTS Annual Meeting taking place in Milan, Italy.
October 8, 2014
Stephen Yang of Johns Hopkins discusses the importance of mentorship in cardiothoracic surgery. Dr. Yang encourages fellow surgeons to become active mentors to medical students as well as CT surgery residents, and shares advice for mentoring millennials.
September 25, 2014
This video demonstrates a VATS lobectomy on a 54-year-old female patient with localized bronchiectasis.
September 18, 2014
Victor Trastek, Professor of Surgery at the Mayo Clinic, discusses the importance of professionalism and mentoring in healthcare, with an emphasis on thoracic surgery.
September 8, 2014
This video shows a 3 cm single incision VATS left-lower lobectomy and lymph node dissection for non-small cell carcinoma.
September 4, 2014
This video shows a lobectomy with a video thoracoscope on a 72-year-old male patient with right upper lobe lung squamous cell cancer.
August 26, 2014
This video demonstrates a single incision VATS cystotomy and cappitonage for a 15 cm hydatid cyst.
August 20, 2014
This video demonstrates a VATS right upper lobectomy in a patient with previous esophageal and breast cancer.
August 5, 2014
This video demonstrates the use of three-dimensional surgical simulation-guided navigation during surgery of the chest wall.
July 31, 2014
This article describes bronchial thermoplasty, a novel treatment option in uncontrolled severe asthma. The procedure targets reducing the hypertrophied smooth muscle in the airways, which is considered to be part of the pathophysiology of and contributor to asthma symptoms.