Lung & Mediastinal
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Isaac George, CTSNet Board Member and Co-Director of the Structural Heart and Valve Center, Surgical Director of Structural Heart Disease, and Co-Director of...
This video demonstrates the case of a 51-year-old female patient with a history of smoking who presented with progressive dyspnea, hemoptysis, and status alteration. Computed tomography (CT) of the chest...
Mediastinal lipomas are benign, slow-growing masses that can present as large masses due to their insidious onset (1). Symptoms associated with these lipomas are generally due to mass effect, such...
The video begins with an interview featuring thoracic surgeon and CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning and Dr. Leanne Ashrafian, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Guy’s Hospital in London, United Kingdom, interviewing the...
A 69-year-old female smoker (82 pack years) was incidentally diagnosed with a left lung tumor. Imaging revealed an 18×18×10 mm lower-lobe nodule and a 24×30 mm hypermetabolic interbronchial lymph node...
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2024 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. The patient was a 38-year-old male with a history of...
In this month’s episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Thomas D’Amico about VATS lobectomy. They discuss the set-up, patient positioning, port placement, dissection of hilar...
This is the winning video from the 2024 CTSNet Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the second and third place winners. Click here to watch Dr....
Patient Selection The main indication for thoracic truncal vagotomy is recalcitrant marginal ulcer following previous gastric surgery (1,2). This procedure helps reduce gastric acid production, promoting ulcer healing and preventing...
Bronchopulmonary sequestration is a benign, uncommon pulmonary anomaly characterized by the presence of a mass separated from the normal bronchopulmonary tree and a systemic aortic arterial blood supply (1). Intralobar...
In this month’s episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Kim Thompson about cardiopulmonary bypass. They discuss cardiopulmonary bypass setup, the equipment—cannulas, reservoir container, pumps, heat...
Minimally invasive thoracic approaches are usually not recommended in redo procedures when severe adhesions are expected. However, in cases involving complex adhesions of the apex of the chest, particularly with...
The chest was opened, and a self-retaining retractor was placed for adequate exposure. The aorta was exposed, and the patient was administered 300 units/kg of heparin. Venous cannulation utilized a...








