Lung & Mediastinal
This International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) consensus statement formalizes the definition, diagnostic framework, and therapeutic approach for acute lung allograft dysfunction (ALAD). Recognizing the need to standardize acute, potentially reversible graft function...
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...
Conventional robotic-assisted subxiphoid thymectomy provides excellent visualization to both the phrenic nerve and the superior horn of the thymus gland, allowing the surgeon to effectively perform a radical thymectomy. However,...
This video shows a 55-year-old patient who underwent an open pulmonary valvotomy in 1967. He presented with a 10cm right atrium, free pulmonary regurgitation, tricuspid regurgitation, and mitral regurgitation. First,...
In this month’s episode of The Atrium, Dr. Alice Copperwheat explores chest drains with Leanne Ashrafian, thoracic surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor. They discuss patient considerations, equipment used, positioning of...
The patient was a 34-year-old male from Syria who presented with an incidental finding on his chest X-ray during a visa work up. Further testing revealed a 7.5 x 7.5...
The minimally invasive approach has been utilized to correct numerous congenital cardiac anomalies, such as ASD, Partial AV canal, Subaortic web resection, VSD, and PAPVC with good results (1). This...
A 64-year-old woman with a history of Stage IIIA adenocarcinoma of the left lower lobe underwent robotic-assisted left lower lobectomy and mediastinal node dissection in 2016, followed by adjuvant chemotherapy....
Introduction Common arterial trunk (CAT) requires early surgical treatment to prevent high mortality and morbidity rates. The unopposed pulmonary overflow accelerates the deleterious effects of left-to-right shunting. Moreover, unprotected pulmonary...
Since the publication of the results of the CheckMate 816 trial (1), neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy has been introduced as a standard of care for stage IB-IIIA resectable NSCLC without mutations. The...








