Lung & Mediastinal
At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, leading surgeons presented on and debated over segmentectomy vs wedge resection. Dr. Alessandro Brunelli, a consultant thoracic surgeon and Honorary Clinical Associate...
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...
The arterial switch operation, combined with the LeCompte maneuver, is the treatment of choice for transposition of great arteries. Right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) obstruction remains one of the most...
This video shows the case of a thirty-eight-year-old patient with a previous history of colonic cancer and Lynch syndrome. She was referred to the thoracic surgery department because of a...
The patient is a six-year-old boy with a known diagnosis of transposition of the great arteries, a ventricular septal defect, and pulmonary stenosis who presented with severe longstanding cyanosis. The...
A fifty-one-year-old female patient was admitted to the hospital for a second opinion regarding surgical intervention. She had been diagnosed with small cell lung carcinoma of the right upper lobe...
This is a recorded session from the 2021 Birmingham Review Course. In this session, five expert thoracic surgeons came together to present on thoracic malignancy and its surgical solutions. In...
This video demonstrates a right upper lobectomy using the ArtiSential wristed instruments to recreate the authors’ approach to robotic surgery. When surgeons do not have access to robotic surgery, these...
Several studies have demonstrated the superiority of pulmonary resections coupled with bronchoplasty due to the possibility of preserving lung parenchyma in the context of a possible pneumonectomy. Likewise, the role...
This video presents a special case of a fissure last lower bilobectomy after an interoperative unilateral pulmonary artery clamping test. This was necessary because preoperative functional evaluation was inconclusive and...












