Robotic & Endoscopic Cardiac
This single-center retrospective study evaluated 61 patients who underwent cardiac surgery after prior transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) during a 10-year period at a high-volume academic center. Cardiac surgery following TAVR was uncommon, accounting for...
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...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Aamir Amin, a cardiothoracic surgery resident at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, UK, about humanoid robots and artificial...
An 8 cm left sub-areolar thoracotomy was performed as the working port. The pericardium was opened vertically over the left ventricular apex and suspended with retraction sutures. Using 3-0 polypropylene...
This article explores the pathways for and challenges and implications of integrating artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled humanoid robotic systems, or embodied AI, into operating rooms (ORs). While AI is being integrated...
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. Robotic harvesting of the left internal mammary artery (LIMA)...
Minimally invasive cardiac surgery is increasingly becoming a standard approach for the treatment of various cardiac pathologies such as aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation. It is also gaining popularity in...
At the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes conducted insightful interviews with leading cardiothoracic surgeons from around the world. Stay tuned for more...
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. The authors present a novel technique utilizing an endoloop...
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is the most common sustained arrhythmia...
Introduction Minimally invasive closure of atrial septal defects (ASD) can be safely achieved using a range of techniques. In pediatric patients, femoral cannulation can be difficult due to the small...
This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. The integration of mixed reality (MR) into robotic thoracic...
In the attached video, a technique for robotically implanting a partial mitral annuloplasty band is described. It was important to anchor the band to the medial and lateral trigones and...










