Robotic & Endoscopic Cardiac
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with James Cox, Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, USA, and Patrick McCarthy, Executive Director...
The authors present a case of left atrial tumor excision combined with mitral and tricuspid valve repair and coronary revascularization, performed through a left anterior minithoracotomy in the fourth intercostal...
This talk features Maurice Enriquez-Sarano, a senior research scientist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation’s Valve Science Center, Minnesota, USA, delivering a presentation titled “Mitral Valve Intervention in Asymptomatic Patients:...
In this episode of The Cardiac Recovery Room, moderator Rawn Salenger, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, USA, spoke with T. Sloane Guy,...
This talk features Jae Suk Yoo from the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, and Asan Medical Center, speaking...
Introduction This video shows a clipless technique for internal thoracic artery harvesting during robotic-assisted coronary artery bypass. Patient Data A 49-year-old male presented to the authors with stable angina. Coronary...
In this study, the authors aimed to demonstrate their new approach to mediastinal pathologies with CO₂ insufflation, showing how they preserved both phrenic nerves. In comparison to the uniportal subxphoid...
This video presents the case of a 65-year-old woman with a T2aN0M0 centrally located right upper lobe lung cancer. She had good performance status and excellent pulmonary function. Preoperative bronchoscopy...
This video demonstrates a technique for performing minimally invasive, totally arterial coronary artery bypass grafting on a beating heart. The surgeons used a left-sided minithoracotomy (6-7 cm) in the fifth...
The surgical approach to tumors in the left secondary carina is complex due to their close proximity to the great vessels and the heart. The authors propose that the tumors...
This year, videos related to thoracic and congenital surgery on CTSNet showcased a diverse range of procedures, from step-by-step pulmonary thromboendarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic disease to the Ross procedure using...
This year showcased an impressive variety of innovative clinical videos in cardiac surgery. The most popular videos covered a range of cardiac procedures, from robotic beating-heart totally endoscopic coronary bypass...
This video presents a case of combined endoscopic aortic valve replacement (AVR) and left internal mammary artery (LIMA) to left anterior descending artery (LAD). Patient Profile The patient was a...











