Robotic & Endoscopic Cardiac
Thursday, September 17, 2026 – Saturday, September 19, 2026 @ All Day – Formerly the STS Coronary Conference, this event has a new name and is being completely redesigned to create a truly immersive, highly...
This cardiac session features leading surgeons providing updates on complex cardiac surgical interventions at the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2026. To begin, Danny Ramzy,...
This single-center, single-arm prospective trial provides the first clinical safety and effectiveness data for the excimer laser-assisted non-occlusive anastomosis (ELANA) system in constructing the left internal thoracic artery (LITA)-to-left anterior...
Treating patients with both gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and severe obesity can be challenging. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy alone can exacerbate GERD symptoms and can induce GERD in asymptomatic patients (1)....
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 video is part of CTSNet’s 2024 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. A 60-year-old female with a significant history of CREST syndrome,...
In this session from the 2024 London Core Review Cardiothoracic Surgery Course, Dr. Venkatachalam Chandrasekaran discusses minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting (MIDCABG) with a focus on total arterial...
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2024 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. An 81-year-old female patient was admitted for surgical treatment of...
In this new CTSNet President’s Series, Dr. Husam Balkhy, president of ISMICS, showcases cutting-edge, totally endoscopic cardiac procedures from the University of Chicago. Watch for more videos in this series...
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...
The authors present a case of post-myocardial infarction ventricular septal defect repair with coronary artery bypass grafting performed via minimally invasive access—a left anterior minithoracotomy through the fourth intercostal space....
This video is the third-place winner from CTSNet’s 2024 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the other winning videos. Clinical Vignette A 78-year-old male presented with...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning examines future cardiothoracic surgery robotic systems. He discusses the new da Vinci Single-Port surgical system, single-port robotic systems, and the cost...









