Robotic & Endoscopic Cardiac
At the 2026 American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Joel Dunning, a cardiothoracic surgeon at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, UK, engaged in a discussion with Dr. Husam Balkhy,...
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 week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Brian Houseman about VATS vs robotic lobectomy. They discuss training programs, the speed and efficiency of VATS, advanced...
The patient was a 27-year-old female with a history of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and Ehlers Danlos syndrome who presented with dysphagia to solids since 2021. Her work up was...
In this video, Dr. Vince Gaudiani demonstrates how to perform an Onyx Chord-X chordal repair of a P1 prolapse. He began by cannulating the femoral vein and then performed an...
In this video Dr. Vince Gaudiani demonstrates how to perform an Onyx Chord-X chordal repair of a prolapsing medial commissure of the mitral valve in a 44-year-old woman with severe...
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...
In this video, Dr. Vince Gaudiani demonstrates how to perform an Onyx Chord-X chordal repair for a P2/P3 prolapse. He began by cannulating the femoral vein, then performed an upper...
In this video, Dr. Vince Gaudiani demonstrates how to perform a simple chordal repair of a P2 prolapse. He began by cannulating the femoral vein, then performed an upper ministernotomy,...
A 76-year-old male was incidentally noted to have a 2 cm left upper lobe lung nodule at the interface of the lingula and anterior segment. The nodule was PET avid,...










