Robotic & Endoscopic Cardiac
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 into every area of life...
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 clinical video provides a detailed, step-by-step overview of the robotic-assisted convergent (ROK AF) procedure for the treatment of atrial fibrillation. The technique combines minimally invasive epicardial ablation with endocardial...
The patient was a 77-year-old man who presented with progressive shortness of breath. Coronary angiography demonstrated significant proximal left anterior descending artery stenosis, proximal left circumflex artery stenosis, and posterior...
Introduction The authors present a right-sided robotic resection of an enlarging anterior mediastinal mass, emphasizing the operative strategy, anatomic landmarks, and key decision points. Clinical Presentation and Workup A 54-year-old...
This video demonstrates a robotic-assisted, right-sided minimally invasive coronary artery bypass using the right internal thoracic artery (RITA) to the right coronary artery (RCA) in a patient with an anomalous...
Case Presentation A 31-year-old female presented with recurrent pneumonias and progressive shortness of breath attributed to suspected congenital lobar emphysema of the left upper lobe. She was initially evaluated by...
Case Presentation A 55-year-old female was evaluated for a large, asymptomatic Morgagni hernia containing the transverse colon and a significant portion of the greater omentum that had been incidentally noted...
This video presents the case of a 67-year-old man with situs inversus totalis who underwent a robotic-assisted right upper lobe segmentectomy, specifically a culminectomy, for the treatment of lung cancer....
Pulmonary mucoepidermoid carcinoma (PMEC) is a rare salivary-gland–type endobronchial malignancy in children and may present with recurrent unilateral infections despite a deceptively subtle chest radiograph. The authors present an educational...











