Robotic & Endoscopic Cardiac
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. Clinical Presentation and Preoperative Course The patient was a 56-year-old male with a history of...
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 shows the case of a thirty-eight-year-old patient with a previous history of colonic cancer and Lynch syndrome. She was referred to the thoracic surgery department because of a...
Severe mitral annular calcification remains a challenge for the mitral valve surgeon. The past decade has introduced promising new technologies in the mitral valve replacement space, and ongoing clinical trials...
An eighty-eight-year-old man with a history of hypertension, pulmonary embolism, prostate cancer, and right hip and femur surgery came to the cardiology clinic with progressive shortness of breath in recent...
This video demonstrates a step-by-step method for transaxillary transcatheter aortic valve implantation. The procedure utilizes the axillary artery, which lies beneath the clavipectoral fascia, medial, below, and lateral to the...
A fifty-one-year-old female patient was admitted to the hospital for a second opinion regarding surgical intervention. She had been diagnosed with small cell lung carcinoma of the right upper lobe...
Costal margin reconstruction is a challenging technique but addresses the needs of slipping rib syndrome patients with complicating features including skeletal hypermobility disorders, multiple ipsilateral slipping ribs, rib deformities, and...
This video demonstrates a right upper lobectomy using the ArtiSential wristed instruments to recreate the authors’ approach to robotic surgery. When surgeons do not have access to robotic surgery, these...
Several studies have demonstrated the superiority of pulmonary resections coupled with bronchoplasty due to the possibility of preserving lung parenchyma in the context of a possible pneumonectomy. Likewise, the role...












