Robotic & Endoscopic Cardiac
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. Introduction Aneurysm of the right atrial appendage (RAA) is an extremely rare cardiac malformation, typically...
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...
In the newest entry into the CTSNet Guest Editor Series collection, “20 Years After First TAVI: Will the Pace of Innovations Continue for All Heart Valves?” Gry Dahle, MD, PhD...
Gry Dahle, MD, PhD, is a consultant working in department of cardiothoracic and cardiovascular surgery at Oslo University Hospital in Norway. She is a transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) pioneer...
The treatment of superior sulcus tumors (Pancoast tumors) has evolved over the past seventy years. Initial treatment was resection followed by irradiation (1). Now, the established trimodal treatment popularized by...
This video demonstrates a case of a seventy-four-year-old woman found to have persistent primary hyperparathyroidism after bilateral neck exploration, implicating an anterior mediastinal cyst as an ectopic parathyroid adenoma....
A variety of procedures make up CTSNet’s catalog of heart valve content, which has continued to expand as surgeons increasingly focus on perfecting valve surgeries. Read on to explore five...
Total minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy can be a feasible approach in patients with history of multiple intraabdominal surgeries, as demonstrated in the video below. This suggests generalizability of the...
Scimitar syndrome is a rare congenital heart defect that occurs in one to three out of every hundred thousand births. Congenital pulmonary venolobar syndrome and vena cava bronchovascular syndrome are...
The patient was a sixty-one-year-old man with a medical history of coronary artery disease, STEMI treated with a drug-eluting stent in 2014, an abdominal aortic aneurysm, an aortic root...












