Robotic & Endoscopic Cardiac

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March 10, 2026 | Sameh SaidGold ContributorSilver Commentor

An 8-month-old boy with a functional single ventricle secondary to double outlet right ventricle with severe pulmonary stenosis and hypoplastic left ventricle was deemed unsuitable for biventricular repair at this stage. Due to progressive cyanosis,...

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September 29, 2022 | Farid Gharagozloo

Although robotic thoracic surgery is associated with lower pain-related morbidity, it is important to address pain in a patient undergoing robotic thoracic surgery as diligently as a patient undergoing any...

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September 26, 2022 | Jury Brandolini

A seventy-five-year-old man, also a heavy smoker, was admitted with an incidental finding of a lesion in the right upper lobe (RUL) near the right main bronchus. A PET scan...

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September 22, 2022 | Jessica Magarinos

A seventy-one-year-old male presented with local recurrence after a right apical posterior segmentectomy three years prior. The staging workup was consistent with localized disease, and he was deemed a...

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September 20, 2022 | Benjamin Waterhouse

This video shows a uniportal robotic right lower lobectomy. The surgeons used uniportal robotic surgery, which represents a fusion of the advantages of uniportal VATS and robotic surgery, including wristed...

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September 15, 2022 | Diego Gonzalez RivasBronze Contributor

This interview with Diego Gonzalez Rivas, performed during his recent visit to the James Cook University Hospital in the UK, covers the evolution of his new technique to combine uniportal...

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September 14, 2022 | Cameron LindSilver Contributor

Over the past few years, CTSNet has published dozens of informative articles and videos on minimally invasive cardiac surgery. Minimally invasive techniques can be applied to mitral valve repair and...

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September 13, 2022 | Diego Gonzalez RivasBronze Contributor

Diego Gonzalez Rivas and Mugurel Bosânceanu visited James Cook University Hospital in the UK in order to demonstrate the novel technique of uniportal thoracic robotic surgery that they have been...

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September 8, 2022 | Farid Gharagozloo

Although laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication is the most common procedure for hiatal hernia (HH) repair, HH recurrence because of the breakdown of the hiatoplasty and intrathoracic migration of the wrap has...