Robotic & Endoscopic Cardiac
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...






