Robotic & Endoscopic Cardiac
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. This video demonstrates a tailored reparative strategy for a 58-year-old male who presented with severe...
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 internal thoracic artery (ITA) harvesting in a skeletal technique through left anterior thoracotomy access using an harmonic synergy combination hook blade. The use of the harmonic synergy...
Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery: A Practical GuideTheo Kofidis, EditorCRC Press, Boca Raton, 2021ISBN 1498736467, 496 pages, $200.00 (USD) Cardiac surgeons do not read books with the same fervour as they...
When Dr. Dominique Gossot embarked on his program in segmentectomy ten years ago, he found that despite his extensive experience in thoracic surgery, his knowledge of pulmonary anatomy was lacking....
Low-dose CT chest screening for patients at high risk for lung cancer has increased the detection of small peripheral nodules (1), but traditional bronchoscopy limits the ability to biopsy these...
This video displays a uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (URATS) left upper sleeve lobectomy for a carcinoid tumor (live surgery from Brasilia, Brazil, on July 14, 2022). The tumor was in...
A sixty-year-old woman underwent a chest computerized tomography (CT) scan during the timeframe of a flu frame and a suspected COVID-19 infection. From the CT scan, a pulmonary nodule in...
A segmentectomy is typically defined as a sublobar anatomic resection containing one segment or a group of segments. The treatment takes an individual approach of the artery, vein, and bronchus....
This video addresses a segmental anatomy operation, which is a key point in segmentectomies performed via video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) or robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS). In this case, the anatomical...






