Robotic & Endoscopic Cardiac

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March 9, 2026 | Akhil Anil

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...

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September 7, 2022 | Gabriele Romano

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...

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September 6, 2022 | Peyman Sardari Nia

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...

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September 1, 2022 | Cameron LindSilver Contributor

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....

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August 31, 2022 | G. Jett

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...

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August 11, 2022 | Diego Gonzalez RivasBronze Contributor

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...

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August 4, 2022 | Ricardo Terra

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...

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August 4, 2022 | Diego Gonzalez RivasBronze Contributor

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....

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August 3, 2022 | Dominique GossotBronze Contributor

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...