Robotic & Endoscopic Cardiac
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Expert Consensus Document (2026) on Addressing Definition and Practices of Sublobar Resection in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) provides evidence-based recommendations to guide the rapidly increasing use of sublobar...
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 week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Aamir Amin, a cardiothoracic surgery resident at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, UK, about humanoid robots and artificial...
An 8 cm left sub-areolar thoracotomy was performed as the working port. The pericardium was opened vertically over the left ventricular apex and suspended with retraction sutures. Using 3-0 polypropylene...
This article explores the pathways for and challenges and implications of integrating artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled humanoid robotic systems, or embodied AI, into operating rooms (ORs). While AI is being integrated...
Click here to view all videos from the 2025 London Core Review Cardiothoracic Surgery Course and register for the 2026 session below. In this session from the 2025 London Core...
A 53-year-old female patient had a known diagnosis of a tricuspid valve Ebstein’s anomaly, characterized by elongated septal and posterior leaflets that resulted in moderate regurgitation seven years before the...
A 4-year-old boy who had been followed for a ventricular septal defect (VSD) and remained asymptomatic had a follow-up echocardiogram that showed enlargement of his cardiac chambers secondary to a...
Click here to view all videos from the 2025 London Core Review Cardiothoracic Surgery Course and register for the 2026 session below. In this session from the 2025 London Core...
In this interview, Dr. Mario Castillo-Sang, CTSNet Senior Editor—Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery and Surgical Director of Mitral Valve and Heart Failure Therapies at St. Elizabeth Healthcare in Edgewood, Kentucky, USA,...
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. In this video, the authors demonstrate a robotic-assisted thoracoscopic resection...
A 51-year-old nonsmoking female presented with recurrent pneumonia and a persistent cough. A chest computed tomography (CT) demonstrated an obstructive lesion in the left lower lobe bronchus with hyperinflation of...
Click here to view all videos from the 2025 London Core Review Cardiothoracic Surgery Course and register for the 2026 session below. In this session from the 2025 London Core...










