This study propensity-score matched patients from a cohort who underwent resection for stage I or II lung cancer and compared 175 pairs who underwent VATS or open lobectomy. The VATS group experienced shorter hospital length of stay, fewer complications, and more frequent discharge to home. Survival was similar.
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Minimally Invasive
February 2, 2015
January 18, 2015
This is an interesting review of the current status of hybrid coronary revascularization (HCR). The authors discuss the merits and disadvantages of simultaneous versus staged procedures and describe the individual components of HCR. They also analyze the current evidence with regards to results and suggest indications for this type of therapy.
January 12, 2015
This article shows that MIMVS is a safe approach with low morbidity and mortality that allows a high and durable repair rate with low reoperation rates and favorable short-term event-free survival
January 10, 2015
This study randomized 100 patients with AS to full sternotomy AVR with a conventional prothesis or hemisternotomy with a rapid deployment prosthesis. CPB times were similar, but Ao crossclamp times were 24% shorter in the rapid deployment group. Acute outcomes were similar. The rapid deployment group had a lower transvalvular gradient and a lower
December 16, 2014
This video demonstrates the technique for performing a robot-assisted mediastinal mass resection for a bronchogenic cyst, and touches upon the pre-operatives studies, patient positioning, operative technique, and post-operative outcome.
December 10, 2014
Andrew Goodwin of James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, discusses the MAVRIC trial, which is focused on the minimally-invasive manubrium-limited AVR procedure.
December 1, 2014
This video demonstrates a technique for a right video-assisted pneumonectomy.
November 12, 2014
This video presents the case of a 52-year-old man who was found to have a leaking bicuspid aortic valve and a 5.2 cm aneurysm extending from the aortic root to the proximal arch.
October 23, 2014
Hugo Vanermen of the University of Leuven, Belgium, discusses an operative video demonstrating a minimally invasive mitral valve repair of a bi-leaflet prolapse.
October 15, 2014
Otto Dapunt of the Medical University of Graz, Austria, discusses the use of sutureless prostheses in minimally invasive aortic valve replacement.