At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, Dr. Ruggero De Paulis, professor and Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the Europe Hospital in Italy, delivered a presentation titled “Do Sutureless and Rapid Deployment Prostheses Facilitate the Adoption of Minimal Access Cardiac Surgery?”
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Minimally Invasive
July 4, 2025
July 3, 2025
This video demonstrates that utilizing indocyanine green during minimally invasive surgery for pulmonary sequestration allows for maximal parenchymal preservation.
July 3, 2025
This retrospective single-center study evaluated the impact of 3D airway reconstruction on planning tracheobronchial stent insertion for malignant central airway obstruction (MCAO) in 136 patients from 2012 to 2024. Forty patients underwent stenting with preoperative 3D reconstruction, while 96 had standard planning.
July 3, 2025
This is a book review of Dr. Joseph Zacharias’s book, “Endoscopic Cardiac Surgery.”
June 26, 2025
Surgeons at Baylor St Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, Texas, successfully performed the first robotic heart transplant in the U.S. without opening the chest, using small abdominal incisions. This minimally invasive procedure reduced trauma, blood loss, and infection risk, allowing for quicker recovery.
June 24, 2025
In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Faisal Bakaeen, Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Director of the Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Center at the Cleveland Clinic, about radial artery harvesting.
June 20, 2025
At the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2025, President Husam H. Balkhy presented “Patience, Passion, and Persistence in the Pursuit of Robotic Cardiac Surgery.”
June 17, 2025
This video demonstrates a totally endoscopic mitral valve replacement using a transcatheter device in a patient who previously underwent mitral commissirotomy.
June 12, 2025
This unique case involved a 5-month-old, 6 kg infant who presented with failure to thrive secondary to a large membranous ventricular septal defect (VSD) with a large left-to-right shunt.
June 10, 2025
This video demonstrates a combined surgical intervention involving aortic valve replacement, mitral valve repair, and tricuspid valve repair through a single minimally invasive approach— a right anterior thoracotomy in the third intercostal space.