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Thoracic

October 8, 2025
This video demonstrates a multiportal robotic right upper lobectomy performed with a vein-sparing strategy, in which the superior pulmonary vein was not dissected.
October 7, 2025
This video demonstrates a robotic-assisted left upper lobe sleeve lobectomy for a carcinoid tumor, highlighting the technical aspects of bronchial reconstruction and the favorable postoperative outcome.
October 7, 2025
This video demonstrates a novel technique combining video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery and laparoscopy to repair a large diaphragmatic hernia.
October 6, 2025
This video demonstrates the thoracoscopic resection of a giant right lower lobe tension bulla in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex.
October 3, 2025
At the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) 2025 Annual Conference, Dr. Randall C. Sterling, a Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the Kaufman Center for Heart Failure Treatment and Recovery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, delivered a presentation titled “My Personal Journey With MCS: History and Milestones.”
October 2, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Anders Jeppsson, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, about his paper on “Ticagrelor and Aspirin or Aspirin Alone After Coronary Surgery for Acute Coronary Syndrome,” published in "The New England Journal of Medicine."
October 2, 2025
This video demonstrates the abdominal phase of McKeown’s esophagectomy, which involves a laparoscopic D2 lymphadenectomy to ensure optimal oncologic clearance in carcinoma of the esophagus.
October 2, 2025
This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated whether three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction and virtual simulation improve outcomes in thoracoscopic segmentectomy. Ten studies (n=1,424; 772 3D vs 652 non-3D) were included.
October 1, 2025
This video demonstrates a trisegmentectomy performed in the setting of an anatomical variation, where the B3 bronchus arises from the lingular bronchus.
September 30, 2025
In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. John Puskas, professor of surgery at Emory University, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Emory University Hospital Midtown, and Wilton Looney Director at the Emory Carlyle Fraser Heart Center in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, about proximal coronary anastomosis.

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