This video demonstrates a robotic excision of a parathyroid adenoma in the mediastinum sitting adjacent to a patent LIMA graft from a previous CABG.
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Thoracic
February 21, 2018
February 21, 2018
A well-written, brief, pessimistic editorial on the loss of surgeon autonomy in innovation.
February 19, 2018
This video demonstrates a subcostal biportal VATS right lower lobectomy performed as a day surgery.
February 18, 2018
An interesting article describing the interface between medical 3D printing and art. It briefly outlines current and future applications, and it also describes constraints to the use of this technology.
February 17, 2018
An FDA advisory committee voted 6-4 against expanding approved indications for liposomal bupivicaine for regional pain control after surgery. This drug is a central element in many institutions' Enhanced Recovery After Surgery programs. They cited inconsistent results, failure to provide comparative results, and increased deaths associated with the
February 17, 2018
A balanced comment on the occasion of the latest retrospective nonrandomised Coselli report on redo thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms (TAAAs).
February 14, 2018
Interesting article commenting on the perception that some remedies in medicine are so obviously beneficial that testing their effectiveness is a waste of time. As it turns out, many of what physicians think are "slam dunk" remedies have mixed or negative results.
February 12, 2018
This video demonstrates a laparoscopic total gastrectomy and omentectomy with roux-en-y reconstruction.
February 7, 2018
Filmed at the 2017 STS Annual Meeting, Blair Marshall, Virginia Litle, Andrea Wolf, and Mara Antonoff discuss the experience of motherhood as cardiothoracic surgeons.
February 5, 2018
This video demonstrates an open window thoracostomy, performed for a broncopleural fistula that occurred three months after a left pneumonectomy.