At the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) 33rd Annual Meeting, Dr. Nuria M. Novoa, Chief of the Department of Thoracic Surgery at University Hospital Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda in Madrid and the 2024-2025 ESTS President, delivered the presidential address titled “Learning and Teaching—A Never Ending Story.”
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June 26, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. David Kalfa, the incoming Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Co-Director of the Heart Institute at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, about allogenic mitral valve transplants.
June 26, 2025
This study evaluated the impact of the interval between diagnosis and surgery on mortality in patients with early-stage non-small cell lunger cancer (NSCLC).
June 26, 2025
This study investigates the prognostic impact of tumor spread through air spaces (STAS) in early-stage synchronous multiple primary lung adenocarcinoma (sMPLA) and its interaction with surgical strategies. Among 131 patients with cT1-3N0M0 sMPLA, STAS was detected in 52 percent, including 16 percent with STAS in both tumors (bi-STAS).
June 26, 2025
This study evaluated the effect of perioperative invasive nodal staging on nodal upstaging in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients undergoing resection.
June 25, 2025
This video demonstrates a case of a triportal, left-sided robotic thymectomy (da Vinci Xi system) performed using the robotic vessel sealer, which enabled fast, effective, and safe dissection of mediastinal structures.
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 24, 2025
This video demonstrates a low-cost method for implementing augmented reality in robotic segmentectomy using open-source software and affordable hardware.
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 19, 2025
This video demonstrates a case of robot-assisted intrapericardial pneumonectomy with bronchoplasty and thymic flap reinforcement for a centrally located, post-neoadjuvant lung adenocarcinoma, highlighting advanced techniques in vascular control and intraoperative decision-making for complex thoracic oncologic surgery.