This video describes each step of a lung donor retrieval for lung transplant.
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Thoracic
October 21, 2022
Lung transplant is a potentially life-saving option for patients with Covid-19-induced acute respiratory distress and pulmonary fibrosis. This study set out to determine whether Covid-19 lung transplant patients had comparable outcomes to other lung transplant recipients with similar lung function.
October 21, 2022
Because of the major developments in the treatment of esophageal cancer in recent decades, the authors of this study conducted it at a tertiary referral center to determine if long- and short-term survival rates had improved for patients who underwent esophagectomy from 1993 to 2018.
October 20, 2022
This video shows a right VATS radical thymectomy using a subxiphoid approach for a suspected thymoma associated with myasthenia gravis.
October 17, 2022
This video shows a robotic right upper lobectomy with a focus on technique, technical pearls, and anatomy.
October 13, 2022
With the aim to compare the pain medicines bupivacaine and liposomal bupivacaine, minimally invasive lobectomy patients were randomly assigned to either medicine and monitored after surgery. Both postoperative pain level and treatment cost were compared.
October 13, 2022
This article presents a novel andragogical approach to graduate and undergraduate medical education tailored to younger technologically inclined generations, applied to cardiothoracic surgery.
October 12, 2022
This video gives tips and tricks in uniportal S10 segmentectomy utilizing indocyanine green (ICG), detailed explanation of the procedure, and tips for instruments used.
October 10, 2022
This video illustrates the background and technique of robotic selective sympathectomy.
October 6, 2022
In conducting the largest study to date supporting the current medical consensus that recommends surgery only for patients with a thoracic aneurysm that is 5.5 centimeters or larger, the authors found that the overall risk for patients below that standard is low.