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.
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June 26, 2025
June 5, 2025
This study investigated the long-term outcomes of hardware removal (HR) in patients who had previously undergone surgical fixation for blunt chest trauma, with a median of 11.5 rib fractures stabilized per patient. A retrospective review spanning 2017 to 2023 was performed, with follow-up assessments conducted approximately 28 months after HR.
May 29, 2025
This video demonstrates a successful radical resection of a chest wall chondrosarcoma in a 70-year-old patient.
May 22, 2025
This case report demonstrates the case of a 16-year-old male with no past medical history who initially presented for evaluation of xiphodynia. An incidental finding on a preoperative computed tomography scan revealed a 2.0 cm x 2.5 cm sternal foramen in the lower third of his sternum.
May 15, 2025
This systematic review evaluated bar displacement following pectus excavatum repair focusing on studies assessing risk factors, stabilization methods, and reoperation strategies. Thirteen studies spanning 23 years were included, revealing bar displacement rates ranging from 0.9 percent to 33.3 percent.
April 18, 2025
This video demonstrates the successful surgical correction of severe pectus excavatum with hemodynamic repercussions in a 37-year-old female athlete using the cross-bar technique and cryoanalgesia for pain management.
March 27, 2025
This study assessed the impact of preoperative airflow limitation, stratified by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) stages, on outcomes after open thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA) repair.
February 25, 2025
In this month’s episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. David Taggart about internal mammary artery harvesting
February 20, 2025
This study compared perioperative and oncological outcomes between modified subxiphoid video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) thymectomy and median sternotomy thymectomy for locally advanced thymic malignancies.
February 13, 2025
This video describes the case of a symptomatic thoracic schwannoma (40 x 37 mm in diameter) arising from the ninth left intercostal space in a patient already diagnosed with schwannomatosis.