This video demonstrates a robotic mitral valve repair, biatrial CryoMaze procedure, left atrial appendage closure, and patent foramen ovale closure.
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Minimally Invasive
February 26, 2026
February 25, 2026
CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Karan Shekar, a cardiac surgery resident at the Narayana Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Bommasandra, Bangalore, India, about his winning video, “Robotic-Assisted Repair of Supracardiac Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return.”
February 19, 2026
This video demonstrates a right uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery and right upper lobe sleeve lobectomy for a case of synchronous right upper lobe carcinoid tumor and lung adenocarcinoma.
February 13, 2026
In this session from the 2025 London Core Review Cardiothoracic Surgery Course, Dr. Borut Gersak, Professor of Surgery at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and Chief Medical Officer of Corcym, delivered a presentation titled “The Landscape of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery.”
February 12, 2026
In this randomized trial of 300 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery, endoscopic radial artery harvest was compared with open harvest.
February 11, 2026
This video demonstrates the case of an adult patient with Ebstein anomaly who underwent tricuspid valve repair through a minimally invasive approach at a tertiary cardiovascular hospital as part of an international cardiac surgery program in the Xiamen Cardiovascular Hospital.
February 10, 2026
This video demonstrates the technical aspects of repairing multiple heart defects in a child, including double-chambered right ventricle, ventricular septal defect closure, and subaortic membrane resection, all through a minimally invasive right axillary thoracotomy approach.
February 6, 2026
In this session from the 2025 London Core Review Cardiothoracic Surgery Course, Dr. Pieter Kappetein delivered a presentation on “Future-Forward Cardiac Surgery: Device Innovation, Leadership Dynamics, and Surgeon Training.”
February 5, 2026
In this nationwide retrospective cohort study, the authors evaluated outcomes of minimally invasive lobectomy (MIL) vs stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) in 2,183 patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated between 2014 and 2016. After propensity score weighting, overall survival differed by clinical subgroups.
February 4, 2026
In this interview, Dr. Mario Castillo-Sang discusses endoscopic cardiac surgery with Drs. Giacomo Bianchi, Markus Kofler, and Patrick Perier.