In this month’s episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Thomas D'Amico about VATS lobectomy.
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Minimally Invasive
March 25, 2025
This video demonstrates the clinical case of post-myocardial infarction ventricular septal defect repair with coronary artery bypass grafting performed through a left anterior minithoracotomy via the fourth intercostal space.
March 21, 2025
This video demonstrates a robotic transatrial implantation of a balloon-expandable valve in the mitral position in the setting of severe mitral annular calcification.
March 18, 2025
This video shows the case of a minimally invasive esophagectomy for stage III gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma following permanent dual esophageal stent placement.
March 13, 2025
This study aimed to compare the clinical and echocardiographic long-term results of edge-to-edge (E-to-E) repair and neochordal repair, both associated with ring annuloplasty, for isolated anterior mitral leaflet lesions using propensity match analysis.
March 6, 2025
In this episode of The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning examines surgical staplers. He explores the history of surgical staplers, the evolution of surgical staplers, and discusses the company that created the first automated minimally invasive surgical stapler—United States Surgical Corporation (USSC).
March 6, 2025
This video demonstrates robotic thoracic truncal vagotomy for the treatment of recalcitrant marginal ulcers after gastric surgery.
March 4, 2025
Off-pump aortic arch debranching via upper ministernotomy, combined with endovascular procedures, offers a minimally invasive alternative to full sternotomy and cardiopulmonary bypass for treating aortic arch aneurysms, as demonstrated in a 72-year-old patient who underwent successful same-day interventions and experienced an uneventful recovery.
February 26, 2025
This video shows the details of robotic totally endoscopic CryoMaze ablation for atrial fibrillation under moderate hypothermic ventricular fibrillatory arrest.
February 20, 2025
In this episode of The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Husam Balkhy, Professor of Surgery and the Director of Robotic and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery at University of Chicago Medicine and President of ISMICS, about robotic totally endoscopic cardiac surgery procedures.