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The Cox-Maze procedure is an effective and successful method of surgical ablation. However, for lone atrial fibrillation cases, invasive sternotomy is not feasible. Patients with persistent atrial... More
March 20, 2017
This video shows a sternal reconstruction using a fibula allograft in a 71-year-old with a sternal defect.
March 17, 2017
Filmed at the 2017 STS Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, a panel of allied health providers discuss how ensure a team response to emergencies following cardiac surgery.
March 16, 2017
Robert Rintoul of Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK, reviews the outcomes of major mesothelioma trials, and argues that all mesothelioma surgery is currently palliative.
March 14, 2017
This video presents a uniportal VATS right upper lobe posterior segmentectomy for a pulmonary metastasis.
March 10, 2017
This video shows a thymectomy for a thymic cyst and a wedge resection of a nodule in the right upper lobe. A subxyphoid uniportal VATS approach was used.
March 8, 2017
This video shows a VATS resection of pulmonary sequestration in a previously healthy 55-year-old woman, who presented with chest pain.
March 6, 2017
This video shows a step-by-step approach to a robotic right middle lobectomy with a subxiphoid utility port.
February 28, 2017
This video demonstrates a uniportal left upper lobe lobectomy with a partial pleurectomy.
February 24, 2017
In a discussion filmed at the 2016 EACTS Annual Meeting in Barcelona, Spain, a group of experts consider how CT Surgery allied health professionals can create an evidence-based practice.
February 22, 2017
This video describes a bilateral uniportal VATS resection in a 32-year-old woman.