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.
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Thoracic
February 20, 2025
This study reported the initial experiences of 115 patients who underwent robot-assisted thoracic surgery using the da Vinci single-port robotic system. The procedures included thymectomy, mediastinal mass excision, anatomical pulmonary resection, esophagectomy, and esophageal tumor enucleation.
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 20, 2025
This retrospective single-center study evaluates the outcomes of isolated single lung transplants (SLT) (one usable, one declined lung) compared to split SLTs (both lungs are used for different recipients). Approximately 80 percent of lung transplants are bilateral, leading to a paucity of literature on isolated SLT outcomes.
February 20, 2025
This group presents a standardized, step-by-step technique for robotic-assisted lung transplantation. The authors describe port placement strategies, dissection techniques, and sequential anastomosis to optimize surgical precision while minimizing trauma.
February 20, 2025
This video demonstrates the case of a 49-year-old female patient who presented with recurrent pneumonia over the past year with no previous history of lung infections and was diagnosed with intralobar sequestration.
February 19, 2025
At the 2025 STS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Mara Antonoff spoke with Dr. J. W. Awori Hayanga about the importance of evidence-based surgery.
February 18, 2025
This video demonstrates the management of a patient at high risk for recurrent laryngeal nerve injury during esophagectomy with preoperative and postoperative true vocal fold injection.
February 13, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Tom D’Amico, professor and vice chairman of surgery and chief medical officer of the Duke Cancer Institute, about oligometastatic disease.
February 13, 2025
This study explores how disparities between actual and predicted total lung capacity (TLC) in patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD) affect lung function parameters and long-term outcomes after lung transplantation. A total of 170 ILD patients who underwent lung transplantation between 2011 and 2022 were included.