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Resident Video Competition 2021
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The CTSNet Resident Video Competition continues to be a highlight for the cardiothoracic surgery online community. CTSNet is excited to announce the winner of the 2021 competition, Dr. Julia Coughlin...
February 16, 2022
This apical segmentectomy was performed by uniportal approach. Indocyanine green was injected into the blood via a peripheral vein to identify the intersegmental plane, allowing more accurate segmentectomies.
February 15, 2022
Because surgical treatment of liposarcoma metastasis of the heart is so high risk, many patients remain without optimal treatment. This video demonstrates a successful excision of a 6x5cm metastatic tumor from the right ventricle of a fifty-two-year-old woman.
February 14, 2022
The video provides a step-by-step description of the proper technique while harvesting an internal mammary artery.
Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Right Lower Lobectomy with Bronchoplasty of Right Middle Lobe
February 10, 2022
The penetration of uniportal VATS for lung cancer surgery has pushed surgeons to perform complex sleeve resections using the same approach. This video demonstrates uniportal VATS bronchoplasty of the right middle lobe for a case of right lower lobe NSCLC.
February 9, 2022
A video vignette demonstrating the technique of an open sleeve lobectomy for a bronchial carcinoid tumor
February 8, 2022
This is a video description of posterior annuloplasty using autologous pericardium during a mitral valve replacement for infective endocarditis in a patient with severe mitral annular calcification.
February 7, 2022
This video demonstrates the technique of bronchoplasty for carcinoid tumors, where it is shown that complete lung preservation is possible even for tumors located at critical junctions.
February 3, 2022
This clinical video reviews how a virtual reality (PulmoVR) and 3D platform (Pulmo3D) have contributed to the planning and execution (including surgical steps) of a complex video assisted thoracoscopic surgical (VATS) S3 segmentectomy.
February 2, 2022
This video describes the case of a 50-year-old female with a history of a mediastinal neurofibroma, resected via a right posterolateral thoracotomy 17 years prior to presentation, who presented with a new extremely apical posterior mediastinal mass for which she underwent robotic resection.
February 1, 2022
This video aims to provide an introduction to creating high quality videos of cardiac operations.