This video depicts a minimally invasive aortic valve replacement via a right anterolateral mini-thoracotomy, using the Edwards Intuity rapid deployment aortic valve system, in a 75-year-old male patient with severe aortic stenosis.
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Minimally Invasive Surgery
August 15, 2016
This video demonstrates a fissure-last, video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) resection of the superior segment of the right lower lobe, using a uniportal posterior approach.
August 11, 2016
Torsten Doenst of Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, discusses surgical strategies for challenges faced during minimally invasive mitral valve surgery.
June 28, 2016
This article investigates the effects of varying degrees of aortic regurgitation (AR) on survival after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). They retrospectively evaluated a cohort of 237 patients undergoing TAVR from 2006 to 2012 with echocardiogram performed within 30 days of the procedure. Using a Cox proportional multivariable regress
June 28, 2016
This video shows a uniportal subxiphoid lobectomy in a patient with a proven adenocarcinoma of the middle lobe.
April 13, 2016
A group of experts met at the 2016 SCTS Annual Meeting, in Birmingham, United Kingdom, to discuss the adoption, efficacy, and future of VATS lobectomy.
March 31, 2016
A panel of leading cardiac surgeons met at the 2016 SCTS Annual Meeting in Birmingham, United Kingdom, to discuss the current state of cardiac surgery, and what is on the horizon for the subspecialty.
March 24, 2016
Rene Petersen of Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, considers whether VATS lobectomy has become the prevailing standard of care.
February 10, 2016
The video shows the explantation of a Corevalve through a minimally invasive inferior ministernotomy approach.
January 25, 2016
This video demonstrates a lobectomy performed through a transcervical incision without sternal lifting or retracting.