This video demonstrates robotic thoracic truncal vagotomy for the treatment of recalcitrant marginal ulcers after gastric surgery.
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Minimally Invasive
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.
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 14, 2025
In this video, Dr. Husam Balkhy and his colleagues perform a robotic-assisted unroofing on a 46-year-old patient with a left anterior descending artery myocardial bridge.
February 11, 2025
This video demonstrates the case of a 3D totally endoscopic beating-heart third tricuspid valve replacement via the periareolar approach.
January 29, 2025
At the 2024 EACTS Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with Dr. Gianluca Torregrossa about the use of robotic systems in treating coronary artery diseases and performing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.
January 16, 2025
This study compared robotic and video-assisted thymectomy to assess pathological resection status, as well as overall and disease-free survival. Data were retrieved from the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons prospectively maintained thymic database, which includes 82 international centers, 37 of which agreed to participate in this study.
January 16, 2025
The development of robotic surgical systems in cardiac surgery has significantly impacted the field, reducing the invasive nature of certain cardiac surgical procedures in recent decades.