ALERT!

This site is not optimized for Internet Explorer 8 (or older).

Please upgrade to a newer version of Internet Explorer or use an alternate browser such as Chrome or Firefox.

Minimally Invasive

March 27, 2023
In the newest entry into the CTSNet Guest Editor Series collection, “20 Years After First TAVI: Will the Pace of Innovations Continue for All Heart Valves?” Gry Dahle, MD, PhD presents a curated collection of videos on the history, current challenges, and future advances of transcatheter valve replacement.
March 27, 2023
Gry Dahle shares insights on her prolific work in valve surgery, the emergence of artificial intelligence in medicine, and the importance of building in interdisciplinary surgical team.
March 16, 2023
This multicenter retrospective study aimed to compare the outcomes of uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (U-RATS) with multiportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (M-RATS).
March 13, 2023
This video demonstrates the removal of an anterior mediastinal mass, which was confirmed as an ectopic parathyroid adenoma, via a robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.
March 9, 2023
A variety of procedures make up CTSNet’s catalog of heart valve content, which has continued to expand as surgeons increasingly focus on perfecting valve surgeries. Explore five of the most popular heart valve videos on the site in the past year and let us know your favorite in the comments.
March 6, 2023
This video demonstrates the health system’s previously described approach to a total minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy in a hostile abdomen.
March 2, 2023
A retrospective study found that women continue to have a higher mortality and morbidity rate after CABG compared with men.
February 23, 2023
The first minimally invasive artificial heart transplant surgery in China was completed in a patient experiencing severe heart failure. By implanting the left ventricular assist device using only two small incisions, surgeons were able to increase the patient’s quality of life as he waits for a donor heart.
February 21, 2023
This video demonstrates a uniportal VATS right segmentectomy from S7 to S10 with indocyanine green imaging.
February 16, 2023
Sleeve lobectomy is preferred to pneumonectomy for centrally located lung tumors. To report on surgical outcomes of this procedure, The European Society of Thoracic Surgeons database was searched between 2007 and 2021.

Pages