In this interview with Joel Dunning, Henrik Hansen discusses his 15 years of experience performing VATS lobectomies, and reflects on the current status of the approach.
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Minimally Invasive
April 28, 2015
You have heard of 4 port, 3 port, 2 port and now uniportal VATS lobectomy. You may have tried Robotic lobectomy. You may also have heard of subxiphoid only or TEMLA only lobectomy.
April 27, 2015
This video demonstrates an ASD closure via the transxiphoid approach, using a specially designed instrument for lifting the sternum anteriorly.
April 23, 2015
John Conte, Robbin Cohen, and Todd Rosengart discuss minimally invasive cardiac surgery at the 2015 STS Annual Meeting.
April 16, 2015
This feature length documentary takes an in-depth look at uniportal VATS, the relatively new procedure created by Diego Gonzalez Rivas. The film chronicles the development of the procedure, and follows Dr. Gonzalez Rivas as he introduces the minimally invasive technique to hospitals from the UK to China.
April 13, 2015
This video demonstrates a single-incision VATS (SIVATS) superior segmentectomy of the left lower lobe in a 49-year-old male patient.
April 7, 2015
In this interview, filmed at the 2015 STS Annual meeting, Joel Dunning and Shanda Blackmon discuss a variety of thoracic surgery topics.
April 7, 2015
The authors prospectively performed coronary angiograms in their patients undergoing isolated CABG who demonstrated a rising cardiac troponin I profile in the first 12 hours following heart surgery - despite being asymptomatic. Among a total of 1693 patients from 2005-2011, 29 (1.7%) of patients had a rising CTnI.
March 29, 2015
The authors of this article compared CABG and PCI with second generation drug eluting stents (DES-PCI) in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease. They used data from a large observational registry and applied propensity score matching to create groups with similar baseline characteristics.
March 19, 2015
In this discussion filmed at the EACTS 2014 Annual Meeting in Milan, Italy, Marko Turina and Mattia Glauber consider minimally invasive valve replacement, with a focus on the Perceval S sutureless valve.