The study aims to compare outcomes between minimally invasive coronary artery bypass (MINI–CAB) and drug–eluting stent (DES) implantation for isolated left anterior descending (LAD) disease. Given the available evidence, MINI–CAB results in lower TVR rates, but otherwise similar clinical outcomes when compared with DES in patients with LAD disease.
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Minimally Invasive
August 4, 2014
This video demonstrates a minimally invasive repair of a bicuspid aortic valve and ascending aortic aneurysm through the upper ministernotomy approach.
July 28, 2014
This video shows a single incision VATS lobectomy performed on a 57-year-old patient with bronchiectasis.
July 28, 2014
This study tracked changes in management for and outcomes of T1a and T1b esophageal cancer using data from the National Cancer Data Base. Endoscopic resection increased nearly 3-fold to 53% for T1a lesions during the interval, and increased nearly 3-fold to 21% for T1b cancers. Nodal involvement was predicted by T status, tumor size >2cm, and tu
July 10, 2014
This video demonstrates the removal of a 10 cm anterior mediastinal teratoma through single incision VATS.
June 17, 2014
In this video, a single 3.5 cm incision was used for a VATS right upper lobectomy and lymph node dissection for non-small cell carcinoma in a 61-year-old female patient. The incision was only slightly larger than a chest tube insertion incision.
April 21, 2014
This article on Type A Aortic Dissection was selected as a top article from 2013 by the 2014 Circulation editors.
The original article is here:
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/128/15/1602.full?sid=a7153f9d-9551-4...
April 21, 2014
This video demonstrates a left video-assisted thoracoscopic sleeve lower lobectomy in a 68-year-old male smoker with an endobronchial squamous cell carcinoma of the left lower lobe.
April 17, 2014
This video demonstrates a left upper lobe posterior and apical segmentectomy, preserving the lingular and anterior segment, in a patient with impaired lung function.