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.
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Robotic
February 20, 2025
This study reported the initial experiences of 115 patients who underwent robot-assisted thoracic surgery using the da Vinci single-port robotic system. The procedures included thymectomy, mediastinal mass excision, anatomical pulmonary resection, esophagectomy, and esophageal tumor enucleation.
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 14, 2025
In this series, Dr. Balkhy presents totally endoscopic cardiac surgery procedures from the University of Chicago, covering topics including coronary bypass, mitral valve repair, adult congenital, arrythmia, aortic valve surgeries, and more.
February 13, 2025
This video describes the case of a symptomatic thoracic schwannoma (40 x 37 mm in diameter) arising from the ninth left intercostal space in a patient already diagnosed with schwannomatosis.
February 6, 2025
This video demonstrates the successful use of a robotic approach in a young patient with recurrent pneumothorax after multiple thoracoscopic surgeries.
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 23, 2025
This video showcases the surgical technique of robotic-assisted right anterobasal S8 segmentectomy in a technically challenging operative field.
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.