Lacroix and colleagues evaluated pulmonary function, pain, and quality of life in patients who underwent robotic thoracic surgery, predominantly for non-small cell lung cancer. The authors observed no difference between preoperative and 7-month postoperative pulmonary function.
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Robotic
July 10, 2017
Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery provides outcomes that match those of conventional sternotomy without increasing use of resources, and lower costs after surgery offset potentially higher operation costs, according to a single-center, propensity-matched analysis of almost 500 patients presented at the meeting sponsored by the American Associat
July 4, 2017
This video presents the case of a 45-year-old female patient who underwent a robotic assisted wedge resection for a pulmonary nodule, using intraoperative navigational bronchoscopy and ICG tattoo.
June 24, 2017
Quite simply AMAZING !
I had no idea there were so many robotic companies out there.
This doesn't even include Titan - www.titanmedicalinc.com, or Medicaroid www.medicaroid.com
June 20, 2017
This video shows a robotic sleeve lobectomy performed on a 65-year-old male patient with a proven adenocarcinoma at the orifice of the apical segment of the right lower lobe.
April 23, 2017
Check out this focused issue by JOVS with partecipation of major experts from the globe. Is subxiphoid approach the future for lung resections?
April 5, 2017
An international group of experts met at the 2017 STS Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, to discuss the evolving practice of robotic and hybrid coronary revascularization.
March 28, 2017
Christophe Chautems and colleagues shed light on the challenges, strategies and current developments in the field of magnetically driven medical microrobots for intracorporeal use.
March 22, 2017
This video demonstrates how a robotic pulmonary segmentectomy can reduce air leak.
March 13, 2017
This video illustrates robotic repair of mitral commissural endocarditis using a novel “bridging patch” technique.