This is an interesting video where Sven Seifert and his team in Chemitz, Germany, combined the CMR Versius system with their laser technology to perform what was reportedly the first CMR laser metastasectomy.
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Thoracic
August 28, 2021
In this article, Trudell et al surveyed the Women in Thoracic Surgery membership to assess for characteristics of allyship. Qualities of allyship identified include mentorship, support, and sponsorship; whereas, competitiveness, disrespect, discrimination, stereotyping, unconscious bias, and undermining were reported as detrimental factors.
August 28, 2021
In this study by Olive et al, they demonstrate the demographic landscape of current cardiothoracic surgeons and trainees in terms of sex and race/ethnicity, and demonstrate improvement in diversity of trainees and faculty across multiple training pathways over the years.
August 28, 2021
In this article, Loo et al demonstrate in a survey to the Thoracic Surgery Residents Association membership that only approximately 20% of trainees were accurate in estimating surgeon reimbursement, with a demonstrated lack of understanding in how reimbursement models work, despite acknowledgement of its importance.
August 25, 2021
In this day and age, video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is considered the gold standard for the treatment of early stage non-small cell lung cancer. Nowadays, VATS can also be applied to challenging surgical procedures, such as the plasty of the pulmonary artery to obtain an oncologically radical resection of the tumor, even after a previous surgery on the thorax.
August 23, 2021
This video demonstrates what the authors believe is the first UK use of the Enseal tissue sealer for right upper lobectomy.
August 23, 2021
Interview with Ammara Watkins, the 2020 CTSNet Resident Competition Winner.
August 18, 2021
This video reviews a pulmonary artery bleed that occurred during an attempted VATS lingula-sparing left upper lobectomy and discusses the authors experience with hemostatic agents for pulmonary artery bleeding, as well as lessons learned from this case.
August 16, 2021
In this case, we describe the VATS resection of enlarged, PET FDG positive, right cardiophrenic lymph nodes in a patient with previous breast cancer and mediastinal lymphoma, which had been treated by chemoradiotherapy.
August 12, 2021
This is challenging case report of a 21-year-old female admitted for a left completion pneumonectomy for bronchiectasis which was performed successfully by uniportal VATS approach, and having as antecedent a left lower lobectomy by a left posterolateral thoracotomy in 2008 for bronchiectasis.