Thoracic aneurysm open surgery is a treatment for a thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), a bulge in your aorta. The aorta, your body’s largest blood vessel, begins at your heart and extends into your ...

The David J. Sugarbaker Division of Thoracic Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine is a team of highly motivated, compassionate individuals who pride themselves on providing state-of-the-art clinical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who underwent robotic or mini-thoracotomy surgery for mitral valve repair had similar complication ...

Pleuroscopy for evaluation of pleural effusions and infections has been performed for centuries and is one of the oldest forms of minimally invasive surgery. The introduction of the double-lumen ...

A single-shot intercostal nerve block was noninferior to thoracic epidural analgesia for pain control in minimally invasive lung resection. Continuous paravertebral block came out inferior for pain ...

Introduction: Uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (URATS) combines the precision of robotic systems with the minimal invasiveness of single-incision surgery. However, its widespread adoption ...

Johannes R. Kratz, MD, has been named as the inaugural chief of UCSF’s Division of Thoracic Surgery, one of the leading academic robotic thoracic surgery programs in the western U.S. He brings a track ...

Each year, we match one general thoracic track and three cardiothoracic track fellows to our ACMGE thoracic surgery fellowship program. This provides a broad diversity of experience that includes ...