Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is a minimally invasive procedure that doctors use to diagnose and treat chest conditions. During a VATS procedure, a surgeon inserts a thin tube with a ...

Sudhanshu Vats, group CEO and managing director of Viacom 18, is stepping down after eight years in the role. Viacom 18 is a joint venture of Network 18, the media group controlled by billionaire ...

Preoperative evaluation is essentially the same as that for laparoscopic Heller myotomy. The patient is placed under general anesthesia and intubated with a double-lumen endotracheal tube so that the ...

November 5, 2008 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) — Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), a recently developed and minimally invasive procedure, appears to be beneficial to lung cancer patients. A ...

It may be counterintuitive, but four chest incisions could be better than one. With shorter recovery time and less pain, video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is making pulmonary lobectomies a less ...

In a large international clinical study presented at the 99 th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Dr. Moishe Liberman, a thoracic surgeon and researcher at the University ...

Every day, 78 Canadians receive a diagnosis of lung cancer, the most deadly form of cancer in the country. Some of them will have one of the lobes of a lung removed by thoracotomy, a common, but risky ...

Additional use of the video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) technique in the Nuss procedure has been globally accepted for the improvement of safety of surgical treatment as well as for ...

Lung herniation is defined as a protrusion of the lung parenchyma with its pleura through the intercostal space. It is a rare condition and usually occurs after thoracic trauma and surgical ...

Doctors in Kolkata have successfully treated a five-year-old boy, for a massive right-sided pleural empyema, which is a serious infection marked by the accumulation of pus in the space between the ...