Surgeon Experience Is Associated With Prolonged Air Leak After Robotic-assisted Pulmonary Lobectomy.

Background: Prolonged air leak (PAL) (>5 days) after robotic-assisted pulmonary lobectomy is a significant complication. This study aimed to determine patient- and surgeon-related factors that can predict PAL after robotic lobectomy for lung cancer.

Methods: This study was a retrospective review of a single-center experience of robotic-assisted lobectomy for lung cancer.

Untwist the twist: instant hemodynamic improvement in known HeartMate 3 complication.

The HeartMate 3 [HM3 (Abbott, Abbott Park, Illinois)] is a left-ventricular assist device (LVAD) with excellent clinical results. Outflow graft occlusion as a complication secondary to outflow graft twisting was reported to occur in 1.6% within the MOMENTUM 3 trial.

Synchronous distal pancreatic metastatic lesion arising from colonic adenocarcinoma: case report and literature review.

Solitary metastatic pancreatic lesions comprise 0.5% to 3% of all pancreas neoplasms, most commonly arising from primary tumors of the kidney, lung, or colon. Synchronous metastatic pancreatic lesions are exceptionally rare.

Conversion of laparoscopic cholecystectomy to open surgical procedure due to complete fibrosis of the gallbladder.

We present a case of transmural fibrotic gallbladder in a patient with previously undiagnosed gallbladder disease and describe our surgical approach to treating this patient.

Mitral valve arcade with concomitant anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery.

The presence of congenital mitral valve arcade with concomitant anomalous coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) is exceedingly rare. We describe a case of a 5-month-old female patient with both ALCAPA and severe mitral regurgitation secondary to mitral valve arcade.