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Today, advances in minimally invasive techniques are rew...</p>","url":"https://bestthoracicsurgeon.com/thoracic-surgery-blog/f/minimally-invasive-thoracic-surgery-transforms-chest-medicine","title":"Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Transforms Chest Medicine","summary":"Mumbai: For decades, thoracic surgery - operations on the chest, lungs, and related organs - meant lengthy hospital stays, significant pain, and weeks of recovery. Today, advances in minimally invasive techniques are rew...","date_modified":"2026-06-10T08:18:10Z"},{"id":"https://bestthoracicsurgeon.com/thoracic-surgery-blog/f/pericardial-cyst-what-it-is-and-when-surgery-is-needed","html_content":"<p>A pericardial cyst is one of those findings that often takes patients by surprise — discovered on a chest X-ray or CT scan done for an entirely different reason, with no symptoms at all. Yet the words \"cyst near the hear...</p>","url":"https://bestthoracicsurgeon.com/thoracic-surgery-blog/f/pericardial-cyst-what-it-is-and-when-surgery-is-needed","title":"Pericardial Cyst: What It Is, and When Surgery Is Needed","summary":"A pericardial cyst is one of those findings that often takes patients by surprise — discovered on a chest X-ray or CT scan done for an entirely different reason, with no symptoms at all. 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At some point, your doctor may sa...</p>","url":"https://bestthoracicsurgeon.com/thoracic-surgery-blog/f/when-is-a-lung-transplant-needed","title":"When Is a Lung Transplant Needed?","summary":"You've been living with a serious lung condition — breathlessness that creeps into every corner of life, oxygen tanks by the bedside, trips to the hospital that come more and more often. At some point, your doctor may sa...","date_modified":"2026-06-03T06:14:12Z"},{"id":"https://bestthoracicsurgeon.com/thoracic-surgery-blog/f/can-a-lung-nodule-be-cancer","html_content":"<p>By Dr Bhushan Thoracic Surgeon</p>","url":"https://bestthoracicsurgeon.com/thoracic-surgery-blog/f/can-a-lung-nodule-be-cancer","title":"Can a lung nodule be cancer?","summary":"By Dr Bhushan Thoracic Surgeon","date_modified":"2026-06-02T18:49:49Z"}]}