Thoracic Surgery
MD, FEBCTS, Associate professor of Thoracic surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Egypt
Dr. Hussein Elkhayat graduated as a medical doctor at Assiut University, Egypt. In 2009 he obtained his master's degree in general surgery and finished his residency program in cardiothoracic surgery. He chose his MD thesis about VATS in benign diseases and traveled to Turkey to be trained on VATS for a short fellowship then returned back to Egypt and started a VATS program in his center. After finishing his doctoral degree in cardiothoracic surgery in 2014, Hussein focused on minimally invasive thoracic surgery. He became a fellow of the European Board of Cardiothoracic Surgery (FEBCTS) in 2021. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of cardiothoracic surgery at the Faculty of Medicine at Assiut University. Hussein is an international trainer for many advanced VATS training programs and the founder of the Assiut VATS workshop, the largest hands-on training in Egypt. He is also an instructor for Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and Care for the critically ill surgical patient course (CCrISP). He currently acts as an international board member of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery EACTS thoracic domain and acts as an active member of STS, ESTS, PATS and ESCTS. His areas of interest are minimally invasive thoracic surgery, VATS decortications, lung cancer and thymic surgery.
Selected publications from PubMed
Pleural Tuberculosis.
Kamal YA, Elkhayat H
Thorac Surg Clin. 2026 Aug;36(3):305-314 doi: 10.1016/j.thorsurg.2026.02.008.
CARE-radiology statement explanation and elaboration: reporting guideline for radiological case reports.
Wang M, Luo X, Xiao X, Zhang L, Wang Q, Wang S, Wang X, Xue H, Zhang L, Chen Y, Lei J, Štupnik T, Scarci M, Fiorelli A, Laisaar T, Fruscio R, Elkhayat H, Novoa NM, Davoli F, Waseda R, Estill J, Norris SL, Riley DS, Tian J
BMJ Evid Based Med. 2024 Nov 22;29(6):399-408 doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112695.
Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery repair of an idiopathic internal mammary artery aneurysm.
Ahmed K, Loay M, Ahmed AG, Abdulhafeez M, Ahmed AM, Refaiy A, Elkhayat H
Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg. 2024 Nov 4;2024 doi: 10.1510/mmcts.2024.091.
The SUPER reporting guideline suggested for reporting of surgical technique.
Zhang K, Ma Y, Wu J, Shi Q, Barchi LC, Scarci M, Petersen RH, Ng CSH, Hochwald S, Waseda R, Davoli F, Fruscio R, Levi Sandri GB, Gonzalez M, Wei B, Piessen G, Shen J, Zhang X, Jiao P, He Y, Novoa NM, Bedetti B, Gilbert S, Sihoe ADL, Toker A, Fiorelli A, Jimenez MF, Lerut T, Oo AY, Li GS, Tang X, Lu Y, Elkhayat H, Štupnik T, Laisaar T, Abu Akar F, Gonzalez-Rivas D, Su Z, Qiu B, Wang SD, Chen Y, Gao S
Hepatobiliary Surg Nutr. 2023 Aug 1;12(4):534-544 doi: 10.21037/hbsn-22-509.
The SUPER reporting guideline suggested for reporting of surgical technique: explanation and elaboration.
Zhang K, Wu J, Su Z, Ma Y, Shi Q, Barchi LC, Laisaar T, Ng CSH, Gilbert S, Zhang X, Štupnik T, Lerut T, Jiao P, Elkhayat H, Novoa NM, Fruscio R, Waseda R, Petersen RH, Fiorelli A, Sihoe ADL, Gonzalez-Rivas D, Scarci M, Jimenez MF, Li GS, Tang X, Wang SD, Chen Y
Gland Surg. 2023 Jun 30;12(6):749-766 doi: 10.21037/gs-23-76.
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