Christopher Anderson

In early December, the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions released a new guideline for the revascularization of coronary artery disease, which...

The most common approach for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is transfemoral access. Yet, a subset of patients require alternative access. This study shows the evolution and outcomes of alternative-access...

Over one-half of patients treated with esophagectomy for esophageal cancer have recurrence. Oligometastasis, a proposed intermediate state of isolated local or solid organ recurrence that occurs before widespread systemic disease,...

The wroth of neoadjuvant treatment in conjunction with resection as multimodality therapy (MMT) for stage IIB non-small cell lung cancer is still controversial.

Out of 223 patients who had isolated TV procedures between 2001 and 2017, 60 (27%) underwent TV repair and 163 (73%) received TV replacement. Indication for surgery was functional tricuspid...

Appropriate conduit selection for right ventricle (RV)-to-pulmonary artery (PA) connection has been studied extensively, with older implantation age, pulmonary (vs aortic) homografts, and true sizing associated with increased longevity. Notably,...

Treatment guidelines for nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF) recommend use of non–vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) over warfarin. However, clinical trials did not include individuals with post cardiac surgery AF....

Pediatric heart transplant (HTx) recipients with congenital heart defects need complex concomitant surgical procedures with the risk of prolonging the allograft’s ischemic time. Ex vivo allograft perfusion with the Organ...