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CTSNet To Go Podcast Episode: Straight Talk With APPs: Current Hot Topics and Trends in Practice and CT Surgery

March 9, 2021 | CTSNet StaffGold Contributor

In this CTSNet To Go podcast episode, Lisa R. DeGarmo of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in Houston, Texas, moderates a discussion for advanced practice providers. She is joined by Jill Engel of Duke University...

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Straight Talk With APPs: Current Hot Topics and Trends in Practice and CT Surgery

June 18, 2020 | CTSNet StaffGold Contributor

Filmed at the 2020 STS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, Lisa R. DeGarmo of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in Houston, Texas, moderates a discussion for advanced practice providers....

JANS Article

May Issue of ACS Now Available

June 6, 2017 | CTSNet StaffGold Contributor

This special issue of the ACS is focused on Tricuspid Valve Surgery. With Guest Editors Dr Bettina Pfannmuller and the late Dr Lawrence Cohn, topics of interest include non-functional tricuspid...

JANS Article

Pediatric Heart Transplantation Long-Term Survival in Different Age and Diagnostic Groups: Analysis of a National Database

May 22, 2017 | CTSNet StaffGold Contributor

The purpose of this study was to evaluate differences in long-term survival without the influence of early mortality, and to identify factors associated with one-year conditional ten-year survival after heart...

JANS Article

Left Ventricular Retraining and Double Switch in Patients With Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries

March 31, 2017 | CTSNet StaffGold Contributor

Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (CC-TGA) is a complex form of congenital heart disease that may require left ventricular re-training prior to a double switch procedure. This study...

JANS Article

Incidence and predictors of vasoplegia after heart failure surgery

March 28, 2017 | CTSNet StaffGold Contributor

Vasoplegia was analysed in 225 patients undergoing heart failure surgery (left ventricular restoration, CorCap implantation or LVAD implantation). The complication was observed in 29% of patients. A higher risk was...

JANS Article

Septic porcine blood does not further activate coagulation during in vitro membrane oxygenation

March 28, 2017 | CTSNet StaffGold Contributor

Blood of septic or healthy pigs was used in a 12-h ECMO mock loop experiment. No higher activation of coagulation or inflammatory response or increased problems with the oxygenator was...

JANS Article

Magnetically powered microrobots: a medical revolution underway?

March 28, 2017 | CTSNet StaffGold Contributor

Christophe Chautems and colleagues shed light on the challenges, strategies and current developments in the field of magnetically driven medical microrobots for intracorporeal use.

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JANS Article

Heart valve upside down

March 9, 2017 | CTSNet StaffGold Contributor

According to BBC Tyne & Wear, a patient died after surgeons inserted a heart valve upside down causing irreversible damage to her heart. The procedure was performed at the Freeman...

JANS Article

Surgery of the Thymus: Register for this FREE Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Live Webinar

March 2, 2017 | CTSNet StaffGold Contributor

The webinar will be presented by one of the UK’s most senior general thoracic surgeons, Mr. Pala B. Rajesh, and will entail a one-hour interactive session on “everything you need...

JANS Article

New Issue of Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery Now Available

February 6, 2017 | CTSNet StaffGold Contributor

Dr Rakesh Suri is the Guest Editor in this special issue of the Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery exploring the emerging role of robotic instrumentation in cardiac surgery. With leading authors...

JANS Article

Surgical Site Infection After Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery: Impact on Hospital Cost and Length of Stay

February 3, 2017 | CTSNet StaffGold Contributor

A retrospective, matched cohort study to determine attributable hospital costs associated with surgical site infection after pediatric cardiothoracic surgery was performed. Of the 981 surgical cases within the study period,...

JANS Article

Diaphragmatic Dysfunction after Thoracic Operations

January 4, 2017 | CTSNet StaffGold Contributor

This review discusses diaphragmatic disorders and postoperative respiratory failure caused by unilateral or bilateral diaphragmatic impairment.

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