Jo Chikwe
This is the winning video from the 2024 CTSNet Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the second and third place winners. Click here to watch Dr. Allen A. Razavi’s interview with...
In this unique webinar on mitral valve guidelines, CTSNet hosted a discussion on, “How Low Can You Go? Should MVR Age Guidelines Be Lowered Due to Better Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve...
A cohort of 2145 patients from the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection were compared according to whether they had axillary (1106 [52 percent]) or femoral (1039 [48 percent]) arterial...
In a single-center series of 502 patients who underwent thoracoscopic ablation and left atrial appendage closure, of whom 333 had preoperative and postoperative computed tomographic imaging, complete left atrial appendage...
Of 1,579 patients undergoing esophagectomy for esophageal cancer, 60 patients underwent up-front surgery for cT2 N0 M0 esophageal cancer, of whom 8 (13 percent) were found to have pathologic T2...
The prevalence of anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery is 0.4 percent to 0.8 percent. The decision to operate and choice of procedure can be challenging. This invited expert...
In this trial of 337 patients undergoing open or thoracoscopic lung resection randomized to postoperative chest drain removal based on a standard threshold of 200 mL/24 hours or 5 mL/kg/24...
In an analysis of 1,826 patients randomized to surgical aortic valve replacement in the three Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valves (PARTNER) trials, patient-prosthesis mismatch was assessed using transthoracic echocardiography and...
The 2024 James S. Tweddell Memorial Paper for Congenital Cardiac Surgery compared mortality of 25,749 congenital surgery operations performed at 235 hospitals between 2016 and 2019, identified in the Kid’s...
Sublobar resection for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer has recently been compared with lobectomy in three randomized trials. This expert review summarizes and compares these three landmark trials and describes...
In a national analysis of 19,524 patients with preoperative atrial fibrillation undergoing isolated coronary bypass grafting surgery (11,508 patients [58.9 percent]), left atrial appendage closure (4541 patients [23.3 percent]), or...
Of 57,531 patients who underwent lung cancer resection identified from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database, 758 (1.3 percent) were diagnosed with pulmonary embolism, which was most...
An international group of clinicians and investigators with expertise in clinical and translational research provide advice to early career cardiac surgeons and anesthesiologists interested in mechanistic studies, randomized clinical trials,...


