Mary Hammon
August’s top content includes several items from our recent Guest Editor Series, “Segmentectomy for Lung Cancer,” from guest editor Alan Sihoe, as well as two uniportal technique videos from thoracic surgeon Diego Gonzalez Rivas. 1....
Professor Charles Yankah has dedicated the last fifty years to advancing cardiovascular care and helping the globally underserved communities who require it. Since his retirement from cardiothoracic and vascular surgery...
August’s top content includes several items from our recent Guest Editor Series, “Segmentectomy for Lung Cancer,” from guest editor Alan Sihoe, as well as two uniportal technique videos from thoracic...
A new analysis by a team led by Dr. Mario Gaudino of Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian shows that a combination of two antiplatelets drugs can benefit patients after coronary...
Surgical management for potentially resectable stage IIIA-N2 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is controversial. In this study, researchers examined outcomes of a well-selected surgical cohort of postinduction IIIA-N2 NSCLC patients...
It’s already halfway through the year, and surgeons across the globe have shared a huge amount of valuable cardiothoracic surgery expertise with the CTSNet community in the form of clinical...
A new study recently published in JTCVS found that virtual-assisted lung mapping 2.0—a novel preoperative bronchoscopic lung mapping technique—can facilitate successful resections for deep pulmonary nodules, overcoming the limitations of...
New findings published in the American Journal of Cardiology posit that transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) are associated with similar short-term outcomes among pediatric...
In May, Dr. Teresa Kieser, cardiac surgeon at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, filed a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission against her employer, Alberta Health...
This study investigates the prevalence and risk factors of patient-reported postdischarge atrial fibrillation (AF) after septal myectomy for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. It found a correlation between incidence of patient-reported postdischarge...
A study, published on June 9 in the Journal of Cardiac Failure, shows heart failure patients who are unvaccinated against COVID-19 are three times more likely to die if infected...
A multidisciplinary team within Norton Children’s Heart Institute performed what the institute says is a medical first for the United States: implantation of a tiny pacemaker into a 28-week-old infant...
This study evaluates the incidence and risk factors for postoperative renal failure and relationships between renal failure, shunt type, and outcomes after Norwood.
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