Philip McElnay
A large retrospective study comparing 117618 patients from the National Cancer Database with Stage I NSCLC. 111731 received surgery, 5887 received SBRT. In a propensity managed comparison, those undergoing surgery had increased overall survival.
...This paper is now one of the largest meta-analyses performed to compare off and on pump CABG. It demonstrates comparable outcomes between the two groups.
...Trials evaluating the use of surgery in stage IIIB NSCLC are lacking. This study goes some way to address that and demonstrates that surgery as part of multi-modality therapy may...
This insightful paper compares surgery for degenerative mitral valve disease over a number of different “eras.” Interestingly, the most recent data in what the authors term “era 3” (2005-2011) demonstrates...
This retrospective review compared outcomes for re-do minimally invasive mitral valve operations vs re-do sternotomy in mitral valve operations. The authors demonstrate a similar MV-repair rate in the two groups...