This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning discusses the recently published MARS 2 trial, an AATS consensus document on management of subsolid lung nodules, and the long-term outcomes of permanent pacemaker implantation.
ALERT!
This site is not optimized for Internet Explorer 8 (or older).
Please upgrade to a newer version of Internet Explorer or use an alternate browser such as Chrome or Firefox.
Thoracic
June 27, 2024
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 N0 M0, 16 (27 percent) were pathologically downstaged, and 36 (60 percent) were upstaged, 7 (19 percent) on the basis of pathologic T stage, 14 (39 percent) o
June 27, 2024
This video is a balanced, gripping presentation on an increasingly common emergency problem for the on-call cardiac surgeon. Professor Oo discusses the evolving landscape of surgery for acute De Bakey I and II pathologies of the aortic organ.
June 25, 2024
Senior Editor Mara Antonoff spoke with Dr. Marc de Perrot about the recent results of the SMARTER trial, which involved a lower dosage of radiation along with lung-sparing pleurectomy for a shorter recovery time for patients. Dr. de Perrot is a thoracic surgeon at Toronto General Hospital.
June 24, 2024
This video demonstrates a redo RATS pleural metastasectomy of type B3 Thymoma (Masaoka stage II) and plication of the left diaphragm in the same setting.
June 21, 2024
This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning discusses a new cardiothoracic surgery conference in Iraq and his insights on the newest surgical robot technology.
June 20, 2024
This consensus paper released by the AATS puts forth 17 recommendations regarding subsolid lung nodules.
June 20, 2024
In this phase three national, multicenter, UK randomized controlled trial, the authors seek to compare outcomes after extended pleurectomy decortication plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone. The trial recruited patients between 2015 and 2021 from 26 UK hospitals, recruiting and randomly assigning patients with a 1:1 allocation ratio.
June 17, 2024
This video demonstrates a robotic assisted lobectomy for an endobronchial tumor and subsequent bronchial closure with two continuous absorbable barbed loop sutures.
June 14, 2024
Prof. Blasberg, a thoracic surgeon at Yale University Hospital, emphasized the importance of longitudinal studies to gain nuanced insight on high-risk patients.