Patient Care
A CABG operation performed at the Uganda Heart Institute at Mulago National Referral Hospital was done by an all-Ugandan surgical team for the first time.
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Lung - Cancer
January 22, 2018
A model analysis of a phase I surgical device trial. The readable editorial discusses the adoption of surgical innovation on the occasion of a harmonic sealing device for pulmonary resections, highlighting the problem of ligating small branches of the pulmonary artery in confined spaces.
January 19, 2018
Patient Care
China and Cambodia will work together on a program to provide free heart surgery to 100 Cambodian children with congenital heart disease.
January 15, 2018
In this video-based article, Sarsam and colleagues demonstrate the use of continuous barbed sutures in four robotic procedures, two wedge bronchoplasties and two sleeve bronchoplasties.
January 13, 2018
The authors studied survival in patients with multiple lung cancers and their associated genetic mutations. There was 90% discordance in driver mutations beween cancers in individual patients that was associated with favorable survival. The two patients in whom condordance was present suffered recurrent cancer.
January 12, 2018
Patient Care
Office-Based Spirometry: A New Model of Care in Preoperative Assessment for Low-Risk Lung Resections
January 10, 2018
The authors compared low risk patients undergoing office spirometry only (FEV1 of >60%) to those undergoing laboratory spirometry followed by lung resection.
January 10, 2018
Among patients aged 65 and older undergoing lung resection for NSCLC, long-term survival was related to cancer stage and patient age. Lobectomy patients fared better than those undergoing parenchymal-sparing resections or pneumonectomy. VATS approaches provided better long-term survival.
Phase 1 Trial Evaluating Safety of Pulmonary Artery Sealing With Ultrasonic Energy in VATS Lobectomy
January 10, 2018
The authors demonstrate that use of an ultrasonic sealing device is safe for pulmonary artery branches 7 mm or less in diameter. This information could substantially reduce costs for lobectomy related to stapler use.
January 10, 2018
The authors explored the optimal extent of LN resection for T1aN0 carcinoid tumors undergoing lung resection using the National Cancer Data Base. Twenty-five percent of patients had no nodes evaluated. Four percent of patients were upstaged based on node status. Survival was similar comparing lobectomy to sublobar resection.