Mechanical Support & Transplant
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with David Waller, Chair of the EACTS Emphysema Taskforce and Director of the EACTS Fundamentals Course in Thoracic Surgery, about the EACTS expert consensus document...
This session features George M. Pantalos, Professor of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Kentucky, USA, and Joseph Zwischenberger, Professor of...
In a single-institution series of 43 beating-heart transplants performed after normothermic machine perfusion, predominantly using donation after circulatory death (DCD) grafts, Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina, USA, investigators observed...
This single-center retrospective study examined 86 living-donor lobar lung transplant recipients who received 163 lobar grafts. Airway complications occurred in eight grafts (4.9 percent), all presenting as bronchial stenosis. Segmental...
This session features Song Li, Director of Data Science at Cardiogenic Shock Working Group and Director of Cardiogenic Shock at Medical City Healthcare, Dallas, Texas, USA, delivering a presentation on...
This session features Mark S. Slaughter, Professor and Chair of the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute at the University of Louisville,...
This expert review presents 10 guiding principles for postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock (PCCS), framing PCCS as a time-dependent trajectory and emphasizing early recognition, phenotype-driven temporary mechanical circulatory support, ventricular unloading, correction...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Bart P. van Putte, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the St. Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein, Netherlands, and the Amsterdam University...
This session features Shivni H. Patel from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, presenting on “Time-Varying Risk and Hazard Phase-Specific Predictors of Right Heart Failure...
Kartagener syndrome is a rare manifestation of primary ciliary dyskinesia characterized by chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis, and situs inversus. Progressive bronchiectasis may ultimately lead to end-stage respiratory failure requiring lung transplantation....
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Traves Crabtree, Professor and Chair of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Medical Director of the Surgical Skills Laboratory...
This case report describes a 75-year-old patient with a centrally located squamous cell carcinoma extending from the carina to the right intermediate bronchus and the superior segment of the lower...
This session features Rishav Bhattacharya from the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA, presenting on “Celsior Cold Storage Attenuates Myocardial Edema in...








