Thomas and colleagues performed a retrospective analysis of patient information from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database to identify risk factors for postdischarge venous thromboembolism (VTE) following lung resection.
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Lung
May 14, 2018
May 14, 2018
The authors demonstrate a hybrid uniportal VATS left upper lobectomy with chest wall resection and reconstruction.
May 11, 2018
Patient Care
May 9, 2018
This video showed the feasibility of a robotic approach to perform a lobectomy with radical lymphadenectomy for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer after induction chemotherapy.
May 4, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
An article in the New York Times looks at the ethical dilemma of performing surgery for endocarditis in illicit drug users whose addictions go untreated.
May 3, 2018
A stimulating discussion of the Vienna paper that advances elective ECMO support for bilateral pulmonary transplantation.
May 3, 2018
The latest on portable venovenous ECMO in a cohort in which half of the subjects died after a resource-intensive treatment. The results of the relevant EOLIA trial are keenly awaited.
May 1, 2018
This video demonstrates a robotic-assisted anatomic resection of the anterior segment.
April 30, 2018
This video demonstrates a robotic pulmonary parenchyma-sparing resection of a carcinoid tumor.