Cardiothoracic Surgery
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STS: Hybrid thoracic suite leverages CT’s imaging sensitivity
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Who should get an ICD?
New tools are available to help in deciding which hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients ought to get an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator for...
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FDA approves marketing of sutureless aortic valve
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Finding more transplant hearts but not more donors
Key clinical point: A group approach to systematically review rejected donor organs has led to expanded donor criteria and resulted in improved...
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Presurgery radiation shows benefit in lung cancer
Key clinical point: A new protocol that involves accelerated hemithoracic intensity modulated radiation before surgery for lung mesothelioma...
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Off-pump bypass may confer stroke benefit
Key clinical point: Off-pump coronary artery bypass is associated with a significant reduction in the odds of stroke compared with conventional...
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Post-repair MR may be worse than thought
Key clinical point: Residual mild mitral valve regurgitation (MR) after implantation of the MitraClip device (Abbott Vascular) was associated with...
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No benefit in open massage over closed compressions in trauma cardiac arrest
Open-chest cardiac massage offers no benefit over closed-chest compressions in patients with traumatic cardiac arrest.
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Aortic valve replacement: Transcatheter soars past surgical
Key clinical point: In Germany, almost all of the marked increase in the use of transcatheter aortic valve replacement occurred among patients...
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Should annular dilation be a marker for concomitant tricuspid valve repair?
Key clinical point: Controversy surrounds the need for concomitant tricuspid valve repair with a mitral valve procedure and what parameters the...