Cardiothoracic Surgery
Conference Coverage
Endobronchial valves: Sustained improvement in emphysema
Patients with emphysema treated with one-way endobronchial values showed consistent improvement in lung function.
Conference Coverage
First target doesn’t affect survival in NSCLC with brain metastases
Patient outcomes didn’t hinge on whether oncologists treated the brain or lung first.
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Med center and top cardio surgeon must pay $8.5 million for fraud, concurrent surgeries
A lawsuit alleges that James L. Luketich, MD, regularly performed up to three complex surgical procedures simultaneously.
Perspectives
A doctor must go to extremes to save a choking victim
The restaurant served steak and salmon, and this woman made the mistake of ordering the steak.
From the Journals
Less invasive NSCLC surgery does not compromise survival
New results contrast with those from a previous study from 1995.
From the Journals
Simulation-based training effective for transesophageal echo
Cardiology fellows who learned transesophageal echocardiography using simulations scored higher on both theoretical and practical tests than those...
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Similar transplant outcomes with hearts donated after circulatory death
Short-term clinical outcomes achieved with hearts donated after circulatory death were similar to those after brain death, and these could...
Conference Coverage
New ESC guidelines for cutting CV risk in noncardiac surgery
The guidelines, which aim to reduce cardiovascular complications from noncardiac surgery, introduce new concepts and recommendations, compared...
Feature
Pig heart transplants and the ethical challenges that lie ahead
Keeping a deceased recipient in a brain-dead state is part of xenotransplantation research, but experts debate the question: For how long, and...
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Transplanted pig hearts functioned normally in deceased persons on ventilator support
The experimental procedure could enable future widespread use of xenotransplantation to treat end-stage heart failure.