March’s issue now online 👇

annalsthoracicsurgery.org/current

Severe, symptomatic TR from a flail anterior leaflet caused by chordal rupture (no risk factors) - repaired by reattaching chordae to RV, ring annuloplasty and anteroseptal commmisural suture.

With permission.

⚔️Why we need RCTs

📈EHJ analysis of mitral TEER vs surgery in administrative data shows better 1 yr outcomes with TEER (but doesn’t separate out functional from degenerative, or repair from replacement)
📉👇JTCVS analysis of US Medicare data shows better 1y and 3y survival with

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🫀 HCM surgery review -Schaff
🫀992 Crawford I repairs -Coselli
🫀750 Redo mitrals -Glower
🫁Home discharge 18h >lobectomy -Kim
🚸Congenital work survey
👉STS Presidential address

Talking Ross on a 3-Ross week with a master congenital surgeon - 10am ET 7am PT today! DM for link

Woohoo! FINALLY!!! Hopefully this makes life easier for authors!
THANK YOU to the other editors and managers of Annals, JTCVS and EJCTS!!!!

Rereading this superb review - so many pearls

🫁How safe is discharging patients without chest tubes <18h after lung resection?

annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-…

👉The authors describe experience with 200 lobectomies and 230 segmentectomies

162 patients (37%) went home <18h post-op: with no difference in readmissions and no deaths

🚸Are we training congenital cardiac surgeons well?

86% of program directors and 41% of recent graduates responded to a national survey covering training experience, mentorship, case volume and job satisfaction.

Join Grand Rounds with Dr. Pedro del Nido tomorrow Wednesday 15th November 7am PT/ 10am ET 👇

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Well I didn’t expect that….
#AHA2023 Presidential Address by Dr Joe Wu - his journey from a California fruit farm to the international space station
And a new American Board of Cardiovascular Medicine

You want to be in the room tomorrow 11am for this pivotal NEJM clinical trials session at TCT, starting with 4 and 5-year data from 2 low-risk SAVR/TAVR trials, and ending with TAVR for AI.

tct2023.crfconnect.com/program-guide

All 4 of our PGY 3’s have done complete Bentalls - including the newest ones, with 4 different surgeons. And Type-A’s, ascendings + AVRs, with good patient outcomes.

My best case in cardiac as a PGY3 (the highlight of my year) was getting to do one proximal.
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