This article looks at the application of prognostic models within cardiothoracic surgery, and medicine in general, using a televised UK dance competition where professional dancers are paired with celebrities as an illustration.
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December 20, 2023
December 19, 2023
CTSNet congenital editor Prof. Sameh Said spoke with Dr. Hani Najm, the Chair of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery at Cleveland Clinic. They discussed Dr. Najm’s method for the ventricular switch operation and what his team has learned about the procedure as a concept, not just an operation.
December 19, 2023
The technique in this video combines recent positive trends in coronary artery bypass grafting including the use of skeletonized BIMA, no-touch saphenous vein, epiaortic scanning, intraoperative transit time flow measurement, and high-frequency ultrasound assessment.
December 15, 2023
CTSNet is excited to announce the winner of the 2023 Innovation Video Competition, Prof. Amhad Ali Amirghofran. His submission, “Tricuspid Valve Replacement with the Right Atrial Appendage Valve: The First Report,” he demonstrates how his team’s experience with the use of the right atrial appendage for pulmonary valve position led them to design a technique to use the RAA valve for tricuspid valve replacement.
December 15, 2023
In this recording from the 2023 Transcatheter Heart Valves Greece conference, Dr. Christina Chrysohoou, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the University of Athens, discusses tailoring TEER to individual patients who are in heart failure.
December 14, 2023
In this episode of CTSNet’s flagship podcast, editor in chief Joel Dunning runs through the latest, most popular content on ctsnet.org—the largest online community of CT surgeons and source of CT surgery information—and breaking cardiothoracic surgery news and research from around the world.
December 14, 2023
The ISCHEMIA trial has caused heated discussion in the cardiovascular field, with its results being used to downgrade coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) recommendations in recent guidelines. The authors of this paper performed a detailed re-analysis of the ISCHEMIA trial and critically examined its findings.
December 14, 2023
This article is a registry review form an international voluntary registry. The retrospective historical data can be juxtaposed favorably with the recently published article on acute dissection in Denmark from a compulsory national registry. The main strength of the paper is the succinct discussion.
December 14, 2023
Non-inferiority study designs are frequently used in randomized controlled trials (RCT) comparing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR). However, the long-term outcomes of TAVR are unknown, and the concept of non-inferiority is challenging to define and assess.
December 12, 2023
This video demonstrates how to construct a trileaflet valve from sizes 5 mm to 38 mm that can be implanted into any conduit type.