Cardiothoracic Surgery

The 2016 revisions to the United Network for Organ Sharing pediatric heart transplant allocation policy were not independently associated with a drop in waitlist mortality, researchers reported.

Surgical faculty and trainees report having a negative psychological impact associated with adverse events in their patients, according to results from a mixed-methods study and survey.

Eating a dozen fortified eggs, which have higher levels of vitamins and less saturated fats than normal eggs, each week appeared to modestly improve cholesterol compared with a diet of two or fewer eggs per week.

Heart surgery is normally an invasive procedure involving a sternotomy, in which a surgeon cuts open the patient’s breastbone or sternum. Twenty years ago, Joseph Lamelas, MD, thought it did not always need to be that way.

Black patients and those with interstitial fibrosis or advanced-stage disease had a higher risk for developing clinically detectable postoperative venous thromboembolism after pulmonary resection for lung cancer, study results showed.

Data from transcatheter aortic valve replacement centers across 61 countries show TAVR volume fell precipitously during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic but rebounded to pre-pandemic volume during the third wave.

Women remain at significantly higher risk than men for adverse outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting with no substantial improvements observed in the last decade, according to a retrospective cohort study published in JAMA Surgery.

N-acetylcysteine, an antioxidant supplement, administered with carvedilol did not prevent postoperative atrial fibrillation in patients who underwent CABG compared with carvedilol alone, data from a single-center study show.

Fifteen percent of editorial commentary authors whose work accompanied randomized controlled trials on invasive CV interventions reported financial associations with trial sponsors, while many did not disclose all of their associations.

Patients who received a hepatitis C virus-positive donor heart experienced similar posttransplant survival, drug-treated rejection, postoperative dialysis and stroke incidence to patients whose transplant heart was from a HCV-negative donor.