First-in-man robotic lung transplant (plus 8 others) finally in JHLT Surgeons: Pedro Catarino, Dominick Megna, Dominic Emerson Kudos to superb pulmonology, anesthesia, OR, perfusion and ICU team jhltonline.org/article/S1053-…

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. 🤣 Video adapted

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

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

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

🫁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.

Rereading this superb review - so many pearls

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

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

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

⚔️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

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.