Cardiothoracic
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Wait! Put elective surgery on hold after stent placement
Major finding: Elective noncardiac surgery should be delayed for at least 6 weeks following implantation of a bare-metal stent, and 1 year after...
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Medicare to cover cardiac rehab for some HF patients
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Registry data reveal risk factors for lung retransplantation
Major finding: Factors associated with retransplantation were age over 40, increased lung allocation score, increased percentage decline in forced...
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Partial flail chest stabilization may suffice
Major finding: Only predicted total lung capacity at 3 months (90% vs. 72%; P = .02) and 6 months (94% vs.
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Ten-year outcomes for ablation in atrial fibrillation impressive
Major finding: A decade after 513 patients underwent extensive pulmonary vein antrum isolation for drug-resistant paroxysmal atrial fibrillation,...
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Esophageal ultrasound unreliable for tumor staging
Major finding: Esophageal ultrasound correctly staged tumor depth in just 39% of pT1a esophageal tumors and 51% of pT1b esophageal tumors.Data...
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18% of lung cancers caught by CT screening were indolent
Major Finding: An estimated 18% of lung cancers detected by low-dose CT screening in the National Lung Screening Trial were likely indolent and...
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Drug-eluting stent edges drug-eluting balloon
Major finding: The in-segment minimal lumen diameter at 1 year was 2.36 mm with the second-generation everolimus-eluting stent and 2.01 mm with...
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Abrupt increase noted in LVAD thrombosis
Major finding: The rate of pump thrombosis was stable at approximately 2.2% for several years, then rose steeply after March 2011 to 8.4%; the...
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Partial pleurectomy improved quality of life but not survival in mesothelioma
Major finding: Pleural effusion was controlled at 1 month in 37% of patients in the talc group and in 59% of patients in the pleurectomy group (P...
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Mitral valve repair no better than replacement
Major Finding: The primary end point – the degree of LV reverse remodeling, as measured by the left ventricular end-systolic volume index on...