The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
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J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. · Sep 2022
Sex differences in patients with cardiogenic shock requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
Our study assesses differences between male and female patients placed on venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for cardiogenic shock. ⋯ After adjusting for baseline difference, there was no difference in outcomes between male and female patients despite differing risk profiles for in-hospital mortality.
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J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. · Sep 2022
Importance of tumor size in resectable stage III-N2 non-small cell lung cancer.
The 8th TNM edition classifies stage III-N2 disease as IIIA and IIIB based on a tumor size cutoff of 5 cm. However, the importance of tumor size on survival in patients with resectable stage III-N2 disease has not been analyzed systematically. ⋯ These results support the redefinition of tumors greater than 5 cm with resectable N2 disease to stage IIIB. This change should help to refine the multimodality approach for stage III-N2 lung cancer.
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J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. · Sep 2022
Preoperative left atrial strain abnormalities are associated with the development of postoperative atrial fibrillation following isolated coronary artery bypass surgery.
Postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) is a common complication after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Currently, there is no reliable way to determine preoperatively which patients will develop POAF following CABG. The aim of this study was to determine whether preoperative left atrial (LA) strain analysis might identify patients destined to develop POAF following CABG. ⋯ Decreased preoperative LA strain measurements, especially LA-fractional area change, LA-emptying fraction, and LA-reservoir strain, taken jointly, are more specific and sensitive than other preoperative parameters in identifying patients who will develop POAF following CABG. The ability to identify patients preoperatively who are destined to develop POAF following CABG provides a basis for limiting POAF prophylactic therapy to only those patients undergoing CABG who are most likely to benefit from it rather than to all patients undergoing CABG.
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J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. · Sep 2022
Facility-level national trends in racial disparities of surgical therapy for early-stage lung cancer.
The racial gap in surgical treatment for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been narrowing at the population level, but it is unknown if this trend persists at the facility level. ⋯ Trends in disparities in the use of resection for early-stage NSCLC are not universal across facility groupings. As efforts are made toward addressing racial disparities in surgical care for NSCLC, it will be important to remember that population-level analyses may mask lack of progress in certain facility groups.