The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
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J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. · Aug 2024
Multicenter StudyPreoperative Mediastinal Staging in Early-Stage Lung Cancer: Targeted Nodal Sampling is Not Inferior to Systematic Nodal Sampling.
To determine whether targeted sampling (TS), which omits biopsy of triple- normal lymph nodes (LNs) on positron emission tomography, computed tomography, and endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS), is noninferior to systematic sampling (SS) of mediastinal LNs during EBUS for staging of patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). ⋯ In high-volume thoracic endosonography centers, TS is not inferior to SS in nodal staging of early-stage NSCLC. This results in change of clinical management for a minority of patients.
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J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. · Aug 2024
Distal aortic progression following acute type A aortic dissection repair among patients with bicuspid and tricuspid aortic valves.
The study objective was to analyze long-term growth and outcomes of the distal aorta after open acute type A aortic dissection repair in patients with bicuspid aortic valves or tricuspid aortic valves without connective tissue disease. ⋯ Patients with bicuspid aortic valves could be treated similarly as patients with tricuspid aortic valves without connective tissue disease in the setting of open acute type A aortic dissection repair.