The past few months have been surreal. I graduated from medical school, enjoyed the beautiful beaches of Bali, moved to Cleveland, and am now 2 weeks away from what was once just a dream.
Incredibly grateful and excited to call
@CCF_CTSRes
my new home!🫀
@CleClinicHVTI
I am absolutely floored to join this incredible team.
I am so grateful for my partner, mentors, family, and friends who supported me along the way.
Exited to learn and train!
It was a privilege working with this incredible team, advocating for patients on key policies such as expanded lung cancer screenings and workforce shortage.
The
#STSAdvocacyConference23
Capitol Hill meetings are officially underway! Thank you to record number of advocates for being champions today for cardiothoracic surgery.
My personal favorite:
‘Is your partner okay with you pursuing a career in Cardiothoracic Surgery?’
Missing all the incredible talks at
@AATSHQ
this year but very excited to work with you and the team at
@CCF_CTSRes
soon!
@EricRoselliMD
@TSRA_official
,
@ThoracicStudent
, and JTCVS (
@AATSED
) have created a 7-part primer series to introduce cardiothoracic surgery to students. We hope that surgeons and residents will share these articles with rotating students and those interested in cardiothoracic surgery.
In a cohort of patients with synchronous multiple primary lung cancers, our study finds:
🫁80.9% were incorrectly staged by at least 1 modality.
🫁When inaccurate, CT and PET reports only noted the most suspicious lesion in 85% and 81%, respectively.
And that is a wrap at
@scahq
! My talk on diastolic coronary blood flow reversal in mixed valvular disease. Can you think of factors that contribute to the development of this rare phenomenon?
#SCA2023
Check out our study on synchronous multiple primary lung cancers:
🫁 Incidence among patients undergoing lung cancer resection: 20.7%
🫁 4-year cancer-specific survival: 90%
No association between fluoroquinolones and increased risk of aortic aneurysm or aortic dissection when compared with amoxicillin-clavulanate, ampicillin-sulbactam, or extended-spectrum cephalosporins in a study of ~ 3 million patients!🫀
Welcome back to
#ThoracicThursday
!
Today we'll expand upon last week's tweets on a cornerstone of general thoracic practice: lung resection.
But which kind? Let's look at 2 recent trials comparing lobectomy to sublobar resection in early-stage lung cancer:
#JCOG0802
+
#CALGB140503
Neochords: How long, how many, too many? Hear
@elde_md
and Y. Joseph Woo's approach to neochordal repair of the myxomatous mitral valve in this
#JTCVS
Techniques article:
Final thesis defense completed ✅ One and done … I am so grateful for my mentors, the mistakes, and all the lessons learned. So excited for what’s next!
@joshchen14
Interestingly, my first time holding the camera in a thoracic case, I was doing a great job staying in the middle. Then I hear, ‘stop being in the middle! That’s what gallbladder surgeons do. I need to see!’ You can never go right holding the camera😂
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has advised Iranians against making unnecessary trips to France amid ongoing unrest. It also advised the French police & gov’t to show self-restraint, avoid violence, consider protesters’ demands, respect their freedom of speech & their right to protest.
This week’s covered articles by The Beat
@ctsnetorg
were pretty awesome!
Soft, bioresorbable, transparent microelectrode arrays for multimodal spatiotemporal mapping and modulation of cardiac physiology
If you're an artist,
@STS_CTsurgery
#STS2024
needs you! If you can paint by numbers, we need you too! At the meeting, take a few minutes to go to The Hub next to the Exhibit Hall and help paint this: