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JTCVS article of the month: Bicuspid Aortic Stenosis: National Three-Year Outcomes of Transcatheter versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement Among Medicare Beneficiaries by Qiudong Chen MD et al. jtcvs.org/article/S0022-… Take home: Among Medicare beneficiaries with bicuspid

Read the data from this #JTCVS Open article from Cedars-Sinai which found robotic navigational bronchoscopy has a high diagnostic yield and obtains adequate tissue for molecular analysis critical for selection of targeted therapies: doi.org/10.1016/j.xjon…

Fantastic job presenting CA outcomes of SAVR v TAVR in younger patients by our resident Jad Malas! Excellent presentation of an important topic (and did I mention Jad is a PGY2??) Way to go Jad! Cedars-Sinai #STS2024 TSRA

Almost 1/2 of pts age ≤ 60 treated for aortic stenosis in CA between 2013-2021 received TAVI instead of SAVR, per new administrative data Jad Malas Joe Bavaria, MD Tsuyoshi Kaneko Vinay Badhwar DR. Hani Najm S Chris Malaisrie Vikrant Jagadeesan, MD #STS2024 tctmd.com/news/tavi-savr…

🎧Feb #JHLTThePodcast: thejhlt.libsyn.com/episode-39-feb… 1⃣ David Jenkins Royal Papworth Hospital NHS FT 💙 on #Perioperative #ECMO for pulmonary endarterectomy #CTEPH 🫁 2⃣ Kevin (Qiudong) Chen Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai Cedars-Sinai Academic Medicine on #HeartTransplant in socioeconomically distressed communities 🫀

Delighted to share our incoming future General Surgery Surgeons! Welcome to Cedars-Sinai! Congratulations!🎉👏 #Match2024

Congrats to our new residents Savannah Gelhard and Duc Giao!! We are excited to have you 🥳 #MATCH2024

Practice talks for AATS reveal great #diversity of themes and presenters from Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai dept of cardiac surgery headed by Jo Chikwe Cedars-Sinai Academic Medicine

Ross Resurgence in N America by Amine Mazine University of Toronto Cardiac Surgery Take home message: Ross should only be done in expert centers where surgical risk is extremely low. #AATS2024 AATS

Keeping the afternoon rolling at #AATS2024 with some structural heart mitral valve therapy sessions! Great abstracts, presentations + amazing panel discussion Jo Chikwe Marc Gillinov Dr. Gilbert Tang Dr. Patrick M. McCarthy Dr. Olaf Wendler Dr. Stephanie L. Mick AATS AATS ED

Cedars-Sinai updated minimally invasive and robotic lung transplant experience shared this weekend at #AATS2024 with operative films of both approaches! Pedro Catarino Kevin (Qiudong) Chen Rey Rampolla, MD @lorenzozaffiri Dominic Emerson, MD

#SAVR vs. #TAVR in patients ≤60 y in California: ✅ #TAVR increase from 7.2% to 45% ✅ 30d mortality similar (0.2% vs 0.4%) ✅ 5y hazard for mortality: HR 2.5, 95% CI 1.1-3.7, p=0.02 ✅ reoperation almost double with #TAVI (2.2% vs 3.8%, p=0.25) ⅓ annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-…

Our minimally invasive #LTx technique is associated with reduced hospital LOS & opioid prescription at discharge, & improved early pulmonary function over traditional approaches. Jason Thomas, Kevin (Qiudong) Chen, Pedro Catarino, @DominickMegnaMD 🔗: jhltonline.org/article/S1053-…

Excited to share my first 2 papers with Mayo Clinic Cardiac Surgery! Thanks to Sahar A. Saddoughi, MD, PhD and Phillip Rowse, MD, FACS for their support.

Available now: The Editor Roundtable discussing a #JTCVS article on DCD heart transplants in the United States. The live webinar was recorded and can now be watched at your convenience. Hear the panelists' thoughts: aats.org/resources/edit… Dr. Francis Pagani Dominic Emerson, MD

Check out the list of presentations from Cedars-Sinai at The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 61st Annual Meeting this weekend. Looking forward to hearing about groundbreaking insights and innovations in thoracic surgery! #STS2025

#EditorsChoice Ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) may improve donor lung utilization but requires significant infrastructure and expertise. Chen, Megna, and coauthors find that centralized EVLP facilities may mitigate these requirements👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.atho…

Happy Match Day! We’re excited to welcome Danielle Mullis and Kavya Rajesh to our Integrated Thoracic Surgery Residency Program! #Match2025

Congratulations to our incoming future General Surgery Surgeons! Welcome to Cedars-Sinai! Congratulations! 🥳 #Match2025 Cristina Ferrone Farin Amersi Ara Ko

#EditorsChoice Trends and mid-term outcomes of TAVR versus SAVR in adults ≤ 60 years old in California from Alabbadi, Jo Chikwe, and coauthors👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.atho… Jad Malas Kevin (Qiudong) Chen