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1/14 How do diuretics lead to metabolic alkalosis? I often invoke "contraction alkalosis", typically as a hand-wave explanation as patients' bicarbonate increases with diuresis. Should I continue to wave my hands?

Textbook outcome for the Norwood operation—an informative quality metric in congenital heart surgery. Read the JTCVS Open article by Prabhu, Turek, et al: doi.org/10.1016/j.xjon… AATS CTSurgSocMedNetwork Neel Prabhu Joe Nellis MD, MBA Mary Moya-Mendez Cathlyn Medina Joseph W Turek

A huge thank you to Dr Pappas for teaching an awesome inguinal hernia lab to the interns - we are ready to revamp our model! ⁦Duke Surgery⁩ ⁦Duke General Surgery Residency⁩

Asher's Story: The domino #hearttransplant is an innovation built on the Duke Health-pioneered world’s first partial heart transplant. Duke Surgery | Duke Heart | Duke Anesthesiology | Duke Children's | Duke University School of Medicine | #DominoHeartTransplant

We had a wonderful time seeing our colleagues from the other side outside the hospital! DukeCTSurgery Duke Anesthesiology #cardiac #ctsurgery #ctanesthesia #wellness

Wrapping up a great month at Duke Raleigh Campus with this all-⭐️ team! #squad Imran Anwar, MD Neel Prabhu Laura Pride Michael Okoreeh, MD PhD Duke General Surgery Residency Duke Vascular DukeCTSurgery

Interns Norine Wendlyn Chan, MD, Neel Prabhu & Dr. Harris got “hands-on” with our appendectomy model made from a glove with Kevin N Shah while Lab2s Alex Bartholomew, MD and Annie Liu got some robotic coaching from Sabino Zani, MD, FACS in our afternoon SEAL session. Duke General Surgery Residency Duke Surgery

.Neel Prabhu et al conclude using CT-acquired lung volumes for donor recipient size matching in lung transplantation is feasible w/advanced segmentation software, & may be more predictive of outcome compared w/current sizing methods, which use gender & height only. Link below👇

Computed Tomography Volumetrics for Size Matching in Lung Transplantation for Restrictive Disease doi.org/10.1016/j.atho… Maciej A. Mazurowski Joe Mammarappallil Matthew Hartwig

Nice study looking at days out of hospital and alive. Median 278 days outside of hospital, alive in the first year of life. Anatomy and operation associated. #pedsicu #pedscards #icu #criticalcare #neotwitter #cardiology #hlhs #pediatrics #peds #CHD cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🚨Match Alert 🚨 We are thrilled to welcome the newest class of incoming interns to the Duke Surgery family! #SabistonSquad #SutureFuture #AllStars #ILookLikeASurgeon WomenSurgeons Lisa Tracy John Migaly

Congratulations to Dr. Chad Hughes on his appointment as Chief of the Section of Aortic Surgery, and Dr. Jeffrey Gaca on his appointment as Chief of the Section of Adult Cardiac Surgery! Duke Vascular | DukeCTSurgery | Duke Heart Read more: surgery.duke.edu/news

Hearts and lungs and robots, oh my! DukeCTSurgery trainees and faculty were working hard at our simulation session today! Duke Surgery

Love this crew.

📢 First Replication of Clamshell Thoracosternotomy Outcomes! Our team presents the first-ever replication data on clamshell thoracosternotomy for complex aortic arch and descending thoracic aorta repairs. 🫀 🔬 Key Findings: ✅ 94% 1-year survival ✅ Zero stroke or paraplegia

DukeCTSurgery welcomes Professor Hiroshi Date to the Section of General Thoracic Surgery! Dr. Date is a world-renowned surgeon with expertise in Thoracic surgical oncology and lung transplantation. An honor and outstanding addition to our Duke Surgery team!

Partial Heart Transplantation: a comprehensive review of partial heart transplantation, including current status, clinical adaptation, and future directions.Neel Prabhu Joseph W Turek Michael Mensah-Mamfo ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.11…

TSRA Executive Committee 2025-2026 Anna Olds Sameer Hirji Chi Chi Do-Nguyen, DO Irbaz Hameed, MD Rohun Bhagat Justin Robinson Faaz Ashraf Marvi Tariq @ Jay Patel @ Eliza Hompe @ Hannah McMullen @ Neel Prabhu @ Mujtaba Mubashir