Deeply proud of the work our teams do each day to make this possible: Duke University Hospital STS Harvest3 across-the-board 3-star ratings for CABG, AVR, AVR+CABG & MVRr. Providing highest quality care possible will always be our goal DukeCTSurgery Duke Surgery Duke Health The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

EACTS has written to members outlining two significant concerns relating to recently published Coronary Artery Revascularisation guidelines 👇 eacts.org/wp-content/upl…

2021 sucked, but not if you have H/L failure at Duke University School of Medicine! 116 heart transplants 111 lung transplants 76 Abbott HeartMate3 LVADs 54 @Abiomed Impella 5.5 >180 ECMO ??? Largest thoracic organ failure center in the world ??? All in Discover Durham Adam DeVore, MD, MHS ben bryner

Itzhaki Ben Zadok O et al Natural History and Prognosis of Patients with Unrepaired Tricuspid Regurgitation Undergoing Implantation of Left Ventricular Assist Device ow.ly/Q7sV50IAOhT Yaron Barac #TricuspidRegurgitation #LVAD #HeartFailure #RightVentricularFailure

#OpenAccess Right and left ventricular assist devices are an option for bridge to heart transplant. Read the full article in JTCVS Open by Barac, Milano, et al: doi.org/10.1016/j.xjon… #JTCVS #CardioTwitter #CTSurgery AATS CTSurgSocMedNetwork Yaron Barac

A random but interesting thing I learned at #ISHLT2022 from Marcelo Cypel and Yaron Barac — lungs from #marijuana smoking donors are 🟩🟩GREEN🟩🟩 instead of the healthy pink 🫁 (but they still work)

This is Israel’s actual tourism minister, 🟠Yoel Razvozov | יואל רזבוזוב, in a brilliant marketing video. You will be shaken, stirred, moved, and inspired. Come visit. :) 🍸🇮🇱

What’s a double triple you say??? Well, it’s when you do >100 🫀tx and >100 🫁tx in a year. Yet again, Duke Heart the only center in the country (oh, wait, I meant the world!!!) to continue to do that! Adam DeVore, MD, MHS Robert Mentz, MD Sharon McCartney Brandi Bottiger Richa Agarwal