One month after a life-saving experimental transplant was performed by STS member and professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Bartley P. Griffith, MD, the patient shows no sign of infection or rejection of the organ. fxn.ws/3tNSi3A

Community-level socioeconomic distress is associated with worse 5-year mortality after lung transplantation. How can mitigate this risk and increase survival in this patient population? 🔗 jhltonline.org/article/S1053-…

🎉Have a little downtime over the New Year? 🎧Catch up on #JHLTThePodcast from 2023, including our top episode from July, at thejhlt.libsyn.com/2023. 2023 was full of unique studies and featured the biggest audience we've ever had. Thank you for listening! Jonathan Singer Michelle Kittleson MD PhD

⁦Pedro Catarino⁩ showcasing our robotic lung transplant work at the Stanford Cardiothoracic Transplant Summit ⁦Vail⁩ ⁦LA Lung Transplant⁩ ⁦Cedars-Sinai⁩

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

The first ever report of a robotically-assisted #lungtransplant from the surgeons Cedars-Sinai, demonstrating the powerful potential of this technology in our patients #transplant Dominic Emerson, MD 🔗 jhltonline.org/article/S1053-…

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…

Looking forward to sharing our work on centralized EVLP at #STS2024 #EVLP #lungtransplant @CedasCTSurgery

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 Lorenzo Zaffiri 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.