Residents and fellows in thoracic surgery programs rotate at renowned hospitals all located within the Texas Medical Center. Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center is the primary private adult hospital ...

Match Day 2020 ushered in a new group of surgery residents, while saying goodbye to others who will soon leave UAB for different programs across the country. UAB students will continue their medical ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center have found that adults ...

Thoracic aneurysm open surgery is a treatment for a thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), a bulge in your aorta. The aorta, your body’s largest blood vessel, begins at your heart and extends into your ...

Each year, we match one general thoracic track and three cardiothoracic track fellows to our ACMGE thoracic surgery fellowship program. This provides a broad diversity of experience that includes ...

CHICAGO (May 14, 2020) -- Heart and lung surgeons are fully aware of the difficulties that exist in the intensely demanding and competitive specialty of cardiothoracic surgery; even still, they report ...

Michal Hubka, M.D.: lung cancer, minimally invasive thoracic surgery, robotic surgery, video assisted thoracic surgery (VATS); Virginia Mason Seattle Medical Center, General Surgery, 1100 Ninth Ave., ...

Goals: Introduce the concepts of modern cardiothoracic surgery into a program that has been fairly traditional in the past. These concepts include close analysis of data, full transparency, regular ...

Johannes R. Kratz, MD, has been named as the inaugural chief of UCSF’s Division of Thoracic Surgery, one of the leading academic robotic thoracic surgery programs in the western U.S. He brings a track ...

Introduction: Uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (URATS) combines the precision of robotic systems with the minimal invasiveness of single-incision surgery. However, its widespread adoption ...

Professional societies agreed that U.S. centers performing pediatric and congenital heart surgery should be formally reorganized into two tiers with volume requirements designed to maintain surgical ...

What scared Merrill Kelly most was the blood clot in his shoulder. That’s not something many healthy 31-year-old men encounter, but it’s serious when they do. His shoulder was discolored and bruised, ...