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The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Launches New Valve Surgery Risk Calculators

DAIC

Coming: Risk Calculators for Aorta, Adult Congenital, and General Thoracic The STS has additional enhancements in the pipeline, including risk models and calculators for aorta surgery and adult congenital heart disease, as well as general thoracic procedures focused on lung and esophageal cancer.

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Surgeon Preference Impacts Survival Outcomes Analyses for CABG Patients

DAIC

24, 2025 In-patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), a novel analysis evaluating surgeon preference for multi- versus single-arterial grafting may help explain the differing results between prior retrospective analyses and randomized controlled trials regarding long-term survival.

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Multi-Valve Surgery Risk Calculator

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Congenital

STS leveraged contemporary national data from the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database between July 2017 and December 2023 to analyze outcomes of 32,938 patients that underwent multi-valve surgery involving replacement of the aortic valve, plus replacement or repair of the mitral valve, with and without concomitant coronary artery bypass grafting.

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Abstract 4142012: Ectasias of Multiple Coronary Arteries and a Coronary Cameral Fistula Between Right Coronary Artery and Coronary Sinus

Circulation

Patient underwent surgical closure of fistula and a 2-vessel coronary artery bypass graft surgery, with a LIMA pedicle graft to the LAD, and SV graft to the LCx.Postoperatively, patient was continued on medical therapy with improvement of symptoms. CCF can be congenital or acquired and has many variations.

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Surgeon Preference Factors into Survival Outcomes Analyses for Multi- and Single-Arterial Bypass Grafting

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Congenital

With over 95% of adult and congenital cardiac surgery procedures and a majority of lung cancer and esophageal cancer surgery in the U.S., The STS National Database is one of the largest and most comprehensive clinical registries with nearly 10 million cardiothoracic procedures performed by 4,300+ surgeons.

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New Legislation Speeds Progress on Patient Access to New Technologies

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Technology

Removing these barriers would allow surgeons, physicians, hospitals, health systems, and others to conduct longitudinal analyses and gain new insights into long-term outcomes for patients undergoing procedures such as coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)—the most common operation performed by cardiac surgeons.

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Of Twists and Turns

EMS 12-Lead

genes implicated in congenital Long QT syndrome, such as SCN5A and KCNQ1). [1-3,