Ernest G Chan, Rachel L Deitz, Jack K Donohue, John P Ryan, Yota Suzuki, Masashi Furukawa, Kentaro Noda, Pablo G Sanchez
{"title":"Lung Transplantation After Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion in High-Risk Recipients: A Propensity Matched Analysis of a National Database.","authors":"Ernest G Chan, Rachel L Deitz, Jack K Donohue, John P Ryan, Yota Suzuki, Masashi Furukawa, Kentaro Noda, Pablo G Sanchez","doi":"10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.10.041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.10.041","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>We report outcomes associated with EVLP lungs in high-risk lung transplant recipients utilizing a national database.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We performed a retrospective analysis of the UNOS Database (1/1/2018-3/31/2024). High-risk status was defined as mean pulmonary arterial pressure > 35 mmHg, lung retransplantation, or bridge to transplant. In addition to univariable analysis, propensity score matched analysis was performed on predictors of donor and recipient characteristics.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Risk of dying on the waitlist was significantly higher for high-risk candidates (HR: 1.69 [1.51 - 1.89], p < 0.001). Following matching, 203 EVLP cases were matched to 609 standard procurement recipients. The EVLP group was associated with higher rates of postoperative acute kidney injury requiring renal replacement therapy (27% vs 16%, p < 0.001), higher mortality on index admission (13% vs. 8%, p = 0.04), and longer length of stay (29 vs 25 days, p = 0.006). EVLP modality was associated with survival time (p < 0.001) with portable EVLP having significantly shorter survival (2.7 years) relative to standard cases (4.7 years, p < 0.02). A subgroup analysis found that this survival effect was limited to bridge and retransplant recipients.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>EVLP lungs were associated with higher rates of postoperative AKI and portable EVLP was associated with shorter survival in high-risk lung transplant recipients. However, given the high waitlist mortality in this candidate population, EVLP lungs should still be considered an alternative.</p>","PeriodicalId":49975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142569551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Isaac S Alderete, Cathlyn K Medina, Arya Pontula, Samantha E Halpern, Alexandria L Soto, Kunal J Patel, Jacob A Klapper, Matthew G Hartwig
{"title":"Donor and Recipient Factors Associated with Primary Graft Dysfunction Following Lung Transplantation: A DMG Registry Analysis.","authors":"Isaac S Alderete, Cathlyn K Medina, Arya Pontula, Samantha E Halpern, Alexandria L Soto, Kunal J Patel, Jacob A Klapper, Matthew G Hartwig","doi":"10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.10.045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.10.045","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Current risk-adjusted models to predict primary graft dysfunction (PGD) following lung transplantation (LTx) do not include bedside donor critical care data. Donor management goals (DMG) represent predefined critical care endpoints aimed at optimizing multi-organ donor management. Here, we sought to identify novel predictors to better understand the relationship between donor management and PGD following LTx.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We used the national DMG registry to identify a cohort of LTx recipients linked to their respective donors between January 1<sup>st</sup>, 2015 and March 1st, 2023. Grade 3 PGD (PGD3) was defined according to modified ISHLT criteria. Multivariable modeling was performed to identify risk factors for the development of PGD3.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 2704 eligible patients were identified of which 643 (23.8%) developed PGD3. After multivariable modeling, the likelihood of PGD3 was greater with increased donor age (OR 1.06 [1.02, 1.10] per 5 year change, p=0.003), increased donor serum pH at the time of authorization (OR 1.14 [1.02, 1.25] per 0.1 increase, p=0.016), donor history of cocaine use (OR 1.34 [1.05, 1.71], p=0.020), and increased recipient central venous pressure (1.03 [1.01, 1.06], p=0.005). Recipients who received donor lungs in which the DMG for PF ratio was met had a lower likelihood of developing PGD3 (OR 0.63 [0.46, 0.86], p=0.006).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study leverages a novel detailed donor management database to identify factors associated with the development of PGD3. These factors may be used to recognize donors and recipients that may benefit from early interventions to improve short-term outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":49975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142569586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mimi Xiaoming Deng, Abdulaziz M Alhothali, Terrence M Yau
{"title":"Commentary: Epiaortic Ultrasound: Better Habit than Haphazard.","authors":"Mimi Xiaoming Deng, Abdulaziz M Alhothali, Terrence M Yau","doi":"10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.10.039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.10.039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142564633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John J Squiers, Emily Shih, Robert M Goldstein, J Michael DiMaio
{"title":"Also, long live the joint general surgery/thoracic surgery (4+3) pathway!","authors":"John J Squiers, Emily Shih, Robert M Goldstein, J Michael DiMaio","doi":"10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.10.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.10.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142548627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commentator Discussion: Cardiac Surgical Unit-Advanced Life Support-certified centers are associated with improved failure to rescue after cardiac arrest: A propensity score-matched analysis.","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.10.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.10.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142548628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commentator Discussion: Personalizing patient risk of a life-altering event: An application of machine learning to hemiarch surgery.","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.07.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.07.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142548629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebecca Bellis, Victoria Cranwell, Prasad S Adusumilli
{"title":"Commentary: Blood Biomarkers: Barriers and Benefits.","authors":"Rebecca Bellis, Victoria Cranwell, Prasad S Adusumilli","doi":"10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.10.040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.10.040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142564619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Won Kyung Pyo, Joon Bum Kim, Yang Hyun Cho, Hyung Gon Je, Hee-Jung Kim, Seung Hyun Lee
{"title":"The long-term impact of lesion set in the surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation during mitral valve surgery: multi-center propensity-score weighted study.","authors":"Won Kyung Pyo, Joon Bum Kim, Yang Hyun Cho, Hyung Gon Je, Hee-Jung Kim, Seung Hyun Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.10.036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.10.036","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aimed to assess the effect of the lesion sets for surgical ablation (SA) of atrial fibrillation (AF) on long-term outcomes and identify the optimal lesion set.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Between 2005 and 2017, 1825 patients underwent SA concomitant to mitral valve (MV) surgery in the participating institutions. Of these, 529 underwent left atrial (LA) ablation, whereas the remainder had biatrial (BA) ablation. The clinical and rhythm outcomes were compared, considering death as a competing event. Inverse probability treatment weighting (IPTW) was used to mitigate the selection bias.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The patients undergoing LA ablation were younger and less frequently had long-standing AF with a shorter duration or required concomitant tricuspid valve surgery. Adjusted analysis showed that LA ablation was associated with a lower risk of early pacemaker implantation (odds ratio, 0.16; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.07-0.38; p<0.001) than BA ablation. Over a median follow-up of 70.4 months (interquartile 44.1-111.2 months), the LA ablation group presented a higher risk of AF recurrence (subdistribution hazard ratio [SHR]1.26; 95% CI 1.12-1.41; p<0.001), with a 5-year cumulative incidence of 34.2% compared to 28.6% in the BA group. The risk of late mortality (SHR, 1.17; 95% CI, 0.74-1.86; p=0.507) and stroke (SHR, 1.21; 95% CI, 0.82-1.79; p=0.345) did not differ between the groups CONCLUSION: In patients undergoing SA concomitant to MV surgery, both lesion sets provided comparable incidence of mortality and stroke. However, BA ablation was associated with a superior rhythm outcome at the expense of a higher risk of early pacemaker implantation.</p>","PeriodicalId":49975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142559258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Operation for acute type A aortic dissection with internal carotid artery occlusion: Is it justified?","authors":"Hiroshi Nagamine, Hiroshi Nagano, Mitsuru Asano","doi":"10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.10.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.10.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142548630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luigi Pirelli, Kendra J Grubb, Isaac George, Andrew M Goldsweig, Tamim M Nazif, Gry Dahle, Patrick O Myers, Maral Ouzounian, Wilson Y Szeto, Francesco Maisano, Arnar Geirsson, Torsten P Vahl, Susheel K Kodali, Tsuyoshi Kaneko, Gilbert H L Tang
{"title":"The Role of Cardiac Surgeons in Transcatheter Structural Heart Disease Interventions.","authors":"Luigi Pirelli, Kendra J Grubb, Isaac George, Andrew M Goldsweig, Tamim M Nazif, Gry Dahle, Patrick O Myers, Maral Ouzounian, Wilson Y Szeto, Francesco Maisano, Arnar Geirsson, Torsten P Vahl, Susheel K Kodali, Tsuyoshi Kaneko, Gilbert H L Tang","doi":"10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.10.037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.10.037","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>With the rapid growth and evolution of transcatheter valve therapies, surgeons are foreseeing a crucial change in their practice. Their role is rapidly evolving and the concept of a structured heart valve team is becoming central in every established SHD program. The knowledge and expertise of surgeons is adapting to a novel and revolutionized field of transcatheter valve therapies, where a multidisciplinary approach is crucial for optimal outcomes and patient satisfaction. This manuscript aims to discuss the evolving role of surgeons in structural heart interventions METHODS: We depict the importance of the heart valve team and outline the challenges surgeons are facing to establish themselves as structural heart operators.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The switch in clinical practice surgeons are experiencing is extremely important for the future of cardiac surgery. The results of a globally conducted real-world survey shows that despite 97% of surgeons are active members of the heart team, 80% take part to TAVR procedures, and the percentage drops significantly in mitral and tricuspid interventions.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Surgeons need to evolve, adapt and embrace this new patient-centered paradigm and broaden their skills and competences maintaining a primary role in the treatment of valvular heat pathologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":49975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142569557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}