{"title":"Reply: Coming together on coronary guidelines and beyond.","authors":"Faisal G Bakaeen","doi":"10.1016/j.jtcvs.2025.03.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2025.03.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143781635","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":"Reply: Preoperative diabetes duration and long-term outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting.","authors":"Jun Ho Lee, Hee Jung Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.jtcvs.2025.03.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2025.03.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143781637","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}
Irbaz Hameed, Sriharsha Talapaneni, Lauren M Barron, Yihan Lin, Brian Mitzman, Olugbenga T Okusanya, Gavitt A Woodard, Clauden Louis, Dina Al Rameni, J Hunter Mehaffey, Kirsten A Freeman, Xiaoying Lou, Andrew P Dhanasopon, Sara Pereira, Cherie Erkmen, Lars G Svensson
{"title":"A Guide for Transition from Cardiothoracic Surgery Training to Practice.","authors":"Irbaz Hameed, Sriharsha Talapaneni, Lauren M Barron, Yihan Lin, Brian Mitzman, Olugbenga T Okusanya, Gavitt A Woodard, Clauden Louis, Dina Al Rameni, J Hunter Mehaffey, Kirsten A Freeman, Xiaoying Lou, Andrew P Dhanasopon, Sara Pereira, Cherie Erkmen, Lars G Svensson","doi":"10.1016/j.jtcvs.2025.03.026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2025.03.026","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The transition from cardiothoracic surgery training to independent practice is an important milestone in a new cardiothoracic surgeon's career and often requires navigating various known and unknown obstacles. This review aims to address some of these challenges and help guide newly minted cardiothoracic surgeons towards a successful career.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The writing group includes cardiothoracic surgery trainees, early-career surgeons, and senior surgeons. The authors provide a comprehensive guide on the professional, clinical, and personal considerations of entering practice.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Several aspects of transitioning from cardiothoracic surgery training to practice are discussed, including the decision to pursue additional training, selecting a niche, considerations for private, community and academic practice, contract negotiations, preparing for day one, advice from senior surgeons on building a practice, when to consider a change in job and its implications, attitudes and strategies to build skills in your first job, the benefits of joining professional societies, strategies for becoming a more productive researcher, developing an early faculty peer network, leading and commanding respect in the operating room, how to fill the shoes of a senior partner, and raising a family as you finish training and start your first job.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The transition from training to independent practice presents both unique opportunities and challenges. This review consolidates firsthand insights and advice from numerous early career and senior cardiothoracic surgeons to serve as a comprehensive guide and help newly minted surgeons succeed in this demanding field.</p>","PeriodicalId":49975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143781531","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}
Angelo M Dell'Aquila, Konrad Wisniewski, Gabor Szabó
{"title":"Reply: Computed tomography scan images in dissection: Looking at the past and evaluating the present.","authors":"Angelo M Dell'Aquila, Konrad Wisniewski, Gabor Szabó","doi":"10.1016/j.jtcvs.2025.03.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2025.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143755486","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":"Commentary: Nature vs Nurture in ACHD.","authors":"Tracy R Geoffrion","doi":"10.1016/j.jtcvs.2025.03.022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2025.03.022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774673","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":"Ensuring safety and reliability in ChatGPT-assisted pediatric cardiovascular surgical decision-making.","authors":"Xiaobin Zhang, Jiawei Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jtcvs.2025.02.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2025.02.015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143755485","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: Eliminating the learning curve in robotic mitral valve repair: Results from 1400 patients.","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jtcvs.2025.01.027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2025.01.027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143744190","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":"The false lumen volume fraction in acute type A aortic dissection: A potential indicator for malperfusion syndromes?","authors":"Li-Xi Gan, Yi Chang, Hong-Wei Guo","doi":"10.1016/j.jtcvs.2025.02.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2025.02.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143722351","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}
Anastasiia K Tompkins, Aron Egelko, Natalie Florescu, Mara Antonoff, Cherie P Erkmen
{"title":"Reply: Promoting transparency in training: Health care and family services.","authors":"Anastasiia K Tompkins, Aron Egelko, Natalie Florescu, Mara Antonoff, Cherie P Erkmen","doi":"10.1016/j.jtcvs.2025.02.027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2025.02.027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143722349","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}