Cardiothoracic Research Overview - Summer 2023

Adult Cardiac

• Glotzbach, J. P., Hanson, H. A., Tonna, J. E., Horns, J. J., McCarty Allen, C., Presson, A. P., Griffin, C. L., Zak, M., Sharma, V., Tristani-Firouzi, M., & Selzman, C. H. (2023). Familial Associations of Prevalence and Cause-Specific Mortality for Thoracic Aortic Disease and Bicuspid Aortic Valve in a Large-Population Database. Circulation, 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.060439. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.060439
• Ferrel, M. N., Gerhard, E. F., Johnstad, C. M., Nesbitt, K., Pereira, S. J., & Fiedler, A. G. (2023). Practice patterns of female cardiothoracic surgeons older than age 58 years: Are we making progress?. The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 165(4), 1488–1492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2022.02.006
• Hanff, T. C., Browne, A., Dickey, J., Gaines, H., Harhay, M. O., Goodwin, M., Selzman, C. H., Fang, J. C., Drakos, S. G., & Stehlik, J. (2023). Heart waitlist survival in adults with an intra-aortic balloon pump relative to other Status 2, Status 1, and inotrope Status 3 patients. The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation, 42(3), 368–376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healun.2022.10.010
• Tonna J. E. (2023). Patients receiving ECMO are special, but still only need a haemoglobin concentration of 7g/dL. The Lancet. Respiratory medicine, 11(3), 215–217. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(22)00367-8

Pediatric

• Winder, M. M., Ware, A., Husain, A., Griffiths, E., Swink, J. M., Ou, Z., & Eckhauser, A. (2023). Interdigitating Technique for Repair of Aortic Arch Obstruction to Reduce Reintervention Rates. The Annals of thoracic surgery, S0003-4975(23)00678-1. Advance online publication.
• Argo, M. B., Barron, D. J., Bondarenko, I., Eckhauser, A., Gruber, P. J., Lambert, L. M., Paramananthan, T., Rahman, M., Winlaw, D. S., Yerebakan, C., Alsoufi, B., DeCampli, W. M., Honjo, O., Kirklin, J. K., Prospero, C., Ramakrishnan, K., St Louis, J. D., Turek, J. W., O'Brien, J. E., Jr, Pizarro, C., … McCrindle, B. W. (2023). Hybrid palliation versus nonhybrid management for a multi-institutional cohort of infants with critical left heart obstruction. The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, S0022-5223(23)00346-X. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2023.04.022
• Husain S. A. (2023). Rules for Doubling Down… If They Indeed Exist, Do We Actually Follow Them?. The Annals of thoracic surgery, 115(6), 1468–1469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2023.02.047
• Robinson, D. L., Minich, L. L., Menon, S. C., Ou, Z., Eckhauser, A. W., & Ware, A. L. (2023). Coronary artery dilation associated with bicuspid and unicuspid aortic valve disease in children: a series of 17 patients. Cardiology in the young, 1–6. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S104795112300077X

Thoracic

• Mitzman, B., Wang, X., Haaland, B., & Varghese, T. K., Jr (2023). Variation in Treatment Charges and Reimbursement Among Individual Thoracic Surgeons. The Annals of thoracic surgery, S0003-4975(23)00718-X. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2023.07.008
• Mitzman B. (2023). An Innovative Solution to Lung Cancer Screening Adoption. The Annals of thoracic surgery, S0003-4975(23)00462-9. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2023.04.026
• Olive, J. K., Yost, C. C., Robinson, J. A., Brescia, A. A., Han, J. J., Haney, J. C., Forbess, J. M., Varghese, T. K., Jr, Backhus, L. M., Cooke, D. T., Cornwell, L. D., & Preventza, O. A. (2023). Demographics of Current and Aspiring Integrated Six-year Cardiothoracic Surgery Trainees. The Annals of thoracic surgery, 115(3), 771–777. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.06.051
• Mitzman, B., Smith, B. K., & Varghese, T. K., Jr (2023). Resident Training in Robotic Thoracic Surgery. Thoracic surgery clinics, 33(1), 25–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.thorsurg.2022.07.009

Translational Science

• Kamali R, Gillete K, Tate J, Abhyankar DA, Dosdall DJ, Plank G, Bunch TJ, Macleod RS, Ranjan R.Ann Biomed Eng. 2023 Feb;51(2):329-342. doi: 10.1007/s10439-022-03029-5. Epub 2022 Aug 5.PMID: 35930093
• Khan, M. S., Smego, D., Ishidoya, Y., Hirahara, A. M., Offei, E., Ruiz Castillo, M. S., Gharbia, O., Li, H., Palatinus, J. A., Krueger, L., Hong, T., Hoareau, G. L., Ranjan, R., Selzman, C. H., Shaw, R. M., & Dosdall, D. J. (2023). A canine model of chronic ischemic heart failure. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 324(6), H751–H761. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.00647.2022
• Delisle, B. P., & Aromolaran, A. S. (2023). New Insights into Cardiac Ion Channel Regulation 2.0. International journal of molecular sciences, 24(5), 4999. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24054999
• Kamali, R., Kwan, E., Regouski, M., Bunch, T. J., Dosdall, D. J., Hsu, E., Macleod, R. S., Polejaeva, I., & Ranjan, R. (2023). Contribution of atrial myofiber architecture to atrial fibrillation. PloS one, 18(1), e0279974. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279974

A full list of our research publications from the past couple of years can be found here.