The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
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J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. · Aug 2024
Diversity Presentations at Cardiothoracic Surgery Meetings: Opportunity to Align Our Actions with Our Values.
Substantial efforts have been directed toward identifying and addressing cardiothoracic surgical disparities in both patient care and our workforce. We aimed to characterize the presence over time of diversity and disparities-related content at cardiothoracic surgical society meetings. ⋯ Recent years have shown an explosion in cardiothoracic surgery meeting content focused on diversity but still account for a diminutive proportion of overall content. These data highlight an opportunity to further align scholarly activity with our values.
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J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. · Aug 2024
Chronic Total Occlusions and Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Outcomes.
To investigate the association between the presence and grafting of chronic total occlusions (CTOs) and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) outcomes. ⋯ In this REGROUP trial subanalysis, neither CTO presence or complete grafting of CTO vessels was associated with significantly different rates of MACE. However, the finding of possible survival benefit among a subgroup of patients undergoing grafting of a dominant RCA CTO vessel alongside left anterior descending artery grafting warrants additional study.