1. Randomized Trial of Mediastinal Lymph Node Sampling versus Complete Lymphadenectomy during Pulmonary Resection in Patients with N0 or N1 (Less than Hilar) Non-small Cell Carcinoma: Results of the ACOSOG Z0030 Trial
Gail E. Darling¹, Mark S. Allen², Paul Decker³, Karla V. Ballman³, Rodney J. Landreneau⁴, Robert J. McKenna⁵, David R. Jones⁷, Richard I. Inculet⁸, Valerie W. Rusch⁹, Joe B. Putnam⁶
1. Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. 2. Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. 3. Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. 4. Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 5. Thoracic Surgery, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 6. Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University, Memphis TN, USA. 7. Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,VA, USA. 8. Surgery, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada. 9. Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.

Invited Discussant: Joseph B. Shrager, MD
 

2. One Slide Fits All: The Versatility of Slide Tracheoplasty Utilizing Cardiopulmonary Bypass Support for Airway Reconstruction in Children
Peter B. Manning¹, Michael J. Rutter², Asher Lisec³, Bradley S. Marino³
1. Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA. 2. Otorhinolaryngology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA. 3. Cardiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.

Invited Discussant: Charles B. Huddleston, MD
 

3. Transapical Aortic Valve Implantation at Three Years
Thomas Walther, Joerg Kempfert, Michael A. Borger, Ardawan J. Rastan, Axel Linke, Gerhard Schuler, Friedrich W. Mohr
Cardiac Surgery,Heartcenter Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.

Invited Discussant: Joseph E. Bavaria, MD
 

4. Superior Nationwide Outcomes of Thoracic Endovascular Aneurysm Repair Compared to Open Repair for Isolated Descending Thoracic Aneurysm in a Cohort of 11,000 Patients
Raja R. Gopaldas¹, ², Joseph Huh¹, ², Tam K. Dao¹, Scott A. LeMaire¹, ², Danny Chu¹, ⁴, Faisal G. Bakaeen¹, ⁴, Joseph Coselli¹, ²
1. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. 2. Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Houston, TX, USA. 3. Department of Education Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA. 4. Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA.

Invited Discussant: John A. Kern, MD
 

AWARD PRESENTATIONS

Scientific Achievement Award
Richard D. Weisel, MD
Toronto General Hospital

C. Walton Lillehei Resident Forum Award

TSRA McGoon Award

TSFRE Report

5. Identifying Patients at Particular Risk of Injury at Repeat Sternotomy: Analysis of Over 2500 Cardiac Reoperations
Chan B. Park, Rakesh M. Suri, Harold M. Burkhart, Kevin L. Greason, Joseph A. Dearani, Hartzell V. Schaff, Thoralf M. Sundt
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

Invited Discussant: Irving L. Kron, MD

6. The Effect of Regionalization on Outcome in Pulmonary Lobectomy: A Canadian National Study
Christian J. Finley¹, Shaf Keshavjee¹, David R. Urbach², Anna Bendzsak¹, George Tomlinson², Gail E. Darling¹
1. Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada. 2. Division of Clinical Decision Making and Health Care, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Invited Discussant: Yolonda L. Colson, MD, PhD
 

7. Hemodynamic Results at 1 Month and Over One Year of Endoventricular Patch Plasty in 117 Ischemic Failing Ventricles Excluded from the STICH Trial
Vincent Dor, Filippo Civaia, Clara Alexandrescu, Michel Sabatier, Françoise Montiglio
Centre Cardio-Thoracique, Monaco Cedex, Monaco.

Invited Discussant: Robert H. Jones,  MD
 

8. Endoscopic Vein Harvest is Associated with Compromised Patency Outcomes: Results from the Prospective Randomized ROOBY Trial
Marco A. Zenati¹, Ali F. Sonel², A. Laurie Shroyer³, Morteza Amidi², Joseph Collins⁴, G. Hossein Almassi⁵, ROOBY Study³, ⁶
1. Cardiac Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 2. Cardiology, VA Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA,USA. 3. VA Northport, Northport, NY, USA. 4. CSP Data Coordinating Center, Perry Point, MD, USA. 5. Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA. 6. ECHS Denver VAMC, Denver, CO, USA.

Invited Discussant: Carlos A. Mestres, MD, PhD
 

9. Impact of Pulmonary Hypertension on Outcomes Following Aortic Valve Replacement for Aortic Valve Stenosis
Spencer J. Melby, Marci Bailey, Marc R. Moon, Nader Moazami, Jennifer S. Lawton, Brian R. Lindman, Ralph J. Damiano
Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.

Invited Discussant: James S. Gammie, MD
 

10. A Randomized Trial of a Restrictive versus Liberal Blood Transfusion Strategy in Older Postoperative Cardiac Surgery Patients
Robin Varghese¹, M. Lee Myers¹, L. Ray Guo¹, Neville Suskin²
1. Cardiac Surgery, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada. 2. Cardiology London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada.

Invited Discussant: Jennifer S. Lawton, MD
 

11. Robotic Mitral Valve Repair versus Conventional Approaches: Potential Realized
Tomislav Mihaljevic, Craig Jarrett, A. Marc Gillinov, Sarah Williams, Pierre DeVilliers, Eugene H. Blackstone
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Invited Discussant: Volkmar  Falk, MD
 

12. Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement in High-Risk Percutaneous Transpical Aortic Valve Replacement Candidates
Andrew W. El Bardissi, Prem Shekar, Gregory S. Couper, Ann Maloney, Lawrence H. Cohn
Department of Surgery, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Invited Discussant: Craig R. Smith, MD
 

13. The Cox-Maze IV Procedure: Predictors of Late Recurrence
Ralph J. Damiano, Marci Bailey, Forrest H. Schwartz, Nabil A. Munfakh, Jennifer S. Lawton, Richard B. Schuessler, Marc R. Moon
Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.

Invited Discussant: Michael Argenziano, MD
 

14. Long Term Results of the Heller-Dor Operation with Intra Operative Manometry for the Cure of Esophageal Achalasia
Sandro Mattioli¹, Alberto Ruffato¹, Vladimiro Pilotti¹, Beatrice Aramini¹, Frank D’Ovidio²
1. Division of Esophageal and Pulmonary Surgery, Villa Maria Cecilia Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, BO, Italy. 2. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

Invited Discussant: Bryan Meyers, MD, MPH
 

15. The Impact of Adjuvant Brachytherapy with Sublobar Resection on Pulmonary Function And Dyspnea; Preliminary Results from ACOSOG Z4032 Trial
Hiran C. Fernando¹, Rodney J. Landreneau², Sumithra Mandrekar⁸, Shauna Hillman⁸, Francis C. Nichols⁴, Bryan Meyers⁵, Thomas Dipetrillo⁶, Dwight E. Heron³, Joe B. Putnam⁷
1. Cardiothoracic Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA. 2. Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittburgh, PA, USA. 3. Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittburgh, PA, USA. 4. Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. 5. Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA. 6. Radiation Oncology, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA. 7. Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt Clinic, Nashville, TN, USA. 8. Health Sciences and Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

Invited Discussant: Walter Weder, MD

16. Lobectomy Leads To Optimal Survival in Early-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer
Malcolm M. DeCamp¹, Abram Recht², John C. Flickinger³, Laura N. Medford-Davis⁴, Anne-Marie Dyer⁵, John M. Varlotto⁶
1. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA. 2. Department of Radiation Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA. 3. Department of Radiation Oncology, Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 4. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. 5. Department of Public Health Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, USA. 6. Division of Radiation Oncology, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA,USA.

Invited Discussant: Jessica S. Donington, MD
 

17. Bilateral Lung Transplantation Does Not Improve Survival in Patients 65 and Above
Shekar L. Reddy, Richa Sharma, Shu S. Lin, Scott M. Palmer, David W. Zaas, R. Duane Davis
Cardiothoracic Surgery, Transplant Division, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.

Invited Discussant: Thomas K. Waddell, MD, MSc,PhD
 

18. Patterns of Recurrence and Incidence of Second Primary Tumors after Lobectomy by VATS versus Thoracotomy for Lung Cancer
Raja M. Flores, Ugonna N. Ihekweazu, Nabil Rizk, Manjit S. Bains, Robert J. Downey, Prasad Adusumilli, David J. Finley, James Huang, Joseph Dycoco, Valerie W. Rusch, Bernard Park
Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr, Thoracic Surg, New York, NY, USA

Invited Discussant: Scott J. Swanson, MD
 

19. Respiratory Function after Pneumonectomy. Results of the Pneumonectomy Project
Jean Deslauriers, Steve Provencher, Paula Ugalde, Santiago Miro, Yves Lacasse, Sébastien Bergeron, Sylvie Ferland
Centre de Pneumologie, IUCPQ (Hôpital Laval), Quebec, QC, Canada.

Invited Discussant: David J. Sugarbaker, MD
 

20. Age, Mediastinal Downstaging and Extent of Pulmonary Resection are Independent Predictors of Survival in Clinical Stage IIIA Patients after Induction Therapy
Subroto Paul, Jeffrey L. Port, Brendon M. Stiles, Paul C. Lee, James Saunders, Farooq Mirza, Nasser K. Altorki
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.

Invited Discussant: Gail E. Darling, MD
 

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