Perfection and compassion – essentials in cardio-thoracic surgery✩

Images in cardio-thoracic surgery. Obstructive mass in pulmonary artery.

A 62-year-old woman was admitted with syncope. A magnetic resonance imaging showed a 6-cm  3-cm mass on the pulmonary valve leaflet (Fig. 1). A 90 mmHg pressure gradient was found (Fig. 2). Angiogram revealed a severely calcified, mobile mass (Fig. 2, Videos 1 and 2), which was treated surgically. On histopathology analysis, a papillary fibro-elastoma diagnosis was confirmed. Fig. 1. Shows a 6...

Video-on-command for thoracic and cardio-vascular surgery.

Nowadays, new technology for imaging, information storage, and its transmission is almost everywhere. In the medical field, multi-slice computed tomography (CT), allowing for simultaneous acquisition of many images in parallel, and quick three-dimensional reconstruction is just one example that has the potential to make significant changes in the daily practice, not only for thoracic and cardio...

Images in cardio-thoracic surgery Giant pulmonary arteriovenous malformation

A 44-year-old man was admitted with coughing and dyspnea for 3 weeks. Chest radiography and thoracic CT scanning confirmed a huge left lung arteriovenous malformation (Fig. 1). Due to a prohibitively high operative risk, he was investigated with pulmonary angiography in preparation for embolization therapy (Fig. 2). The patient subsequently refused all further therapy. European Journal of Cardi...

Research in cardio-thoracic surgery a European challenge.

European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery: carrying the torch.

I would like to thank you for the honour of electing me as your President. As many of you might suspect and some of you know, in a well organised society like ours, with the Secretariat ably run by Torkel Aberg and Maud Zingmark, and the Organisational Secretariat efficiently managed by Kathy McGree, the duties of the President are not onerous. But still, a major task rests heavily on the shoul...