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  1. Canadian Cardiovascular Society 2023 Guidelines on the Fitness to Drive
  2. Assessment of the well-being of significant others of cardiothoracic surgeons
  3. Well-being of Cardiothoracic Surgeons in the Time of COVID-19: A Survey by the Wellness Committee of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery
  4. Authorship Trends and Disparities in Cardiothoracic Surgery
  5. Gender Disparities in Cardiac Surgery Trials
  6. 2022 ACC/AHA guideline for the diagnosis and management of aortic disease
  7. Academic Rank and Productivity Among United States Cardiothoracic Surgeons
  8. Lateral (left–right commissural) root enlargement may reduce risk of coronary artery obstruction from transcatheter aortic valve-in-valve implantation
  9. Cardiovascular Conferences and Social Media
  10. Reducing the environmental impact of surgery on a global scale: systematic review and co-prioritization with healthcare workers in 132 countries
  11. The International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection Database: Unity Is Strength
  12. Gender Bias in the Evaluation of Surgical Performance
  13. Expanding the imaging armamentarium for the diagnosis of prosthetic aortic graft infection
  14. Elective surgery system strengthening: development, measurement, and validation of the surgical preparedness index across 1632 hospitals in 119 countries
  15. Opening the “Black Box” for Canadian Cardiac Surgery Residency Applicants∗
  16. Cardiothoracic Surgery Training: An Honest and Anonymous Assessment of the Trainee Experience
  17. Sex differences in authorship in cardiothoracic surgery during the early coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic
  18. The utilization of educational resources published by the Thoracic Surgery Residents Association
  19. Early effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the North American cardiothoracic surgery job market
  20. Optimal Extent of Repair for Acute Type I Aortic Dissection—Frozen Elephant Trunk? How Long and Why?
  21. Malpractice litigation: The unmeasured complication
  22. Management Strategies for Descending Thoracic Aortic Thrombus: A Review of the Literature
  23. Normothermic Regional Perfusion: Ethical Issues in Thoracic Organ Donation
  24. Normothermic regional perfusion: Ethical issues in thoracic organ donation
  25. Multiinstitutional Evaluation of a Debate-Style Journal Club for Cardiothoracic Surgery Trainees
  26. Insights from the thoracic surgery residents association early-career development series
  27. Identifying Social Media Competencies for Health Professionals: An International Modified Delphi Study to Determine Consensus for Curricular Design
  28. Diversity in Education—A Necessary Priority for the Future of Cardiothoracic Surgery
  29. Enhancing Support for Women in Cardiothoracic Surgery Through Allyship and Targeted Initiatives
  30. Women in Thoracic Surgery Scholarship—Evidence for Durability in Impact
  31. Vascular Surgery Research in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A Sex-Based Bibliometric Analysis
  32. Highlights from the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2021 meeting
  33. Female and Country Representation on Editorial Boards of Cardiothoracic Surgery Journals
  34. The Unfulfilled Need for Technical Skill Assessments Among Academic Cardiothoracic Surgeons
  35. Commentary: Call for teamwork to be a class I, evidence-level A recommendation in all guidelines
  36. The status of cardiothoracic surgery trainee education and recruitment: An update one year into the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
  37. 60 Years After the First Woman Cardiac Surgeon: We Still Need More Women in Cardiac Surgery
  38. The Safety of Tomorrow’s Patients Relies on the Education of Today’s Residents
  39. Infective Endocarditis Secondary to Injection Drug Use: A Survey of Canadian Cardiac Surgeons
  40. The Global Role and Impact of Social Media
  41. Wisdom From Past Presidents of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
  42. Effect of Operating Room Personnel Generation on Perceptions and Responses to Surgeon Behavior
  43. Response to: Impact of COVID-19 on Training and Attainment of Cardiac Surgical Competencies
  44. Cardiac surgery in North America and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Regional variability in burden and impact
  45. Gender imbalances in Canadian academic surgical programs
  46. Burning the candle at both ends: Mitigating surgeon burnout at the training stages
  47. Advanced heart and lung failure highlights from the 101st AATS annual meeting
  48. Advancing academia through social media: Opportunities in vascular surgery
  49. Ethical Guidelines and Moral Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Trainees’ Perspective
  50. Surgeon teachers and millennial learners: Bridging the generation gap
  51. COVID‐19 and cardiothoracic surgery: Effects on training and workforce utilization in a global pandemic
  52. Impact of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic on Cardiac Surgical Education in North America
  53. Cardiac surgeons' concerns, perceptions, and responses during the COVID‐19 pandemic
  54. Sex Representation Among Principal Investigators in Cardiac Surgery Clinical Trials in the United States
  55. Checklist manifesto for our specialty's wellness
  56. Ticagrelor use and practice patterns among Canadian cardiac surgeons
  57. The revised Approved Instructional Resources score: An improved quality evaluation tool for online educational resources
  58. Intersection of Race and Gender in Surgical Training
  59. Ticagrelor Use and Practice Pattern among Canadian Cardiac Surgeons
  60. Trends in Female Authorship: A Bibliometric Analysis of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
  61. Surgical management for unruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysms: a narrative review of the literature
  62. Maximizing Cardiothoracic Surgery Training During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Resident Perspective
  63. We Stand by Our Data: A Call for Professional Scholarly Discourse
  64. Live-Tweet to get the most out of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery Virtual Annual Meeting
  65. Highlights from the 34th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Cardio‐Thoracic Surgery
  66. The New Definition of Courage
  67. Social media and global cardiovascular disparities
  68. Are Esophagectomy Board Requirements Achievable? A Multi-Institutional Analysis
  69. Open Access and Article Processing Charges in Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Journals: a CrossSectional Analysis
  70. Women in thoracic surgery: social media and the value of mentorship
  71. Does Tweeting Improve Citations? One-Year Results From the TSSMN Prospective Randomized Trial
  72. Global perspectives on cardiothoracic, cardiovascular, and cardiac surgical training
  73. The cardiothoracic surgery trainee experience during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: Global insights and opportunities for ongoing engagement
  74. The importance of mentorship and sponsorship for thoracic surgery residency applicants during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
  75. Social Media in Surgery
  76. Necessity Is the Mother of Innovation–The Time to Collaborate Is Now
  77. Predictors of High-Impact Articles in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
  78. International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation consensus statement for the standardization of bronchoalveolar lavage in lung transplantation
  79. Representation of Women in the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association: Evidence for Positive Change
  80. Keep the Pipeline Open for Women Applying to Cardiothoracic Surgery
  81. Training of Male and Female Surgical Residents
  82. Moving forward: Ensuring quality research in vascular surgery during COVID-19
  83. The Thoracic Surgery Social Media Network Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  84. A Cardiothoracic Surgeon’s Playbook for Social Media and Digital Scholarship
  85. Assessing the Collateral Damage of the Novel Coronavirus: A Call to Action for the Post–COVID-19 Era
  86. Ethical Dilemmas Associated With the COVID-19 Pandemic
  87. Part of the Cure or Spreader of the Disease?
  88. Organ Donation: A Call to Action to Opt Out of the Opioid Epidemic
  89. COVID-19 pandemic: a time for collaboration and a unified global health front
  90. Hashtag Global Surgery: The Role of Social Media in Advancing the Field of Global Surgery
  91. Letter to the Editor: Cultural Barriers for Women in Surgery—How Thick is the Glass Ceiling? An Analysis from a Low‐Middle‐Income Country
  92. Post-Discharge Cardiac Care in the Era of Coronavirus 2019: How Should We Prepare?
  93. Rapid Scholarly Dissemination and Cardiovascular Community Engagement to Combat the Infodemic of the COVID-19 Pandemic
  94. Improving Gender Equality in the Surgical Workplace
  95. A Call to Action: Ensure the Accuracy of Your Professional Online Image
  96. Brachiocephalic vein aneurysm: a systematic review of the literature
  97. Repair of ischemic ventricular septal defect with and without coronary artery bypass grafting
  98. Comparison of SynCardia total artificial heart and HeartWare HVAD biventricular support for management of biventricular heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  99. Ethics in resource-constrained settings: When palliation is more important than another scar
  100. If You Do Not Measure It, You Cannot Improve It
  101. Social Media Improves Cardiothoracic Surgery Literature Dissemination: Results of a Randomized Trial
  102. Left Ventricular Assist Device Decommissioning Compared with Explantation for Ventricular Recovery: A Systematic Review
  103. Trainee Thoracic Surgery Social Media Network: Early Experience With TweetChat-Based Journal Clubs
  104. Fostering the Future of Cardiac Surgery Around the World
  105. Validity of Patient-Requested Noninformed Consent
  106. An international, interprofessional investigation of the self-reported podcast listening habits of emergency clinicians: A METRIQ Study
  107. Bridging gaps in transition to practice
  108. Management and outcomes of left ventricular assist device-associated endocarditis: a systematic review
  109. Valvectomy versus replacement for the surgical treatment of infective tricuspid valve endocarditis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  110. Clinical implications of LDH isoenzymes in hemolysis and continuous‐flow left ventricular assist device‐induced thrombosis
  111. The MITRA-FR Trial Vs the COAPT Trial: More Complementary Than Contradictory?
  112. The Thoracic Surgery Social Media Network: Early Experience and Lessons Learned
  113. The Thoracic Surgery Social Media Network: Early experience and lessons learned
  114. Addressing the Cardiovascular Disease Burden in China—Is It Possible Without Surgery?
  115. Predictors of the response of operating room personnel to surgeon behaviors
  116. Disparity between recent graduates’ and experienced surgeons' assessment of time to operative independence
  117. Medical Therapy As Compared To Surgical Device Exchange for Left Ventricular Assist Device Thrombosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  118. Single versus multi‐drug antimicrobial surgical infection prophylaxis for left ventricular assist devices: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
  119. Participating in a TweetChat: Practical Tips From The Thoracic Surgery Social Media Network (#TSSMN)
  120. Social media as a tool to rewrite the narrative for women in cardiothoracic surgery
  121. Therapeutic hypothermia as an adjunct to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for acute respiratory distress and refractory hypoxemia
  122. Graduate Subspecialty and Perceptions of Cardiothoracic Surgery Training: A 60-Year Retrospective Study
  123. Thoracoabdominal Aneurysms
  124. Anastomotic Complications After Esophagectomy
  125. Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia during extracorporeal life support: incidence, management and outcomes
  126. Transcatheter, sutureless and conventional aortic-valve replacement: a network meta-analysis of 16,432 patients
  127. Live Tweet The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting: How to Leverage Twitter to Maximize Your Conference Experience
  128. Device exchange versus nonexchange modalities in left ventricular assist device-specific infections: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  129. Ex vivo perfusion induces a time- and perfusate-dependent molecular repair response in explanted porcine lungs
  130. Update on Stem Cell-Based Therapy and Mechanical Cardiac Support: A North American Perspective
  131. Graft patency after open versus endoscopic saphenous vein harvest in coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  132. Impact of Concomitant Mitral Valve Surgery With LVAD Placement: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  133. Does cramming work? Impact of National Web-Based Thoracic Surgery Curriculum login frequency on thoracic surgery in-training exam performance
  134. Left ventricular assist device for ventricular recovery of anabolic steroid-induced cardiomyopathy
  135. The Social Media Index as an Indicator of Quality for Emergency Medicine Blogs: A METRIQ Study
  136. Thrombus in a Hypercoagulable Patient Following Patent Foramen Ovale Closure With the Gore Septal Occluder
  137. Social media in the mentorship and networking of physicians: Important role for women in surgical specialties
  138. Impact of Concomitant Mitral Valve Surgery for Mitral Regurgitation During LVAD Implantation: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  139. Fluid structure interaction model analysis of cerebrospinal fluid circulation in patients with continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices
  140. Pulmonary arteriovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to avoid pulmonary overflow during total artificial heart implantation
  141. Outcomes and survival following heart retransplantation for cardiac allograft failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  142. Percutaneous coronary intervention versus coronary artery bypass grafting in heart transplant recipients with coronary allograft vasculopathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 1,520 patients
  143. Social Media as a Means of Networking and Mentorship: Role for Women in Cardiothoracic Surgery
  144. Predicting operative mortality in octogenarians for isolated coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: a retrospective study
  145. Driveline Site Is Not a Predictor of Infection After Ventricular Assist Device Implantation
  146. Feasibility of Lung Transplantation From Donation After Circulatory Death Donors Following Portable Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion: A Pilot Study
  147. Cystic tumor of the atrioventricular node: a review of the literature
  148. Novel Debate-Style Cardiothoracic Surgery Journal Club: Results of a Pilot Curriculum
  149. Aorto-Right Atrial Fistula After Sutureless Valve Implantation
  150. Driveline Site Is Not a Predictor of Infection Following Ventricular Assist Device Implantation
  151. Management and Outcomes of LVAD Thrombosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  152. Individual Gestalt Is Unreliable for the Evaluation of Quality in Medical Education Blogs: A METRIQ Study
  153. A Leukocyte Filter Does Not Provide Further Benefit During Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion
  154. Subxiphoid Exchange of HeartMate II Left Ventricular Assist Device
  155. Utilization and Outcomes of Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support for Graft Dysfunction After Heart Transplantation
  156. Clinical implications of physiological flow adjustment in continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices
  157. Transcatheter Valve-in-Valve: A Cautionary Tale
  158. Atrial fibrillation: review of current treatment strategies
  159. Does a Leukocyte Filter Show Benefit in Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion?
  160. Active Learning in Medical Education: Application to the Training of Surgeons
  161. Current State and Future Perspectives of Energy Sources for Totally Implantable Cardiac Devices
  162. A Structured, Debate-Style Cardiothoracic Surgery Journal Club for Trainee Acquisition and Application of Seminal Literature
  163. The evolving potential for pediatricex vivolung perfusion
  164. EUROSCORE II IS SUPERIOR TO STS AND EUROSCORE I IN PREDICTING OPERATIVE MORTALITY IN OCTOGENARIANS FOR ISOLATED CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING SURGERY
  165. 2-Methoxyestradiol: A Hormonal Metabolite Modulates Stimulated T-Cells Function and proliferation
  166. Successful Repair of Donation After Circulatory Death Lungs With Large Pulmonary Embolus Using the Lung Organ Care System for Ex Vivo Thrombolysis and Subsequent Clinical Transplantation
  167. Lung Transplantation from Donors after Circulatory Death Using PortableEx VivoLung Perfusion
  168. GENDER SPECIFIC INFLUENCES ON EFFECTOR T-CELL FUNCTION AND PROLIFERATION: 2-METHOXYESTRADIOL MODULATES CELLULAR REJECTION
  169. Gender Specific Influences on Effector T-Cell Function and Proliferation: Hormonal Targeting to Modulate Cellular Rejection in Transplantation