This conference targets pediatric, orthopedic, cardiothoracic, and neurosurgery specialties.
He also says that relying on cardiothoracic surgeons to do lung resections may mean that some do too few to maintain competence.
The added value of C reactive protein or cardiothoracic ratio on chest radiograph is limited.
The patient is an 85-year-old white woman who has been admitted to the cardiothoracic intensive care unit after undergoing abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.
The patient was subsequently referred to cardiothoracic surgery for pericardial and lung biopsies which each demonstrated non-caseating granulomas.