Surgeon Bartley Griffith examines the pig heart before the transplant. University of Maryland School of Medicine Bartley Griffith is a cardiac surgeon at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, who says hes probably done over a thousand heart transplants over a career that has spanned four decades Continue reading →

Even without new data, the contentious, back-and-forth debate between cardiac surgeons and interventional cardiologists continues unabated. The latest volley across the net is the creation of a group calling itself the International Evidence Grading Research Initiative Targeting Transparency and Data Quality (INTEGRITTY), a consortium of surgeons and general cardiologists critical of how certain clinical trials, including those comparing surgery versus PCI for left main CAD, are carried out. Continue reading →

In this case report, we describe a 50-year-old man who presented to our facility for a second opinion after a year-long history of recurrent and now persistent right-sided exudative pleural effusion. On review of previous records, negative findings were seen in microbiological studies, including acid-fast bacilli, cytology, flow cytometry, and pleural biopsy using video-assisted thoracoscopy Continue reading →

New Delhi:Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Center, New Delhi (RGCI)haveinstalled thefirst-everMade-in-IndiaSurgicalRoboticSystem,SSI-Mantra,devised by the new-ageIndian med-tech start-up SS Innovations. Continue reading →