American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Type: Organization

Name: American Association for Thoracic Surgery

First reported Jun 04 2013 - Updated Jun 04 2013 - 1 reports

Obituary: Thomas B. Ferguson, MD, professor emeritus of cardiothoracic surgery, 90

Thomas B. Ferguson, MD, professor emeritus of cardiothoracic surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died Sunday, May 26, 2013, of complications following a heart valve procedure. He was 90. Ferguson was a pioneer in heart ... [Published WUSTL Medicine & Healthcare News - Jun 04 2013]

Entities: Bruce Ferguson, Washington University, Surgeon, American Association for Thoracic Surgery

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"Pericardial valve use has increased over time.$ These long-term data on the PERIMOUNT valve strengthen the evidence for surgeons to utilize Edwards' pericardial tissue valves, including in selected patients of age 60 and under" said Prof...

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...whether detecting very small growths in the lung by CT is the same as intercepting cancers before they spread and become incurable," Bach stated. "We found an answer and it was, 'NO.' "1"

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...that calls for more technical equipoise in our approach to the [surgical] treatment of lung cancer," he said during a discussion of the results. "Clearly, we can apply this operation to patients who would be candidates for both lobectomy and sublobar resection, but it does not extend to those patients, for example, that would have been poor candidates for any surgical resection."

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