Department of Cardiac Surgery Archive — Page 4 of 7
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September 10, 2020
Technique helped treat patient’s rare pulmonary disorder
Sourav Panja, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was working in his lab one evening last year when he began coughing up blood. Even breathing was becoming difficult. -
July 15, 2020
Two brushes with death. Two lifesaving Vanderbilt physicians. Then, two children.
"Vanderbilt will always be a place that we hold dear for everything they have done for us,” says Mary Beth Ballard Murray. -
July 13, 2020
Human lungs rejected for transplant recovered using novel technique
A multidisciplinary team from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Columbia University has demonstrated that injured human donor lungs declined for transplant can be recovered by cross-circulation between the human lung and a xenogeneic host. -
May 6, 2020
Ventricular assist device program hits major milestone
VHVI’s cardiac surgery and heart failure teams recently celebrated a milestone — implanting the 500th adult patient with a ventricular assist device. -
April 30, 2020
Rehab technique may help increase donor lung supply
A new technique shows the potential to increase the supply of donor lungs by rehabilitating those organs previously considered too damaged for transplant. -
April 23, 2020
Medical, biological engineering institute honors Bacchetta
Matthew Bacchetta, MD, MBA, MA, associate professor of Thoracic Surgery and adjunct associate professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been inducted to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). -
March 12, 2020
ECMO team to help other providers create their own programs
VUMC has signed an agreement with Ballad Health, a regional health system serving East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia, to train its team to provide a life-saving medical program called ECMO.