Department of Thoracic Surgery Archive — Page 3 of 5
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October 29, 2020
Surgery risk model proves invaluable during pandemic
When Gov. Bill Lee halted all elective, or scheduled rather than urgent, surgical procedures in Tennessee on March 19 in order to slow the spread of COVID-19 and conserve medical supplies and equipment, surgical and administrative leaders at Vanderbilt University Medical Center began seeking solid data to drive any future decision to safely restart these procedures. -
October 14, 2020
Bacchetta named associate chair of Thoracic Surgery
Matthew Bacchetta, MD, MBA, MA, associate professor of Thoracic Surgery, has been named associate chair of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Department of Thoracic Surgery, effective Sept. 1. -
October 8, 2020
COVID patient’s heart-lung transplant is world’s first
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has performed the world’s first dual heart-lung transplant of a COVID-19 patient. -
September 14, 2020
Former Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery leader Bender mourned
Harvey W. Bender, MD, professor of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Emeritus, died Sept. 12. He was 86. -
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 23, 2020
Criteria for lung cancer screens may be expanded
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is recommending two changes that will nearly double the number of people eligible for lung cancer screening by lowering the age from 55 to 50 and reducing the number of smoking history pack years from 30 to 20. -
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.