2024
Assessment of online information on robotic cardiac and thoracic surgery
Hameed I, Amabile A, Candelario K, Khan S, Li E, Fereydooni S, Almeida M, Latif N, Ahmed A, Dhanasopon A, Krane M, Blasberg J, Geirsson A. Assessment of online information on robotic cardiac and thoracic surgery. Journal Of Robotic Surgery 2024, 18: 41. PMID: 38231324, DOI: 10.1007/s11701-023-01794-6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsThoracic surgeryAmount of contentConfidence intervalsOnline informationReadability of online resourcesOnline health informationSystematic online searchPerioperative informationCardiothoracic surgeonsOnline health resourcesAcademic websitesSurgeryPatientsReadability of websitesThoracicMultivariate regressionHigher accuracyWebsite accuracyPatient useHealth informationReadabilityWebsitesAccuracyAssociated with higher accuracyIndependent panel
2019
Impact of left ventricular ejection fraction on the outcomes of open repair of descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aneurysms
Gambardella I, Gaudino MFL, Rahouma M, Farrington WJ, Khan FM, Hameed I, Lau C, Iannacone E, Girardi LN. Impact of left ventricular ejection fraction on the outcomes of open repair of descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aneurysms. Journal Of Thoracic And Cardiovascular Surgery 2019, 161: 534-541.e5. PMID: 31924362, DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.11.009.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLeft ventricular ejection fractionDepressed left ventricular ejection fractionVentricular ejection fractionCubic spline analysisOperative mortalityIndependent predictorsAdverse eventsEjection fractionWorse long-term survivalRisk of MAEThoracoabdominal aneurysm repairWorse preoperative profilesMajor adverse eventsSpline analysisLong-term survivalTAAA repairThoracoabdominal aneurysmsOpen repairAneurysm repairThoracic aneurysmCox regressionPreoperative profilesMortalityMultivariate regressionPatients