Pub Date : 2025-12-18DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.003
{"title":"Guest Reviewers for The Annals of Thoracic Surgery","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50976,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Thoracic Surgery","volume":"121 1","pages":"Pages 8-11"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145766074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-15DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.037
Daniel George Swistel
{"title":"Should We or Can We Dig a Deeper Rabbit Hole?","authors":"Daniel George Swistel","doi":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.037","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50976,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Thoracic Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145776358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-15DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.039
Taufiek Konrad Rajab, David M Kalfa, Joshua August Daily
{"title":"First-in-Human Cardiothoracic Procedures.","authors":"Taufiek Konrad Rajab, David M Kalfa, Joshua August Daily","doi":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.039","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50976,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Thoracic Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145776283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-15DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.032
Ashish H Shah
{"title":"Extracardiac vs Lateral Tunnel Fontan: Reassessing the Balance Between Simplicity and Physiology.","authors":"Ashish H Shah","doi":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.032","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50976,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Thoracic Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145776302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-15DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.028
Gillian C Alex, Kathryn Engelhardt, Ravi Rajaram, William Burfeind, Leigh Ann Jones, Zouheri ElHalabi, Robert Habib, Christopher W Seder, Elizabeth David
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database (GTSD) is the largest and most comprehensive clinical registry for thoracic surgical procedures worldwide. Designed to provide risk-adjusted benchmarking, support quality improvement, and advance research, the GTSD now houses >800,000 records from >300 participating sites. The 2025 annual update highlights several key developments. A major revision of the data collection form reduced abstraction burden while introducing new variables to support long-term outcome modeling. Web-based risk calculators for pulmonary resection and esophagectomy were launched in 2024, and long-term risk models were introduced in 2025. Procedural trends reflect the continued rise of minimally invasive and robotic-assisted techniques, accompanied by improved outcomes across morbidity and mortality measures. The star rating system has been retired in favor of more nuanced risk-adjusted metrics. The Access and Publications program, Participant User File program, and Task Force on Funded Research continue to ensure data reliability and facilitate broad scientific output. Collectively, these initiatives reinforce the GTSD's role as both a cornerstone of quality improvement and a driver of new knowledge in thoracic surgery, advancing surgical excellence and patient outcomes.
{"title":"The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database: 2025 Annual Update.","authors":"Gillian C Alex, Kathryn Engelhardt, Ravi Rajaram, William Burfeind, Leigh Ann Jones, Zouheri ElHalabi, Robert Habib, Christopher W Seder, Elizabeth David","doi":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.028","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.028","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database (GTSD) is the largest and most comprehensive clinical registry for thoracic surgical procedures worldwide. Designed to provide risk-adjusted benchmarking, support quality improvement, and advance research, the GTSD now houses >800,000 records from >300 participating sites. The 2025 annual update highlights several key developments. A major revision of the data collection form reduced abstraction burden while introducing new variables to support long-term outcome modeling. Web-based risk calculators for pulmonary resection and esophagectomy were launched in 2024, and long-term risk models were introduced in 2025. Procedural trends reflect the continued rise of minimally invasive and robotic-assisted techniques, accompanied by improved outcomes across morbidity and mortality measures. The star rating system has been retired in favor of more nuanced risk-adjusted metrics. The Access and Publications program, Participant User File program, and Task Force on Funded Research continue to ensure data reliability and facilitate broad scientific output. Collectively, these initiatives reinforce the GTSD's role as both a cornerstone of quality improvement and a driver of new knowledge in thoracic surgery, advancing surgical excellence and patient outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":50976,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Thoracic Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145776286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-15DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.031
Dominique Vervoort
{"title":"Regionalization Without Volume?","authors":"Dominique Vervoort","doi":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.031","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50976,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Thoracic Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145776327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-15DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.035
Qiang Wu, Boyou Zhang, Yi Lu, Wenquan Su, Ting Lei
{"title":"Beyond Pathologic Complete Response: The Evolving Role of Metabolic Response in Refining Neoadjuvant Strategies.","authors":"Qiang Wu, Boyou Zhang, Yi Lu, Wenquan Su, Ting Lei","doi":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.035","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50976,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Thoracic Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145776345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-15DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.040
Mario O'Connor, Andrew Well
{"title":"Truncal Valve Intervention During Index Truncus Arteriosus Repair and Truncal Valve Durability.","authors":"Mario O'Connor, Andrew Well","doi":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.040","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.11.040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50976,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Thoracic Surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145776348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}