Monday’s Congenital Heart Surgery Simultaneous Session addressed attempts to improve Tetralogy of Fallot repair and on using left ventricle assist device (LVAD) technology to treat children with a single functional ventricle,... »
In Monday’s General Thoracic Surgery Simultaneous Scientific Session, Mark K. Ferguson, MD, of the University of Chicago, presented a modified scoring system to predict major cardiovascular events after lung resection, which... »
Wednesday morning’s Emerging Technologies forum will feature 10 papers that highlight intriguing new developments in cardiothoracic surgery.
Some of the papers address pre-clinical devices, others describe early data in... »
Monday afternoon saw the launch of a new Simultaneous Scientific Session. The goal of Monday’s Perioperative Care Simultaneous Scientific Session was to provide cardiothoracic surgeons with valuable information on perioperative... »
The basic science lecture, "Update on Surgical-Pathologic Correlates of Valvular Heart Disease," proved anything but basic in the hands of William D. Edwards, MD, who provided a comprehensive look at aortic and mitral... »
The Plenary Sessions at the AATS Annual Meeting feature some of the most significant research being performed in cardiothoracic surgery today. Moderated by Hartzell V. Schaff, MD, of Mayo Clinic, and Thoralf M. Sundt, III, MD, of... »
In his presidential address, on Monday, Hartzell V. Schaff, MD, addressed two key issues – leadership and scholarship. "To me, these two values, leadership and scholarship, define the American Association for Thoracic... »
Batter Up! Join us for the AATS Attendee Reception at Target Field – the home of the Minnesota Twins! The Carew Atrium within Target Field offers unique views of downtown Minneapolis and the baseball field.
This evening you... »
7:00 a.m. Cardiac Surgery Forum
General Thoracic Surgery Forum
Plenary Scientific Session
11:40 a.m. - Honored Speaker Lecture: The Honorable Richard B. Cheney, Former Vice President of the United States of... »
Former Vice President Cheney may be almost as well known for his long history of cardiovascular disease and multiple procedures as he is for his political career. Cheney suffered the first of five heart attacks in... »
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