The State of Racial and Gender Diversity in Cardiothoracic Surgery Training.

Background: The field of cardiothoracic surgery has been striving to increase its gender and racial diversity. We sought to examine changes in gender and racial diversity in cardiothoracic fellowships and integrated residencies in the past decade.

Methods: Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education data were obtained from 2011 to 2019.

Human Adipose Derived Stem Cells Enhance Healing in a Rat Model of Esophageal Injury with Stent.

Background: Mesenchymal stem cells have been proven to promote cellular recruitment and remodeling during healing. Considering challenges encountered in the healing process of esophageal injury, we sought to evaluate the effect of human adipose derived stem cells (hASC) on esophageal injury with stent and to assess the feasibility of submucosal hASC injection as a mechanism of delivery.

Methods: An intrabdominal esophagotomy was created in rodents with placement of an expandable fully covered metal esophageal stent.

Trisegmentectomy for traumatic left superior pulmonary vein pseudoaneurysm.

Traumatic pulmonary vein pseudoaneurysms are an extremely rare and dangerous phenomenon. These pseudoaneurysms are caused by both penetrating and blunt thoracic trauma, with late sequelae of pseudoaneurysm rupture and high output cardiac failure secondary to arteriovenous fistula. We present a unique case of pulmonary vein pseudoaneurysm due to penetrating chest trauma managed by segmentectomy using thoracic principles of lung preservation.