As a specialized cardio-thoracic transplant hospital, they are very well qualified to begin this clinical trial.
The machine is being tried for more applications such as thoracic procedures, neck surgery and oral cancer.
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Dr Mike Pearson, a former press officer for the British Thoracic Society, said the theory was "plausible".
Justin Wilson fractured his fifth thoracic vertebra in 2011 and missed the last six races of the season.
The records were left in a public corridor near A6 ward, which is a spinal and thoracic ward.
Dr John Harvey, of the British Thoracic Society, told BBC News Online the findings were interesting but not surprising.
Dr John Harvey, of the British Thoracic Society, said more research was needed.
This is also called disputed thoracic outlet syndrome or common thoracic outlet syndrome.
Dr John Moore-Gillan, of the British Thoracic Society, told BBC News Online the new test was a potential step forward.
Approximately 8-10 medical staff were working on him and there were at least two thoracic surgeons present as well as other surgeons.
Thoracic outlet syndrome symptoms can vary, depending on which structures are compressed.
Professor Porhanov is a very well-known thoracic surgeon who has led his hospital in performing over 80 heart transplants in the last two years.
Although aneurysms can occur in the chest (the thoracic variety killed actor John Ritter last year), 90% of the time they occur in the abdominal aorta.
Dr. Robert Michler, chairman of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at Montefiore-Einstein Heart Center, said the data should act as a "wake-up call" for physicians, surgeons and patients.
Consider a case report in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery of a three-year-old girl who fell into an icy fishpond in a small Austrian town in the Alps.
The study, conducted by Cornell University and Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers, is to be presented this week at the annual American Thoracic Society meeting in New Orleans.
Dr Melissa Hack, of British Thoracic Society (BTS), agreed that the increase in COPD among women was probably a result of smoking patterns in the 1950s and 60s.
He also suffered a compression fracture of his fourth thoracic vertebrae in the 2011 season finale at Las Vegas but missed no racing as he healed during the offseason.
"Funding at present is woefully inadequate - it's among the worst resourced fields in cancer research, " said John Edwards, consultant thoracic surgeon and chair of the British Mesothelioma Interest Group.
People with nonspecific-type thoracic outlet syndrome have chronic pain in the area of the thoracic outlet that worsens with activity, but the specific cause of the pain can't be determined.
Fernando, chief of thoracic surgery at Boston Medical Center.
In a startling break with tradition, the American College of Cardiology and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons will manage and run their own clinical trials testing expanded uses for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).
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Originally I was focused on getting a job in women's health, as that was my background and I was passionate about it, but I was offered a position on the thoracic surgery team at Duke.
Writing in Thorax, the journal of the British Thoracic Society (BTS), the researchers said doctors in London should be particularly aware of the risk that patients with either TB or HIV may also have the other condition.
The paper is based on data from Medicare beneficiaries included in an American College of Cardiology Foundation registry of patients who got angioplasty and stent procedures and in another database on bypass surgery maintained by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
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An analysis of 10 studies involving a total of 393 patients, published earlier this year in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, found between 26% and 83% of patients getting the new surgery were able to stop taking proton-pump inhibitors.
Following the approval of the first device for transcathether aortic valve replacement therapy (TAVR) earlier this month, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) and The American College of Cardiology (ACC) have announced the launch of th e TVT Registry, a joint initiative that will monitor the rollout of the new technology.
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