Fat in the Heart! How do we find it?
As surgeons we can see fat on the inside of the body! Most others, from physicians to radiologists to lay people just know about fat...
https://www.heartspectrum.net/post/fat-in-the-heart
Please look at our exciting findings with multi-modal spectroscopic evaluation of the heart. Yes fat in the heart! Lipids in the Heart –...
Emerging from the Chrysalis...
For those of you who remember your biology, the Chrysalis the is the hard case enclosing the larva of the butterfly before it emerges...
My mentor John Hargrave, AO, MBE
John Charles Hargrave was a wonderfully inspiring human being and I am so glad to have been touched by him. John Charles Hargrave, MD...
The best 2nd conduit in coronary bypass graft surgery
Lead up statement: This study reports the 10 year outcomes of a patient-data level pooled analysis of randomized trials comparing the...
Dealing with Evidence!
You have probably heard about EBM (Evidence Based Medicine), and those of you who are not doctors probably presume that a lot of what we...
Just a small hole in the groin!
If one was given the choice between a small hole in the groin, compared to a great big crack down the middle of the chest, there is no...
Not splitting the chest!
The late Dr Louis Cohen was a delightful man, and an incredibly caring cardiologist with a passion for squash, who was very well known at...
Plating the rib?
Yes, why not? Every other bone that is broken in the body is internally fixed with plates and screws. I am sure the medical members of...
Closing the chest
Lets continue... The median or midline sternotomy was first studied and shown to be effective in goats in 1897. It was another 50 years...