Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship Cases and Surgical Volume

Operative Volume

The training program provides extensive exposure to bread-and-butter cardiac and general thoracic surgery, as well as significant involvement in:

Robotic general thoracic surgery
Complex redo cardiac surgery
Valve repair surgery
Heart transplantation
Temporary and durable mechanical circulatory support
Lung transplantation
Extracorporeal membrane oxyxgenation (ECMO)
Structure heart disease (TAVR, TMVR, etc)
Minimally invasive surgery
Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy

Below are operative case numbers from recent graduates (in non-chronological order).

	A	B	C	D	CT Minimum
CABG	154	145	117	120	80
Valve	155	108	118	81	60
Aorta	58	40	37	18	10
TAVR (total)	54	17	44	22	15
CHD (total)	47	26	49	39	20
Lung, open	95	109	89	62	30
Lung, VATS	45	62	48	16	5
Esophagus	16	24	26	17	10
Heart transplant	78	45	21	37	N/A
Lung transplant	43	23	27	21	N/A
Total Operative	1242	841	846	656	360

Figure: Operative case numbers from recent fellows. ("CT Minimum" refers to the ACGME cardiothoracic track. "Esophagus" is the total of benign and malignant esophageal cases. Abbreviations: CABG - coronary artery bypass grafting, TAVR - transcatheter aortic valve replacement, CHD - congenital heart disease, VATS - video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.)