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Thinking Outside the Box: The Interventional Surgeon.

Adnaldo da Silveira MaiaKarlos Jennysson Sousa SoaresPedro Esteban Ulloa AlvaradoFrancisco Victor Alves da SilvaDayara Hoffmann MayerMauro Henrique Batista CamachoJosé Honório de Almeida Palma da Fonseca
Published in: Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery (2024)
Advances in treatment of structural heart disease have been disruptive to cardiovascular surgery, and there have been discussions about how to incorporate these technologies into the surgeons' therapeutic arsenal. Transcatheter procedures, complex redo interventions, and endovascular aortic approaches are already practiced by cardiovascular surgeons in Brazil. The expansion of these techniques, coupled with recent changes in the country's medical residency program in cardiovascular surgery, has led to an urgent need to acquire catheter-based skills. In this article, we discuss these aspects in the light of the reality of cardiovascular surgery training in Brazil.
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