Super grateful for the team to come out on a sat after a busy week to train for our robotic mitral program! Nursing, anesthesia, perfusion, RNFAs. We start our first cases in April with help from the @SmidtHeart @CedarsSinai @DEmersonMD @JoChikweMD

Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies for Primary Cardiac Tumours https://t.co/d6CHqQd9qz

So excited to have published four interesting #CardiacTumour cases under the mentorship of @heartdaddy1 in this exciting issue! Our thanks to @GilbertTangMD and @JACCJournals for the opportunity to share this experience 🫀 @abdullahghunaim @AbdulazizMH__ @DambuzaNyamande

Congratulations to @UofTSurgery for the very successful 50th #GallieDay! A particular shout-out to our fantastic residents presenting oral and poster presentations throughout the day! 👏

94TH-MINUTE WINNER. OFF A FREE KICK. ON HIS DEBUT. LEO MESSI 👑 (via @MLS) https://t.co/zwp6gcevZI

The top of Mt. Everest. https://t.co/6GUUdMs2Gk

In 2009, Lin-Manuel Miranda was invited to perform at the White House. His musical “In The Heights” had just won a Grammy & 4 Tony Awards. So the White House was expecting him to perform something from Heights. Instead, he debuted a song from a rap album he’d been working on:

#OTD in 1954, dr. Clarence Lillehei performed the first open #heart #surgery via 'cross-circulation'. The 'oxygen' recipient was a one-year-old boy with intractable heart failure due to ventricular septal defect and the father his donor. #histmed #MedTwitter #chirurgia #medizin

Iconic.

Best football game ever. The best sport in the world. UNBELIEVABLE.

Saudi Arabia beat Argentina. @adidasfootball | #FIFAWorldCup

Intramural hematoma on CT at 9am (looks a bit benign) and intraop (near rupture in OR) at 3pm. IMH is a surgical emergency @UofTCVsurgery @OuzounianMD @najmadoc @LuisCastroMD @GilbertTangMD @GBisleri (pt consented to image sharing for education purposes)

"People asked me why I come all the way to Ottawa for a 5-minute presentation .. it is only because it's for the trainees." Dr. @heartdaddy1 @UofTCVsurgery truly embodies the theme of his "Global Education" talk throughout his work & #GlobalCardiacSurgery leadership. #CCCongress

In 1967, Dr. René Favaloro pioneered coronary artery bypass surgery. It was a new procedure using a vein from the leg to bypass diseased coronary arteries and increase blood flood to the heart. The procedure has saved countless lives. #WorldHeartDay #HispanicHeritageMonth

🧵regarding the important suturing concept of whether to use one bite to grab both ends of the tissue ('taking it in 1'), versus using two bites ('taking it in 2'). We will go over some technical pointers about each of these, especially as they pertain to Lembert sutures.

When the end came neither Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal could hold back the tears

The earliest image ever taken of Jupiter in 1879 vs. the most recent composite image of Jupiter taken by JWST:

The ubiquitous SH needle, used for many applications. It stands for ‘Small Half’ circle. There are also MH, LH, XLH, and even XXLH…not shown here. It turns out that all of the needle designations have a meaning… Short 🧵.

فيديو | وضع بصمته في عالم التطوع.. مراسلنا "يوسف الحميد" يروي قصة استشاري جراحة القلب الدكتور "أحمد جمجوم" بعد إكماله أكثر من ١٦ عاما في ميادين التطوع ⁧#سخاء⁩ ⁧#الإخبارية

Proud to be part of the team! @UofTCVsurgery @BobbyYanagawa