Thomas Schweiger, Matthias Evermann, Erino Rendina, Giulio Maurizi, Federico Venuta, Clemens Aigner, Alexis Slama, Stephane Collaud, Ad Verhagen, Simone Timman, Benoit Bibas, Paulo Cardoso, Stefano Passani, Michele Salati, Isabelle Opitz, Zalan Szanto, Konrad Hoetzenecker
OBJECTIVES: Compared to lung resections, airway procedures are relatively rare in thoracic surgery. Despite this, a growing number of dedicated airway centers has formed throughout Europe. These centers are characterized by a close interdisciplinary collaboration and they often act as supra-regional referring centers. To date, most evidence of airway surgery comes from retrospective, single-center analysis as there is a lack of large-scale, multi-institutional databases. METHODS: In 2018, an initiative was formed, which aimed to create an airway database within the framework of the ESTS database (AIR-ESTS)...
March 9, 2024: European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery