Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization
Thoracic Surgery
Dr. David F. Torchiana, MD
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David Torchiana is an expert in the field of Thoracic Surgery. He studied medicine at Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a top medical college. Harvard Medical School is ranked 1 in research and 12 in primary care medicine He has 1 awards "Fellow (FACS)". David Torchiana has written publications. He has 83 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Risk of reoperative valve replacement for failed mitral and aortic bioprostheses.'
Publications
- Hospital teaching intensity and mortality for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia.
- Overarching goals: a strategy for improving healthcare quality and safety?
- Contemporary Performance of U.S. Teaching and Nonteaching Hospitals.
- Public release of clinical outcomes data—online CABG report cards.
- Learning in a new cardiac surgical center: an analysis of precursor events.
- Transparency: a mandatory requirement for risk models.
- Is zero the ideal death rate?
- Impact of cardiac intraoperative precursor events on adverse outcomes.
- Use of administrative data for clinical quality measurement.
- Gastrointestinal complications in patients undergoing heart operation: an analysis of 8709 consecutive cardiac surgical patients.
- A method of using the pulmonary trunk to form a trileaflet valve.
- Optimization of vessel orientation for robotic coronary artery bypass grafting.
- A technique for repair of mitral paravalvular leak.
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 29-2004. A 75-year-old woman with acute onset of chest pain followed by ...
- Polyethylene glycol based synthetic sealants: potential uses in cardiac surgery.
- BioGlue: albumin/glutaraldehyde sealant in cardiac surgery.
- Next-generation hydrogel films as tissue sealants and adhesion barriers.
- Endoscopic multivessel coronary artery bypass grafting using automated device for proximal anastomosis.
- Continuous addition of adenosine with a micropump system improves warm whole blood cardioplegia.
- Surgical coronary revascularization and antiarrhythmic therapy in survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
- Results of bioprosthetic versus mechanical aortic valve replacement performed with concomitant coronary artery bypass grafting.
- The effect of decreasing length of stay on discharge destination and readmission after coronary bypass operation.
- Catheter pericardiocentesis for delayed tamponade after cardiac valve operation.
- Endoscopic versus open saphenous vein harvest: a comparison of postoperative wound complications.
- Financial consequences of implementing a partner-in-care in cardiac surgery.
- Recovery after cardioplegia in the hypertrophic rat heart.
- The relationship between managed care insurance and use of lower-mortality hospitals for CABG surgery.
- Regional myocardial perfusion after experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- Cardioplegia and ischemia in the canine heart evaluated by 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
- The temperature dependence of cardioplegic distribution in the canine heart.
- The use of a novel tissue sealant as a hemostatic adjunct in cardiac surgery.
- Left ventricular hamartoma associated with ventricular tachycardia.
- Long-term infection rates associated with the pectoral versus abdominal approach to cardioverter- defibrillator implants.
- Long-term results and determinants of mortality after surgery for native and prosthetic valve endocarditis.
- Cardiac surgery report cards: comprehensive review and statistical critique.
- Long-term survival after surgical revascularization for moderate ischemic mitral regurgitation.
- A stentless trileaflet valve from a sheet of decellularized porcine small intestinal submucosa.
- Implementation of a cardiac surgery report card: lessons from the Massachusetts experience.
- Massachusetts cardiac surgery report card: implications of statistical methodology.
- Prospective assessment of intraoperative precursor events during cardiac surgery.
- Ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm in a patient without a sternum.
- Influence of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators on the long-term prognosis of survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
- Warm heart surgery in patients with cold autoimmune disorders.
- Experience with an implantable tiered therapy device incorporating antitachycardia pacing and cardioverter/defibrillator therapy.
- Composite aortic root replacement with direct coronary artery implantation.
- Diagnosis and treatment of thoracic aortic intramural hematoma.
- The treatment of patients with infected implantable cardioverter-defibrillator systems.
- Intraaortic balloon pumping for cardiac support: trends in practice and outcome, 1968 to 1995.
- Rapid cooling contracture with cold cardioplegia.
- Bronchopulmonary carcinoid tumors associated with Cushing's syndrome: a more aggressive variant of typical carcinoid.
- Cardiac operations in patients 80 years old and older.
- Cardiac conduction abnormalities preceding transoesophageal echocardiographic evidence of perivalvar extension of infection in a case of Salmonella prosthetic valve en...
- Ischemic intervals during warm blood cardioplegia in the canine heart evaluated by phosphorus 31-magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
- Superior recovery of hypertrophied rat myocardium after cardioplegic arrest.
- Accurate localization of mitral regurgitant defects using multiplane transesophageal echocardiography.
- Risk of reoperative valve replacement for failed mitral and aortic bioprostheses.
- Monitoring myocardial reperfusion injury with NADH fluorometry.
- Blunt injuries of the thoracic aorta.
- The safety of intraaortic balloon pump catheter insertion through suprainguinal prosthetic vascular bypass grafts.
- The effects of calcium and magnesium in hyperkalemic cardioplegic solutions on myocardial preservation.
- Optimal myocardial preservation with an acalcemic crystalloid cardioplegic solution.
- Calcium-induced ventricular contraction during cardioplegic arrest.
- Inhibition of hatching of mouse blastocysts in vitro by various prostaglandin antagonists.
- Reduction of fertility of mice by the intrauterine injection of prostaglandin antagonists.
- Influence of the implantable cardioverter/defibrillator on sudden death and total mortality in patients evaluated for cardiac transplantation.
- Safety and efficacy of concomitant carotid and coronary artery operations.
- Limitations and late complications of third-generation automatic cardioverter-defibrillators.
- Reoperative coronary grafting: changing patient profiles, operative indications, techniques, and results.
- Operation for recurrent ventricular tachycardia. Predictors of short- and long-term efficacy.
- Reversal of ventricular contracture during hypothermic cardioplegic arrest.
- Mitral valve reconstruction versus replacement for degenerative or ischemic mitral regurgitation.
- Warm and cold blood cardioplegia. Comparison of myocardial function and metabolism using 31p magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
- Atheroembolization in cardiac surgery. The need for preoperative diagnosis.
- Efficacy and safety of ibutilide fumarate for the conversion of atrial arrhythmias after cardiac surgery.
- Three-year outcome of a nonthoracotomy approach to cardioverter-defibrillator implantation in 189 consecutive patients.
- Determinants of successful nonthoracotomy cardioverter-defibrillator implantation: experience in 101 patients using two different lead systems.
- Successful implantation of cardioverter-defibrillator systems in patients with elevated defibrillation thresholds.
- Electrocardiographic pseudo-infarct patterns after implantation of cardioverter-defibrillators.
- [Atheroembolism and cardiac surgery: importance of preoperative management].
- Isolation and development of the inner cell mass after exposure of mouse embryos to calcium ionophore A23187.
- A physician leadership development program at an academic medical center.
- Prevalence of heparin/platelet factor 4 antibodies before and after cardiac surgery.
Schools
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Cardiac Surgery
- Critical Care Surgery
- Thoracic Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
Harvard Medical School
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