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The expansion of transcatheter procedures and changes in Brazil's medical residency program have created an urgent need for cardiovascular surgeons to acquire catheter-based skills.
Highlights the need for cardiovascular surgery training programs in Brazil to incorporate catheter-based skills to adapt to advances in structural heart disease treatments.
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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Maia et al. (2024) conducted an editorial in Structural heart disease. Catheter-based skills training was evaluated. The expansion of transcatheter procedures and changes in Brazil's medical residency program have created an urgent need for cardiovascular surgeons to acquire catheter-based skills.
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