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Below we share recent volumes and clinical outcomes from a sampling of disciplines and subspecialty areas in Cleveland Clinic’s Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute: thoracic surgery, lung transplantation, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and pericarditis.
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Number of general thoracic operations performed
Number of robotically assisted thoracic surgery procedures
Proportion of all lobectomies for stage I lung cancer (N = 139) that used video/robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
Proportion of thymectomy/thymic mass resections (N = 30) completed robotically
The following data and ratings are from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) General Thoracic Surgery Database (3-year period ending December 2025):
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Lung transplants performed, including 3 heart/lung and 4 lung/liver
Lung transplants performed after ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP)
30-day survival rate following EVLP lung transplant
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Outpatient visits for HOCM
New HOCM patients seen
Septal myectomy operations(with or without other procedures) performed for HOCM
Observed-to-expected mortality ratio for septal myectomy*
*According to Vizient® Clinical Data Base/Resource Manager. Used by permission of Vizient. All rights reserved.
Patients seen by our Pericardial Diseases Center
New patients seen by the Pericardial Diseases Center
Pericardial procedures performed
Pericardiectomies performed
Cleveland Clinic’s Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute has a long history of reporting volume and outcomes data across its subspecialty areas. For more information like the data reported above, visit clevelandclinic.org/e15.
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