Relating to the heart and chest or lungs.
Example sentencesExamples
- This conference targets pediatric, orthopedic, cardiothoracic, and neurosurgery specialties.
- He also says that relying on cardiothoracic surgeons to do lung resections may mean that some do too few to maintain competence.
- The added value of C reactive protein or cardiothoracic ratio on chest radiograph is limited.
- The patient is an 85-year-old white woman who has been admitted to the cardiothoracic intensive care unit after undergoing abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.
- The patient was subsequently referred to cardiothoracic surgery for pericardial and lung biopsies which each demonstrated non-caseating granulomas.