Commentary: New technology impact on chest tube clotting after cardiac surgery. A possible paradigm shift?Central Message

• Aleksander Dokollari, MD,
• Edvin Prifti, MD, PhD,
• Gianluca Torregrossa, MD,
• Massimo Bonacchi, MD

Affiliations

Aleksander Dokollari, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands; Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht - CARIM, Maastricht, The Netherlands; Address for reprints: Aleksander Dokollari, MD, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht - CARIM, Minderbroedersberg 4-66211 LK, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Edvin Prifti, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Mother Teresa Hospital, University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania

Gianluca Torregrossa, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lankenau Heart Institute, Lankenau Medical Center, Main Line Health, Wynnewood, Pa; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Research, Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Wynnewood, Pa

Massimo Bonacchi, MD

Cardiac Surgery Unit, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy