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Bruce W. Lytle is affiliated with Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields within Medicine, with particular emphasis on Surgery and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Additional areas of study include Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Biomedical Engineering, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to cardiac care, including Cardiac and Coronary Surgery Techniques, Cardiac, Anesthesia, and Surgical Outcomes, and Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments. Other areas of research include Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics, Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics, Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices, and Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair.

Bruce W. Lytle has published articles in several notable journals, with frequent appearances in Circulation, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and JTCVS Techniques. The recent papers include:

  • Fractional Flow Reserve for Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, 2020, Circulation
  • Myocardial Revascularization Surgery, 2021, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • TCT-113 Ten-Year Survival Benefit and Appropriateness of Surgical or Percutaneous Revascularization Based on Individual Predicted All-Cause Mortality in Patients With Complex Coronary Artery Disease, 2021, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Right Internal Thoracic Artery for Coronary Bypass Surgery: Did We Get It Wrong?, 2022, Circulation
  • Robotic mitral valve surgery after prior sternotomy, 2022, JTCVS Techniques

Collaboration has been a significant aspect of their work, partnering frequently with other researchers such as Michael J. Mack, John J. Squiers, J. Michael DiMaio, Mario Gaudino, and Mohanad Hamandi, each with multiple coauthored publications.

Best Publications

  • ACC/AHA 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease

    Robert O. Bonow;Blase A. Carabello;Kanu Chatterjee;Antonio C. De Leon

  • Influence of the internal-mammary-artery graft on 10-year survival and other cardiac events.

    F D Loop;B W Lytle;D M Cosgrove;R W Stewart

  • ACC/AHA/HRS 2008 Guidelines for Device-Based Therapy of Cardiac Rhythm Abnormalities A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the ACC/AHA/NASPE 2002 Guideline Update for Implantation of Cardiac Pacemakers and Antiarrhythmia Devices): Developed in Collaboration With the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and Society of Thoracic Surgeons

    Andrew E. Epstein;John P. DiMarco;Kenneth A. Ellenbogen;N.A. Mark Estes

  • 2008 Focused Update Incorporated Into the ACC/AHA 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 1998 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease) Endorsed by the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons

    Robert O. Bonow;Blase A. Carabello;Kanu Chatterjee;Antonio C. de Leon

  • 2010 ACCF/AHA/AATS/ACR/ASA/SCA/SCAI/SIR/STS/SVM guidelines for the diagnosis and management of patients with thoracic aortic disease: Executive summary: A report of the american college of cardiology foundation/american heart association task force on practice guidelines, american association for thoracic surgery, american college of radiology, american stroke association

    Loren F. Hiratzka;George L. Bakris;Joshua A. Beckman;Robert M. Bersin

  • ACC/AHA 2007 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina/Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction. A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 2002 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina/Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction)...

    Jeffrey L. Anderson;Cynthia D. Adams;Elliott M. Antman;Charles R. Bridges

  • ACC/AHA/HRS 2008 Guidelines for Device-Based Therapy of Cardiac Rhythm Abnormalities

    Andrew E. Epstein;John P. DiMarco;Kenneth A. Ellenbogen

  • ACC/AHA 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease. A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 1998 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease)

    Robert O. Bonow;Blase A. Carabello;Kanu Chatterjee;Antonio C. de Leon

  • 2007 focused update of the ACC/AHA 2004 guidelines for the management of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines.

    Elliott M. Antman;Mary Hand;Paul W. Armstrong;Eric R. Bates

  • ACC/AHA 2007 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation and Care for Noncardiac Surgery A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 2002 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery)

    Lee A. Fleisher;Joshua A. Beckman;Kenneth A. Brown;Hugh Calkins

  • 2010 ACCF/AHA/AATS/ACR/ASA/SCA/SCAI/SIR/STS/SVM Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Patients With Thoracic Aortic Disease

    Loren F. Hiratzka;George L. Bakris;Joshua A. Beckman;Robert M. Bersin

  • 2007 Focused update of the ACC/AHA/SCAI 2005 guideline update for percutaneous coronary intervention: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association task force on practice guidelines

    Spencer B. King;Sidney C. Smith;John W. Hirshfeld;Alice K. Jacobs

  • ACC/AHA 2004 guideline update for coronary artery bypass graft surgery: Summary article. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (committee to update the 1999 guidelines for coronary artery bypass graft surgery)

    Kim A. Eagle;Robert A. Guyton;Ravin Davidoff;Fred H. Edwards

  • Long-term (5 to 12 years) serial studies of internal mammary artery and saphenous vein coronary bypass grafts.

    Lytle Bw;Loop Fd;Cosgrove Dm;Ratliff Nb

  • Two internal thoracic artery grafts are better than one.

    Bruce W. Lytle;Eugene H. Blackstone;Floyd D. Loop;Penny L. Houghtaling

  • ACC/AHA 2007 guidelines on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and care for noncardiac surgery: executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 2002 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery).

    Lee A. Fleisher;Joshua A. Beckman;Kenneth A. Brown;Hugh Calkins

  • Sternal wound complications after isolated coronary artery bypass grafting: Early and late mortality, morbidity, and cost of care

    Floyd D. Loop;Bruce W. Lytle;Delos M. Cosgrove;Saade Mahfood

  • Expert consensus document on the treatment of descending thoracic aortic disease using endovascular stent-grafts.

    Lars G. Svensson;Nicholas T. Kouchoukos;D. Craig Miller;Joseph E. Bavaria

  • ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation - executive summary: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Aassociation task force on practice guidelines and the European society of cardiology committee for practice guidelines (writing committee to revise the 2001 guidelines for the management of patients With atrial fibrillation)Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation)

    Jeffrey L. Anderson;Cynthia D. Adams;Elliott M. Antman;Charles R. Bridges

  • ACC/AHA/HRS 2008 Guidelines for Device-Based Therapy of Cardiac Rhythm Abnormalities. A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the ACC/AHA/NASPE 2002 Guideline Update for Implantation of Cardiac Pacemakers and Antiarrhythmia Devices)

    Andrew E. Epstein;John P. Dimarco;Kenneth A. Ellenbogen;N. A. Mark Estes

Frequent Co-Authors

Delos M. Cosgrove
Delos M. Cosgrove Cleveland Clinic
Eugene H. Blackstone
Eugene H. Blackstone Cleveland Clinic
Floyd D. Loop
Floyd D. Loop Cleveland Clinic
Lars G. Svensson
Lars G. Svensson Cleveland Clinic
Nicholas G. Smedira
Nicholas G. Smedira Cleveland Clinic
Joseph F. Sabik
Joseph F. Sabik University Hospitals of Cleveland
A. Marc Gillinov
A. Marc Gillinov Cleveland Clinic
Milind Y. Desai
Milind Y. Desai Cleveland Clinic
Patrick M. McCarthy
Patrick M. McCarthy Northwestern University
Marlene Goormastic
Marlene Goormastic Cleveland Clinic

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