Research at theDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery

• Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting and the use of arterial and venous graft material in clinical trials
• Transcatheter versus surgical aortic valve implantation
• Coagulative disturbances and treatment following cardiopulmonary bypass
• Cerebral, pulmonal, and renal protection during and following cardiopulmonary bypass
• Minimally invasive thoracoscopic lung cancer surgery
• Trimodal (chemo - and radiation therapy and surgery) treatment of lung cancer
• Surgical treatment of mesothelioma (pleural cancer)
• Lung cancer screening
• Simulation training in thoracoscopic surgery
• Transplant immunology

List of research collaboration with other institutions:

• University of Copenhagen
• Copenhagen Trial Unit
• University of Lund, Sweden
• Gentofte University Hospital
• Center for Clinical Intervention Research, Rigshospitalet
• The Cochrane Collaboration
• The Heart Group.