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Michael Cutrone

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic

Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology · 2023 - Present Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic, Anesthesiology

Recent Scholarly Works


Primary graft dysfunction prevention strategies in the perioperative period

Journal article Jhlt Open · February 1, 2026 Background: Primary graft dysfunction (PGD) remains a leading cause of early morbidity and mortality after heart and lung transplantation. It results from a multifactorial process involving ischemia–reperfusion injury, inflammatory and immune responses, an ... Full text Cite

Pain Trajectories After Cardiac Surgery Performed Via Midline Sternotomy.

Journal article J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · December 2025 OBJECTIVES: Acute pain after cardiac surgery performed via midline sternotomy is reported to be moderate to severe in intensity in up to three-quarters of patients in the early postoperative period. This work was designed to describe different pain traject ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Scoping Review of Validated Echocardiographic Methods for Grading Right Ventricular Dysfunction: Proposal for an Evidence-Based Multiparametric Framework.

Journal article J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · November 2025 Assessing the severity of right ventricular (RV) dysfunction using echocardiography (echo) remains subjective, in part because current guidelines do not recommend how to synthesize various echo parameters to form a global assessment of RV dysfunction. To a ... Full text Link to item Cite
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Education


New York Institute of Technology, College of Osteopathic Medicine · 2017 D.O.