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General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Issue 4/2012

Content (13 Articles)

Obituary

In memoriam: Juro Wada (1922–2011)

Hideo Nagara

Current Topics Review Article

Trends in and perspectives on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe adult respiratory failure

Tomohito Sadahiro, Shigeto Oda, Masataka Nakamura, Yo Hirayama, Eizo Watanabe, Yoshihisa Tateishi, Koichiro Shinozaki

Original Article

Outcomes and long-term quality of life of patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction who underwent coronary artery bypass surgery

Saeed Davoodi, Mehrdad Sheikhvatan, Abbasali Karimi, Seyed Hossein Ahmadi, Hamidreza Goodarzynejad, Mahmood Sheikh Fathollahi

Original Article

Survival and quality of life of octogenarians who underwent mechanical valve replacement at a younger age

Wataru Hashimoto, Kazuyoshi Tanigawa, Koji Hashizume, Tsuneo Ariyoshi, Shinichiro Taniguchi, Kenta Izumi, Takashi Miura, Syun Nakaji, Daisuke Onohara, Kiyoyuki Eishi

Original Article

Propensity analysis of outcome in coronary artery bypass graft surgery patients >75 years old

Bassel S. Al-Alao, Haralabos Parissis, Eilis McGovern, Michael Tolan, Vincent K. Young

Case Report

Isolated dissecting aneurysm of the brachiocephalic artery associated with contained rupture

Tomoaki Hirose, Nobuoki Tabayashi, Yoshiro Yoshikawa, Takehisa Abe, Hiroshi Naito, Yoshihiro Hayata, Keigo Yamashita, Shigeki Taniguchi

Case Report

Combined aortic valve replacement and coronary artery bypass grafting for a calcified ascending aorta

Hironori Baba, Masayoshi Umesue, Kanzi Matsui, Shigeki Morita

Case Report

Surgical resection and reconstruction for a giant cell tumor of the anterior rib

Akira Mogi, Takayuki Kosaka, Ei Yamaki, Junko Hirato, Hiroyuki Kuwano

Case Report

Intrathoracic ganglioneuroma surrounding left vertebral and subclavian arteries successfully resected by modified trapdoor thoracotomy

Masayuki Okui, Takashi Ohtsuka, Mitsutomo Kohno, Yotaro Izumi, Yuichiro Hayashi, Hiroaki Nomori

Case Report

cT1aN0M0 lung adenocarcinoma treated with left S9+10 segmentectomy followed by completion lobectomy for a solitary metastasis (isolated tumor cells) in the neighboring segmental lymph node

Kohei Hashimoto, Takashi Ohtsuka, Mitsutomo Kohno, Yotaro Izumi, Hirohisa Horinouchi, Yuichiro Hayashi, Tadaki Nakahara, Hiroaki Nomori

How to Do It

Anastomosis of left to right superior vena cava for repair of Unroofed Coronary Sinus

Shingo Chihara, Hiroshi Yasunaga, Kageshige Todo

How to Do It

Aortic arch occlusion technique using a balloon during open proximal anastomosis

Shinya Fukui, Masataka Mitsuno, Mitsuhiro Yamamura, Hiroe Tanaka, Masaaki Ryomoto, Yuji Miyamoto

How to Do It

Bronchoplasty with continuous sutures for non-small-cell lung cancer

Hitoshi Igai, Hiroyasu Yokomise