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General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Issue 7/2016

Content (12 Articles)

Current Topics Review Article

Clinical use of echocardiography in structural heart disease

Kentaro Shibayama, Hiroyuki Watanabe

Open Access Current Topics Review Article

Video-assisted thoracoscopic esophagectomy: keynote lecture

Miguel A. Cuesta, Nicole van der Wielen, Jennifer Straatman, Donald L. van der Peet

Current Topics Review Article

Neoadjuvant therapy for advanced esophageal cancer: the impact on surgical management

Masahiko Ikebe, Masaru Morita, Manabu Yamamoto, Yasushi Toh

Original Article

Prevention of atrial fibrillation and inflammatory response after on-pump coronary artery bypass using different statin dosages: a randomized, controlled trial

Michele Danilo Pierri, Giuseppe Crescenzi, Carlo Zingaro, Alessandro D’Alfonso, Filippo Capestro, Vitangelo Scocco, Marina Brugia, Lucia Torracca

Original Article

Experimental validation of talc pleurodesis for carcinomatous pleuritis in an animal model

Yasunori Iwasaki, Shinzo Takamori, Masahiro Mitsuoka, Masaki Kashihara, Tatsuya Nishi, Daigo Murakami, Ryoichi Matsumoto, Hiroharu Mifune, Yuji Tajiri, Yoshito Akagi

Case Report

Successful surgical treatment for total circumferential aortic and mitral annulus calcification: application of half-and-half technique

Yosuke Takahashi, Yasuyuki Sasaki, Koji Hattori, Yasuyuki Kato, Manabu Motoki, Akimasa Morisaki, Shinsuke Nishimura, Toshihiko Shibata

Case Report

Superior mesenteric artery plasty for type A acute aortic dissection with visceral ischemia

Wataru Kato, Takashi Fujita, Kenichiro Uchida, Hisaaki Munakata, Makoto Hibino, Kei Fujii, Keisuke Tanaka, Yoshimasa Sakai, Kazuyoshi Tajima

Case Report

Total pleural covering technique for intractable pneumothorax in patient with Ehlers–Danlos syndrome

Yoshihisa Kadota, Eriko Fukui, Naoto Kitahara, Eiji Okura, Mitsunori Ohta