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General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Issue 11/2010

Content (10 Articles)

Original Article

Double patch technique for closing acute ventricular septal perforation

Kazuki Hisatomi, Kiyoyuki Eishi, Masayoshi Hamawaki, Koji Hashizume, Shiro Hazama, Tsuneo Ariyoshi, Shinichiro Taniguchi, Takashi Miura, Wataru Hashimoto, Seiji Matsukuma

Original Article

Short-term and long-term outcomes of octogenarians after off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery

Shinya Takase, Hitoshi Yokoyama, Hirono Satokawa, Yoshiyuki Sato, Hiroyuki Kurosawa, Yuki Seto, Akihito Kagoshima, Takashi Igarashi

Original Article

Early results of minimally invasive mitral valve surgery: initial series in a public hospital in Australia

Tadashi Kitamura, James Edwards, Michael Worthington, Kaushalendra S. Rathore, Manoranjan Misra, E. K. Slimani, G. V. Ramana Kumar, John Stubberfield, Robert G. Stuklis

Case Report

Total circulatory arrest: a life-saving procedure for mediastinoscopic major hemorrhage

Theodoros Karaiskos, Elias A. Karfis, Ioanna Tsagaropoulou, George E. Drossos

Case Report

Herpes simplex virus pneumonia following mitral valve replacement

Akiko Yamaguchi, Shigekiyo Matsumoto, Satoshi Hagiwara, Chihiro Shingu, Hideo Iwasaka, Takayuki Noguchi

Case Report

Resected osteochondroma of the rib in an elderly patient

Ryutaro Kikuchi, Nobuya Mino, Tadashi Matsukura, Takashi Hirai

How to Do It

Cuff-preserving technique for aortic mechanical artificial valve replacement performed for perivalvular leakage

Toru Ishizaka, Hisashi Satoh, Hiroki Shiomitsu, Takashi Shibuya, Hiroto Iwasaki, Takashi Shintani

How to Do It

Effective and rapid technique to ensure uniform talc pleurodesis

Zeena Makhija, Ranjit Deshpande, Michael T. Marrinan