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General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Issue 3/2019

Content (15 Articles)

Aortic Aneurysm Current Topics Review Article

Etiology of aortic dissection

Koichi Akutsu

Open Access Original Article

Usefulness of sternal closure with bioresorbable plate in respiratory function after coronary artery bypass grafting

Kiyoshi Tamura, Toshiyuki Maruyama, Syogo Sakurai

Original Article

A running suture line for aortic valve replacement does not increase the rate of postoperative complete heart block

Ibrahim Sultan, Keith A. Dufendach, Arman Kilic, Valentino Bianco, Forozan Navid, Thomas G. Gleason

Original Article

Mid-term outcomes of mechanical pulmonary valve replacement: a single-institutional experience of 396 patients

Maziar Gholampour Dehaki, Alwaleed Al-Dairy, Yousef Rezaei, Gholamreza Omrani, Amir Hossein Jalali, Hoda Javadikasgari, Mahyar Gholampour Dehaki

Open Access Original Article

Risk assessments for broncho-pleural fistula and respiratory failure after lung cancer surgery by National Clinical Database Japan

Shunsuke Endo, Norihiko Ikeda, Takashi Kondo, Jun Nakajima, Haruhiko Kondo, Yoshihisa Shimada, Masami Sato, Shinichi Toyooka, Yoshinori Okada, Yukio Sato, Ichiro Yoshino, Morihito Okada, Meinoshin Okumura, Masayuki Chida, Eriko Fukuchi, Hiroaki Miyata

Original Article

Management of acute ischemic stroke after pulmonary resection: incidence and efficacy of endovascular thrombus aspiration

Daisuke Kimura, Ikuo Fukuda, Takao Tsushima, Takehiro Sakai, Satoko Umetsu, Yukari Ogasawara, Norihito Shimamura, Hiroki Ohkuma

Original Article

Updated meta-analysis of survival after extrapleural pneumonectomy versus pleurectomy/decortication in mesothelioma

Dimitrios E. Magouliotis, Vasiliki S. Tasiopoulou, Kalliopi Athanassiadi

Case Report

Removal of an endometrioid stromal sarcoma from the inferior vena cava and right atrium

Hesham Alkady, Sobhy Abouramadan, Mohamed Nagy, Ahmed Talaat, Tarek Hashem, Abdalla Khaleel

Case Report

Arterial inflow line equipped with a side arm for circulatory support and catheter insertion during transcatheter aortic valve implantation for limited vascular access

Takashi Murakami, Ryoji Sada, Yosuke Takahashi, Shinsuke Nishimura, Kazuki Mizutani, Asahiro Ito, Shinichi Iwata, Tokuhiro Yamada, Minoru Yoshiyama, Toshihiko Shibata

Case Report

Pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis diagnosed by pathology of explanted lungs: a unique etiology serves as a key of clinical diagnosis

Hironobu Wada, Takahiro Nakajima, Hidemi Suzuki, Rie Anazawa, Tomoharu Narita, Jiro Terada, Shigetoshi Yoshida, Koichiro Tatsumi, Yukio Nakatani, Ichiro Yoshino

Case Report

Successful surgical treatment with tracheal resection for a symptomatic vascular ring in an adult

Naoko Imanishi, Masaru Takenaka, Yusuke Nabe, Yosuke Nishimura, Fumihiro Tanaka

How to Do It

Thoracoscopic right middle lobe segmentectomy

Toshiki Yajima, Kimihiro Shimizu, Akira Mogi, Takayuki Kosaka, Seshiru Nakazawa, Ken Shirabe

NSCLC Correction

Correction to: Positive correlation between sarcopenia and elevation of neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio in pathological stage IIIA (N2-positive) non-small cell lung cancer patients

Takuma Tsukioka, Nobuhiro Izumi, Shinjiro Mizuguchi, Chung Kyukwang, Hiroaki Komatsu, Michihito Toda, Kantaro Hara, Hikaru Miyamoto, Noritoshi Nishiyama