Issue 4/2013
Content (12 Articles)
Current Topics Review Article
Surgical treatment for aortic periannular abscess/pseudoaneurysm caused by infective endocarditis
Kenji Okada, Yutaka Okita
Current Topics Review Article
A look at recent improvements in the durability of tissue valves
Takahiro Nishida, Ryuji Tominaga
Current Topics Review Article
Aortic arch replacement for degenerative aneurysms: advances during the last decade
Norihiko Shiiya
Current Topics Review Article
Cadaveric donor lobar lung transplantation for patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as bridge-to-transplant
Yoshiya Toyoda
Current Topics Review Article
President’s address of the 65th annual scientific meeting of the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery: challenges for advanced esophageal cancer
Hiromasa Fujita
Registry Report
Registry of the Japanese society of lung and heart–lung transplantation: the official Japanese lung transplantation report 2012
Takahiro Oto, Yoshinori Okada, Toru Bando, Masato Minami, Takeshi Shiraishi, Takeshi Nagayasu, Masayuki Chida, Meinoshin Okumura, Hiroshi Date, Shinichiro Miyoshi, Takashi Kondo
Original Article
Surgical management of traumatic rupture of aortic isthmus: a 25-year experience
Seyed Mohsen Mirhosseini, Shadi Asadollahi, Mohammad Fakhri
Original Article
LeGoo polymer injection into hydatid cyst would eliminate intraoperative spillage of scolices
Fadhil Al-Amran, Hayder M. Abdulnabi
Case Report
Transaortic edge-to-edge mitral valve repair and left ventricular myectomy
Yasushi Tsutsumi, Satoshi Numata, Hiroyuki Seo, Hirokazu Ohashi
Case Report
Modified reduction aortoplasty with external reinforcement of the ascending aortic aneurysm caused by giant cell arteritis treated as polymyalgia rheumatica
Jun Hirota, Syunichi Kondo, Tsuyoshi Yamabe, Taichi Kondo, Yuki Seto, Shigebumi Suzuki
Case Report
Recurrent pleural effusion in yellow nail syndrome successfully treated with video-assisted thoracic surgery: comparison of two surgical strategies in two cases
Damian Balmforth, Andrea Bille, Lawrence Okiror, Karen Harrsion-Phipps, Tom Routledge
Case Report
Pulmonary inflammatory pseudotumor observed by bronchoscopy and resected using video-assisted thoracic surgery
Yusuke Nakamura, Masayuki Iwazaki, Rinako Watanabe, Hisayo Isono, Ryota Masuda, Teiko Sato, Matakiti Miyamoto, Akihiko Shimada