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General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Issue 4/2017

Content (12 Articles)

Original Article

Pitfalls for the “Sandwich technique” via a right ventricular incision to repair post-infarction ventricular septal defects

Susumu Isoda, Kiyotaka Imoto, Keiji Uchida, Norihisa Karube, Keiichiro Kasama, Ichiya Yamazaki, Shinichi Suzuki, Yoshimi Yano, Yusuke Matsuki, Munetaka Masuda

Original Article

Atrial fibrillation following aortic valve replacement: impact of perioperative use of intravenous β-blocker

Junki Yokota, Hiroyuki Nishi, Naosumi Sekiya, Mitsutomo Yamada, Toshiki Takahashi

Original Article

Should the annulus be fixed in aortic valve-sparing root replacement with remodeling?

Kojiro Furukawa, Keiji Kamohara, Junji Yunoki, Shugo Koga, Manabu Itoh, Hiroyuki Morokuma, Yosuke Mukae, Tsuyoshi Itoh, Shigeki Morita

Case Report

Total endoscopic repair of unroofed coronary sinus syndrome via right mini-thoracotomy

Kenta Zaikokuji, Masaru Sawazaki, Shiro Tomari, Yusuke Imaeda

Case Report

A floating thrombus in the ascending aorta complicated by acute myocardial infarction

Nobuchika Ozaki, Daisuke Yuji, Masanobu Sato, Kyozo Inoue, Noboru Wakita

Case Report

Severe hemolytic anemia caused by the NIPRO extracorporeal left ventricular assist device

Ikuko Shibasaki, Toshiyuki Kuwata, Go Tsuchiya, Hironaga Ogawa, Yasuyuki Yamada, Shigeru Toyoda, Teruo Inoue, Hirotsugu Fukuda

Case Report

Endovascular treatment of large and wide aortic neck: case report and literature review

Felice Pecoraro, David Pakeliani, Ettore Dinoto, Guido Bajardi

Case Report

Severe descending necrotizing mediastinitis: vacuum-assisted dressing did wonder

Y. T. Liew, Elizabeth Yenn Lynn Lim, A. B. Zulkiflee, N. Prepageran

Case Report

Two surgical cases of thymic MALT lymphoma associated with multiple lung cysts: possible association with Sjögren’s syndrome

Hiromasa Arai, Michihiko Tajiri, Shotaro Kaneko, Yoshihiro Kushida, Kohei Ando, Takayoshi Tachibana, Shigeaki Umeda, Koji Okudela, Shigeru Komatsu, Munetaka Masuda

How to Do It

Intermittent distal perfusion shortens hypothermic circulatory arrest time in aortic arch replacement surgery

Motohiko Goda, Shinichi Suzuki, Naoto Yabu, Masami Goda, Daisuke Machida, Munetaka Masuda