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General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Issue 7/2008

Content (12 Articles)

Current Topics Review Article

Malignant mesothelioma: current status and perspective in Japan and the world

Seiki Hasegawa, Fumihiro Tanaka

Original Article

Early and midterm outcome after off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with poor left ventricular function compared with patients with normal function

Tomoaki Suzuki, Tohru Asai, Keiji Matsubayashi, Atsushi Kambara, Hirohisa Ikegami, Takeshi Kinoshita, Osamu Nishimura

Original Article

Patient-prosthesis mismatch after aortic valve replacement in the elderly

Masaaki Ryomoto, Masataka Mitsuno, Mitsuhiro Yamamura, Hiroe Tanaka, Yasuhiko Kobayashi, Shinya Fukui, Noriko Tsujiya, Tetsuya Kajiyama, Yuji Miyamoto

Original Article

Thymic carcinoma with dissemination: a retrospective analysis of ten patients

Motoki Yano, Hidefumi Sasaki, Tomoki Yokoyama, Haruhiro Yukiue, Osamu Kawano, Katsuhiro Okuda, Yoshitaka Fujii

Case Report

Surgical treatment for isolated coarctation of the aorta in an adult patient

Katsushi Yamashita, Kazuya Suzuki, Hitoshi Terada, Naoki Washiyama, Kazuhiro Ohkura, Abul Hasan Muhammad Bashar

Case Report

Poststernotomy pseudoaneurysm of the internal mammary artery

Asako Namai, Masahiro Sakurai, Masatoshi Akiyama

Case Report

Acute nonbacterial pleuritis caused by spontaneous rupture of metastatic pulmonary adenocarcinoma

Takashi Iwata, Kiyotoshi Inoue, Ryuhei Morita, Takuma Tsukioka, Masaya Yamoto, Shigefumi Suehiro

Case Report

Right ventricular myxoma obstructing the pulmonary artery during early childhood

Kiichiro Kumagai, Sadahiro Sai, Masato Endo, Koichi Tabayashi

Case Report

Successful management of postoperative acute respiratory distress syndrome in a patient with lung cancer

Akira Iyoda, Yasumitsu Moriya, Kenzo Hiroshima, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Ichiro Yoshino

Case Report

Bridge to transplantation with a Toyobo-NCVC left ventricular assist device in a 3-year-old girl

Ayumu Masuoka, Toshiyuki Katogi, Mika Iwazaki, Toshiki Kobayashi, Takashi Nishimura, Shunei Kyo

Case Report

Thymic carcinoma with combined resection of the hemisternum

Ryo Maeda, Noritaka Isowa, Hideyuki Onuma, Hiroshi Miura

Annual Report

Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery in Japan during 2006

Yuichi Ueda, Yoshitaka Fujii, Harushi Udagawa