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General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Issue 9/2016

Content (13 Articles)

Current Topics Review Article

Current status of the implantable LVAD

Sagar Kadakia, Ryan Moore, Vishnu Ambur, Yoshiya Toyoda

Current Topics Review Article

Surgical indication for functional tricuspid regurgitation at initial operation: judging from long term outcomes

Alberto Pozzoli, Lapenna Elisabetta, Luca Vicentini, Ottavio Alfieri, Michele De Bonis

Original Article

Interrupted commissural band annuloplasty prevents mitral stenosis

Masaru Sawazaki, Shiro Tomari, Kenta Zaikokuji, Yusuke Imaeda

Original Article

Predicting exercise capacity after lobectomy by single photon emission computed tomography and computed tomography

Yoshinori Nagamatsu, Susumu Sueyoshi, Hiroko Sasahara, Yousuke Oka, Hiroyuki Kumazoe, Masahiro Mitsuoka, Yoshito Akagi

Original Article

De novo malignancy after lung transplantation in Japan

Takuro Miyazaki, Takahiro Oto, Meinoshin Okumura, Hiroshi Date, Takeshi Shiraishi, Yoshinori Okada, Masayuki Chida, Takashi Kondo, Takeshi Nagayasu

Case Report

Surgical strategy for aortic prosthetic graft infection with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography

Katsuhiro Yamanaka, Takashi Matsueda, Shunsuke Miyahara, Yoshikatsu Nomura, Toshihito Sakamoto, Naoto Morimoto, Takeshi Inoue, Masamichi Matsumori, Kenji Okada, Yutaka Okita

Case Report

Endovascular repair of thoracic aortic aneurysm associated with right-sided aortic arch: report of two cases

Yohei Nomura, Koichi Yuri, Naoyuki Kimura, Homare Okamura, Satoshi Itoh, Harunobu Matsumoto, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Hideo Adachi

Case Report

The impact of covering the bulla with an absorbable polyglycolic acid (PGA) sheet during pneumothorax surgery

Taiji Kuwata, Shuichi Shinohara, Masaru Takenaka, Soichi Oka, Yasuhiro Chikaishi, Ayako Hirai, Kouji Kuroda, Tomoko So, Fumihiro Tanaka

Case Report

Use of a titanium alloy (Chest Way) in the surgical stabilization of flail chest

Tomoki Nakagawa, Tomohiko Matsuzaki, Naohiro Aruga, Naoko Imamura, Rurika Hamanaka, Yoichiro Ikoma, Ryota Masuda, Masayuki Iwazaki

How to Do It

Minimally invasive anterior chest wall lifting technique for thoracoscopic mediastinal approach

Hiroyuki Shiono, Tetsuki Sakamoto, Teiko Sakurai