Issue 1/2017
Content (122 Articles)
Postoperative air leak grading is useful to predict prolonged air leak after pulmonary lobectomy
Sang Gi Oh, Yochun Jung, Sanghoon Jheon, Yunhee Choi, Ju Sik Yun, Kook Joo Na, Byoung Hee Ahn
Primary extranodal marginal zone lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue with multiple pure ground-glass opacities: a case report
Xuebing Ding, Takashi Makino, Satoshi Koezuka, Takashi Azumi, Hajime Otsuka, Yoshinobu Hata, Yuichi Shinya, Naobumi Tochigi, Kazutoshi Shibuya, Akira Iyoda
Is there a correlation between late re-exploration after cardiac surgery and removal of epicardial pacemaker wires?
Ioannis Bougioukas, Ahmad Fawad Jebran, Marius Grossmann, Martin Friedrich, Theodor Tirilomis, Friedrich A. Schoendube, Bernhard Christoph Danner
Management of gastric conduit dehiscence with self-expanding metal stents: a case report on salvaging the gastric conduit
Diana H. Liang, Leonora M. Meisenbach, Min P. Kim, Edward Y. Chan, Puja Gaur Khaitan
Continuous paravertebral block using a thoracoscopic catheter-insertion technique for postoperative pain after thoracotomy: a retrospective case-control study
Yoshikane Yamauchi, Mitsuhiro Isaka, Kamon Ando, Keita Mori, Hideaki Kojima, Tomohiro Maniwa, Shoji Takahashi, Eiji Ando, Yasuhisa Ohde
Anti-inflammatory properties of amniotic membrane patch following pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis
Katherine M. Marsh, Alice S. Ferng, Tia Pilikian, Ankit A. Desai, Ryan Avery, Mark Friedman, Isabel Oliva, Clint Jokerst, David Schipper, Zain Khalpey
Novel vs clinical organ preservation solutions: improved cardiac mitochondrial protection
Alice S. Ferng, David Schipper, Alana M. Connell, Katherine M. Marsh, Shannon Knapp, Zain Khalpey
Computer-based comparison of different methods for selecting mitral annuloplasty ring size
Sameer Al-Maisary, Sandy Engelhardt, Bastian Graser, Ivo Wolf, Matthias Karck, Raffaele De Simone
Supraclavicular transposition of aberrant left vertebral artery for hybrid treatment of aortic arch aneurysm: a case report
Kyo Seon Lee, Gwan Sic Kim, Yochun Jung, In Seok Jeong, Kook Joo Na, Bong Suk Oh, Byung Hee Ahn, Sang Gi Oh
Benefits of ultra-fast-track anesthesia in left ventricular assist device implantation: a retrospective, propensity score matched cohort study of a four-year single center experience
Rashad Zayat, Ares K. Menon, Andreas Goetzenich, Gereon Schaelte, Ruediger Autschbach, Christian Stoppe, Tim-Philipp Simon, Lachmandath Tewarie, Ajay Moza
Early clinical outcomes of on-pump beating-heart versus off-pump technique for surgical revascularization in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction: the experience of a single center
LiMin Xia, Qiang Ji, Kai Song, JinQiang Shen, YunQing Shi, RunHua Ma, WenJun Ding, ChunSheng Wang
Reconstruction of the pulmonary posterior wall using in situ autologous tissue for the treatment of pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect
Chengming Fan, Yifeng Yang, Lian Xiong, Ni Yin, Qin Wu, Mi Tang, Jinfu Yang
A rare cardiac inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor involving aortic valve
Wenzong Luo, Peng Teng, Yiming Ni
Towards a cardiac allocation score: a retrospective calculation for 73 patients from a German transplant center
Sebastian Claes, Michael Berchtold-Herz, Qian Zhou, Georg Trummer, Matthias Bock, Andreas Zirlik, Friedhelm Beyersdorf, Christoph Bode, Sebastian Grundmann
Congenital giant left atrial appendage aneurysm: a case report
Yan Chen, Yun Mou, Li-Jun Jiang, Shen-Jiang Hu
Gemella morbillorum endocarditis of pulmonary valve:a case report
Dan Li, Zhicheng Zhu, Xiaomei Zheng, Weitie Wang, Rihao Xu, Kexiang Liu
A rare case of biventricular myxoma
Tangsakar Ermek, Naibi Aybek, Wei-min Zhang, Yong-zhong Guo, Sheng Guo, Azze Mamataly, Dong-qing Chang, Jun Liu, Zong-gang Zhang
Surgical resection of cardiac myxoma—a 30-year single institutional experience
Kyo Seon Lee, Gwan Sic Kim, Yochun Jung, In Seok Jeong, Kook Joo Na, Bong Suk Oh, Byung Hee Ahn, Sang Gi Oh
A rare case report of early bioprosthetic valve thrombosis presenting with acute heart failure salvaged by thrombectomy
Jingya Fan, Peng Teng, Yu Zou, Liang Ma
High dose statin prophylaxis in cardiopulmonary bypass related surgery: clinical utility
Yie Roei Chee, R William G Watson, James McCarthy, Jehan Zeb Chughtai, Lars Nölke, David G Healy
Erratum to: Is pre-operative haemoglobin A1c level a successful predictor of adverse outcome after cardiac surgery?
Ai Hooi Tee, R. Hasan, K. E. Mclaughlin, D. J. M. Keenan, S. Datta
Treatment of traumatic sternal fractures with titanium plate internal fixation: a retrospective study
Yonghong Zhao, Yi Yang, Zongli Gao, Weiming Wu, Weiwei He, Tiancheng Zhao
Heartmate 3 fully magnetically levitated left ventricular assist device for the treatment of advanced heart failure –1 year results from the Ce mark trial
Thomas Krabatsch, Ivan Netuka, Jan D. Schmitto, Daniel Zimpfer, Jens Garbade, Vivek Rao, Michiel Morshuis, Friedhelm Beyersdorf, Silvana Marasco, Laura Damme, Yuriy Pya
Perventricular double-device closure of wide-spaced multi-hole perimembranous ventricular septal defect
Fei Liang, Li Hongxin, Hai-Zhou Zhang, Guo Wenbin, Cheng-Wei Zou, Zeeshan Farhaj
Single-staged uniportal VATS in the supine position for simultaneous bilateral primary spontaneous pneumothorax
Kyung Soo Kim
Redo coronary bypass grafting for congenital left main coronary atresia: a case report
Shin Yajima, Koichi Toda, Hiroyuki Nishi, Daisuke Yoshioka, Teruya Nakamura, Shigeru Miyagawa, Yasushi Yoshikawa, Satsuki Fukushima, Yoshiki Sawa
Rapid deployment valve system shortens operative times for aortic valve replacement through right anterior minithoracotomy
Constanze Bening, Khaled Hamouda, Mehmet Oezkur, Christoph Schimmer, Ina Schade, Armin Gorski, Ivan Aleksic, Rainer Leyh
A randomized comparison of flow characteristics of semiskeletonized and pedicled internal thoracic artery preparations in coronary artery bypass
Opas Satdhabudha, Narupa Noppawinyoowong
Role of mitral valve repair in active infective endocarditis: long term results
Carlo Rostagno, Enrico Carone, Pier Luigi Stefàno
Ex-vivo recruitment and x-ray assessment of donor lungs in a challenging retrieval from a donor supported by lvad using the portable normothermic perfusion system: a case report
Marco Schiavon, Francesca Calabrese, Guido Di Gregorio, Monica Loy, Giuseppe Marulli, Alessandro Rebusso, Fiorella Calabrese, Federico Rea
Robot-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy as treatment of a giant bulla
Rosa Roemers, Kornelis Patberg, Caroline van de Wauwer, Tam Nguyen, Ghada Shahin
Transapical aortic perfusion using a deep hypothermic procedure to prevent dissecting lung injury during re-do thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm surgery
Yuya Kise, Yukio Kuniyoshi, Mizuki Ando, Hitoshi Inafuku, Takaaki Nagano, Satoshi Yamashiro
Papillary fibroelastoma, unusual cause of stroke in a young man: a case report
Elisabetta Grolla, Michele Dalla Vestra, Giampaolo Zoffoli, Riccardo D’Ascoli, Adriana Critelli, Rocco Quatrale, Domenico Mangino, Fausto Rigo
Catching a floating thrombus; a case report on the treatment of a large thrombus in the ascending aorta
Gijs Eduard de Maat, Giorgio Vigano, Massimo Alessandro Mariani, Ehsan Natour
Long acting β2-adrenocepter agonists are not associated with atrial arrhythmias after pulmonary resection
Keiji Yamanashi, Satoshi Marumo, Ryota Sumitomo, Tsuyoshi Shoji, Motonari Fukui, Toshiro Katayama, Cheng-long Huang
Off-pump sutureless repair for ischemic left ventricular free wall rupture: a systematic review
Yoshio Misawa
Clinical outcomes meta-analysis: measuring subendocardial perfusion and efficacy of transmyocardial laser revascularization with nuclear imaging
Jessika Iwanski, Shannon M. Knapp, Ryan Avery, Isabel Oliva, Raymond K. Wong, Raymond B. Runyan, Zain Khalpey
Combined pulmonary and left ventricular support with veno-pulmonary ECMO and impella 5.0 for cardiogenic shock after coronary surgery
Sameh Sayed, Christoph Schimmer, Ina Shade, Rainer Leyh, Ivan Aleksic
A novel anatomic severity grading score for acute Type B aortic dissections and correlation to aortic reinterventions after thoracic endovascular aortic repair
Shirui Chen, Sebastian Larion, Sadaf S. Ahanchi, Chad P. Ammar, Colin T. Brandt, Jean M. Panneton
Factors influencing postoperative atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting, single center experience
Mohamed F. Ismail, Ahmed F. El-mahrouk, Tamer H. Hamouda, Hanan Radwan, Ali Haneef, Ahmed A. Jamjoom
A systematic review of left ventricular cardio-endoscopic surgery
Erdinc Soylu, Emaddin Kidher, Hutan Ashrafian, George Stavridis, Leanne Harling, Thanos Athanasiou
Impact of prosthesis–patient mismatch on short-term outcomes after aortic valve replacement: a retrospective analysis in East China
Lei Guo, Junnan Zheng, Liangwei Chen, Renyuan Li, Liang Ma, Yiming Ni, Haige Zhao
LTB4 and montelukast in transplantation-related bronchiolitis obliterans in rats
Zheng-Liang Tu, Zhen-Yu Zhou, Hai-Chao Xu, Jin-Lin Cao, Peng Ye, Lu-Ming Wang, Wang Lv, Jian Hu
Surgical and survival outcomes of lung cancer patients with intratumoral lung abscesses
Keiji Yamanashi, Norihito Okumura, Ayuko Takahashi, Takashi Nakashima, Tomoaki Matsuoka
A propensity matched analysis of outcomes and long term survival in stented versus stentless valves
Blake N. Shultz, Tomasz Timek, Alan T. Davis, John Heiser, Edward Murphy, Charles Willekes, Robert Hooker
A modified multiple branched graft for thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair
Liang-Wan Chen, Xi-Jie Wu, Hua Cao, Xiao-Fu Dai
Pitfalls in TAMVI: experience with the repositionable Lotus® Valve System
Paul P. Heinisch, Fabien Praz, Bernhard Winkler, Stephan Windecker, Christoph Huber, Thierry Carrel
Minimally access via left anterior mini-thoracotomy for repair of adult subarterial ventricular septal defects
YunFei Liao, Xiang Long, ShuQiang Zhu, Jun Tu, Hua Wen, JianJun Xu, YongBing Wu
Right ventricular outflow tract obstruction caused by right ventricular fibroma in a 5-month-old infant: a case report
Fuyang Mei, Bing Zhou, Yong Cui
Consumption coagulopathy in acute aortic dissection: principles of management
Yuyong Liu, Lu Han, Jiachen Li, Ming Gong, Hongjia Zhang, Xinliang Guan
Deeper wedge resection and parenchymal-sparing bronchoplasty of the secondary carina: an alternative surgical technique for removal of tumor located at the orifice of upper lobar bronchus
An Wang, Xiaofeng Chen, Dayu Huang, Shaohua Wang
Smoking and timing of cessation on postoperative pulmonary complications after curative-intent lung cancer surgery
Sebastian T. Lugg, Theofano Tikka, Paula J. Agostini, Amy Kerr, Kerry Adams, Maninder S. Kalkat, Richard S. Steyn, Pala B. Rajesh, Ehab Bishay, David R. Thickett, Babu Naidu
Erratum to: A novel anatomic severity grading score for acute Type B aortic dissections and correlation to aortic reinterventions after thoracic endovascular aortic repair
Shirui Chen, Sebastian Larion, Sadaf S. Ahanchi, Chad P. Ammar, Colin T. Brandt, Jean M. Panneton
Two-stage correction of type IV total anomalous pulmonary venous connection
Hunbo Shim, Ji-Hyuk Yang, Tae-Gook Jun
Extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation for refractory cardiogenic shock after adult cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Maziar Khorsandi, Scott Dougherty, Omar Bouamra, Vasudev Pai, Philip Curry, Steven Tsui, Stephen Clark, Stephen Westaby, Nawwar Al-Attar, Vipin Zamvar
Xenoantigenicity of porcine decellularized valves
Meghana R. K. Helder, Nicholas J. Stoyles, Brandon J. Tefft, Ryan S. Hennessy, Rebecca R. C. Hennessy, Roy Dyer, Tyra Witt, Robert D. Simari, Amir Lerman
Influence of Staphylococcus aureus on Outcomes after Valvular Surgery for Infective Endocarditis
Sang Myung Han, Robert A. Sorabella, Sowmya Vasan, Mark Grbic, Daniel Lambert, Rahul Prasad, Catherine Wang, Paul Kurlansky, Michael A. Borger, Rachel Gordon, Isaac George
Rare association of two cardiovascular malformations successfully corrected in a single surgery: a case report
Fu-Yang Mei, Zhi-Xuan Bai, Zhi-Bin Hu, Bing Zhou, Yong Cui
Single coronary ostium in a patient with quadricuspid aortic valve combined with aneurysmal ascending aortic dilatation
Do Yeon Kim, Hwan Wook Kim
Impact of ablation duration on rhythm outcome after concomitant maze procedure using cryoablation in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation
Dong Seop Jeong, Ji Hoon You, Chang-Seok Jeon, Pyo Won Park, Kiick Sung, Wook Sung Kim, Young Tak Lee
Cardiac arrest without physical cardiac injury during Nuss repair of pectus excavatum
Jianyong Zou, Canqiao Luo, Zhenguo Liu, Chao Cheng
Pre-transplant depression as a predictor of adherence and morbidities after orthotopic heart transplantation
Maja Delibasic, Burhan Mohamedali, Nikola Dobrilovic, Jaishankar Raman
Late outcome of surgical radiofrequency ablation for persistent valvular atrial fibrillation in China: a single-center study
Hailong Cao, Yunxing Xue, Qing Zhou, Minggang Yu, Chenbin Tang, Dongjin Wang
Doege-potter syndrome: a report of a histologically benign but clinically malignant case
Do Wan Kim, Kook Joo Na, Ju Sik Yun, Sang Yun Song
Life-threatening subdural hematoma after aortic valve replacement in a patient with Heyde syndrome: a case report
Tetsuro Uchida, Azumi Hamasaki, Eiichi Ohba, Atsushi Yamashita, Jun Hayashi, Mitsuaki Sadahiro
Left atrial thrombus due to transseptal catheterization simulating solid mass of right atrium
Jae Hang Lee, Ji-Hyun Kim, Jin-Ho Choi, Eung-Joong Kim
30-year experience of Fontan surgery: single-centre’s data
Laurynas Bezuska, Virgilijus Lebetkevicius, Rita Sudikiene, Daina Liekiene, Virgilijus Tarutis
Enumeration of circulating endothelial cell frequency as a diagnostic marker in aortic valve surgery - a flow cytometric approach
Anton Sabashnikov, Klaus Neef, Vera Chesnokova, Leonie Wegener, Kathrin Godthardt, Maximilian Scherner, Elmar W. Kuhn, Antje-Christin Deppe, Meike Lauer, Kaveh Eghbalzadeh, Mohamed Zeriouh, Parwis B. Rahmanian, Jens Wippermann, Ferdinand Kuhn-Régnier, Navid Madershahian, Thorsten Wahlers, Alexander Weymann, Yeong-Hoon Choi
Assessment of the effect of left atrial cryoablation enhanced by ganglionated plexi ablation in the treatment of atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing open heart surgery
Jiří Bárta, Radim Brát
Pre-operative serum VCAM-1 as a biomarker of atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass grafting
Leanne Harling, Jonathan Lambert, Hutan Ashrafian, Ara Darzi, Nigel J. Gooderham, Thanos Athanasiou
A large left atrial lipoma combined with coronary artery disease
Yun Liu, Xiaomei Zheng, Yu Du, Zhicheng Zhu, Tiance Wang, Rihao Xu, Dan Li, Kexiang Liu
Outcome of surgical repair of Pectus Excavatum in adults
Ayman M. Shaalan, Ibrahim Kasb, Eman E. Elwakeel, Yusra A. Elkamali
The effect of preoperative liver dysfunction on cardiac surgery outcomes
Luiz Araujo, Viktor Dombrovskiy, Wali Kamran, Ashleigh Lemaire, Antonio Chiricolo, Leonard Y. Lee, Anthony Lemaire
Midterm follow-up of transthoracic device closure of an atrial septal defect using the very large domestic occluder (44–48 mm), a single Chinese cardiac center experience
Qiang Chen, Hua Cao, Gui-Can Zhang, Liang-wan Chen, Fan Xu, Jia-xin Zhang
Renal ultrasound provides low utility in evaluating cardiac surgery associated acute kidney injury
Allen Young, Todd Crawford, Alejandro Suarez Pierre, J. Trent Magruder, Charles Fraser, John Conte, Glenn Whitman, Christopher Sciortino
Left atrial myxoma complicated with multi-system embolization
Ren-Dan Zhang, Zhi-Huan Zeng, Jian-Yi Zheng, Tu-Di Li, Yan-Qun Zhao, Yu-Hong Liu, Yu-Si Yao
Modified ‘candy-plug’ technique for chronic type B aortic dissection with aneurysmal dilatation: a case report
Sohsyu Kotani, Yoshito Inoue, Mio Kasai, Satoru Suzuki, Takashi Hachiya
Transfemoral versus transapical approach for transcatheter aortic valve implantation: hospital outcome and risk factor analysis.
Enrico Ferrari, Eric Eeckhout, Sanjiv Keller, Olivier Muller, Piergiorgio Tozzi, Denis Berdajs, Ludwig Karl von Segesser
Behcet’s disease with recurrent thoracic aortic aneurysm combined with femoral artery aneurysm: a case report and literature review
Shi-Huai Zhang, Fu-Xian Zhang
A dual therapy of off-pump temporary left ventricular extracorporeal device and amniotic stem cell for cardiogenic shock
Toshinobu Kazui, Phat L. Tran, Tia R. Pilikian, Katie M. Marsh, Raymond Runyan, John Konhilas, Richard Smith, Zain I. Khalpey
Unexpected collateral impact after out of hospital resuscitation using LUCAS system
Jasmin Hasmik Shahinian, Jonas Quitt, Mark Wiese, Friedrich Eckstein, Oliver Reuthebuch
Sutureless aortic valve replacement in a calcified homograft combined with mitral valve replacement
Ferdi Akca, Kayan Lam, Ibrahim Özdemir, Erwin Tan
Intralobar pulmonary sequestration displayed as localized emphysema on computed tomography image
Weibo Qi, Junjie Zhao, Guping Shi, Fan Yang
Right anterolateral thoracotomy: an attractive alternative to repeat sternotomy for high-risk patients undergoing reoperative mitral and tricuspid valve surgery
Hailong Cao, Qing Zhou, Fudong Fan, Yunxing Xue, Jun Pan, Dongjin Wang
Surgical repair and reconstruction of aortic arch in debakey type I aortic dissection: recent advances and single-center experience in the application of branched stent graft
Qian Zhang, Xiaochun Ma, Wenlong Zhang, Zhengjun Wang, Haizhou Zhang, Xiaofeng Zhang, Jian Song, Chengwei Zou
Impact of severe left ventricular dysfunction on in-hospital and mid-term outcomes of Chinese patients undergoing first isolated off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting
Qiang Ji, Li Min Xia, Yun Qing Shi, Run Hua Ma, Jin Qiang Shen, Wen Jun Ding, Chun Sheng Wang
Impact of prosthesis-patient mismatch after mitral valve replacement in rheumatic population: Does mitral position prosthesis-patient mismatch really exist?
Seung Hyun Lee, Byung Chul Chang, Young-Nam Youn, Hyun Chel Joo, Kyung-Jong Yoo, Sak Lee
Right ventricular functional analysis utilizing first pass radionuclide angiography for pre-operative ventricular assist device planning: a multi-modality comparison
Ryan Avery, Kevin Day, Clinton Jokerst, Toshinobu Kazui, Elizabeth Krupinski, Zain Khalpey
Concomitant aorto-right subclavian artery bypass with off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: a case report
Hirokazu Tazume, Ken Okamoto, Toshihiro Fukui
Home-based preoperative rehabilitation (prehab) to improve physical function and reduce hospital length of stay for frail patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft and valve surgery
Iain Waite, Ranjit Deshpande, Max Baghai, Tania Massey, Olaf Wendler, Sharlene Greenwood
Visceral subpleural hematoma of the left diaphragmatic surface following left upper division segmentectomy
Yasushi Mizukami, Nobuhito Ueda, Hirofumi Adachi, Jun Arikura
Intimal spindle cell sarcoma masquerading as adult-onset symptomatic pulmonic stenosis: a case report and review of the literature
Arun Manmadhan, Sunil P. Malhotra, Catherine R. Weinberg, Alex Reyentovich, Larry A. Latson Jr, Puneet Bhatla, Muhamed Saric
Epicardial left ventricular leads via minimally invasive technique: a role of steroid eluting leads
Etem Caliskan, Florian Fischer, Felix Schoenrath, Maximilian Y. Emmert, Francesco Maisano, Volkmar Falk, Christoph T. Starck, Tomas Holubec
Acceleration sensors in abdominal wall position as a non-invasive approach to detect early breathing alterations induced by intolerance of increased airway resistance
Thomas Breuer, Christian S. Bruells, Rolf Rossaint, Henning Steffen, Catherine Disselhorst-Klug, Michael Czaplik, Norbert Zoremba
Impact of connective tissue disease on the surgical outcomes of aortic dissection in patients with cystic medial necrosis
Toshiki Fujiyoshi, Kenji Minatoya, Yoshihiko Ikeda, Hatsue Ishibashi-Ueda, Takayuki Morisaki, Hiroko Morisaki, Hitoshi Ogino
Surgical resection of advanced non-small cell lung cancer after a response to EGFR-TKI: presentation of two cases and a literature review
Yoko Yamamoto, Ken Kodama, Tomohiro Maniwa, Masashi Takeda
The wearable cardioverter defibrillator as a bridge to reimplantation in patients with ICD or CRT-D-related infections
L. Castro, S. Pecha, M. Linder, J. Vogler, N. Gosau, C. Meyer, S. Willems, H. Reichenspurner, S. Hakmi
Double lung, unlike single lung transplantation might provide a protective effect on mortality and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome
Mohammed Fakhro, Ellen Broberg, Lars Algotsson, Lennart Hansson, Bansi Koul, Ronny Gustafsson, Per Wierup, Richard Ingemansson, Sandra Lindstedt
Development and in vivo validation of tissue-engineered, small-diameter vascular grafts from decellularized aortae of fetal pigs and canine vascular endothelial cells
Xu Ma, Zhijuan He, Ling Li, Guofeng Liu, Qingchun Li, Daping Yang, Yingbo Zhang, Ning Li
Prognostic significance of preoperative plasma D-dimer level in patients with surgically resected clinical stage I non-small cell lung cancer: a retrospective cohort study
Kaoru Kaseda, Keisuke Asakura, Akio Kazama, Yukihiko Ozawa
Primary and metastatic cardiac tumors: echocardiographic diagnosis, treatment and prognosis in a 15-years single center study
Natsumi Nomoto, Tomoko Tani, Toshiko Konda, Kitae Kim, Takeshi Kitai, Mitsuhiko Ota, Shuichiro Kaji, Yukihiro Imai, Yukikatsu Okada, Yutaka Furukawa
Four successful pregnancies in a patient with Fontan palliation and congenital heart disease: a case report
Khalid S. Al Najashi, Syed Mehdi, Shazia Mohsin, Merna Atiyah, Hafez A. Abdullah, Jassim Abdulhameed, Ahmed M. Al Zahrani
Primary tracheal schwannoma a review of a rare entity: current understanding of management and followup
Shadi Hamouri, Nathan M. Novotny
Open stent graft repair with upper-half Sternotomy for blunt thoracic aortic injury: a case report
Toshinori Komatsu, Tamaki Takano, Hiromu Kehara, Megumi Fuke, Takamitsu Terasaki, Masayuki Sakaguchi
Use of a flowable haemostat versus an oxidised regenerated cellulose agent in primary elective cardiac surgery: economic impact from a UK healthcare perspective
Mayur R. Joshi, Jacqueline Latham, Gabriel Okorogheye
Robotic sleeve lobectomy with four arms for lung cancer centrally located in the right lower lobe: a case report
Min Seop Jo, Do Yeon Kim, Jin Yong Jeong, Geun Dong Lee
Spontaneous hemothorax caused by ruptured multiple mycotic aortic aneurysms: a case report and literature review
Po-Sung Li, Chung-Lin Tsai, Sung-Yuan Hu, Tzu-Chieh Lin, Yao-Tien Chang
Folate receptor-targeted molecular imaging improves identification of malignancy during pulmonary resection: a case report
Jarrod D. Predina, Andrew Newton, Courtney Connolly, Sunil Singhal
Pulmonary inflammatory Myofibroblastic tumor indistinguishable from tuberculosis: a case report in a five-year-old child with hemoptysis
Tao Zuo, Jun Fu, Zhengyi Ni, Baojun Chen
Mid-term results of mitral valve repair using flexible bands versus complete rings in patients with degenerative mitral valve disease: a prospective, randomized study
Alexandr V. Bogachev-Prokophiev, Alexandr V. Afanasyev, Sergei I. Zheleznev, Vladimir M. Nazarov, Ravil M. Sharifulin, Alexandr M. Karaskov
Emergency transapical mitral valve-in-valve implantation for bioprosthesis failure: transapical implantation of an Edwards Sapien-XT in a dysfunctional mitral bioprosthesis in a critical patient
Marco Zanobini, Sabrina Manganiello, Giorgia Bonalumi, Raoul Biondi, Marco Russo, Massimo Mapelli, Francesco Alamanni, Matteo Saccocci
Myocardial inflammation, injury and infarction during on-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery
Shirjel R. Alam, Colin Stirrat, Nick Spath, Vipin Zamvar, Renzo Pessotto, Marc R. Dweck, Colin Moore, Scott Semple, Ahmed El-Medany, Divya Manoharan, Nicholas L. Mills, Anoop Shah, Saeed Mirsadraee, David E. Newby, Peter A. Henriksen
Postcardiotomy VA-ECMO for refractory cardiogenic shock
Michael Charlesworth, Rajamiyer Venkateswaran, Julian M. Barker, Lee Feddy
Case report: osteogenesis imperfecta, internal mammary artery graft & nitinol clips
Ludovic Melly, Anne-Sophie Dincq, Claude Hanet, Benoît Rondelet
Refractory ventricular fibrillations after surgical repair of atrial septal defects in a patient with CACNA1C gene mutation - case report
Ai Kojima, Fumiaki Shikata, Toru Okamura, Takashi Higaki, Seiko Ohno, Minoru Horie, Shunji Uchita, Yujiro Kawanishi, Kenji Namiguchi, Takumi Yasugi, Hironori Izutani
The role of epithelial-mesenchymal transition in the post-lung transplantation bronchiolitis obliterans
Chong Zhang, Yuequn Niu, Li Yu, Wang Lv, Haichao Xu, Abudumailamu Abuduwufuer, Jinlin Cao, Jian Hu
The correlation between the coaptation height of mitral valve and mitral regurgitation after mitral valve repair
Dan Wei, Jie Han, Haibo Zhang, Yan Li, Chunlei Xu, Xu Meng
Quantifying the learning curve for pulmonary thromboendarterectomy
Smita Sihag, Bao Le, Alison S. Witkin, Josanna M. Rodriguez-Lopez, Mauricio A. Villavicencio, Gus J. Vlahakes, Richard N. Channick, Cameron D. Wright
Abnormal elevation of myocardial necrosis biomarkers after coronary artery bypass grafting without established myocardial infarction assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance
Fernando Teiichi Costa Oikawa, Whady Hueb, Cesar Higa Nomura, Alexandre Ciappina Hueb, Alexandre Volney Villa, Leandro Menezes Alves da Costa, Rodrigo Morel Vieira de Melo, Paulo Cury Rezende, Carlos Alexandre Wainrober Segre, Cibele Larrosa Garzillo, Eduardo Gomes Lima, Jose Antonio Franchini Ramires, Roberto Kalil Filho
Should high risk patients with concomitant severe aortic stenosis and mitral valve disease undergo double valve surgery in the TAVR era?
Pey-Jen Yu, Allan Mattia, Hugh A. Cassiere, Rick Esposito, Frank Manetta, Nina Kohn, Alan R. Hartman