General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Toward standardization of valve-sparing root replacement and annuloplasty

Takashi Kunihara

Repeat surgical intervention after aortic repair for acute Stanford type A dissection

Tadashi Kitamura, Shinzo Torii, Kensuke Kobayashi, Yuki Tanaka, Akihiro Sasahara, Haruna Araki, Yuki Ohtomo, Rihito Horikoshi, Kagami Miyaji

Stonehenge technique is associated with faster aortic clamp time in group of minimally invasive aortic valve replacement via right infra-axillary thoracotomy

Masataka Yamazaki, Akihiro Yoshitake, Tatsuo Takahashi, Tsutomu Ito, Naritaka Kimura, Akinori Hirano, Yasunori Iida, Shuichiro Takanashi, Hideyuki Shimizu

Mid-term results of mitral valve repair for ischemic mitral regurgitation adjusted according to the degree of remodeling progression

Koji Furukawa, Mitsuhiro Yano, Eisaku Nakamura, Masanori Nishimura, Kunihide Nakamura

Positive correlation between sarcopenia and elevation of neutrophil/lymphocyte ration in pathological stage IIIA (N2-positive) non-small cell lung cancer patients

Takuma Tsukioka, Nobuhiro Izumi, Shinjiro Mizuguchi, Chung Kyukwang, Hiroaki Komatsu, Michihito Toda, Kantaro Hara, Hikaru Miyamoto, Noritoshi Nishiyama

Early chest tube removal after thoracoscopic lobectomy with the aid of an additional thin tube: a prospective multi-institutional study

Ryoichi Nakanishi, Yoshihisa Fujino, Masato Kato, Takashi Miura, Manabu Yasuda, Risa Oda, Keisuke Yokota, Katsuhiro Okuda, Hiroshi Haneda

Analysis of surgical treatment of Masaoka stage III-IV thymic epithelial tumors

Kazutoshi Hamanaka, Tsutomu Koyama, Shunichiro Matsuoka, Tetsu Takeda, Kentaro Miura, Kyoko Yamada, Akira Hyogotani, Tatsuichiro Seto, Kenji Okada, Ken-ichi Ito

Salvage esophagectomy combined with partial aortic wall resection following thoracic endovascular aortic repair

Masanobu Nakajima, Hiroto Muroi, Maiko Kikuchi, Satoru Yamaguchi, Kinro Sasaki, Takashi Tsuchioka, Yusuke Takei, Ikuko Shibasaki, Hirotsugu Fukuda, Hiroyuki Kato

Leaflet escape in an Edwards TEKNA mitral prosthesis

Shinya Higuchi, Iwao Matsunaga, Kiyokazu Koga, Eiichi Teshima, Atsuhiro Nakashima, Ryuji Tominaga, Tsuyoshi Ito

An entire clinical course of mediastinal myxofibrosarcoma treated by surgery and radiation

Yasoo Sugiura, Hiroyuki Fujimoto, Toshinori Hashizume, Go Ogura, Etsuo Nemoto

Off-pump hemostasis for left ventricular rupture after myocardial infarction with Hydrofit® and Surgicel®

Hikaru Ishii, Hidehito Endo, Hiroshi Tsuchiya, Yusuke Inaba, Katsunari Terakawa, Hiroshi Kubota

Acknowledgment to reviewers