General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Incidence of postoperative atrial fibrillation in transdermal β-blocker patch users is lower than that in oral β-blocker users after cardiac and/or thoracic aortic surgery

Homare Okamura, Mamoru Arakawa, Atsushi Miyagawa, Hideo Adachi

Mid-term outcomes of simultaneous mitral valve repair in patients with miral regurgitation and concomitant annulo-aortic ectasia

Yojiro Koda, Tatsuya Kawamoto, Koki Yokawa, Soichiro Henmi, Hidekazu Nakai, Katsuhiro Yamanaka, Takeshi Inoue, Hiroshi Tanaka, Yutaka Okita

Midterm outcomes of thoracic endovascular repair for uncomplicated type B aortic dissection with double-barrel type

Atsushi Omura, Hitoshi Matsuda, Tetsuya Fukuda, Yoshikatsu Nomura, Ryota Kawasaki, Hirohisa Murakami, Akitoshi Yamada, Kunio Gan, Nobuhiko Mukohara, Junjiro Kobayashi

Comparison between mitral valve repair and replacement in active infective endocarditis

Thitipong Tepsuwan, Chartaroon Rimsukcharoenchai, Apichat Tantraworasin, Noppon Taksaudom, Surin Woragidpoonpol, Suphachai Chuaratanaphong, Weerachai Nawarawong

Early outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve implantation for degenerated aortic bioprostheses in Japanese patients: insights from the AORTIC VIV study

Kizuku Yamashita, Satsuki Fukushima, Yusuke Shimahara, Yasuhiro Hamatani, Hideaki Kanzaki, Tetsuya Fukuda, Chisato Izumi, Satoshi Yasuda, Junjiro Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Fujita

Therapeutic strategy for acute pleural empyema: comparison between retrospective study and prospective study

Hitoshi Suzuki, Shin Shomura, Yasuhiro Sawada, Akira Shimamoto, Chiaki Kondo, Motoshi Takao, Hideto Shimpo

Quality assessment using EQ-5D-5L after lung surgery for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients

Ryo Koide, Ami Kikuchi, Masahiro Miyajima, Taijiro Mishina, Yuki Takahashi, Miho Okawa, Izumi Sawada, Junko Nakajima, Atsushi Watanabe, Toru Mizuguchi

Use of electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy in virtual-assisted lung mapping: the effect of on-site adjustment

Masaaki Sato, Yoshikazu Shinohara, Masahiro Yanagiya, Takahiro Karasaki, Kentaro Kitano, Kazuhiro Nagayama, Jun Nakajima

The clinical characteristics and surgical results of smoking-related young pneumothorax

Kenji Tsuboshima, Yasumi Matoba, Teppei Wakahara, Takahiro Uchida, Shigeharu Moriyama

Usefulness of intraoperative nerve monitoring in esophageal cancer surgery in predicting recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy and its severity

Takashi Kanemura, Hiroshi Miyata, Makoto Yamasaki, Tomoki Makino, Yasuhiro Miyazaki, Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Yukinori Kurokawa, Shuji Takiguchi, Masaki Mori, Yuichiro Doki

Successful hybrid treatment of a rare case of blunt traumatic rupture of the left atrial basal appendage and aortic arch

Yuki Ikeno, Yoshikatsu Nomura, Masamichi Matsumori, Yasuko Gotake, Hidekazu Nakai, Takashi Matsueda, Katsuhiro Yamanaka, Takeshi Inoue, Hiroshi Tanaka, Yutaka Okita

Tiny ruptured coronary aneurysm with coronary-pulmonary arterial fistula

Shunsuke Sakamoto, Shinji Kanemitsu, Hideto Shimpo, Tairo Kurita

Guillain–Barré syndrome after cardiac surgery: diagnostic dilemma

Monish S. Raut, Vijay Mohan Hanjoora, Murtaza A. Chishti, Reshma Tewari

A rare resected case of pulmonary rhabdomyosarcoma

Yuki Nishioka, Shinya Tane, Wataru Nishio, Hiroki Tanaka, Hiroyuki Ogawa, Yoshitaka Kitamura, Toshiko Sakuma, Masahiro Yoshimura

Solitary peribronchiolar metaplasia showing a sub-solid nodule on computed tomography

Yoshiyuki Yasuura, Hiroyuki Kayata, Kiyomichi Mizuno, Naoko Miyata, Hideaki Kojima, Mitsuhiro Isaka, Ichiro Ito, Yasuhisa Ohde, Masahiro Endo, Takashi Nakajima

The preoperative assessment of subpleural lung cancer movement to distinguish thoracic wall adhesion or invasion using four-dimensional computed-tomography

Jun Suzuki, Hiroyuki Oizumi, Hikaru Watarai, Akira Hamada, Kenta Nakahashi, Satoshi Takamori, Mitsuaki Sadahiro

Acknowledgment to reviewers