General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Coagulation ability when separating from cardiopulmonary bypass with and without fresh frozen plasma: a pilot study

Takahiro Tamura, Shuichi Yokota, Toshiaki Ito, Masahiko Ando, Yoko Kubo, Jonathan H. Waters, Kimitoshi Nishiwaki

Machine learning helps predict long-term mortality and graft failure in patients undergoing heart transplant

Pradyumna Agasthi, Matthew R. Buras, Sean D. Smith, Michael A. Golafshar, Farouk Mookadam, Senthil Anand, Julie L. Rosenthal, Brian W. Hardaway, Patrick DeValeria, Reza Arsanjani

Adjusted preoperative variables to predict perioperative red blood cell transfusion in coronary artery bypass grafting

Liangyuan Lu, Ji Che, Wuxiang Xie, Weiping Cheng, Zhanmin Yang, Ran Dong, Jiapeng Huang, Jiakai Lu

Does addition of bi-directional cavo-pulmonary shunt to tricuspid repair in advanced cases of Ebstein anomaly result in better outcomes?

Amber Malhotra, Kartik Patel, Himani Pandya, Vishal Agrawal, Sumbul Siddiqui, Mausam Shah, Pranav Sharma, Jigisha Pujara

Thoracic endovascular repair for retrograde acute type A aortic dissection as an alternative choice

Atsushi Omura, Hitoshi Matsuda, Jiro Matsuo, Yoshiro Hori, Tetsuya Fukuda, Yosuke Inoue, Yoshimasa Seike, Kyokun Uehara, Hiroaki Sasaki, Junjiro Kobayashi

Dynamic changes of mitral annulus in patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation and chronic atrial fibrillation undergoing mitral valve reconstruction

Nurun Nahar, Takeshi Kinoshita, Tomoaki Suzuki, Katsuyuki Miura, Tohru Asai

Clinicopathological significance of staple line coverage with an oxidized regenerated cellulose sheet after bullectomy for primary spontaneous pneumothorax

Shunichi Nagata, Ryo Miyata, Mitsugu Omasa, Kosuke Tokushige, Takao Nakanishi, Hideki Motoyama

ɤ-glutamyl hydroxymethyl rhodamine green fluorescence as a prognostic indicator for lung cancer

Shun Kawashima, Takafusa Yoshioka, Haruaki Hino, Kentaro Kitano, Kazuhiro Nagayama, Masaaki Sato, Ryosuke Kojima, Mako Kamiya, Yasuteru Urano, Jun Nakajima

Safety of the anterior approach versus the lateral approach for chest tube insertion by residents treating spontaneous pneumothorax: a propensity score weighted analysis

Akihiro Shiroshita, Hiroki Matsui, Kazuki Yoshida, Atsushi Shiraishi, Yu Tanaka, Kei Nakashima, Masahiro Aoshima

Prediction formula for predicted diffusion capacity of lung for carbon monoxide in pulmonary surgery

Hironaga Kanno, Hiroyuki Deguchi, Makoto Tomoyasu, Satoshi Kudo, Wataru Shigeeda, Yuka Kaneko, Ryuichi Yoshimura, Hajime Saito

Mitral valve surgery for ischemic papillary muscle rupture: outcomes from the Japan cardiovascular surgery database

Tomoyuki Fujita, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Junjiro Kobayashi, Satsuki Fukushima, Hiroaki Miyata, Kizuku Yamashita, Noboru Motomura

How far is the left circumflex coronary artery from the mitral annulus?

Koji Miura, Tatsuhiko Komiya, Takeshi Shimamoto, Takehiko Matsuo

A case of giant right coronary artery aneurysm due to IgG4-related disease

Sho Matsuyama, Takehiro Kishigami, Masato Sakamoto

Acute mitral valve endocarditis at the 24th gestational week

Zenichi Masuda, Yosuke Miyamoto, Dai Une, Yoshinori Inoue, Atsushi Tateishi, Yutaka Yokota, Mikizo Nakai, Masahiro Okada

Enlarging blood cyst with atrial septal defect causing tricuspid obstruction

Yu-Lien Chang, Kuo-Sheng Liao, Hsiu-Hsueh Tseng, Yin-Tso Liu

Emergency thromboembolectomy for impending paradoxical embolism through a patent foramen ovale owing to venous thromboembolism in a severely obese patient

Ryumon Matsumoto, Shoji Fukuda, Masaki Kano, Shun Suzuki, Keita Maruno, Akinari Iwahori, Satoshi Takahashi, Kentaro Kamiya, Toshiya Nishibe, Hitoshi Ogino

Infective endocarditis following a valve-in-valve procedure

Igor Vendramin, Giovanni Benedetti, Andrea Lechiancole, Sandro Sponga, Matteo Meneguzzi, Elisabetta Auci, Uberto Bortolotti, Ugolino Livi

Staged hybrid aortic procedure for chronic type B aortic dissection in two patients with Marfan syndrome

Yasuka Nakanishi, Mitsuru Yuzaki, Kentaro Honda, Masahiro Kaneko, Ryosuke Funahashi, Yoshiharu Nishimura

Surgical repair in a patient with Berry syndrome

Makoto Ando, Yuki Ichimori, Shigeru Sakamoto

A case of recurrent constrictive pericarditis induced by pericardial substitution with an expanded polytetrafluoroethylene membrane

Shunsuke Taguchi, Tessho Kitamura, Seiji Matsukuma, Tomohiro Odate, Tsuneo Ariyoshi, Masayoshi Hamawaki, Chieko Otsubo, Hirokazu Kurohama, Yumi Mihara

A case of tacrolimus-induced reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome after heart transplantation

Shusaku Maeda, Shunsuke Saito, Koichi Toda, Shigeru Miyagawa, Yasushi Yoshikawa, Hiroki Hata, Daisuke Yoshioka, Yasumasa Tsukamoto, Yasushi Sakata, Yoshiki Sawa

Infected aortic pseudoaneurysm repair using autologous common femoral artery patch and fascia

Yuki Imamura, Yoshiaki Saito, Norihiro Kondo, Kazuyuki Daitoku, Ikuo Fukuda

Aortic atresia with transposition of the great arteries

Takuma Fukunishi, Kagami Miyaji, Takashi Miyamoto, Nobuyuki Inoue, Tadashi Kitamura

One-stage minimally surgical treatment for myocardial bridge with other cardiac malformations

Shengjie Liao, Xiaohui Li, Xiaoshen Zhang

A case of cardiac strangulation following epicardial pacemaker implantation

Chihiro Miyagi, Yoshie Ochiai, Yusuke Ando, Manabu Hisahara, Hironori Baba, Tomoya Takigawa, Shigehiko Tokunaga

Total arch replacement for the treatment of a giant protruding thrombus in the thoracic aorta derived from an atherosclerotic lesion

Sarii Tsubone, Akira Fujita, Shigeru Ikenaga

First report about a successful ECLS implantation and subsequent helicopter transfer of a super obese patient with a BMI of 78 kg/m2

Jana Balcova, Naveen G. Nagaraj, Marco Maggiorini, Roland Albrecht, Markus J. Wilhelm, Francesco Maisano, Diana Reser

Quadricuspid aortic valve repair by neo-cuspidization of an accessory cusp using autologous pericardium

Yujiro Miura, Takashi Kunihara, Shinji Kawaguchi, Hiroshi Mitsuoka, Masanao Nakai, Masako Waki, Tomoya Onodera, Fumio Yamazaki

Calcified amorphous tumor with caseous calcification of mitral annulus in hemodialysis patients

Shinji Kanemitsu, Saki Bessho, Shunsuke Sakamoto, Naoki Yamamoto, Hisato Ito, Hideto Shimpo

Intraoperative extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal support for minimally invasive surgical treatment of vanishing lung syndrome

Andrea Dell’Amore, Nicola Monaci, Giorgia Boschetto, Alice Bellini, Alessandro Pangoni, Marco Schiavon, Eugenio Serra, Federico Rea

Solitary fibrous tumor of the trachea: a case report

Masahiro Kitada, Shunsuke Yasuda, Masahiro Abe, Nana Yoshida, Satoshi Okazaki, Kei Ishibashi

Emergency surgery for hemothorax due to a ruptured pulmonary arteriovenous malformation

Jun Naito, Takahiro Nakajima, Junichi Morimoto, Takayoshi Yamamoto, Yuichi Sakairi, Hironobu Wada, Hidemi Suzuki, Toshihiko Sugiura, Koichiro Tatsumi, Ichiro Yoshino

A case of bi-focal mediastinal ependymoma

Anil Gokce, Aynur Bas, Merve Satir Turk, Muhammet Sayan, Ali Celik, Nalan Akyurek, I. Cuneyt Kurul

Backtable bronchoplasty for donor tracheal bronchus in lung transplantation

So Miyahara, Masatsugu Hamaji, Akihiro Aoyama, Daisuke Nakajima, Hideki Motoyama, Toyofumi F. Chen-Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Date

Right thoracotomy approach for treatment of left bronchopleural fistula after pneumonectomy for tubercolosis

Angela De Palma, Michele Maruccia, Francesco Di Gennaro

Sub-centimeter adenocarcinoma arising from mature mediastinal teratoma during 11 years of follow-up

Kotaro Murakami, Masatsugu Hamaji, Akihiko Yoshizawa, Hiroshi Date

Conversion surgery for locally advanced malignant pleural mesothelioma

Yukihiro Terada, Mitsuhiro Isaka, Haruyasu Murakami, Takuya Kawata, Hayato Konno, Hideaki Kojima, Tetsuya Mizuno, Yasuhisa Ohde

Successful treatment of combined thymic epithelial tumor with hepatic metastasis: a long disease-free survival case

Hironori Ishibashi, Masahide Hirose, Shinichiro Ohta

Vascular compression of the left bronchus in a patient with funnel chest

Makoto Ando, Yuki Ichimori, Shigeru Sakamoto

Branching anomaly of the pulmonary ventrobasal and laterobasal arteries from the mediastinal lingular pulmonary artery

Yoshihito Iijima, Hiroyasu Kinoshita, Yuki Nakajima, Yasuyuki Kurihara, Hirohiko Akiyama, Tomomi Hirata

Treatment of bronchial fistula after extraplural pneumonectomy using flexible bronchoscopy with the administration of OK432, fibroblast growth factor basic and fibrin glue sealant

Nobuyuki Kondo, Masaki Hashimoto, Teruhisa Takuwa, Seiji Matsumoto, Yoshitomo Okumura, Seiki Hasegawa

Lung transplantation using argatroban in severe heparin-induced thrombocytopenia during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a case series

Sung Kwang Lee, Woo Hyun Cho, Do Hyung Kim, Hye Ju Yeo

Extended pleurectomy decortication for Masaoka stage IVa thymoma with massive pleural and pericardial dissemination

Ryo Miyahara, Seiki Hasegawa, Tomoya Kono, Yusuke Muranishi, Hideaki Miyamato, Nobutake Tanaka

Mesenchymal cystic hamartoma presenting with pneumothorax: case report and review of the literature

M. Leopizzi, B. Cerbelli, E. Merenda, M. G. Pignataro, M. Bassi, F. Venuta, G. d’Amati, C. Della Rocca, A. Pernazza

Accessory diaphragm associated with pulmonary metastasis from cervical cancer

Yoshihito Iijima, Hiroyasu Kinoshita, Yuki Nakajima, Yasuyuki Kurihara, Hirohiko Akiyama, Tomomi Hirata

A case of thoracic endometriosis-related pneumothorax in a menopausal woman

Shungo Yukumi, Hideaki Suzuki, Masamitsu Morimoto, Hisayuki Shigematsu, Ryujiro Sugimoto, Nobuhiko Sakao, Masahiro Abe, Akira Watanabe, Sohei Kitazawa, Yoshifumi Sano

A case of long-term unchanged calcifying fibrous tumor

Naoki Miyamoto, Mitsuteru Yoshida, Mitsuhiro Tsuboi, Kenji Ootsuka, Yoshimi Bando, Takumi Kakimoto, Naoya Kawakita, Hiromitsu Takizawa, Kazuya Kondo, Akira Tangoku

Enhanced airway stenting using a preoperative, three-dimensionally printed airway model simulation

Go Hatachi, Keitaro Matsumoto, Takuro Miyazaki, Tomoshi Tsuchiya, Daisuke Taniguchi, Ryoichiro Doi, Hironosuke Watanabe, Takaaki Nakatsukasa, Naoto Matsuo, Takeshi Nagayasu

Upper thoracoabdominal aortic repair through partial posterior incision of the diaphragm via left thoracotomy

Hideki Ito, Masato Mutsuga, Yoshiyuki Tokuda, Akihiko Usui

Fascia lata: for the repairment of post-intubation tracheoesophageal fistula

Eda Tuna Yalcinozan, Remzi Tinazli, Kadir Cagdas Kazikdas, Ferhat Erisir

Surgical treatment strategies for refractory unresectable pulmonary fistula

Makoto Tomoyasu, Hiroyuki Deguchi, Satoshi Kudo, Wataru Shigeeda, Yuka Kaneko, Hajime Saito

Establishment of a risk model for acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery

Fu-Kun Liu, Fu-Shan Xue, Shao-Hua Liu

A promising treatment of tracheal stenosis in critically ill patients

Maria Vargas, Annachiara Marra, Pasquale Buonano, Carmine Iacovazzo, Giuseppe Servillo

Acknowledgment to reviewers