General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Pulmonary carcinoid (PC) is a rare well differentiated lung neuroendocrine tumor (NET), which accounts for only 1–2% of all pulmonary neoplasms [ 1 , 2 ]. PC is divided into low-grade typical carcinoid (TC) and intermediate-grade atypical carcinoid …

Pulmonary Metastasectomy (PM) is a widely utilised but currently debated surgical practice that aims to improve survival in oligometastatic cancer patients. The lung represents a frequent site for solid-organ metastasis, and 20–40% of all sarcoma …

Bioprosthetic valves are increasingly favored over mechanical valves for surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) with an aging population in the era of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) [ 1 ]. Although previous single-arm observational …

The one-and-a-half ventricle repair (1.5VR), i.e., intracardiac repair with an adjunction of bidirectional cavopulmonary shunt (BCPS) was proposed in 1989 for pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum [ 1 ]. The 1.5VR can be used for complex …

Recently, the long-term prognosis of transposition of the great arteries (TGA) after an arterial switch operation (ASO) has rapidly improved; however, the long-term complications have become a problem, and it is necessary to devise surgical …