Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide, and surgery for lung cancer is widely performed with curative intent. Cerebral infarction can occur after surgery for lung cancer. According to a recent survey reported from Japan in …
Effective hemostasis is key to the success of aortic surgery. Numerous surgical sealants had been developed for controlling bleeding [ 1 – 4 ]. However, currently available sealants have several limitations, such as risk of contamination with …
Intraoperative hemodialysis (IHD) during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is thought to improve the clinical outcomes of patients with end-stage renal dysfunction who undergo open-heart surgery [ 1 – 7 ]. However, IHD is not commonly used in the …
Anterior type of chest wall injury involved multiple uni- or bilateral rib fractures that cause serious instability of the chest wall and are sometimes present in combination with pulmonary contusion. Ventilatory management is required in such …
Blood flow disturbance of veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO) can be a risk factor of weaning failure. We report an alternative position of cannulae of VV-ECMO which can maintain blood flow. The recirculation rate could be …
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Ui Won Ko, Chang Hyu Choi, Chul-Hyun Park, Seok In Lee
Cardiac surgery is associated with a high incidence of periprocedural blood loss and associated transfusion. Multiple factors are involved, including the invasiveness of surgical technique, need for high dose anticoagulation, and the use of …
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Kei Woldendorp, Lucy Manuel, Arpit Srivastava, Matthew Doane, Levi Bassin, David Marshman
Persistent air leak is the most common complication caused by alveolar-pleural fistulas during lung resection [ 1 – 4 ]. Persistent air leak is associated with prolonged chest tube duration and length of hospital stay; adverse events, such as …
The use of del Nido cardioplegia (DNC) as the cardioplegic solution of choice is well accepted in the pediatric cardiac surgery field [ 1 ]. However, very few clinical studies have been conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety in adult …
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Chikashi Nakai, Cheng Zhang, Hiroto Kitahara, Christian Shults, Ron Waksman, Ezequiel. J. .Molina
Middle lobectomy after upper or lower lobectomy is occasionally encountered in routine clinical practice; however, the indications and approaches differ according to the initial operation.
Treatment for postoperative recurrence of resected non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) depends on its location (locoregional or distant) and number (single or multiple) [ 1 ]. Although selected patients with oligometastases may be successfully …
Surgical ventricular restoration (SVR) has been developed for patients with end-stage heart failure which is refractory to guideline-directed heart failure therapy in Japan, the United States of America, and Europe, owing to a shortage of donors [ …
Primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) is a common condition. The universally accepted indications for surgical treatment of PSP are prolonged air leak (PAL) and ipsilateral recurrence of pneumothorax [ 1 – 3 ]. Many studies have been published …
Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB) was introduced in the 1990s to reduce the invasiveness of extracorporeal circulation and make coronary artery bypass grafting less invasive. OPCAB does not lead to elevated inflammatory marker …
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) remains a prevalent gastrointestinal malignancy [ 3 ]. Since there is a lack of specific symptoms and early diagnosis methods, ESCC patients are usually diagnosed as late with lymphatic metastasis. Even if …
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Tongchen Hu, Huali Peng, Fan Yang, Fan Zhang, Jintao He
The bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) pathology is commonly associated with aneurysms of the ascending aorta or aortic root, with a reported prevalence of 20–40% [ 1 ]. Moreover, evidence has suggested that patients with bicuspid aortic valves May have …
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Christian Pearsall, Philip M. Allen, Yanling Zhao, Ilya Kim, Casidhe Bethancourt, Diane Hu, Paul A. Kurlansky, Isaac George, Craig R. Smith, Hiroo Takayama
The mainstay of treatment for lung cancer, which is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide [ 1 ], is surgery. According to the Annual Report by the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery, the hospital mortality rate after 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 …
