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 …
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 …
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 …
Properly valuing medical operations and appropriately allocating resources is a critical issue for payment and measuring productivity. One of the key elements in surgical care evaluation is the time required to perform the service, or surgery …
An increasing number of adult patients experience pulmonary regurgitation (PR) after tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) repair, and the resultant chronic volume overload can lead to right ventricular (RV) dilation, biventricular dysfunction …
Although the large, randomized trials have not proven the clinical efficacy of off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) [ 1 ], several studies have shown the superiority of OPCAB over on-pump coronary artery bypass (ONCAB), in specially for …
Takayasu arteritis (TAK) is a type of chronic inflammatory vasculitis involving large vessels. It is mainly treated with steroids and immunosuppressants, but surgical interventions are often needed for occlusion or aneurysmal dilatation of the …
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So Hye Nam, Jino Park, Seokchan Hong, Yong-Gil Kim, Bin Yoo, Chang-Keun Lee, Dae-Hee Kim
The problem of donor organ shortage persists in lung transplantation (LTx). In an attempt to resolve this problem, LTx from donation after cardiac death (DCD) began to be performed in addition to LTx from donation after brain death (DBD) [ 1 , 2 ] …
A significant amount of literature has been published regarding robotic cardiac surgery since its inception [ 1 – 8 ]. The majority of these studies have focused on the feasibility of the robotic approach and the outcome of the procedures. Several …
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Mackenzie McCrorey, Hiroto Kitahara, Dorothy Krienbring, Brooke Patel, Sarah Nisivaco, Husam H. Balkhy
