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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Ausgabe 1/2023

Inhalt (359 Artikel)

Cavernous mediastinal hemangioma presenting with persistent cough: a rare case report and review of literature

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Parviz Mardani, Hooman Kamran, Bita Geramizadeh, Mohammad Hassan Darabi, Masoud Najafi, Armin Amirian, Reza Shahriarirad

Intralobar pulmonary sequestration in an adult: a case report

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Prasanth Sadasivan Nair, Christopher Merry, Alexander White

Low preoperative serum fibrinogen level is associated with postoperative acute kidney injury in patients with in acute aortic dissection

  • Open Access
  • Research

Xin-Liang Guan, Lei Li, Wen-Jian Jiang, Ming Gong, Hai-Yang Li, Yu-Yong Liu, Xiao-Long Wang, Hong-Jia Zhang

Surgeon-modified fenestrated endograft for urgent an aortic arch aneurysm: case report

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Vito Gallicchio, Danilo Barbarisi, Flavia Condò, Rosaria Sciarrillo, Loris Flora

Case of left ventricular thrombus managed with thrombectomy with left ventricular reconstruction in a patient who had coronavirus disease 2019 infection

Kenji Suzuki, Shun-Ichiro Sakamoto, Atsushi Hiromoto, Yusuke Motoji, Ryosuke Amitani, Takako Yamaguchi, Yosuke Ishii

Safety and efficacy of two-port thoracoscopic aortic valve replacement

  • Open Access
  • Research

Tong Tan, Peijian Wei, Yanjun Liu, Huanlei Huang, Jian Zhuang, Jimei Chen, Jian Liu, Huiming Guo

The association between preoperative anemia, blood transfusion need, and postoperative complications in adult cardiac surgery, a single center contemporary experience

  • Open Access
  • Research

Hani Mufti, Faisal Alsharm, Mohanad Bahawi, Mohammed Almazmumi, Yazeed Alshaikh, Amir Abushouk, Abdullah Algarni, Sahal Jamalallail, Mohammed Almohammadi

The three steps method for uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic right upper lobectomy

  • Open Access
  • Research

Caiyang Liu, Ran Ran, Lei Luo, Xiaoliang Li, Gaohua Liu, Hong Shao, Ji Li

The effect of polyglycolic acid sheet in preventing postoperative recurrent pneumothorax: a prospective cohort study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Takafumi Kabuto, Mitsugu Omasa, Shunichi Nagata, Kosuke Tokushige, Taishi Adachi, Takao Nakanishi, Hideki Motoyama

Morbid obesity impacts mortality among inpatients with type a aortic dissection: an analysis of the national inpatient sample

  • Open Access
  • Research

Xiao Xu, Renqi Yin, Kangkang Zhi, Yingyi Qin, Boxiang Tu, Shengyong Wu, Ziwei Dong, Dongxu Liu, Jia He

Postoperative health-related quality of life in children with congenital heart disease: a short-term follow-up study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Wang-Sheng Dai, Wen-Hao Lin, Shi-Hao Lin, Qiang Chen, Hua Cao

Proteomics investigation of human sera for determination of postoperative indicators of pulmonary cystic echinococcosis

  • Open Access
  • Research

Fatemeh Sadat Sadjjadi, Homa Hajjaran, Bahareh Sedaghat, Parviz Mardani, Seyed Mahmoud Sadjjadi

Delayed endovascular repair for traumatic aortic pseudoaneurysms: experience from an Asian single center

  • Open Access
  • Research

Yuzhou Liu, Lin Sun, Qing Wang, Bin Xiang, Huangxing Cai, Yong Xie, Muzi Li, Hua Xiang

Analysis of influencing factors of perioperative myasthenic crisis in 387 myasthenia gravis patients without thymoma in a single center

  • Open Access
  • Research

Peng Jiao, Fanjuan Wu, Yuxing Liu, Jiangyu Wu, Yaoguang Sun, Wenxin Tian, Hanbo Yu, Chuan Huang, Donghang Li, Qingjun Wu, Chao Ma, Hongfeng Tong

Detrimental consequences after intimal disruption of subclavian artery during transcathether aortic valve implantation

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Oliver T. Reuthebuch, Ion Vasiloi, Thomas Nestelberger, Thomas Wolff, Friedrich S. Eckstein

Recurrent endobronchial occlusion and aorto-bronchial fistula formation in Behcet’s disease

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Niloy Rahman, Eshan Senanayake, Jorge Mascaro, Deva Situnayake, Ehab S. Bishay, Akshay J. Patel

The relationship between quality of life and health promotion behavior in patients with type B aortic dissection: a cross-sectional study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Jianxin Tu, Fei Wang, Furong Yin, Linxue Zhang, Benli Zhao, Jiamei Zhou

Intra thoracic extra pulmonary hydatidosis: prognosis and outcomes of 8 operated patients

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

A. Machboua, F. Z. Elhani, R. Marouf

Chylothorax and chylopericardial tamponade following lobectomy and lymphadenectomy: a rare presentation

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Guofei Zhang, Tianshu Liu, Chengxiao Liang

Tracheal injury from dog bite in a child

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Michiyo Miyawaki, Kazuya Ogawa, Kosuke Kamada, Takashi Karashima, Miyuki Abe, Yohei Takumi, Takafumi Hashimoto, Atsushi Osoegawa, Kenji Sugio

Five-year follow-up of mitral valve repair versus replacement: a propensity score analysis

  • Open Access
  • Research

Majd Makarious Laham, Jerry Easo, Marcin Szczechowicz, Mehdy Roosta-Azad, Alexander Weymann, Arjang Ruhparwar, Markus Kamler

Single-port thoracoscopic removal of an azygos vein aneurysm: a case report and literature review

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Yi Yao, Qiuxia Hu, Xiaoyang Xie, Caiyang Liu, Yu Lei, Xiaoliang Li, Yi Wang, Gaohua Liu, Yanhui Yang, Lei Luo, Ji Li

Intracardiac paraganglioma with a cough as the first symptom

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Cao Jingyi, Xue Qing, Yang Fan, Yang Qinqin, Cai Chengliang, Lu Fanglin

Gender-related differences on outcome following transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVR): a systematic review and meta-analysis

  • Open Access
  • Review

Kang Yi, Jie Gao, Wen-Xin Wang, Yu-Hu Ma, Wei Wang, Shao E. He, Xiao-Min Xu, Peng-Fei Li, Tao You

Study of the accuracy of a radial arterial pressure waveform cardiac output measurement device after cardiac surgery

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Pilar Ordoñez-Rufat, Nuria Mancho-Fora, Cristian Tebe-Cordomi, Victoria Polit-Martinez, Ricardo Abellan-Lencina, Joaquin Fernandez-Alvarez, Juan Carlos Lopez-Delgado

Effective treatment of severe stenosis of the carotid and coronary arteries: a case study

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Kayo Sugiyama, Fuminori Ato, Hirotaka Watanuki, Masato Tochii, Shigeru Miyachi, Katsuhiko Matsuyama

Early and mid-term outcomes after aortic valve intervention in patients with previous stentless or stented bioprostheses

  • Open Access
  • Research

Naoto Fukunaga, Ali Al-Sarraf, Khalil Jawad, Myriam Lafreniere-Roula, Vivek Rao

A rare coexistence: Poland’s syndrome and cardiac angiosarcoma

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Fatih Kizilyel, Rafet Gunay, Mehmet Rum, Mehmet Yilmaz, Bulend Ketenci

The pressure field as a methodology for fluid management and red cell preservation during cardiac surgery

  • Open Access
  • Research

Stephen F. Woodford, Mark Butlin, Bai Wei, Wei Chao, Alberto Avolio

Surgical and perioperative management of flail chest with titanium plates: a French cohort series from a thoracic referral center

  • Open Access
  • Research

Sarah Féray, Clarisse Blayau, Hicham Masmoudi, Samuel Haddad, Christophe Quesnel, Jalal Assouad, Muriel Fartoukh

27 years of experience with the Fontan procedure: characteristics and clinical outcomes of children in a tertiary referral hospital

  • Open Access
  • Review

Ahmet Bülent Polat, Murat Ertürk, Ozan Uzunhan, Nur Karademir, Kazım Öztarhan

Human cytomegalovirus-encoded microRNAs expression profile in plasma of patients with aortic dissection

  • Open Access
  • Research

Yongqing Cheng, Yufan Du, Qi Wang, Qinghe Lv, Yunxin Xue, Weihong Zhou, Chenyu Zhang, Xi Chen, Dongjin Wang

Echocardiographic imaging of a bifurcated double barrel coronary sinus

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Kendra L. Walsh, Andrew Winegarner, Geoffrey L. Hayward

The poorly understood yet potent risk of pulmonary artery thrombosis in-situ in Post-Acute COVID-19 syndrome

Alvin Oliver Payus, Constance Liew Sat Lin, Azliza Ibrahim

Impact of smoking on the outcomes of minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass

  • Open Access
  • Research

Youssef Shahin, Ján Gofus, Jan Harrer, Zdeněk Šorm, Martin Voborník, Eva Čermáková, Petr Smolák, Jan Vojáček

Intermediate outcomes following arch reconstruction with frozen elephant trunk, a single centre study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Therese Schagerholm Dahl, Rickard P. F. Lindblom

Correction: The impact of a postoperative multimodal analgesia pathway on opioid use and outcomes after cardiothoracic surgery

  • Open Access
  • Correction

Ceressa T. Ward, Vanessa Moll, David W. Boorman, Lijo Ooroth, Robert F. Groff, Trent D. Gillingham, Laura Pyronneau, Amit Prabhakar

A distractions capture tool for cardiac surgery and lung transplantation: impact on outcomes

  • Open Access
  • Research

James Arkley, Lay Ping Ong, Niranjan Gunaratnam, Tanveer Butt, Stephen Charles Clark

Intraoperative visualization of a deformed left main stent during surgical aortic valve replacement

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Philipp P. Müller, Christian Heim, Michael Weyand, Frank Harig

Comparison effects of two muscle relaxant strategies on postoperative pulmonary complications in transapical transcatheter aortic valve implantation: a propensity score-matched analysis

  • Open Access
  • Research

Hong Yu, Yiding Zuo, Zhao Xu, Dailiang Zhao, Jianming Yue, Lulu Liu, Yingqiang Guo, Jiapeng Huang, Xiaoqian Deng, Peng Liang

Mid-term outcomes of an alternative remodelling technique for aortic root replacement without coronary ostial mobilisation or reimplantation

  • Open Access
  • Research Article

Leonidas Hadjinikolaou, Metesh Acharya, Carmelo Dominici, Fausto Biancari, Furqan Raheel, Aamer Ahmed, Giovanni Mariscalco

Clinicopathologic characteristics of thymic clear cell carcinoma: a case report with literature review

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Zuxuan Zhao, Qingpeng Zeng, Jiangtao Li, Shan Zheng

Comparison of in-hospital outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft surgery in elders and younger patients: a multicenter retrospective study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Ren-Jian-Zhi Zhang, Xin-Yi Yu, Jing Wang, Jian Lv, Ming-Huan Yu, Li Wang, Zhi-Gang Liu

MitraClip as a therapeutic strategy for post-myocardial infarction mitral regurgitation

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Anwu Huang, Ying Chen, Yiwei Huang, Xiaojun Ji, Wenbing Jiang

Modified cardiopulmonary bypass with low priming volume for blood conservation in cardiac valve replacement surgery

  • Open Access
  • Research

Ke Yang, Honghao Huang, Ruiwu Dai, Jinbao Zhang, Xiaohong Wei, Feng Gao, Xiaochen Wu, Fan Wu, Siyi He, Mei Xin

Treatments and whole exon sequencing of a case with multiple primary lung cancer

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Guangyu Bai, Yuan Li, Ying Ji, Yue Peng, Zhenlin Yang, Liang Zhao

Pericardial tamponade, a diagnostic chameleon: from the historical perspectives to contemporary management

  • Open Access
  • Review

Ann-Sophie Kaemmerer, Khaleel Alkhalaileh, Mathieu N. Suleiman, Markus Kopp, Christine Hauer, Matthias S. May, Michael Uder, Michael Weyand, Frank Harig

Complete uni-port video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for surgical stabilization of rib fractures: a case report

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Zhen Yang, Ming Wen, Weiqing Kong, Xu Li, Zhuan Liu, Xin Liu

S100B predicts neurological injury and 30-day mortality following surgery for acute type A aortic dissection: an observational cohort study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Karl Teurneau-Hermansson, Jacob Ede, Mårten Larsson, Marion Moseby-Knappe, Henrik Bjursten, Shahab Nozohoor, Johan Sjögren, Igor Zindovic

Infective endocarditis of quadricuspid aortic valve

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Ariana M. Goodman, Hossein Amirjamshidi, Daniel R. Ziazadeh, Andrew S. Jones, Kazuhiro Hisamoto

Impact of hybrid procedure on pulmonary arterial dimensions and right ventricular load after biventricular repair

  • Open Access
  • Research

Sebastian Uhl, Philippe Grieshaber, Raoul Arnold, Tsvetomir Loukanov, Matthias Gorenflo

Preoperative pericardial hematoma in patients with acute type A aortic dissection (AAAD): Do we need an adjusted treatment?

  • Open Access
  • Research

Tim Kaufeld, Erik Beckmann, Linda Rudolph, Heike Krüger, Ruslan Natanov, Morsi Arar, Wilhelm Korte, Tobias Schilling, Axel Haverich, Andreas Martens, Malakh Shrestha

Resection of a schwannoma originating from vagus nerve in the right superior mediastinum

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Ming Zhang, Hao Shi, Xiabin Tu, Weidong Li, Zhengliang Wei

Prevalence and clustering of cardiovascular risk factors among resident of coastal areas in Qinzhou, Guangxi, China

  • Open Access
  • Research

Fang He, Zhennan Liao, Yu-Mei Li, Yuanling Luo, Lili Wu, Liping Lin, Ying Chen, Weihong Deng, Junzhang Huang

Managing blunt cardiac injury

  • Open Access
  • Review

Lawrence Nair, Brendan Winkle, Eshan Senanayake

Combining aortic arch dissection stent implantation and root surgery for aortic dissection type A

  • Open Access
  • Research

Moritz Benjamin Immohr, Arash Mehdiani, Sebastian Johannes Bauer, Hayato Ise, Yukiharu Sugimura, Artur Lichtenberg, Payam Akhyari

A 9-year analysis of medical malpractice litigations in coronary artery bypass grafting in China

  • Open Access
  • Research

Jie Chen, Tianyi Zhang, Dan Feng, Yuehui Liu, Tao Zhang, Jingtong Wang, Lihua Liu

Surgical treatment of thoracic aortic pseudoaneurysm caused by Brucella melitensis

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Hong-Wei Guo, Yang-Xue Sun, Jing Sun, Xiang-Yang Qian

Left atrial dissection after a supra-annular mitral valve replacement for endocarditis

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Valentin de Villiers de la Noue, Guillaume Théry, Laurent Faroux, Nasreddine Belkessa, Sylvain Rubin, Bruno Mourvillier, Antoine Goury

Tricuspid repair in mitral regurgitation surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  • Open Access
  • Research

João Lopes Cardoso, Gonçalo Nuno Ferraz Costa, Fátima Neves, Lino Gonçalves, Rogério Teixeira

Postoperative clinical outcomes of patients with thymic epithelial tumors after over-3-year follow-up at a single-center

  • Open Access
  • Research

Peng Jiao, Wen-Xin Tian, Fan-Juan Wu, Yu-Xing Liu, Jiang-Yu Wu, Yao-Guang Sun, Han-Bo Yu, Chuan Huang, Qing-Jun Wu, Chao Ma, Dong-Hang Li, Hong-Feng Tong, Jun Li

Tracheobronchial tooth and dental prosthesis aspirations: 15 cases

  • Open Access
  • Research

Aykut Eliçora, Hüseyin Fatih Sezer, Salih Topçu, Tülay Çardaközü

Surgical considerations in the resection of solitary fibrous tumors of the pleura

  • Open Access
  • Review

Hana Ajouz, Amir Humza Sohail, Hassan Hashmi, Myriam Martinez Aguilar, Sabrina Daoui, Miltiadis Tembelis, Muhammad Aziz, Tirajeh Zohourian, Collin E. M. Brathwaite, Robert J. Cerfolio

Successful treatment of acute myocardial injury of Duchenne muscular dystrophy with steroids: a case report

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Merve Oğuz, Dolunay Gürses, Furkan Ufuk, Münevver Yılmaz, Olcay Güngör

Repair of anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) by sinus pouch technique

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Masaru Kumae, Mitsuru Aoki, Ikuo Hagino, Hiroshi Koshiyama, Takahiro Ito, Hironobu Nishiori

Left ventricular assist device exchange from HeartMate II to HeartMate 3 in an Asian patient—a case report and literature review

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Hsiao-Huang Chang, Tzu-Ting Kuo, Po-Lin Chen, Chia-Cheng Kuo, Ching-Yuan Kuo, Nai-Yuan Wu

A mobilization poster stimulates early in-hospital rehabilitation after cardiac surgery: a prospective sequential-group study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Frank R. Halfwerk, Nicole Wielens, Stephanie Hulskotte, Marjolein Brusse-Keizer, Jan G. Grandjean

Near-infrared fluorescence-assisted thoracoscopic diverticulectomy of esophageal diverticulum: a case report

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Hao Xu, Tian Guan, Rongrong Fan, Fan Yang, Yun Li, Jian Zhou

Correction: Preoperative pericardial hematoma in patients with acute type A aortic dissection (AAAD): Do we need an adjusted treatment?

  • Open Access
  • Correction

Tim Kaufeld, Erik Beckmann, Linda Rudolph, Heike Krüger, Ruslan Natanov, Morsi Arar, Wilhelm Korte, Tobias Schilling, Axel Haverich, Andreas Martens, Malakh Shrestha

Low-dose versus standard-dose computed tomography-guided biopsy for pulmonary nodules: a randomized controlled trial

  • Open Access
  • Research

Er-Liang Li, Ai-Li Ma, Tao Wang, Yu-Fei Fu, Han-Yang Liu, Guang-Chao Li

Temporary tracheotomy for post-intubation laryngeal edema after lung cancer surgery: a case report

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Yoshihito Iijima, Yuki Takaoka, Nozomu Motono, Hidetaka Uramoto

Case report: Aortic valve endocarditis and recurrent pulmonary valve stenosis

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Edina Korça, Gábor Veres, Gábor Szabó

Minimally invasive versus open esophagectomy after neoadjuvant therapy for esophageal cancer: a meta-analysis

  • Open Access
  • Research

Zixian Jin, Kanghao Zhu, Jiajing Sun, Jian Zhang, Bo Zhang

Protective role of FBXL19 in Streptococcus pneumoniae-induced lung injury in pneumonia immature mice

  • Open Access
  • Research

Zhiqiang Chen, Bijuan Zheng, Zhiwei Zhang, Zhiyong Huang

Emergent hybrid surgical approaches for non-dissecting ruptured Kommerell's aneurysm: a case report series

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Alejandro Velandia-Sánchez, Sebastián Gómez-Galán, Sebastian Gallo-Bernal, Camilo A. Polania-Sandoval, Ivonne G. Pineda-Rodríguez, Paula Florez-Amaya, Lina M. Sanabria-Arévalo, Julián Senosiain-González, Juan G. Barrera-Carvajal, Juan P. Umana, Jaime Camacho-Mackenzie

Long-term ECMO, efficiency and performance of EUROSETS adult A.L.ONE ECMO oxygenator

  • Open Access
  • Research

Ignazio Condello, Roberto Lorusso, Giuseppe Nasso, Giuseppe Speziale

Multidisciplinary paper on patient blood management in cardiothoracic surgery in the UK: perspectives on practice during COVID-19

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  • Review

Nawwar Al-Attar, Jullien Gaer, Vincenzo Giordano, Emma Harris, Alan Kirk, Mahmoud Loubani, Patrick Meybohm, Rana Sayeed, Ulrich Stock, Jennifer Travers, Becky Whiteman

Minithoracotomy versus sternotomy in mitral valve surgery: meta-analysis from recent matched and randomized studies

  • Open Access
  • Review

Adel Al Shamry, Margaux Jegaden, Salah Ashafy, Armand Eker, Olivier Jegaden

The lost balloon at midnight: a case report reveals the inevitability of heart team existence

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Mohamed Elbayomi, Michael Weyand, Ehab Nooh, Frank Harig

Managing postoperative atrial fibrillation after open-heart surgery using transdermal β1 blockers

  • Open Access
  • Research

Kenji Yamamoto, Senri Miwa, Tomoyuki Yamada, Shuji Setozaki, Mamoru Hamuro, Shunji Kurokawa, Sakae Enomoto

Pleural abrasion versus apical pleurectomy for primary spontaneous pneumothorax: a systematic review and Meta-analysis

  • Open Access
  • Review

Jaewon Chang, Vignesh Ratnaraj, Vincent Fu, Michael Jiang, Varun Peri, Minhtuan Nguyenhuy, Phillip Antippa

Cardiac endothelial sarcoma with hypereosinophilia of children: a case report

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Wei Zhang, Mengyuan He, Qiang Wang

The 100 most cited papers on thymoma: a bibliometric analysis

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  • Research

Lei Liu, Jiaqi Zhang, Guige Wang, Ke Zhao, Chao Guo, Cheng Huang, Shanqing Li, Yeye Chen

Seasonal and daily variations in the occurence and outcomes of acute Stanford type A dissections: a retrospective single-center study

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  • Research

Qinmei Lin, Qingsong Wu, Xiaodong Chen, Xingfeng Chen, Linfeng Xie, Liangwan Chen

The MANTRA study: a new umbrella concept prospectively applied to assess implantable medical devices for heart valve procedures

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Bart Meuris, Serdar Günaydın, Patrizio Lancellotti, Luigi Badano, Gabriel Aldea, Rita Herrenknecht, Elisa Cerutti, Sara Gaggianesi, Silvia Dipinto, Paola Morando, Jörg Kempfert

Grading criteria for venous invasion in thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

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An Wang, Xiaojia Liu, Lu Lu, Shaohua Wang, Xiaofeng Chen

Fibrinogen is an independent preoperative predictor of hospital length of stay among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting

  • Open Access
  • Research

Chunsheng Huang, Wenyuan Zhang, Xiaofei Chen, Xia Xu, Jun Qiu, Zhihao Pan

Risk factors for postoperative acute kidney injury in overweight patients with acute type A aortic dissection

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Yu Xu, Shang-Tai Dai, Lin-Zhuo Liu, De-Mei Kong, Shi-Kui Guo, Kun-Mei Gong

The effects of differing anticoagulant regimes on blood quality after cell salvage in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG): a pilot study

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Willem Boer, Mathias van Tornout, Maarten Brusseleers, Maarten Strauven, Pieter de Vooght, Margot Vander Laenen, Eric Hoste, Philippe G. Jorens

Figure of eight suture technique in aortic valve replacement decreases prosthesis-patient mismatch

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Nabeel F. Rasheed, Corinne Stonebraker, Zhaozhi Li, Umar Siddiqi, Andy C. H. Lee, Willa Li, Sydney Lupo, Jennifer Cruz, William G. Cohen, Cathy Staub, Daniel Rodgers, Mark Myren, Pamela Combs, Valluvan Jeevanandam, Narutoshi Hibino

Post-pneumonectomy syndrome: a systematic review of the current evidence and treatment options

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  • Review

Natasha Christodoulides, Gerard J. Fitzmaurice, Irmina Bukowska, Eoin O’Rhaillaigh, Conor Toale, Michael Griffin, Karen C. Redmond

Tension pyopneumothorax caused by Parvimonas micra: a case report

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Yoshihito Iijima, Shun Iwai, Nozomu Motono, Hidetaka Uramoto

Autologous myocutaneous flap implantation for chronic refractory chest wall sinus with infection: a case report

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Lei Wang, Zhijun Liu, Zhongliang He, Chun Zhang

Unique case of pelvic congestion syndrome caused by a new communication branch of the portal-vena cava system

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Wei Zheng, Chun Sun, Jinming Yang, Yingfeng Wu

One-stage VATS surgery for synchronous bilateral lung lesion: a safe and feasible procedure

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Zhe Wang, Xue Zhang, Xusheng Sun, Junfeng Liu

Perceval valve intermediate outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis at 5-year follow-up

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  • Review

Jarrod Jolliffe, Simon Moten, Amit Tripathy, Peter Skillington, James Tatoulis, Claudio Muneretto, Lorenzo Di Bacco, Hericka Bruna Figueiredo Galvao, John Goldblatt

Efficacy of endovascular repair in the treatment of retrograde ascending aortic intramural haematoma

  • Open Access
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Bailang Chen, Rui Zhang, Haibing Liu, Yao Chen, Zanxin Wang, Minxin Wei

World’s first en bloc heart-lung transplantation using the paragonix lungguard donor preservation system

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Daniel Neto, Brandon Guenthart, Yasuhiro Shudo, Maria E. Currie

Risk factors for postoperative cerebral infarction in Lung Cancer patients: a retrospective study

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Natsumi Maru, Haruaki Hino, Takahiro Utsumi, Hiroshi Matsui, Yohei Taniguchi, Tomohito Saito, Tomohiro Murakawa

Stabilization of after-traumatic flail chest by minimally invasive modified NUSS procedure in patient with starting respiratory insufficiency

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Robert Chudzik, Krzysztof Buczyński, Paweł Rybojad, Marek Sawicki

Oxygenated right ventricular assist device as part of veno-venopulmonary extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to support the right ventricle and pulmonary vasculature

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Asad Ali Usman, Marisa Cevasco, Marc O. Maybauer, Audrey Elizabeth Spelde, Salim Olia, Christian Bermudez, Michael Ibrahim, Wilson Szeto, William J. Vernick, Jacob T. Gutsche

Intravenous enoxaparin as alternative ECMO anticoagulation over a period of 94 days: a case report

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Miroslav Durila, Jan Berousek, Vlasta Vlasakova, Tomas Vymazal

Benefits of sacubitril/valsartan use in patients with chronic heart failure after cardiac valve surgery: a single-center retrospective study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Jian Zheng, Qingsong Wu, Qianzhen Li, Mirong Tang, Jian He, Zhihuang Qiu, Linfeng Xie, Liangwan Chen

Prediction of new onset postoperative atrial fibrillation using a simple Nomogram

  • Open Access
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Siming Zhu, Hebin Che, Yunlong Fan, Shengli Jiang

Early and mid-term outcomes of off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass surgery in patients with triple-vessel coronary artery disease: a randomized controlled trial

  • Open Access
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Seyed Mohammad Forouzannia, Seyed Khalil Forouzannia, Pourya Yarahmadi, Mohammad Alirezaei, Akbar Shafiee, Negin Yazdian Anari, Farzad Masoudkabir, Zahra Dehghani, Mina Pashang

Anatomical and biometric study of the mitral valve apparatus: application in valve repair surgery

  • Open Access
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Misbaou Barry, Mesut Gun, Yuthiline Hun-Chabry, Majid Harmouche, Johann Peltier, Thierry Caus, Eric Havet

Transesophageal echocardiography-guided percutaneous patent ductus arteriosus closure without fluoroscopy

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Gang Wang, Yuhao Wu, Zhengxia Pan, Chun Wu, Yonggang Li, Hongbo Li, Quan Wang, Bo Liu, Jiangtao Dai

Choledochoscope-guided treatment of pulmonary embolism caused by ventricular myxoma

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Yong Mao, Cuiting Wang, Yalin Wei, Yongnan Li, Xiangyang Wu

Ruptured mycotic aneurysm of intercostal arteries associated with vertebral osteomyelitis: a case report

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Masatsugu Tsukamoto, Tadatsugu Morimoto, Tomohito Yoshihara, Masaaki Mawatari

A modified primary culture method of rat pulmonary vein smooth muscle cells

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Wenhui Huang, Hongjin Liu, Yichao Pan, Xueying Wang, Hongwei Yang, Danjie Wang, Jing Lin, Hui Zhang

Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries and implantation of a leadless pacemaker: a case report

  • Open Access
  • Case Report

Qiao-yuan Li, Wen-long Dai, can-can Lin, Xu Liu, Cheng-jun Guo, Dong Jian-zeng

Retrospective study assessing outcomes in cardiac surgery after implementation of Quantra

  • Open Access
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Pierre Tibi, Jess Thompson, Saina Attaran, Elizabeth Black

Complete thoracoscopic S9 and/or S10 segmentectomy through a pulmonary ligament approach: a retrospective study

  • Open Access
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Shota Mitsuboshi, Takako Matsumoto, Motoka Omata, Hiroaki Shidei, Akira Ogihara, Akihiro Koen, Hiroe Aoshima, Tamami Isaka, Masato Kanzaki

Mitral valve repair with the use of the “Memo 3D ReChord” ring

  • Open Access
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Nikolaos G. Baikoussis, Nikolaos Koumallos, Κonstantina Aggeli

Effect of preoperative pulmonary artery pressure on the prognosis of end-stage heart failure patients after heart transplantation

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Wei Zhou, Zhen Du, Yun Tao, Guan-xin Zhang, Zhi-yun Xu, Lin Han, Shao-lin Ma, Dao-xi Hu, Xing-li Fan, Bai-ling Li

Mid term freedom from atrial fibrillation following hybrid ablation, a systematic review and meta analysis

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Aditya Eranki, Ashley Wilson-Smith, Campbell Flynn, Michael Williams, Con Manganas

Huge left atrial myxoma: about 2 cases resected in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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Alphonse Ndonga N’sungu Nzomvuama, Cédric Nyombo Mutuale, Roger Minga Kongo, Irène Nsolani Mbanzulu, Joseph Makunza Nsiala

Short and mid-term effects of modified release technique in rheumatic mitral valve repair

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Hoshun Chong, Yaxuan Gao, Yunxing Xue, Xiyu Zhu, Jie Li, Junxia Wang, He Zhang, Dongjin Wang, Hailong Cao

Hyepereosiniphilic syndrome and COVID-19: 2 case reports

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Alborz Sherafati, Mehrzad Rahmanian, Roya Sattarzadeh Badkoubeh, Meysam Khoshavi, Morteza Foroumandi, Soheil Peiman, Farhad Shahi, Akram Sardari, Roghayeh Pourkia, Farnoosh Larti

Health related quality of life of patients following mechanical valve replacement surgery for rheumatic mitral stenosis in Tanzania

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Reuben K Mutagaywa, Maarten J Cramer, Pilly Chillo, Ramadhan H Khamis, Respicious Boniface, Anjela Muhozya, Aileen Barongo, Moses Byomuganyizi, Gideon Kwesigabo, Appolinary Kamuhabwa, Bashir Nyangasa, Peter Kisenge, Steven Chamuleau

Del-Nido cardioplegia in cardiac surgery for elderly patients: a propensity score-matched analysis

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Wenda Gu, Hongkun Qing, Xiang Luo, Xin Zang, Kan Zhou, Haijiang Guo, Chengbin Zhou, Huiming Guo, Jian Liu

Evaluation of safety and efficacy of rapamycin-eluting balloon in patients with intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis: a cohort study

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Guodong Xu, Xiaoli Dong, Yingying Tian, Liang Ma, Ning Han, Wentao Yao, Kuochang Yin, Nan Yin

Single-direction thoracoscopic lobectomy for children with congenital lung malformation: initial experience

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Jin-Xi Huang, Qiang Chen, Song-Ming Hong, Jun-Jie Hong, Hua Cao

Intrathoracic liver herniation after pericardial fenestration – a case report

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Peter Dubovan, Miroslav Tomáš, Jana Pavlendová, Ramadan Aziri, Marek Makovník, Jozef Dolník, Daniel Pinďák

Epidemiological characteristics and trends in postoperative death in children with congenital heart disease (CHD): a single-center retrospective study from 2005 to 2020

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Guilang Zheng, Jing Wang, Peiling Chen, Zijian Huang, Lei Zhang, Aimei Yang, Jiaxing Wu, Chunlin Chen, Jingwen Zhang, Yueyu Sun, Chengbin Zhou, Haiyun Yuan, Xiaobing Liu, Jianzheng Cen, Shusheng Wen, Yuxiong Guo

Cardiorespiratory arrest during and after nuss procedure: case report

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Indira F. Cujiño-Álvarez, Daniela Torres-Salazar, Mauricio Velásquez-Galvis

Metastatic lung tumor from hepatocellular carcinoma with tumor thrombus invasion in the pulmonary vein: a case report

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Kazuto Ohtaka, Setsuyuki Ohtake, Yu Ishii, Saya Kaku, Yuta Takeuchi, Tomoko Mizota, Yoshiyuki Yamamura, Masaomi Ichinokawa, Tatsuya Yoshioka, Eiji Tamoto, Katsuhiko Murakawa, Koichi Ono

Efficacy of preemptive intercostal nerve block on recovery in patients undergoing video-assisted thoracic lobectomy

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Shaojuan Chen, Zhihua Guo, Xin Wei, Zhenzhu Chen, Na Liu, Weiqiang Yin, Lan Lan

Prosthetic valve endocarditis secondary to Tropheryma whipplei in a patient with chronic polyarthritis

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Mauricio J. Kahn, David M. Ennis, Dennis G. Delgado

Comparison of outcomes between transcatheter tricuspid valve repair and surgical tricuspid valve replacement or repair in patients with tricuspid insufficiency

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Xiqiang Wang, Yanpeng Ma, Zhongwei Liu, Xiude Fan, Gongchang Guan, Shuo Pan, Junkui Wang, Yong Zhang

PET/CT imaging of giant primary pulmonary meningioma: a case report and literature review

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Yawen Feng, Peng Wang, Yufei Liu, Wenli Dai

Pulmonary artery sarcoma: an unexpected settler in the right ventricular outflow tract

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Hui-min Hu, Yi-dan Li, Chang-wei Wei, Yan liu, Xiu-zhang lv, Yuan-hua Yang

Monophasic pericardial synovial sarcoma in a turkish female patient: a very rare case with cyto-histopathological findings

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Busra Yaprak Bayrak, Cigdem Vural, Huseyin Fatih Sezer, Aykut Eliçora, Yaprak Busra

Correction: Tension pyopneumothorax caused by parvimonas micra: a case report

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Yoshihito Iijima, Shun Iwai, Nozomu Motono, Hidetaka Uramoto

Endovascular treatment of a traumatic thoracic pseudo-aneurysm in a pediatric patient: a case report with review of literature

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Muniba Afzal, Safaa Abdulreda Najar, Hassan Baghazal, Noora Alshahwani

Review on risk factors, classification, and treatment of sternal wound infection

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Yaoyao Song, Wanli Chu, Jiachen Sun, Xinzhu Liu, Hongjuan Zhu, Hongli Yu, Chuan’an Shen

“UFO procedure” for massive aortic and mitral annular calcification involving left atrial and ventricular myocardium: a potential radical solution

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Leonhard Wert, Miralem Pasic, Roland Heck, Karel M. Van Praet, Jörg Kempfert, Stephan Jacobs, Volkmar Falk

The effects of cold compress and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on the pain associated with chest tube removal among patients with coronary bypass grafting

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Fatemeh Hatefi, Majid Kazemi, Parvin Manglian, Dadullah Shahi Moridi, Shahin Heydari, Hadi Hasani

The 100 most cited papers on total anomalous pulmonary venous connection: a bibliometric analysis

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Chen Wen, Wei Liu, Chenhao Fang, Jin Shentu, Ruixiang Ma, Han Zhang, Hao Zhang, Zhongqun Zhu, Huiwen Chen

Combination of CEACAM5, EpCAM and CK19 gene expressions in mediastinal lymph node micrometastasis is a prognostic factor for non-small cell lung cancer

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Hande Süer, Suat Erus, Ekin E. Cesur, Ömer Yavuz, Orhan Ağcaoğlu, Pınar Bulutay, Tamer T. Önder, Serhan Tanju, Şükrü Dilege

Granulomatous inflammation mimicking a hematoma around the replaced ascending aorta in magnetic resonance imaging: a case report

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June Lee, Hyun Ah Lim, Seok Beom Hong, Do Yeon Kim, Yong Han Kim, Hwan Wook Kim

Establishment and validation of a prognostic risk classification for patients with stage T1-3N0M0 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

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Yang-Yu Huang, Yan Zheng, Shen-Hua Liang, Lei-Lei Wu, Xuan Liu, Wen-Qun Xing, Guo-Wei Ma

Hemostatic efficacy of a flowable collagen-thrombin matrix during coronary artery bypass grafting: a double-blind randomized controlled trial

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Hyo-Hyun Kim, Kang Ju Lee, Dae Ryong Kang, Jun Hyeok Lee, Young-Nam Youn

Outcomes and survival following thoracic endovascular repair in patients with aortic aneurysms limited to the descending thoracic aorta

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Katharina Fankhauser, Isaac Wamala, Adam Penkalla, Roland Heck, Robert Hammerschmidt, Volkmar Falk, Semih Buz

Risk profiles and a concise prediction model for lymph node metastasis in patients with lung adenocarcinoma

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Shenhua Liang, Yang-Yu Huang, Xuan Liu, Lei-Lei Wu, Yu Hu, Guowei Ma

Prognostic effect of atrial fibrillation on survival in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a meta-analysis

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Meiling Du, Xiaoyuan Wang, Aiai Zhang, Feixing Li, Mengyang Yi

A case of bronchial Dieulafoy disease and literature review

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Xiaoqian Shi, Mingdong Wang, Yifei Wang, Wei Zhang, Xuewei Zhao, Bing Li

Hemoptysis: unilateral pulmonary artery atresia? a case report

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Aneel Maini, Sebastian Cousins, Tyler Holliday, Jessica Wang Memoli, Tajender Singh Vasu, Puja Gaur Khaitan

Correction to: A modified primary culture method of rat pulmonary vein smooth muscle cells

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Wenhui Huang, Hongjin Liu, Yichao Pan, Xueying Wang, Hongwei Yang, Danjie Wang, Jing Lin, Hui Zhang

Pseudoaneurysm after aortopulmonary window repair and bilateral lung transplantation for eisenmenger syndrome: a case report

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Toshiaki Nagashima, Masaki Taira, Moyu Hasegawa, Yosuke Kugo, Takuji Watanabe, Daisuke Yoshioka, Kazuo Shimamura, Takayoshi Ueno, Shigeru Miyagawa

Isolated giant aortic arch aneurysm repair in a 13-year-old girl: a case report

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Volodymyr Vashkeba, Vasyl Karpenko, Oleh Zelenchuk, Sudakevych Serhii, Stepan Maruniak, Justyna Swol, Borys Todurov, Vitaly Demyanchuk

Minimally-invasive approach via percutaneous femoral cannulation for the resection of intra-cardiac masses: a single center experience in the Middle-East

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Uthman Aluthman, Mohammed A. Ashour, Salman W. Bafageeh, Abivarma Chandrakumaran, Taraji S. Alrehaili, Osama A. Abdulrahman, Ahmed F. Elmahrouk, Shalan Alaamri, Saeed A. AlGhamdi, Ahmed A. Jamjoom

Hospital-based retrospective analysis of 224 surgical cases of lung hydatid cyst from southern Iran

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Reza Shahriarirad, Amirhossein Erfani, Kamyar Ebrahimi, Mohammad Rastegarian, Mehrdad Eskandarisani, Bizhan Ziaian, Bahador Sarkari

Xanthoma of rib: a case report and review of the literature

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Emilia Mottola, Flavia Adotti, Angelina Pernazza, Carlo Della Rocca, Giulia D’Amati, Piergiorgio Nardis, Jacopo Vannucci, Massimiliano Bassi, Federico Venuta, Marco Anile

Dieulafoy’s disease of the bronchus: rare but potentially fatal: a case report and a review of literature

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Salsabil Daboussi, Marwa kacem, Nouha Boubaker, Mariem Chaabene, Chiraz Aichaouia, Samira Mhamdi, Zied Moatemri

An unusual case of huge fibrotic sac of hematoma at saphenous vein harvest site for coronary artery bypass grafting: a case report

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June Lee, Hye Rim Na, Seok Beom Hong, Do Yeon Kim, Hwan Wook Kim, Yong Han Kim

Ten-year follow-up study of a young woman with loeys-dietz syndrome: a case report

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Tomohiro Nakajima, Yutaka Iba, Tsuyoshi Shibata, Itaru Hosaka, Jyunji Nakazawa, Nobuyoshi Kawaharada

Diagnosis and management of intercostal intramuscular hemangioma: an updated review

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Takahiro Ochi, Yasuo Sekine, Eitetsu Koh, Hidehisa Hoshino, Tadao Nakazawa

COVID-19 and spontaneous pneumothorax: a survival analysis

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Reza Ershadi, Shahab Rafieian, Mohammadreza Salehi, Hossein Kazemizadeh, Hesam Amini, Marjan Sohrabi, Alireza Samimiat, Yaser Sharafi, Mohadese Dashtkoohi, Matin Vahedi

Non traumatic acquired acute transdiaphragmatic intercostal hernia induced by coughing

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June Lee, Ju Sang Kim, Jin Yong Jeong

If we should remove internal fixation devices for rib fractures?

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Yang Li, kaile Jiang, Tiancheng Zhao, Xiang Guo, Kaibin Liu, Yonghong Zhao

The survival benefit from surgery on patients with large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma in the lung: a propensity-score matching study

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Hao Jiang, Weixia Xie, Xianpeng Li, Huaying Wang, Wan-Jun Yu, Xiaolu Chen

The efficacy of three-ball breathing apparatus exercise based on the concept of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients after lung cancer surgery

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Qiang Xu, Zi-Qing Shen, Kun-Peng Feng, Chun Xu, Cheng Ding, Chang Li, Sheng Ju, Jun Chen, Shu Pan, Jun Zhao

Dynamic predictive scores for cardiac surgery-associated agitated delirium: a single-center retrospective observational study

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Yu Tian, Bingyang Ji, Xiaolin Diao, Chunrong Wang, Weiwei Wang, Yuchen Gao, Sudena Wang, Chun Zhou, Qiaoni Zhang, Sizhe Gao, Xinyi Xu, Jia Liu, Jianhui Wang, Yuefu Wang

Risk factors for postoperative myocardial injury-related cardiogenic shock in patients undergoing cardiac surgery

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Xiao-Feng Cheng, Kuo Wang, Hai-Tao Zhang, He Zhang, Xin-Yi Jiang, Li-Chong Lu, Cheng Chen, Yong-Qing Cheng, Dong-Jin Wang, Kai Li

Pulmonary valve infective endocarditis caused by Mycobacterium abscessus

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Olajide A. Olatidoye, Sajjaad H. Samat, Kanhua Yin, Michael J. Bates

Higher expression of pseudouridine synthase 7 promotes non-small cell lung cancer progression and suggests a poor prognosis

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Guihong Zhang, Yongde Zhu, Yonghuang Tan, Biao Chen, Shichao Shan, Gengyu Zhang, Jianjun Lu

The impact of surgery and age on mortality with primary trachea malignant tumors: a retrospective study based on propensity-score matching analysis

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Chen Ping, Jia Liang, Zhi-Yuan Liu, Jiang He, Ji-Yao Zhou, Hao Cheng, Guang-Da Yuan

Did angiodysplasia associated with heyde’s syndrome disappear spontaneously?: a case report

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Rui Li, Shuliang Ji, Jiaxi Shi, Lijin Qing, Wei Wu, Jiechun Zhang

Bacteraemia caused by Lactobacillus casei in a patient after cardiac surgery. A case report

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Aneta Guzek, Paweł Filipowski, Zbigniew Rybicki, Piotr Grabski, Leszek Gryszko, Emilia Sopolińska, Dariusz Tomaszewski

Prevalence and treatment outcome of bronchopleural fistula: a multi-center study in Ethiopia

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Samuel Tesfaye Woldemariam, Israel Bekele Molla, Seyoum Kassa Merine, Dereje Gulilat Yilma

Surgical management of descending necrotizing mediastinitis: strategy for thoracic interference

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Lam Xuan Nhat, Vu Huu Vinh, Chau Phu Thi, Nguyen Van Khoi

Abnormal origin of the right posterior segmental bronchus: case report and literature review

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Tao Xu, Hui Ye, Wenshu Chen, Zhongwen Jin, Changjin He

Percutaneous treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm and aortic valve stenosis with ‘staged’ EVAR and TAVR: a case series

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Massimo Medda, Francesco Casilli, Marta Bande, Mattia Glauber, Maurizio Tespili, Silvia Cirri, Francesco Donatelli

Atrial giant cell myocarditis with preserved left ventricular function: a case report and literature review

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Yilin Tang, Lin Qi, Ling Xu, Lei Lin, Junfeng Cai, Wei Shen, Yang Liu, Ming Li

Successful surgical treatment of Stanford type A aortic dissection due to Salmonella aortitis

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Shohei Yoshida, Adwaiy Manerikar, Mengou Zhu, Christopher Mehta

High sensitivity troponin-I threshold to predict perioperative myocardial infarction

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Tom Friedman, Dror B. Leviner, Veronica Chan, Bobby Yanagawa, Ady Orbach, Abd El Haleem Natour, Anastasia Weis, Erez Sharoni, Gil Bolotin

Salvage surgery for advanced non-small cell lung cancer following previous immunotherapy: a retrospective study

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Mitsunori Higuchi, Sho Inomata, Hikaru Yamaguchi, Takuro Saito, Hiroyuki Suzuki

Radiological evidence of rapid growth acceleration of a small part solid nodule found to be large-cell carcinoma of the lung

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Yunwei Lu, Zewen Sun, Hao Li, Xiaofeng Chen, Yun Li, Lina Sun, Fan Yang, Guanchao Jiang, Jian Zhou

Preoperative small pulmonary nodule localisation using hookwires or coils: strategy selection in adverse events

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Tao Zuo, Zhaoming Gao, Tao Zhang, Bing Wen, Baojun Chen, Ping Jiang

Severe dysphagia due to an esophageal duplication cyst in sixth decade, unusual presentation of a rare pathology

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Santiago A. Endara, Jaime R. Pinto, Gustavo A. Torres, Pablo A. Arias, M. Patricia Ponton, Gabriel A. Molina

Massive, life-threatening hemoptysis due to localized granulomatosis with polyangiitis

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Eleonora Coviello, Francesco Puma, Domenico Pourmolkara, Martina Mandarano, Antonio Giulio Napolitano

The prognostic role of the low and very low baseline LDL-C level in outcomes of patients with cardiac revascularization; comparative registry-based cohort design

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Malihe Rezaee, Aida Fallahzadeh, Ali Sheikhy, Ali Ajam, Saeed Sadeghian, Mina Pashang Bsc, Mahmoud Shirzad, Soheil Mansourian, Jamshid Bagheri, Kaveh Hosseini

MicroRNA-185-5p targets tyrosine 3-monooxygenase/tryptophan 5-monooxygenase activation protein zeta to regulate non-small cell lung cancer progression

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Jiangang Ma, Yan Bai, Fangyuan Chen, Feng Zhou, Liyuan Zhang, Peini Xue, Dong Wang

Who needs their descending thoracic aorta anyway? Extra-anatomic bypass for aorto-bronchial fistula after TEVAR

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Joshua S. Newman, Stevan S. Pupovac, S. Jacob Scheinerman, Jui-Chuan Tseng, Jonathan M. Hemli, Derek R. Brinster

Endovascular treatment for massive haemoptysis due to pulmonary pseudoaneurysm: report of 23 cases

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Fen-Qiang Li, Dong-Jun Su, Wan-Jia Zhang, Zhong-Ke Chen, Geng-Xiang Li, Shuang-Xi Li, Yu-xing Peng, Lei Dang, Wen-Hui Wang

Locally advanced thymoma; does neoadjuvant chemotherapy make a difference?

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Riad Abdel Jalil, Farah A. Abdallah, Zeinab Obeid, Ahmad Khaled Harb, Mohamad K. Abou Chaar, Tariq Bassem Shannies, Ahed El-Edwan, Hussam Haddad, Azza Ghraibeh, Ahmad Abu-Shanab

Application of postmortem computed tomography angiography to settle a medical dispute after aortic dissection surgery: a forensic case report

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Wang Zhuoqun, Tian Zhiling, Wan Lei, Dong Hewen, Zou Donghua, Zhang Jianhua, Liu Ningguo

The role of delayed aortic surgery in type A aortic dissection and mesenteric ischemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Aditya Eranki, Ashley R Wilson-Smith, Michael L Williams, Aashray Gupta, Campbell Flynn, Jim Iliopoulos, Con Manganas

Mid-term results of endoscopic mitral valve repair and insights in surgical techniques for isolated posterior prolapse

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Enrico Squiccimarro, Vito Margari, Georgios Kounakis, Giuseppe Visicchio, Clemente Pascarella, Crescenzia Rotunno, Carmine Carbone, Domenico Paparella

Microscopic feature of lymph node anthracosilicosis adherent with pulmonary artery: a case report

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Junichi Murakami, Toshiki Tanaka, Yoshinobu Hoshii, Kimikazu Hamano

Long-term results following atrioventricular septal defect repair

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Katja Schumacher, Mateo Marin Cuartas, Sabine Meier, Muhammed Ikbal Aydin, Michael Andrew Borger, Ingo Dähnert, Martin Kostelka, Marcel Vollroth

The prognostic value of 11th Japanese classification and 8th AJCC staging systems in Chinese patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

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Xi-qin Zhang, Chuan-wang Miao, Lan-pin Liu, Cun-liang Wang, Jia-zhen Chen, Wan-hu Li, Xu-dong Hu

Wedge resection versus lobectomy in T1 lung cancer patients: a propensity matched analysis

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Robert J Moon, Rebecca Taylor, Pika Miklavc, Syed B Mehdi, Stuart W Grant, Mohamad Nidal Bittar

David V procedure and hemiarch replacement in a patient with Loeys-Dietz-Syndrome and beta thalassemia minor: a case report

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Frieda-Maria Kainz, Kathrin Freystaetter, Bruno K. Podesser, Christoph Holzinger

Combined large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma, lung adenocarcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature

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Zirui Zhu, You Liu, Hengliang Xu, Haoyong Ning, Yanmin Xia, Leilei Shen

Second-generation extracellular matrix patch for epicardial infarct repair

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Arjun Bhatt, Michael J. Bates, Constantin B. Marcu, Robert G. Matheny, Blase A. Carabello, Kanhua Yin, Walter Douglas Boyd

Intravascular leiomyomatosis with cardiac extension, a case report

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Juan Garcés Garcés, Fernando Terán Camacho, Gerardo Dávalos Dávalos, Sofía Zárate León, Ligia Redrobán Armendáriz, Vladimir Ullauri Solórzano, Gabriel A. Molina, Santiago Endara Aguirre

Bivalirudin for cardiopulmonary bypass in a patient with heparin allergy

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Emre Boysan, Renda Circi, Osman Fehmi Beyazal, Erol Şener

Correction: The role of delayed aortic surgery in type A aortic dissection and mesenteric ischemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Aditya Eranki, Ashley R Wilson-Smith, Michael L Williams, Aashray Gupta, Campbell Flynn, Jim Iliopoulos, Con Manganas

Surgical removal of an unusual huge solitary fibrous tumor in the mediastinum: a case report

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Parviz Mardani, Mohammad Nekooeian, Saba Zangeneh, Hooman Kamran, Reza Shahriarirad, Mohammad Hossein Anbardar, Armin Amirian, Masoud Vafabin

Impact of surgically placed radiopaque markers during aortic root surgery on facilitating secondary diagnostic and therapeutic interventions

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Emmanuel Zimmer, Maria Nucera, Clarence Pingpoh, Murat Yildiz, Paul Puiu, Florian Schoenhoff, Martin Czerny, Matthias Siepe

Management of anomalous origin of right coronary artery from left coronary sinus

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Tobin Mangel, Aabha Divya, Ravi De Silva

Stachydrine ameliorates hypoxia reoxygenation injury of cardiomyocyte via enhancing SIRT1-Nrf2 pathway

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Xi Zhu, Yingbiao Wu, Xiaogang Zhang, Wei Gu, Zhongping Ning

Minimally invasive valve surgery including patients of combined simultaneous surgery: a retrospective study

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Yun Ling, Huaxin Chen, Pengxiong Zhu, Tian Li, Bangde Xue, Jun Liu

Successful echocardiography-guided medical management of severe early post-implant right ventricular failure in a patient with left ventricular assist device support: a case report

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Shingo Kunioka, Osamu Seguchi, Tasuku Hada, Hiroki Mochizuki, Masaya Shimojima, Takuya Watanabe, Yasumasa Tsukamoto, Naoki Tadokoro, Satoshi Kainuma, Satsuki Fukushima, Tomoyuki Fujita, Hiroyuki Kamiya, Norihide Fukushima

Effects of multimodal low-opioid anesthesia protocol during on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: a prospective cohort study

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Maruniak Stepan, Loskutov Oleh, Druzhyna Oleksandr, Swol Justyna

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement 23 years after heart transplant for aortic insufficiency

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Andrew Jones, Hossein Amirjamshidi, George Olverson IV, Frederick S. Ling, Kazuhiro Hisamoto

Successful conservative treatment for left ventricular free wall rupture after acute myocardial infarction

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Haruyuki Kinoshita, Munehiro Kanegawa, Masashi Morita, Shiori Maeda, Yoji Sumimoto, Kenji Masada, Takashi Shimonaga, Toshifumi Hiraoka, Katsuhiko Imai, Hiroshi Sugino

Excision of left atrial myxoma under perfused ventricular fibrillation with hypothermia after coronary artery bypass grafting

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Shaobo Pan, Yalin Wang, Yanjia Gu, Weidong Li, Hongfei Xu

Large mesenchymal cystic and chondroid pulmonary hamartoma mimicking lung cancer: Case report

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Seha Ahn, Heejin Lee, Joon Kyu Kang, In Sub Kim, Youngkyu Moon, Jung Suk Choi, Si Young Choi

Acute cardiac tamponade following thoracoscopic lobectomy: a case report and literatures review

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Wei Chen, Yi Shen, Yang Yuan, Qiangqiang Zheng, Yunfeng Zhou

Anesthetic management of thoracotomy for massive intrathoracic solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura: a case report

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Wang Shen, Yan Li, Feng Liu, Ning Liu, Xiangrui Wang, Zhonghua Ji

Total arch replacement for an aortic arch aneurysm with cold agglutinin disease after rituximab and plasmapheresis

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Atsuyuki Mitsuishi, Yujiro Miura, Kyosuke Saeki, Yoshinori Nomura, Katsumata Yoshifumi, Keisuke Yoshida

Assessment of degradability and endothelialization of modified poly L-lactic acid (PLLA) atrial septal defect (ASD) occluders over time in vivo

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Jun Chen, Yumei Xie, Yifan Li, Xianmiao Chen, Mingjuan Fu, Yanfen Liu, Zhiwei Zhang

Primary unifocal thymic Rosai-Dorfman disease: an extremely rare challenge in diagnostic practice

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Qian Liu, Fengxiang Liao, Yong Liu, Yang Cheng, Chubo Qi

N1 lymph node detection in lymph node harvesting in non-small cell lung cancer: Formaldehyde exposure is a drawback?

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Sevinc Citak, Talha Dogruyol, Serkan Bayram, Mustafa Vayvada, Serda Kanbur Metin, Volkan Baysungur

Prediction of acute kidney injury following coronary artery bypass graft surgery in elderly Chinese population

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Wenxing Peng, Bo Yang, Huanyu Qiao, Yongmin Liu, Yang Lin

Impact of prophylactic donor heart tricuspid valve annuloplasty on outcomes in heart transplantation

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Hidefumi Nishida, Valluvan Jeevanandam, Christopher Salerno, Atsushi Nemoto, Tae Song, David Onsager, Ann Nguyen, Jonathan Grinstein, Bow Chung, Nitasha Sarswat, Gene Kim, Sean Pinney, Takeyoshi Ota

Surviving the nonsurvivable combination of a mycotic aneurysm progressing into a concomitant aorto-bronchial- and aorto-esophageal fistula, a case report

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Tim Somers, Bastiaan R. Klarenbeek, Ilse J.E. Kouijzer, Ad F.T.M. Verhagen, Michel W.A. Verkroost

Localization of coronary bypass targets in hard-to-see coronary arteries

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Rabin Gerrah, Kristin Lipe, Gus J. Vlahakes

Hemolysis and cardiopulmonary bypass: meta-analysis and systematic review of contributing factors

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Yudo P. Bhirowo, Yusuf K. Raksawardana, Budi Y. Setianto, Sudadi Sudadi, Tommy N. Tandean, Alfia F. Zaharo, Irhash F. Ramsi, Hening T. Kusumawardani, Teguh Triyono

Retraction Note: The effect of early oral stimulation with breast milk on the feeding behavior of infants after congenital cardiac surgery

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Xian-Rong Yu, Shu-Ting Huang, Ning Xu, Li-Wen Wang, Zeng-Chun Wang, Hua Cao, Qiang Chen

Surgical treatment of severe benign tracheal stenosis

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Yong-Geng Feng, Shao-Lin Tao, Long-Yong Mei, Fu-Qiang Dai, Qun-You Tan, Ru-Wen Wang, Jing-Hai Zhou, Bo Deng

A massive immature mediastinal teratoma treated with chemotherapy and surgical resection: a case report

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Parviz Mardani, Hooman Kamran, Rezvan Ghaderpanah, Bita Geramizadeh, Damoun Fouladi, Reza Shahriarirad, Armin Amirian

Cardiac surgery for a right atrial myxoma with traumatic intracranial hemorrhage: a case report

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Maki Ichinose, Masanori Ogiwara, Masahiko Ozaki, Yoshifumi Nishino, Kensuke Tanaka

Partial sternectomy with reconstruction of a giant cell tumor of the sternum, a case report, Saudi, Arabia

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Safwat Eldaabossi, Yasser Al-Ghoneimy, Ahmad Antar, Elsaid Lotfy, Hameed Aljawad, Yasser G. Abish, Mohammed Helyl, Haytham Oraby, Hesham Soliman, Bassam Abdullatif, Sameh O. Nour, Ahmad Lotfi

Case report: acute isolated cilioretinal artery occlusion secondary to percutaneous coronary intervention

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Bangtao Yao, Zhaoyang Dong, Yuanfeng Xue, Haoyu Meng, Fei Wang

Effectiveness of VA-ECMO plus intra-aortic balloon pump for cardiac shock in patients with type A aortic dissection: a case series

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Hui Wu, Pengfei Chen, Jinhua Wei, Fengbo Pei, Mingjian Chen, Diming Zhao, Liqing Wang, Jundong Pu, Zujun Chen

Zone 2/3 lesion and emergency repair as potential mortality predictors of TEVAR for thoracic aortic pseudoaneurysm

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Hui Wang, Chang Shu, Tun Wang, Hao He, Xin Li, Quanming Li, Yuan Peng, Lunchang Wang, Likun Sun

Prognostic value of ascites in patients with liver cirrhosis undergoing cardiac surgery

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Amila Cizmic, Parwis Baradaran Rahmanian, Asmae Gassa, Elmar Kuhn, Navid Mader, Thorsten Wahlers

Enlarging pulmonary cyst: a rare form of alveolar adenoma

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Yeoun Eun Sung, Mi Hyoung Moon

Iatrogenic aortic dissection during aortic root replacement in an older Loeys–Dietz syndrome type III patient with no family history of aortic disease: a case report

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Kenichi Kato, Ken Nakamura, Kaho Kato, Shusuke Arai, Shuto Hirooka, Cholsu Kim, Hideaki Uchino, Takao Shimanuki

A rare case of lethal Najuta endograft collapse

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Akihiro Nakase, Yoshito Inoue

Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the thymus gland

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Mohamed Shatila, Hanan Hemead, Nishanth Murukesh, Philippe Taniere, Caroline Russell, Ashvini Menon, Akshay J. Patel

The risk factors of postoperative cognitive dysfunction in patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy: an updated meta-analysis

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Jinhua He, Ran Duan, Peng Qiu, Huanhuan Zhang, Meng Zhang, Meinv Liu, Xiaoqian Wu, Jianli Li

Advanced lung cancer patient benefits from minimally invasive costal resection and reconstruction: an effective palliative approach for costal metastasis

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Marco N. Andreas, Dirk Böhmer, Johann Pratschke, Jens C. Rückert, Aron Elsner

Thoracic endovascular aortic repair for hemolysis 17 years after insertion of classical elephant trunk: a case report

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Atsuyuki Mitsuishi, Nobuyuki Hirose, Unpei Okamoto, Tatsuya Noguchi, Juri Kawaguchi, Yujiro Miura

Surgical repair of post myocardial infarction ventricular septal defect: a retrospective analysis of a single institution experience

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Jian Shi, Jeremy Y. Levett, Haiyu LV, Guoan Zhang, Sha Wang, Tao Wei, Zhikun Wang, Xi Zhang, Dawei Feng, Kan Wang, Qiang Liu, Dominique Shum-Tim

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in paediatric cardiac surgery: 5-year single centre experience

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Laurynas Bezuska, Jonathan P. O’Doherty, Bilal Ali, Chris Harvey, Ikenna Omeje, Branko Mimic

Transcatheter mitral valve implantation with Tendyne System Ten Years since the First In-Human Implant A systematic review

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Ahmed Ahmed, Tarek A. Abdel Aziz, Mohannad M. R. AlAsaad, Motaz Majthoob, Ahmed Toema

Concomitant minimally invasive surgery for tricuspid valve papillary fibroelastoma and right lung cancer in an elderly patient: a case report and review of the literature

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Yalin Wang, Neckwaree Aboo Bakar Shah Ameer Saheb, Firyuza Husanova, Weidong Li, Hongfei Xu

Minimally invasive resection of heart valve papillary fibroelastoma: two case reports and review of the literature

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Thuan Q. Phan, Chuong T. V. Pham, Vinh D. A. Bui, Thang D. Ho, Thao N. Le, Thanh V.T. Nguyen, Dang Nguyen, Minh N. Vuong, Dinh H. Nguyen

Aortic annulus rupture after transcatheter aortic valve replacement: successful management of a dangerous complication

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Andrew Jones, Hossein Amirjamshidi, Peter Knight, Frederick S. Ling, Kazuhiro Hisamoto

Unexpected fibrous mediastinitis in a patient with myasthenia gravis - a case report

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Wang Xuyang, Zuo Xiaoping, Wang Fuqiang, Wang Yun

Early outcome of simplified total arch reconstruction under mild hypothermia (30–32 °C) with distal aortic perfusion

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Hua-Jie Zheng, Xin Liu, Ping He, Jun Li, Xian-Pu Zhang, Yong-Bo Cheng, De-Qing Lin, Chao-Jun Yan, San-Jiu Yu, Wei Cheng

Short-term outcomes following total correction of tetralogy of fallot in adult patients

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Zahra Khajali, Nasibeh Mohammadi, Yaser Toloueitabar, Majid Maleki, Sedigheh Saedi, Zeinab Norouzi, Saeedeh Mazloum-Zadeh, Maryam Chenaghlou, Amirhossein Jalali, Hassan Tatari, Maryam Aliramezany

Intractable chylous leak after radical esophagectomy treated with radiotherapy

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Seha Ahn, Heejin Lee, Joon Kyu Kang, In Sub Kim, Youngkyu Moon, Jung Suk Choi, Yoo Dong Won, Seong Cheol Jeong, Si Young Choi

Survival outcomes of lung metastases from colorectal cancer treated with pulmonary metastasectomy or modern systemic chemotherapy: a single institution experience

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Yutaka Shishido, Masayuki Ishii, Tetsuo Maeda, Yujiro Kokado, Daiki Masuya, Toshiyuki Kusama, Koji Fujimoto, Hiroshi Higashiyama

Giant benign intrathoracic schwannoma: a decade-long progression towards fatality

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Michiyo Miyawaki, Takashi Karashima, Miyuki Abe, Yohei Takumi, Takafumi Hashimoto, Ryotaro Kamohara, Atsushi Osoegawa, Kenji Sugio

Aortoesophageal fistula treated using one-stage total reconstruction: a case report from a high-volume center

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Yi-Ping Lee, Kensuke Ozaki, Susumu Oshima, Tomohiro Hirokami

Maintaining quality of life after major lung resection for carcinoid tumor

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Riad Abdel Jalil, Farah A. Abdallah, Zeinab Obeid, Mohamad K. Abou Chaar, Ahmad Khaled Harb, Tariq Bassam Shannies, Ahed El-Edwan, Hussam Haddad, Azza Ghraibeh, Ahmad Abu-Shanab

Simultaneous upper and lower body perfusion using hypothermia during thoracoabdominal aortic surgery

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Yuya Kise, Yukio Kuniyoshi, Mizuki Ando, Keita Miyaishi, Shotaro Higa, Tatuya Maeda, Moriyasu Nakaema, Hitoshi Inafuku, Kojiro Furukawa

Short-term study of atrial shunt and improvement of functional mitral regurgitation

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Xiaoke Shang, Mei Liu, Yucheng Zhong, Xueli Wang, Song Chen, Xiaojuan Fu, Ming Sun, Geng Li, Mingxing Xie, Guangyuan Song, Da Zhu, Changdong Zhang, Nianguo Dong

Tumor blood vessel in 3D reconstruction CT imaging as an risk indicator for growth of pulmonary nodule with ground-glass opacity

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Wenfei Xue, Lingxin Kong, Xiaopeng Zhang, Zhifei Xin, Qingtao Zhao, Jie He, Wenbo Wu, Guochen Duan

Primary cardiac myxofibrosarcoma of the left atrium and pericardium: a case report

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Ryota Azuma, Kazuyoshi Sato, Hiroki Sunadoi, Yasushi Ishii, Utano Tomaru, Masatoshi Motohashi

Case report: Takotsubo syndrome following percutaneous coronary intervention

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Rui Lu, Mingjun Lu, Shangfei He, Jing Lu, Yi Liao, Tongtao Cui, Min Wang

A rare and challenging case of intrapericardial hydatidosis

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Fatmir Caushi, Emira Hysa, Ilir Skenduli, Lutfi Lisha, Alban Hatibi, Loreta Bica, Silvana Bala, Francesco Rulli

Radical mediastinal lipectomy for tamponade-like cardiac physiology

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Mohsyn Imran Malik, James Changhyun Jae, Osama Sedky Shehata Sefein, Raffael Pereira Cezar Zamper, A. Dave Nagpal

Implantation of ascyrus medical dissection stent, our first-hand experience

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Mouhammad Kanj, Benoit Cosset, Alexandre Oliny, Fadi Farhat

Heart transplantation surgery in children and young adults with congenital heart disease

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Sabrina Martens, Hongtao Tie, Hans Gerd Kehl, Tonny DT Tjan, Hans Heinrich Scheld, Sven Martens, Andreas Hoffmeier

Successful treatment of cardiogenic shock due to Takotsubo syndrome with implantation of a temporary microaxial left ventricular assist device in transaxillary approach

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Johanna K. R. von Mackensen, Ahmed El Shazly, Felix Schoenrath, Joerg Kempfert, Christoph T. Starck, Evgenij V. Potapov, Stephan Jacobs, Volkmar Falk, Leonhard Wert

Aortic isthmus massive calcifications: an unusual case of secondary hypertension

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Sadia Soukeur, Benoit Cosset, Fadi Farhat

Sternal closure with sandwiched three-piece bioresorbable mesh reduces postoperative hemorrhage: a retrospective study

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Yasutaka Yokoyama, Taira Yamamoto, Tetsuma Oyama, Jiyoung Lee, Yoichiro Machida, Daisuke Endo, Yuichiro Sato, Shizuyuki Dohi, Atsushi Amano, Minoru Tabata

Outcomes of coronary artery bypass surgery using modified del Nido cardioplegia in patients with poor ventricular function

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Samuel Brown, Kholoud Nassar, Jacob Razzouk, Abishek K. Kashyap, Mitchell Won, Thaer Shehadeh, Reza Salabat, David G. Rabkin, Joshua S. Chung

Systematic review of first-in-human and early phase clinical trials for surgically implantable biological mitral valve substitutes

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Faizus Sazzad, Ying Kiat Tan, Li Xuan Beverly Chan, Irwan Shah Bin Mohd Moideen, Abdulrahman El Gohary, John C. Stevens, K. R. Ramanathan, Theo Kofidis

Distal aortic biomechanics after transcatheter versus surgical aortic valve replacement: a hypothesis generating study

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Lisa Q. Rong, William Zheng, Andrew Martinez, Mohammed Rahouma, Richard B. Devereux, Jiwon Kim, Bassam Osman, Maria C. Palumbo, Björn Redfors, Leonard N. Girardi, Jonathan W. Weinsaft, Mario Gaudino

Serum cystatin C predicts the risk of non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome

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Hao Dong, Dongping Xiao, Yong Tang

A highly penetrant ACTA2 mutation of thoracic aortic disease

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Christopher M. Bobba, Ryan Azarrafiy, John R. Spratt, Jill Hendrickson, Tomas D. Martin, George J. Arnaoutakis, Eric I. Jeng, Thomas M. Beaver

Application of myocardial work in predicting adverse events among patients with resistant hypertension

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Limin Luo, Yongshi Wang, Huiping Hou, Qiang Liu, Zehan Xie, Qiaoyan Wu, Xianhong Shu

Demographic, clinical, and paraclinical features of patients operated with the diagnosis of acute descending necrotizing mediastinitis: a retrospective study in Southern Iran

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Keivan Ranjbar, Reza Shahriarirad, Kamyar Ebrahimi, Armin Amirian, Mohamadreza Karoobi, Parviz Mardani, Amirhossein Erfani, Mohammad Javad Fallahi, Farzaneh Ketabchi, Bizhan Ziaian

Pre-treatment optimisation with pulmonary rehabilitation of elderly lung cancer patients with frailty for surgery

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Ira Goldsmith, Gemma Chesterfield-Thomas, Hannah Toghill

Fractured sternal wire causing a cardiac laceration

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Matthew S. Khouzam, Kristina Jacobsen, Joseph H. Boyer, Ahmad Zeeshan, David Spurlock, Tomer Z. Karas, Jorge E. Suarez-Cavelier, Daniel Rinewalt, Linda Bogar, Scott Silvestry, George J. Palmer, Kevin D. Accola, Nayer Khouzam

A novel minimally invasive fixation method for flail chest management in a Canine model: an animal research

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Li Zhe, Weiwei Zhu, Bing Zhang, Yaxiao Zhang, Huixian Li, Baolei Lv, Qiang Zhen, Lin Liu, Lijun Liu, Yanxin Wu, Li Shujun

Anesthesia management experience for pediatric day-case PDA ligation under thoracoscopy assisted by a robot: a retrospective study

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Huixia Cao, Jinpeng Qiu, Yaoqin Hu, Wenfang Huang, Xiwang Liu, Haiyan Jin

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