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Case report
Cardiac arrest is a lethal complication of Nuss repair of pectus excavatum which is strongly related to heart or big vessels injury. A rare case developed cardiac arrest without direct cardiac injury during Nu...
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:61
Published on: 24 July 2017
Case report
Partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection (PAPVC) without an atrial septal defect (ASD) associated with coarctation of the aortic arch is a rare congenital cardiac anomaly. This rare combination is only de...
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:58
Published on: 24 July 2017
Research article
The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of ablation duration during a maze procedure using a nitrous oxide-based cryosurgical system.
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:60
Published on: 24 July 2017
Research article
As Staphylococcus aureus (SA) remains one of the leading cause of infective endocarditis (IE), this study evaluates whether S. aureus is associated with more severe infections or worsened outcomes compared to non...
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:57
Published on: 20 July 2017
Research article
The xenoantigenicity of porcine bioprosthetic valves is implicated as an etiology leading to calcification and subsequent valve failure. Decellularization of porcine valves theoretically could erase the antige...
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:56
Published on: 17 July 2017
Research article
Postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock (PCCS) refractory to inotropic support and intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) occurs rarely but is almost universally fatal without mechanical circulatory support. In this system...
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:55
Published on: 17 July 2017
Research article
The small size of the pulmonary veins in infants increases the risk of pulmonary vein obstruction (PVO) after surgical repair of type IV total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC). Here, we described ...
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:54
Published on: 6 July 2017
Erratum
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:53
Published on: 23 June 2017
The original article was published in Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:39
Research article
Smoking is a risk factor for postoperative pulmonary complications (PPC) following non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) surgery. The optimal timing for preoperative smoking cessation has not been identified. Our...
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:52
Published on: 19 June 2017
Case report
Sleeve resection and reconstruction of the bronchial corner between the upper lobar bronchus and the intermediate bronchus is technique demanding.
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:51
Published on: 13 June 2017
Case report
Simultaneous transapical implantation of transcatheter heart valves in the native mitral and aortic position may be considered as an alternative to surgical valve replacement in high-risk patients presenting w...
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:47
Published on: 12 June 2017
Case report
Cardiac fibroma is rarely encountered in children, and even more rare in neonates. We herein report a case of a 5-month-old female with severe right ventricular outflow tract obstruction caused by a large righ...
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:49
Published on: 12 June 2017
Research article
Minimally invasive cardiac surgical techniques are increasingly applied in the treatment and management of a variety of adult ventricular septal defects (VSDs). However, repair of adult subarterial VSDs via le...
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:48
Published on: 12 June 2017
Research article
The effect of acute aortic dissection itself on coagulopathy or surgery-related coagulopathy has never been specifically studied. The aim of the present study was to perioperatively describe consumption coagul...
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:50
Published on: 12 June 2017
Case report
To reduce some problems of traditional graft, we devise a modified multiple branched graft for repair of Crawford extent II and III thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA).
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:46
Published on: 5 June 2017
Research article
To compare the perioperative and long term survival after aortic valve replacement using stentless versus stented valves in a large cohort of patients grouped using propensity score matching.
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:45
Published on: 31 May 2017
Research article
Intratumoral lung abscess is a secondary lung abscess that is considered to be fatal. Therefore, surgical procedures, although high-risk, have sometimes been performed for intratumoral lung abscesses. However,...
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:44
Published on: 26 May 2017
Research article
Lung transplantation is the only effective treatment for end-stage lung diseases. Bronchiolitis obliterans, which is known as non-infectious chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) in the new classification,...
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:43
Published on: 25 May 2017
Review
Better visualisation, accurate resection and avoidance of ventriculotomy associated with use of endoscopic devices during intracardiac surgery has led to increasing interest in their use. The possibility of co...
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:41
Published on: 25 May 2017
Research article
Prosthesis–patient mismatch (PPM) may affect the clinical outcomes of patients undergoing aortic valve replacement (AVR). We aimed to determine the incidence of PPM, its effect on short-term mortality, and the...
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:42
Published on: 25 May 2017
Research article
We introduce a novel preoperative anatomic severity grading system for acute type B aortic dissections and validate the system in a cohort of patients who underwent thoracic endovascular aortic repair.
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:39
Published on: 23 May 2017
The Erratum to this article has been published in Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:53
Research article
The reported incidence of AF after CABG surgery varies from 20 to 40%, with the arrhythmia usually occurring between second and fourth postoperative days. Postoperative AF after CABG was associated with greate...
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:40
Published on: 23 May 2017
Case report
Mechanical circulatory support is a common practice nowadays in the management of patients after cardiogenic shock due to myocardial infarction. The single or combined use of one or more devices for mechanical...
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:38
Published on: 22 May 2017
Case report
Avoiding various complications is a challenge during re-do thoracoabdominal aneurysm surgery.
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:32
Published on: 19 May 2017
Research article
Long-acting β2-adrenoceptor agonists have been shown to increase the risk of atrial arrhythmias in patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The aim of this study was to investigate whether peri...
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2017 12:35
Published on: 19 May 2017
