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  1. From a variety of ring types, semirigid ring is more preferred for mitral annuloplasty during mitral valve repair particularly in patients whose native mitral saddle shape annulus is well maintained. During mi...

    Authors: Nikolaos G. Baikoussis, Nikolaos Koumallos and Κonstantina Aggeli
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:151
  2. The Quantra QPlus System is a cartridge-based device with a unique ultrasound technology that can measure the viscoelastic properties of whole blood during coagulation. These viscoelastic properties correlate ...

    Authors: Pierre Tibi, Jess Thompson, Saina Attaran and Elizabeth Black
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:149
  3. Although the pressure of pulmonary vein increases before pulmonary artery in pulmonary hypertension due to left heart disease (PH-LHD), only a few studies have assessed pulmonary vein smooth muscle cells (PVSM...

    Authors: Wenhui Huang, Hongjin Liu, Yichao Pan, Xueying Wang, Hongwei Yang, Danjie Wang, Jing Lin and Hui Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:146

    The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:200

  4. A retrospective study was performed to summarize the experience of transcatheter closure of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) through the right femoral vein under the guidance of transesophageal echocardiography ...

    Authors: Gang Wang, Yuhao Wu, Zhengxia Pan, Chun Wu, Yonggang Li, Hongbo Li, Quan Wang, Bo Liu and Jiangtao Dai
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:142
  5. Most mitral valve repair techniques provide excellent surgical results by removing regurgitation, but all of these techniques simultaneously reduce posterior valve mobility. A comprehensive biometric study of ...

    Authors: Misbaou Barry, Mesut Gun, Yuthiline Hun-Chabry, Majid Harmouche, Johann Peltier, Thierry Caus and Eric Havet
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:141
  6. Several studies have compared early and late outcomes of on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and off-pump CABG. However, there is still an ongoing debate on this matter, especially in patients with ...

    Authors: Seyed Mohammad Forouzannia, Seyed Khalil Forouzannia, Pourya Yarahmadi, Mohammad Alirezaei, Akbar Shafiee, Negin Yazdian Anari, Farzad Masoudkabir, Zahra Dehghani and Mina Pashang
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:140
  7. To evaluate the efficacy of sacubitril/valsartan for the treatment of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) after cardiac valve surgery (CVS).

    Authors: Jian Zheng, Qingsong Wu, Qianzhen Li, Mirong Tang, Jian He, Zhihuang Qiu, Linfeng Xie and Liangwan Chen
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:138
  8. Unfractionated heparin is used worldwide as a standard anticoagulation therapy for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machines. However, its use brings about significant bleeding and thrombotic complic...

    Authors: Miroslav Durila, Jan Berousek, Vlasta Vlasakova and Tomas Vymazal
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:137
  9. Enhanced recovery after surgery guidelines in China recommend early ambulation within 24 h after surgery. The aims of this audit were to investigate the early ambulation of patients with lung cancer under thor...

    Authors: Xiaoyun Ding, Huijun Zhang and Huahua Liu
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:136
  10. Caustic substance ingestion is a high-risk medical emergency associated with high mortality and morbidity. To date, there are several treatment options with no standard method of care.

    Authors: Samer Alhames, Mamdouh Alkhaled and Mike Ghabally
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:135
  11. COVID–19 infection can lead to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), right ventricular (RV) failure and pulmonary hypertension. Venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (V-V ECMO) has been u...

    Authors: Asad Ali Usman, Marisa Cevasco, Marc O. Maybauer, Audrey Elizabeth Spelde, Salim Olia, Christian Bermudez, Michael Ibrahim, Wilson Szeto, William J. Vernick and Jacob T. Gutsche
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:134
  12. A flail chest is one of the possible medical conditions suffered by individuals who were injured in traffic accidents, caused by multiple fractures of the ribs and sternum. Which often results in paradoxical c...

    Authors: Robert Chudzik, Krzysztof Buczyński, Paweł Rybojad and Marek Sawicki
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:133
  13. Postoperative cerebral infarction is a rare but serious complication after lung cancer surgery. We aimed to investigate the risk factors and evaluate the efficiency of our devised surgical procedure to prevent...

    Authors: Natsumi Maru, Haruaki Hino, Takahiro Utsumi, Hiroshi Matsui, Yohei Taniguchi, Tomohito Saito and Tomohiro Murakawa
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:132
  14. We present the first en bloc heart-lung donor transplant procurement using the Paragonix LUNGguard™ donor preservation system. This system offers reliable static hypothermic conditions designed to prevent major c...

    Authors: Daniel Neto, Brandon Guenthart, Yasuhiro Shudo and Maria E. Currie
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:131
  15. The current treatment for retrograde ascending aortic intramural hematoma (RAIMH) remains challenging. This study aims to summarize the short-term results of endovascular repair in the treatment of retrograde ...

    Authors: Bailang Chen, Rui Zhang, Haibing Liu, Yao Chen, Zanxin Wang and Minxin Wei
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:130
  16. New technologies for the treatment of Aortic Stenosis are evolving to minimize risk and treat an increasingly comorbid population. The Sutureless Perceval Valve is one such alternative. Whilst short-term data ...

    Authors: Jarrod Jolliffe, Simon Moten, Amit Tripathy, Peter Skillington, James Tatoulis, Claudio Muneretto, Lorenzo Di Bacco, Hericka Bruna Figueiredo Galvao and John Goldblatt
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:129
  17. Intercostal nerve block (ICNB) is a very effective analgesic method. We aimed to explore the effect of preemptive analgesia with ultrasound-guided intercostal nerve block on postoperative analgesia in thoracos...

    Authors: Shuo Li, Jinteng Feng, Kun Fan, Xiaoe Fan, Shaoning Cao and Guangjian Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:128
  18. Pulmonary placental transmogrification (PT) is a benign lesion curable by resection, represented by an unusual peculiar morphological variation including placentoid bullous change in the pulmonary hamartoma. I...

    Authors: Busra Yaprak Bayrak, Cigdem Vural and Kursat Yildiz
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:127
  19. Pulmonary segmentectomy for a lung with an incomplete interlobar fissure may complicate persistent air leakage. The fissureless technique is often used in lobectomy to prevent persistent air leakage. We herein...

    Authors: Masahiro Yanagiya, Masaaki Nagano and Jun Nakajima
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:125
  20. Congenital portosystemic shunt (CPS) is a developmental anomaly of the portal vein system. The disease can cause blood from the portal vein to flow into the vena cava, resulting in various atypical clinical ma...

    Authors: Wei Zheng, Chun Sun, Jinming Yang and Yingfeng Wu
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:124
  21. The treatment of coronary artery disease combined with severe atherosclerotic stenosis proximal to a left anterior descending artery myocardial bridge (LAD-MB) is still controversial. This study aimed to analy...

    Authors: Xi-Ruo Xu, Ming-Kui Zhang, Qing-Yu Wu, Li-Xin Fan and Hui Xue
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:123
  22. Lung biopsy (LB) procedures performed with computed tomography (CT guidance can enable the reliable diagnosis of lung lesions. These diagnostic efforts can be further expedited through a rapid on-site evaluati...

    Authors: Di Wu, Yue-Yue Liu, Tao Wang, Ya-Yong Huang and Ping Xia
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:122
  23. Chest wall sinus with infection is a refractory disease caused by a variety of susceptible factors, and the treatment is still challenging. For clinically complex cases, although there are various surgical met...

    Authors: Lei Wang, Zhijun Liu, Zhongliang He and Chun Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:121
  24. Tension pyopneumothorax is a rare and life-threatening complication of pneumonia, lung abscess, and empyema, and immediate thoracic drainage or surgery is required. A 70-year-old man presented to another hospi...

    Authors: Yoshihito Iijima, Shun Iwai, Nozomu Motono and Hidetaka Uramoto
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:120

    The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:182

  25. Post-pneumonectomy syndrome (PPS) is rare and predominantly characterised by dynamic airway obstruction due to mediastinal rotation at any time point following pneumonectomy. The objective of this systematic r...

    Authors: Natasha Christodoulides, Gerard J. Fitzmaurice, Irmina Bukowska, Eoin O’Rhaillaigh, Conor Toale, Michael Griffin and Karen C. Redmond
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:119
  26. Multiple rib fractures (≥ 3 displaced rib fractures and/or flail chest) are severe chest trauma with high morbidity and mortality. Rib fixation has become the first choice for multiple rib fracture treatment. ...

    Authors: Zhengwei Wang, Yifei Jia and Mi Li
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:118
  27. While the pledget suture technique has been the standard for surgical aortic. valve replacement (AVR), discussion continues regarding the possibility of the nonpledget suture technique to produce superior stru...

    Authors: 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 and Narutoshi Hibino
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:117
  28. Cell salvage reduces allogenic blood transfusion requirements in surgery. We present a pilot study exploring the impact of anticoagulant choice, citrate or heparin, on the quality of cell salvaged blood in adu...

    Authors: Willem Boer, Mathias van Tornout, Maarten Brusseleers, Maarten Strauven, Pieter de Vooght, Margot Vander Laenen, Eric Hoste and Philippe G. Jorens
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:116
  29. To analyze the clinical characteristics of patients with overweight acute type A aortic dissection, and to explore the risk factors of acute kidney injury in patients with overweight acute type A aortic dissec...

    Authors: Yu Xu, Shang-Tai Dai, Lin-Zhuo Liu, De-Mei Kong, Shi-Kui Guo and Kun-Mei Gong
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:115
  30. Prophylactic pharmacological conversion agents could reduce the incidence of postoperative atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients undergoing thoracic operations. The current study examined whether the use of pha...

    Authors: Dehua WU, Qiongzhen LI, Meiying XU, Jingxiang WU and Jun Yang
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:113
  31. This study aims to examine the impact of preoperative fibrinogen concentration on the short-term outcomes and hospital length of stay (LOS) of patients undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG).

    Authors: Chunsheng Huang, Wenyuan Zhang, Xiaofei Chen, Xia Xu, Jun Qiu and Zhihao Pan
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:112
  32. Clinical evidence is commonly obtained through individual trials that are time-, cost- and resource-consuming, and which often leave unanswered clinically relevant questions. Umbrella studies have been develop...

    Authors: Bart Meuris, Serdar Günaydın, Patrizio Lancellotti, Luigi Badano, Gabriel Aldea, Rita Herrenknecht, Elisa Cerutti, Sara Gaggianesi, Silvia Dipinto, Paola Morando and Jörg Kempfert
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:110
  33. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is associated with increased risk of heart failure via multiple mechanisms both in patients with and without access to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Limited i...

    Authors: Matthew Laraghy, James McCullough, John Gerrard, Andrie Stroebel and James Winearls
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:109
  34. To investigate the seasonal, monthly, and daily distributions of the incidence of Stanford type-A acute aortic dissection (TAAAD) and identify seasonality in the duration of hospital stay and in-hospital morta...

    Authors: Qinmei Lin, Qingsong Wu, Xiaodong Chen, Xingfeng Chen, Linfeng Xie and Liangwan Chen
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:108
  35. The aim of this bibliometric analysis was twofold: to identify the 100 most cited research articles on thymoma and to highlight future research opportunities in light of past and current research efforts.

    Authors: Lei Liu, Jiaqi Zhang, Guige Wang, Ke Zhao, Chao Guo, Cheng Huang, Shanqing Li and Yeye Chen
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:107
  36. Surgical approach is the most effective treatment for primary spontaneous pneumothorax. The two most widely adopted surgical methods are mechanical abrasion and apical pleurectomy, in addition to bullectomy. W...

    Authors: Jaewon Chang, Vignesh Ratnaraj, Vincent Fu, Michael Jiang, Varun Peri, Minhtuan Nguyenhuy and Phillip Antippa
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:105
  37. Placement of a central venous catheter (CVC) is a common procedure for spinal surgery and is relatively safe under ultrasound guidance.

    Authors: Tao-wu Gong, Yu-hang Zhu, Peng-cheng Zhao and Fan Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:104
  38. Postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) after open-heart surgery is a non-negligible complication. We aimed to describe the efficacy of a transdermal patch of bisoprolol for managing POAF and flutter in thora...

    Authors: Kenji Yamamoto, Senri Miwa, Tomoyuki Yamada, Shuji Setozaki, Mamoru Hamuro, Shunji Kurokawa and Sakae Enomoto
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:103
  39. There is still ongoing debate about the benefits of mini-thoracotomy (MTH) approach in mitral valve surgery in comparison with complete sternotomy (STER). This study aims to update the current evidence with mo...

    Authors: Adel Al Shamry, Margaux Jegaden, Salah Ashafy, Armand Eker and Olivier Jegaden
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:101
  40. Functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) worsens the prognosis of patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). While concomitant mitral valve surgery (MVS) is recommended for severe FMR d...

    Authors: Xieraili Tiemuerniyazi, Ziang Yang, Yifeng Nan, Yangwu Song, Wei Zhao, Fei Xu and Wei Feng
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:100
  41. This study aimed to investigate the safety and efficacy of the computed tomography (CT)-guided hook-wire localization technique in thoracoscopic surgery for small pulmonary nodules (≤ 10 mm) and to identify th...

    Authors: Yuan Yang, Chenhui Qin, Yue Ma, Zhongting Lu, Yun Zhang and Tao Li
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:99
  42. Asymptomatic graft failure after coronary bypass grafting surgery (CABG) may have negative impact on the patients’ short- and long-term outcomes. Cardiac computed tomography angiography (CTA) has been proved t...

    Authors: Zengqiang Han, Guodong Zhang and Yu Chen
    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2023 18:98

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