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Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Efficiency and safety of preoperative autologous blood donation in cardiac surgery: a matched-pair analysis in 432 patients
- Aortic valve replacement for active infective endocarditis: 5-year survival comparison of bioprostheses, homografts and mechanical prostheses
- Midterm Outcomes of Rapid, Minimally Invasive Resection of Acute Type A Aortic Dissection in Octogenarians
- Surgical Repair of Posterior Mitral Valve Prolapse: Implications for Guidelines and Percutaneous Repair
General Thoracic
- Percutaneous aspiration versus tube drainage for spontaneous pneumothorax: systematic review and meta-analysis
- Tissue engineering and biotechnology in general thoracic surgery
- The 30- Versus 90-Day Operative Mortality After Pulmonary Resection
- Donor Factors Are Associated With Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome After Lung Transplantation
Congenital
- Re-interventions on the autograft and the homograft after the Ross operation in children
- Long-term results after correction of persistent truncus arteriosus in 83 patients
- Impact of Noncardiac Congenital and Genetic Abnormalities on Outcomes in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
- Reoperations After Repair of Partial Atrioventricular Septal Defect: A 45-Year Single-Center Experience
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
- Echocardiographic Identification of Iatrogenic Injury of the Circumflex Artery During Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair
- Diagnostic Value of Hemoglobin A1c and Fasting Plasma Glucose Levels in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Patients With Undiagnosed Diabetes Mellitus
APRIL 2010
Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction and Aortic Atheroma
- Warm versus cold cardioplegia for heart surgery: a meta-analysis
General Thoracic
- Outcomes After Esophagectomy in Patients With Prior Antireflux or Hiatal Hernia Surgery
- Trends of bacterial colonisation and the risk of postoperative pneumonia in lung cancer patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Congenital
- Predictive Value of Intraoperative Diagnosis of Residual Ventricular Septal Defects by Transesophageal Echocardiography
- Results of staged total cavopulmonary connection for functionally univentricular hearts; comparison of intra-atrial lateral tunnel and extracardiac conduit
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
MARCH 2010
Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Incidence and prediction of permanent neurological deficits after cardiac surgery — are the existing models of prediction truly global?
- Increased Graft Occlusion or String Sign in Composite Arterial Grafting for Mildly Stenosed Target Vessels
- Association of hospital coronary artery bypass volume with processes of care, mortality, morbidity, and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons composite quality score [From February 2009 issue of JTCS]
General Thoracic
- Pneumomediastinum: is this really a benign entity? When it can be considered as spontaneous? Our experience in 47 adult patients
- Prognostic Significance of Intratumoral Blood Vessel Invasion in Pathologic Stage IA Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Thoracoscopic lobectomy is associated with lower morbidity than open lobectomy: A propensity-matched analysis from the STS database [From February 2009 issue of JTCS]
Congenital
- Results of the modified Fontan procedure are not related to age at operation
- Use of Oral Budesonide in the Management of Protein-Losing Enteropathy After the Fontan Operation
- Performance of the CryoValve SG human decellularized pulmonary valve in 342 patients relative to the conventional CryoValve at a mean follow-up of four years [From February 2009 issue of JTCS]
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
FEBRUARY 2010
Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Impact of Endoscopic Versus Open Saphenous Vein Harvest Techniques on Outcomes After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
- Destination therapy with a rotary blood pump and novel power delivery
- Comparable patencies of the radial artery and right internal thoracic artery or saphenous vein beyond 5 years: Results from the Radial Artery Patency and Clinical Outcomes trial [Recently added CME from January 2010 issue of JTCS]
- Long-term survival in asymptomatic patients with severe degenerative mitral regurgitation: A propensity score–based comparison between an early surgical strategy and a conservative treatment approach [Recently added CME from December 2009 issue of JTCS]
General Thoracic
- Pulmonary Endarterectomy Improves Dyspnea by the Relief of Dead Space Ventilation
- Surgery for pulmonary tuberculosis — a 15-year experience
- Required area of lymph node sampling during segmentectomy for clinical stage IA non–small cell lung cancer [Recently added CME from January 2010 issue of JTCS]
- Recurrence after neoadjuvant chemoradiation and surgery for esophageal cancer: Does the pattern of recurrence differ for patients with complete response and those with partial or no response? [Recently added CME from December 2009 issue of JTCS]
Congenital
- Partial and Transitional Atrioventricular Septal Defect Outcomes
- Long-term results after mitral valve repair in children
- Port-access minimally invasive surgery for atrial septal defects: A 10-year single-center experience in 166 patients [Recently added CME from January 2010 issue of JTCS]
- Primary left ventricular rehabilitation is effective in maintaining two-ventricle physiology in the borderline left heart [Recently added CME from December 2009 issue of JTCS]
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
JANUARY 2010
Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Stroke-Related Mortality in Coronary Surgery Is Reduced by the Off-Pump Approach
- Chronic ischaemic mitral regurgitation. Current treatment results and new mechanism-based surgical approaches
General Thoracic
- Intercostal Muscle Flap for Decreasing Pain After Thoracotomy: A Prospective Randomized Trial
- Thymoma and thymic carcinoma
