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  1. In this study, we evaluated the prevalence of tricuspid regurgitation (TR) worsening in patients with left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) and its impact on late right ventricular (RV) failure.

    Authors: Taro Nakazato, Daisuke Yoshioka, Koichi Toda, Shigeru Miyagawa, Satoshi Kainuma, Takuji Kawamura, Ai Kawamura, Noriyuki Kashiyama, Takayoshi Ueno, Toru Kuratani, Yasushi Sakata and Yoshiki Sawa

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:99

    Content type: Research article

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  2. Heart failure (HF) is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity. The PARACHUTE device is designed to partition for left ventricular (LV) apical aneurysm post extensive anterior myocardial infarction...

    Authors: Jianghua Li, Huadong Liu, Qiyun Liu, Cheng Liu, Wei Xiong, Wei Ma, Baowei Zhang, Shaohong Dong and Tangzhiming Li

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:98

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  3. Despite current progress in antibiotic therapy and medical management, infective endocarditis remains a serious condition presenting with high mortality rates. It also is a life-threatening complication in pat...

    Authors: Alina Zubarevich, Marcin Szczechowicz, Anja Osswald, Jerry Easo, Arian Arjomandi Rad, Robert Vardanyan, Bastian Schmack, Arjang Ruhparwar, Konstantin Zhigalov and Alexander Weymann

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:97

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  4. The present study aimed to explore the clinical characteristics of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) after surgery for acute type A aortic dissection and perform a relevant prognostic analysis.

    Authors: Chu-zhi Zhou, Dong-jie Feng, Yuan Fang, Feng-yan Zha, Er-hui Wang, Yan-zhen Li, Min-xin Wei and Jun-min Wen

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:96

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  5. The aim of this study is to compare the diagnostic efficacy and safety of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) with awake VATS (AVATS) pleural biopsy in undiagnosed exudative pleural effusions.

    Authors: Mertol Gokce, Bulent Altinsoy, Ozcan Piskin and Burak Bahadir

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:95

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  6. Congenital heart disease is a leading cause of death in newborns and infants. The feasibility of fetal cardiac surgery is linked to extracorporeal circulation (ECC); therefore, cardioplegic solutions need to b...

    Authors: Yi-bo Yan, Shuo Shi, Qian-biao Wu, Jin-sheng Cai and Bin-feng Lei

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:94

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  7. The clinical use of the radial artery (RA) in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is still limited worldwide, although it has been recommended by several guidelines. Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT)...

    Authors: En Qiao, Yuetang Wang, Jun Yu, Xu Wang, Xinjin Luo and Wei Wang

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:93

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  8. Antiphospholipid syndrome is an antibody mediated pro-thrombotic state leading to various arterial and venous thromboses. The syndrome can be either primary or secondary to other autoimmune diseases, commonly ...

    Authors: Yan Le Ho, Nurul Atiqah Ahmad Zaidi, Ahmadi Salleh and Basheer Ahamed Abdul Kareem

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:92

    Content type: Case report

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  9. Totally endoscopic technique has been widely used in cardiac surgery, and minimally invasive totally endoscopic mitral valve surgery has been developed as an alternative to median sternotomy for many patients ...

    Authors: Yi Chen, Ling-chen Huang, Dao-zhong Chen, Liang-wan Chen, Zi-he Zheng and Xiao-fu Dai

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:91

    Content type: Research article

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  10. We performed this meta-analysis to determine which stent among everolimus eluting stents (EES), sirolimus eluting stents (SES) and paclitaxel eluting stents (PES) should be preferred for the treatment of DM pa...

    Authors: Hang Ouyang, Xuehui Zeng, Chunlei Zhang, Linli Song, Jiarui Xu, Zhihui Hou, Siya Xie, Zheng Tao and Jincai He

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:90

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  11. Repair of the absence of the whole or major parts of pulmonary arteries is a challenge, and the choice of conduit material to reconstruct the pulmonary arteries is under dispute. We used the autologous innomin...

    Authors: Ahmad Ali Amirghofran, Kamran Jamshidi, Mohammadreza Edraki, Hamid Amoozgar, Farah Peiravian and Elahe Nirooei

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:89

    Content type: Case report

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  12. Rapid growth of cardiac wall hematoma is a rare but potentially fatal complication of cardiac surgery. However, its pathophysiology and optimal management remain undefined.

    Authors: Kimihiro Kobayashi, Tetsuro Uchida, Yoshinori Kuroda, Atsushi Yamashita, Eiichi Ohba, Shingo Nakai and Tomonori Ochiai

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:88

    Content type: Case report

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  13. The identification of targeted intersegmental planes and resection with adequate surgical margins are among the crucial steps in anatomical pulmonary segmentectomy, and technical improvements are still needed.

    Authors: Xiaoshun Shi, Jing Ye, Junyong Chen, Jianxue Zhai, Xiguang Liu, Di Lu, Zishi Lin, Zhen Ni, Hua Wu and Kaican Cai

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:87

    Content type: Case report

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  14. A rare cause of primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is a parathyroid carcinoma. Hypercalcemia with an elevated parathyroid hormone (PTH) level seen in recurrent and metastasis disease cases is often refractory ...

    Authors: Sachi Kawagishi, Soichiro Funaki, Naoko Ose, Kenji Kimura, Kosuke Mukai, Michio Otsuki and Yasushi Shintani

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:86

    Content type: Case report

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  15. Behçet’s disease is an auto-inflammatory disorder categorized as a primer systemic vasculitis of unknown aetiology. Genetic factors, infectious agents and the irregularity of T-cell homeostasis are presumed to...

    Authors: Miklós Pólos, Ádám Koppányi, Kálmán Benke, László Daróczi, Attila Oláh, Krisztina Heltai, Emese Kiss, Attila Fintha, Beáta Nagy, István Hartyánszky, Bálint Lakatos, Attila Kovács, Béla Merkely and Zoltán Szabolcs

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:85

    Content type: Case report

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  16. Surgical resection of pulmonary metastases leads to prolonged survival if strictly indicated. Usually, thoracotomy with manual palpation of the entire lung with lymph node dissection or sampling is performed. ...

    Authors: Till Markowiak, Beshir Dakkak, Elena Loch, Christian Großer, Monika Klinkhammer-Schalke, Hans-Stefan Hofmann and Michael Ried

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:84

    Content type: Research article

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  17. Retroaortic innominate vein (RIV) is a rare vascular abnormality. Although RIV itself is asymptomatic, its presence in patients with partial anomalous pulmonary venous return (PAPVR) to the superior vena cava ...

    Authors: Hanna Jung, Joon Yong Cho and Youngok Lee

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:83

    Content type: Case report

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  18. Blood glucose variability is associated with poor prognosis after cardiac surgery, but the relationship between glucose variability and postoperative delirium in patients with acute aortic dissection is unclea...

    Authors: Yan-Juan Lin, Ling-Yu Lin, Yan-Chun Peng, Hao-Ruo Zhang, Liang-wan Chen, Xi-Zhen Huang and Qiong Chen

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:82

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  19. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Zubair Shah, Ioannis Mastoris, Prakash Acharya, Aniket S. Rali, Moghni Mohammed, Farhad Sami, Sagar Ranka, Savahanna Wagner, Giorgio Zanotti, Christopher T. Salerno, Nicholas A. Haglund, Andrew J. Sauer, Ashwin K. Ravichandran and Travis Abicht

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:81

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    The original article was published in Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2020 15:329

  20. This research aims to summarize the findings of the early single-stage revascularization of remnant pulmonary artery in unilateral absent intrapericardial pulmonary artery.

    Authors: Wenlei Li, Li Ma, Shuliang Xia, Minghui Zou, Weidan Chen and Xinxin Chen

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:80

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  22. Congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM) with partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection presenting as episodic retrosternal chest pain on exertion in an adult has not been described.

    Authors: Ira Goldsmith, Joseph George, Umair Aslam and Sobaran Sharma

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:78

    Content type: Case report

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  23. Recent developments in robotic technology have brought significant changes in robotic video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (r-VATS) worldwide, particularly including the treatment in the thorax for the mediast...

    Authors: Vu Huu Vinh, Nguyen Viet Dang Quang, Dang Dinh Minh Thanh and Truong Van Le Phong

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:77

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  25. The few existing studies on the accuracy of lung ultrasound in the detection of a postoperative pneumothorax after thoracic surgery differ in the sonographic technique and the inclusion criteria. Several condi...

    Authors: Thomas Galetin, Julika Merres, Mark Schieren, Benjamin Marks, Yves Haffke, Jerome Defosse, Frank Wappler, Aris Koryllos and Erich Stoelben

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:75

    Content type: Research article

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  26. previous studies evaluating external stents for saphenous vein grafts (SVG) in CABG were limited to on-pump isolated CABG and single grafting technique with one external stent per patient. The objective of thi...

    Authors: Luca Paolo Weltert, Katia Audisio, Alessandro Bellisaro, Gianluca Bardi, Roberto Flocco, Ruggero De Paulis and Paolo Centofanti

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:74

    Content type: Research article

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  27. The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic presents challenges for surgeons of all disciplines, including cardiologists. The volume of cardiac surgery cases has to comply with the mandatory const...

    Authors: Andrzej Juraszek, Jarosław Kuriata, Piotr Kołsut, Tomasz Hryniewiecki, Monika Różewicz-Juraszek, Tomasz Dziodzio and Mariusz Kuśmierczyk

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:73

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  29. The occurrence of pulmonary infection after congenital heart disease (CHD) surgery can lead to significant increases in intensive care in cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) retention time, medical expenses, an...

    Authors: Chunnian Ren, Chun Wu, Zhengxia Pan, Quan Wang and Yonggang Li

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:71

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  30. While left ventricular assisted devices (LVAD) have revolutionized the treatment of advanced heart failure, they are associated with a wide range of complications, including bleeding and infection which are th...

    Authors: Amjad Shalabi, Erez Kachel, Yigal Kassif, Muin Faqeeh, Preisman Sergey, Leonid Sternik, Liza Grosman-Rimon, Wadi Kinany, Offer Amir, Eylon Ram, Jacob Lavee and Avishay Grupper

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:70

    Content type: Case report

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  31. Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm due to early left ventricle rupture is a serious complication after cardiac surgery. Urgent surgery is recommended in most cases with a high mortality rate. Conservative treatme...

    Authors: Qun-Jun Duan, Cui-Ting Duan, Wei-Jun Yang and Ai-Qiang Dong

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:69

    Content type: Case report

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  32. The prevalence of Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis (MS) has significantly changed over the last decades. We intend to examine patient demographics, Echocardiographic characteristics, procedural success rates, and com...

    Authors: Ofir Koren, Asaf Israeli, Ehud Rozner, Nassem Darawshy and Yoav Turgeman

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:68

    Content type: Research article

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  33. Cardiac herniation is a rare complication after pulmonary surgery, and there are only a few reports about it. We now report a case of cardiac herniation presenting as superior vena cava obstruction after pneum...

    Authors: Gengxu He, Tong Yao, Lei Zhao, Hong Geng, Qiang Ji, Kun Zuo, Yuanzhi Luo and Kai Zhou

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:67

    Content type: Case report

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  36. In Switzerland, long-term circulatory support programs have been limited to heart transplant centers. In 2014, to improve the management of patients with end-stage heart failure not eligible for transplantatio...

    Authors: Thibault Schaeffer, Otmar Pfister, Constantin Mork, Paul Mohacsi, Florian Rueter, Simon Scheifele, Anne Morgen, Urs Zenklusen, Thomas Doebele, Markus Maurer, Joachim Erb, Jens Fassl, Nadine Cueni, Martin Siegemund, Hans Pargger, Brigitta Gahl…

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:64

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  37. The outcomes of mitral valve replacement (MVR) in pediatrics especially in the patients weighing less than 10 kg are not always favorable. This study aimed to measure long-term outcomes of MVR in our institution.

    Authors: Haoyong Yuan, Zhongshi Wu, Ting Lu, Yilun Tang, Jinlan Chen, Yifeng Yang and Can Huang

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:63

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  39. To evaluate the role of multi-slice spiral computed tomography (MSCT) angiography in the diagnosis of spontaneous isolated visceral artery dissection (SIVAD).

    Authors: Qizhou He, Fei Yu, Yajun Fu, Bin Yang, Ran Huo, Rong Xian, Shulan Liu, Kali Liang and Guangcai Tang

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:61

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  40. Anatomic variation may increase the difficulty and risk of anatomic segmentectomy. The preoperative three-dimensional computed tomography bronchography and angiography (3D-CTBA) can provide a detailed model of...

    Authors: Jianbin Zhang, Yilv Zhu, Hongwei Li, Caihua Yu and Weiwei Min

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:60

    Content type: Case report

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  41. This letter to the editor has made several comments regarding possible statistical issues in recent article by Wang et al. determining the risk factors of continuous renal replacement treatment after emergency su...

    Authors: Zhao-Jing Xue, Peng Dong and Fu-Shan Xue

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:59

    Content type: Letter to the Editor

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  42. Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) adversely affects outcomes after cardiac surgery. A major mediator of AKI is the activation of leukocytes through exposure to the cardiopulmonary bypass circuit. We evaluate the use o...

    Authors: Espeed Khoshbin, Sally Spencer, Laurence Solomon, Augustine Tang, Stephen Clark, Elizabeth Stokes, Sarah Wordsworth, Lucy Dabner, Julia Edwards, Barnaby Reeves and Chris Rogers

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:58

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  43. Spontaneous esophageal rupture, also called Boerhaave’s syndrome, is relatively uncommon but may result in high morbidity and mortality. Synchronous presentation of spontaneous esophageal rupture and perforate...

    Authors: Chieh-Wei Chang, Yu-Ju Hung, Chien-Pin Chan and Chang-Lun Huang

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:57

    Content type: Case report

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  45. Preoperative computed tomography (CT)-guided coil localization (CL) is commonly used to facilitate video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS)-guided diagnostic wedge resection (WR) of pulmonary nodules (PNs)....

    Authors: Juan Wu, Min-Ge Zhang, Jin Chen and Wen-Bin Ji

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:55

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  46. Long-term placement of airway stents has a high probability of restenosis of the airway due to granulation tissue hyperplasia, and it is difficult to remove the stent. Our aim is to evaluate the success rate a...

    Authors: Zong-Ming Li, De-Chao Jiao, Xin-Wei Han, Hui-Bin Lu, Ke-Wei Ren and Hong Yang

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:54

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  47. While the perforation of the atrial wall and aortic sinus after closure of an atrial septal defect (ASD) is rare, it’s life-threatening, with rapid progress and high mortality. To the best of our knowledge, 21...

    Authors: Zai-Qiang Zhang and Jia-Wang Ding

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:53

    Content type: Case report

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  48. Intrathoracic esophageal anastomotic leakage (AL) is one of the most fatal complications after esophagectomy. In this study, we placed an additional drainage tube in the esophagus bed and evaluated its effect ...

    Authors: Hainong Ma, Xu Song, Jie Li and Guofang Zhao

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:52

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  49. Primary Focal Hyperhidrosis (PFH) has a detrimental effect on Quality of Life. Repetitive, non-curative symptomatic strategies dominate current treatment of PFH, in spite of the availability of an effective an...

    Authors: Michiel Kuijpers, Gwen Peeters, Petra W. Harms, Wobbe Bouma, Mike J. DeJongste, Massimo A. Mariani and Theo J. Klinkenberg

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:50

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  50. Cerebral infarction (CI) remains one of the most common and fatal complications of infective endocarditis (IE), and the timing of surgery for IE with neurologic complications is controversial. As outcomes beyo...

    Authors: Yujiro Yokoyama and Taichiro Goto

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:49

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