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  1. Primary cardiac tumours are extremely rare. Most of them are benign. Sarcomas account for 95% of the malignant tumours. Prognosis of primary cardiac angiosarcoma remains poor. Complete surgical resection is of...

    Authors: Lubna Bakr, Hussam AlKhalaf and Ahmad Takriti

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:41

    Content type: Case report

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  2. This study aims to compare safety and impact of monopolar electrocautery and ultrasonic dissector (Harmonic ACE Plus®) on postoperative short-term outcomes after video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) lobectomy a...

    Authors: Maria Cattoni, Nicola Rotolo, Elisa Nardecchia, Silvia De Maio, Lorenzo Dominioni and Andrea Imperatori

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:40

    Content type: Research article

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  4. Clinical application of minimally invasive cardiac surgery has increased annually. Cardiopulmonary bypass is established by peripheral cannulation during minimally invasive cardiac surgery. The methodology of ...

    Authors: Ling-chen Huang, Qi-chen Xu, Dao-zhong Chen, Xiao-fu Dai and Liang-wan Chen

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:38

    Content type: Research article

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  5. Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a chronic inflammatory disease that induces stenosis, occlusion, or aneurysmal degeneration of the aorta and its major branches. Though rarely reported, proximal aneurysmal lesions f...

    Authors: Kayo Sugiyama, Hirotaka Watanuki, Yasuhiro Futamura, Masaho Okada, Satoshi Makino and Katsuhiko Matsuyama

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:37

    Content type: Case report

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  6. In specialized centers, percutaneous closure using specific occluders is the first-choice treatment in atrial septal defects (ASD). Late complications after this intervention, such as erosion of the aorta or t...

    Authors: Christine E. Kamla, Joscha Buech, Philipp M. Doldi, Christian Hagl, Gerd Juchem and Alexey Dashkevich

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:36

    Content type: Case report

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  7. Mitral regurgitation is a frequent valvular disease, with an increasing prevalence. We analysed the long-term outcomes of mitral valve repair procedures conducted over the last 10 years in our clinic using alm...

    Authors: Ayse Cetinkaya, Maryam Waheed, Karin Bramlage, Oliver Johannes Liakopoulos, Mohamed Zeriouh, Stefan Hein, Peter Bramlage, Markus Schönburg, Yeong-Hoon Choi and Manfred Richter

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:35

    Content type: Research article

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  8. Femoral cannulation for extracorporeal circulation (ECC) is a standard procedure for minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS) of the atrio-ventricular valves. Vascular pathologies may cause serious complicati...

    Authors: Moritz B. Immohr, Yukiharu Sugimura, Patric Kröpil, Hug Aubin, Jan-Philipp Minol, Alexander Albert, Udo Boeken, Artur Lichtenberg and Payam Akhyari

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:34

    Content type: Research article

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  9. “Swiss Cheese” ventricular septal defects (VSDs) is a kind of rare and complex congenital heart defects and the surgical management remains controversial and a challenge. We reviewed our preliminary clinical expe...

    Authors: Qin Wu, Lei Shi, Rui Chen and Quansheng Xing

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:33

    Content type: Research article

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  10. Delirium is one of the prevalent complications of post open heart surgery. The present research aimed to assess the effect of multi-component interventions on the incidence rate, severity, and duration of post...

    Authors: Banafsheh Tehranineshat, Nima Hosseinpour, Arash Mani and Mahnaz Rakhshan

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:32

    Content type: Research article

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  11. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of an early extubation strategy on outcomes following complete repair of pulmonary atresia, ventricular septal defect, and hypoplastic pulmonary artery.

    Authors: Yinan Li, Yuan Jia, Hongbai Wang, Xie Wu, Shoujun Li, Fuxia Yan and Su Yuan

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:31

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  12. To summarize and analyze the clinical characteristics of postoperative complications after minimally invasive closure of transthoracic ventricular septal defect, and to explore the risk factors for its occurre...

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

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:30

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  13. Large intracardiac bronchogenic cysts are rare mediastinal masses. However, they must always be considered in the differential diagnosis of heart failure with abnormal chest X-ray.

    Authors: Javier Maldonado Escalante, German Molina, Francisco Mauricio Rincón, Lina M. Acosta Buitrago and Carlos J. Perez Rivera

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:29

    Content type: Case report

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  14. To summarize the clinical characteristics of adult cases of paragonimiasis with lung masses as the main manifestation in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, analyze the causes of misdiagnosis, and improve the leve...

    Authors: Qiu-Hong Shu, Yang Yang, Shu-De Li, Jun-Sheng Zhao, Sheng-Hao Li, Miao-Miao Wang, Wei-Qun Wang, Ming Tian, Shu-Mei-Qi He, Zhi-Qiang Ma, Min Zhu and Wen-Lin Wang

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:28

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  15. Spindle cell sarcomas of the right atrium are extremely rare primary cardiac tumours, with very few cases reported in the medical literature. Pseudoaneurysms caused by cardiac spindle cell sarcoma have never b...

    Authors: Xiaofang Wang, Aiqiang Dong, Weijun Yang and Qunjun Duan

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:27

    Content type: Case report

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  16. Association of abdominal aortic aneurysm with congenital pelvic kidney is rare and association with isolated iliac artery aneurysm is not yet described in the literature.

    Authors: Guilherme Centofanti, Kenji Nishinari, Bruna De Fina, Rafael Noronha Cavalcante, Mariana Krutman and Ross Milner

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:26

    Content type: Case report

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  17. Although septal myectomy is a standard strategy for managing patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) and drug-refractory symptoms, so far, only a few experienced myectomy centers exist glo...

    Authors: Qiang Ji, Yu Lin Wang, Ye Yang, Hao Lai, Wen Jun Ding, Li Min Xia and Chun Sheng Wang

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:25

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  18. In spontaneous pneumothorax, clamping the chest drain before its removal may avoid reinsertion in case of early recurrence, but may be unsafe and may prolong hospital stay. The objective of this study was to e...

    Authors: Yu-Hong Chan, Ellen Lok-Man Yu, Hau-Chung Kwok, Yiu-Cheong Yeung and Wai-Cho Yu

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:24

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  19. Catamenial pneumothorax is generally uncommon, with an incidence of less than 3–6% in women with spontaneous pneumothorax. As few cases of catamenial pneumothorax with diaphragmatic defect and liver herniation...

    Authors: Satoshi Arakawa, Hideki Matsudaira, Yuki Noda, Makoto Yamashita, Jun Hirano, Masaichi Ogawa and Takashi Ohtsuka

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:23

    Content type: Case report

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  20. Surgical resection plays an essential role in the treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB). There are few reports comparing lobectomy and sublobectomy for pulmonary TB with cavity. To compare the advantages b...

    Authors: Yong Yang, Shaojun Zhang, Zhengwei Dong, Yong Xu, Xuefei Hu, Gening Jiang, Lin Fan and Liang Duan

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:22

    Content type: Research article

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  21. Saphenous veins used for coronary artery bypass surgery are subjected to considerable vascular trauma when harvested by conventional methods. This vascular damage is responsible, at least in part, for the infe...

    Authors: Ninos Samano, Andrzej Loesch and Michael R. Dashwood

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:21

    Content type: Letter to the Editor

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  22. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, most institutions have changed the way patients are assessed or investigated. Using novel non-contact technology, it is possible to continuously monitor the lung function ...

    Authors: Natalie Simon, Azhar Hussain, Priyanka Kolvekar and Shyam Kolvekar

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:20

    Content type: Letter to the Editor

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  23. Given that isolated tricuspid valve (TV) repair or replacement is performed relatively rarely, we sought to evaluate the rate of long-term mortality and readmission following this surgery.

    Authors: Seyed Hosssein Ahmadi Tafti, Farshid Alaeddini, Mahmood Shirzad, Jamshid Bagheri, Abbas Salehi Omran, Mehrdad Mahalleh, Shiva Shoja and Negar Omidi

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:19

    Content type: Research article

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  24. Pulmonary metastasectomy was performed in the early twentieth century and ever since, it has evolved to be one of the main treatment options for certain metastatic malignancies. The advancement of minimally in...

    Authors: Riad Abdel Jalil, Mohamad K. Abou Chaar, Omar M. Shihadeh, Obada Al-Qudah, Azza Gharaibeh, Loulia Aldimashki, Ali Dabous, Rami Ghanem and Ahed Al-Edwan

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:18

    Content type: Case report

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  25. To explore the clinical effect of 3D printing combined with framework internal fixation technology on the minimally invasive internal fixation of high complex rib fractures.

    Authors: Xuetao Zhou, Dongsheng Zhang, Zexin Xie, Yang Yang, Menghui Chen, Zheng Liang, Guoliang Zhang and Shujun Li

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:5

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  26. The aim of this study is to evaluate the possibility of the autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) collection from the cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) circuit and to evaluate its effect on the aggregative function.

    Authors: Takeshi Honda, Yuji Kanaoka, Hiroshi Furukawa, Taishi Tamura, Noriaki Kuwada, Takahiko Yamasawa, Yoshiko Watanabe, Yasuhiro Yunoki, Atsushi Tabuchi and Kazuo Tanemoto

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:17

    Content type: Research article

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  27. Isolated pulmonary valve endocarditis (IPE) is rare, accounting for 1.5–2% of all cases of infective endocarditis. Herein, we describe a case of isolated pulmonary valve endocarditis with rapid progression in ...

    Authors: Ming-Xuan Zhang, Wei-Min Zhang, Chan Yu, Bo-Wen Zhao, Ran Chen, Mei Pan and Bei Wang

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:16

    Content type: Case report

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  28. A displaced left B1 + 2 accompanied by an anomalous pulmonary vein is a rare condition involving complex structures. There is a risk of unexpected injuries to bronchi and blood vessels when patients with such ano...

    Authors: Shinichi Sakamoto, Hiromitsu Takizawa, Naoya Kawakita and Akira Tangoku

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:15

    Content type: Case report

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  29. Not applicable.

    Authors: Olivier Fouquet, Jean-David Blossier, Simon Dang Van, Pauline Robert, Agnès Barbelivien, Frédéric Pinaud, Patrice Binuani, Maroua Eid, Daniel Henrion, Laurent Loufrani and Christophe Baufreton

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:14

    Content type: Letter to the Editor

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  30. Lymph node ratio (LNR) has been suggested to be an effective prognostic tool for stratifying non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cases. In this study, we sought to determine cancer-specific survival (CCS) of NS...

    Authors: Liu Kai, Chen Zhoumiao, Xu Shaohua, Chen Zhao, Li Zhijun, He Zhengfu and Cai Xiujun

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:13

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  31. Aged patients suffering from acute myocardial ischemia (AMI) exhibit an increased mortality rate and worse prognosis, and a more effective treatment is currently in need. In the present study, we investigated ...

    Authors: Jing Tao, Xian Wei, Ying Huang, Fen Liu, Yun Wu, Dilare Adi, Yang Xiang, You Chen, Yi-tong Ma and Bang-dang Chen

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:12

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  32. Acute aortic dissection (AAD) is a life-threatening condition which can lead to coronary, brachiocephalic or branch vessel malperfusion, as well as aortic valve insufficiency, or aortic rupture. Mortality of s...

    Authors: Yoshihiro Suematsu, Satoshi Nishi, Daisuke Arima and Akihiro Yoshimoto

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:11

    Content type: Case report

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  33. As the positions and sizes of nodules in synchronous multiple primary lung cancer (SMPLC) patients differ, the development of surgical strategies to maximize long-term survival and preserved postoperative pulm...

    Authors: Weichun Wu, Yimin Wu, Gang Shen and Guofei Zhang

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:10

    Content type: Case report

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  34. Perioperative coagulopathy and blood transfusion are common in patients undergoing Stanford type A acute aortic dissection (AAD) repair. The autologous platelet-rich plasmapheresis (aPRP) technique is a blood ...

    Authors: Jiaqi Tong, Liang Cao, Liwei Liu and Mu Jin

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:9

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  36. The perioperative complications in patients with coronary artery disease undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery have been reported predominantly from developed countries, with a paucity of data...

    Authors: Samantha Reiche, Dineo Mpanya, Katharina Vanderdonck, Shungu Mogaladi, Palesa Motshabi-Chakane and Nqoba Tsabedze

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:7

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  37. The benefit of arterial revascularization in coronary surgery remains controversial. The incremental value of additional grafts to the left internal thoracic artery (ITA) has been mainly assessed according to ...

    Authors: Olivier J. L. Jegaden, Fadi Farhat, Margaux P. O. Jegaden, Amar O. Hassan, Joel Lapeze and Armand Eker

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:6

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  38. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent and serious complication of cardiac surgery, associated with a high incidence of morbidity and mortality. Although the RIFLE criteria serve as a prominent tool to identi...

    Authors: Thomas Wittlinger, Martin Maus, Ingo Kutschka, Hassina Baraki and Martin G. Friedrich

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:4

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  39. Anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ARCAPA) is a rare congenital heart disease affecting about 0.002% of the population. Knowledge of ARCAPA is almost collected from case r...

    Authors: Peng Teng, Weidong Li and Yiming Ni

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:3

    Content type: Case report

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  40. A large number of studies have shown that BIMA grafting is superior to single internal mammary artery grafting in cardiac function protection and long-term survival after surgery. While, there is still no cons...

    Authors: Zengqiang Han, Guodong Zhang, Shenglong Chen, Gang Liu and Yu Chen

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:2

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  41. Cardiac lipoma is an uncommon primary cardiac tumor. With the advancement of diagnostic methods and treatment techniques, more cases of cardiac lipomas have been reported and suggest that the entity previously...

    Authors: Shenglei Shu, Jing Wang and Chuangsheng Zheng

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:1

    Content type: Review

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  42. A newly infectious diseases named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in China and now has spread in many countries, and constituted a public health emergency of international concern. Extracorporeal m...

    Authors: Junyi Tang, Wencan Li, Fanli Jiang and Tao Wang

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2020 15:335

    Content type: Case report

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  43. Cerebral embolism after lobectomy is a life-threatening complication during the early postoperative period. However, it is unclear if cerebral embolism can develop after segmentectomy.

    Authors: Peirui Chen, Qiusha Qing, Mingqiang Diao, Xiaokang Sun, Junrong Yang and Jing Lv

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2020 15:334

    Content type: Case report

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  44. Controlled donation after circulatory death (cDCD) has emerged as one of the main strategies for increasing the organ donor pool. Because of the ischemic injury that follows the withdrawal of life-sustaining t...

    Authors: Marina Pérez Redondo, Sara Alcántara Carmona, Susana Villar García, Alberto Forteza Gil, Héctor Villanueva Fernández, Francisco José Hernández-Pérez, José Luis Campo-Cañaveral de la Cruz, Rocío Velasco Calvo, Javier Segovia-Cubero, Beatriz Alonso Menárguez, Francisco del Río Gallegos, Elisabeth Coll, Beatriz Domínguez-Gil González and Juan José Rubio Muñoz

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2020 15:333

    Content type: Case report

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  45. Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a rare neoplastic hyperplasia with an unknown etiology. It is clinically rare for patients with solitary rib lesion and pathological fracture; moreover, its diagnosis and...

    Authors: Tao Zuo, Ping Jiang, Junjie Yu, Ke Zhao, Yong Liu and Baojun Chen

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2020 15:332

    Content type: Case report

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  46. This study aimed to report the experience of diagnosis and treatment of one rare case of mediastinal lymph node tuberculous abscess (MLNTA) using endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiratio...

    Authors: Yong Fang, Liping Cheng, Junhong Guo, Chunyan Wu, Ye Gu, Xiaofang You and Wei Sha

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2020 15:331

    Content type: Case report

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  47. Long-term data on isolated surgical tricuspid valve procedures is limited. Current guidelines on heart valve disease recommend valve repair over valve replacement. In this study we report our 12-year single-ce...

    Authors: Alina Zubarevich, Marcin Szczechowicz, Andreas Brcic, Anja Osswald, Konstantinos Tsagakis, Daniel Wendt, Bastian Schmack, Michel Pompeu B. O. Sá, Jef Van den Eynde, Arjang Ruhparwar and Konstantin Zhigalov

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2020 15:330

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  48. Left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) have been increasingly used in the treatment of end-stage heart failure. While warfarin has been uniformly recommended in the long-term as anticoagulation strategy, no cl...

    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 2020 15:329

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2021 16:81

  49. Sun’s procedure is currently recognized as the standard procedure for acute type A aortic dissection (AAAD). But the operation istoo difficult for beginners. We hope to reduce the difficulty and complications ...

    Authors: Detian Jiang, Yufeng Huo, Yimin Liu, Yan Wang, Jinfeng Zhou, Xiangfei Sun, Fen Zhao, Yonghai Du, Songxiong He, Chao Liu and Wenyu Sun

    Citation: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2020 15:328

    Content type: Research article

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