abstract：:We report on a patient with Marfan syndrome who presented a Stanford type B dissection of the descending thoracic aorta in late pregnancy. After a cesarean section, the patient presented a severe obstruction of the mesenteric superior artery. An endovascular fenestration was performed (balloon and guidewire based fene...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Rolf T,Qanadli SD,Rey J,von Segesser LK

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the current status of training in cardio-thoracic surgery in Europe and the residents' perception of the effects of the full implementation of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) on training. We conducted a web-based survey of trainees registered with the European As...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Sádaba JR,Loubani M,Salzberg SP,Myers PO,Siepe M,Sardari Nia P,O'Regan DJ

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solitary fibrous tumors (SFTs) are localized mesenchymal lesions which most frequently arise in the pleura but have also been observed in many other sites. SFTs arising from the thymus are relatively rare, however, and only a few cases have been reported to date. We report such a case in our current study. ...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Eguchi T,Ito N,Makiuchi A,Yoshida K

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lymphatic drainage of solid organ tumors crosses through the lymph nodes (LNs) whose tumoral involvement may still be considered as local disease. Concerning lung cancer, LN involvement may be intrapulmonary (N1), and mediastinal and/or extra-thoracic. More than 30 years ago, mediastinal involved LNs were all cons...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Riquet M,Arame A,Foucault C,Le Pimpec Barthes F

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is still no consensus on the optimal management to treat pediatric mediastinitis. We assessed the efficacy of continuous irrigation and vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) for mediastinitis in children. This study retrospectively reviewed 20 patients aged <5 years with mediastinitis from December 2002 to December 2009...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Ugaki S,Kasahara S,Arai S,Takagaki M,Sano S

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a stented bioprosthetic valve is used for aortic valve replacement, the valve stents protruding to the aortic side can interfere with suture tying. To resolve this problem, we developed a novel knot pusher for use on the index finger. This device has a short push rod appropriate for replacing bioprosthetic aortic...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Shibata T,Hattori K,Kato Y,Bito Y

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet dysfunction followed by thromboembolic as well as bleeding complications are severe events in patients with ventricular assist devices (VADs). Microparticles (MP) are cell vesicles with inflammatory and coagulatory potency that are released by cells during activation and can be used as specific cell activatio...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Diehl P,Aleker M,Helbing T,Sossong V,Beyersdorf F,Olschewski M,Bode C,Moser M

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We experienced the surgical repair of an extremely rare pulmonary artery dissection without pulmonary hypertension. The patient had multiple coronary-pulmonary artery fistulae, which presumably caused pulmonary artery dissection. The surgical treatment included the closure of the multiple coronary fistulae and the res...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Matsumura Y,Ogino H,Sasaki H,Nakanishi N

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prosthetic graft infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the most serious complications of cardiovascular surgery. Seeking to prevent graft infection, we evaluated the efficacy of a new biodegradable hydrogel glue (new-glue) composed of aldehyded dextran and epsilon-poly(L-lysine) w...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Morishima M,Marui A,Yanagi S,Nomura T,Nakajima N,Hyon SH,Ikeda T,Sakata R

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection as a complication of long-term left ventricular assist device (LVAD) support leads to significant morbidity and mortality. Obesity, a possible risk factor for other postoperative cardiovascular surgical site infections, is an increasingly prevalent condition among recipients of LVAD devices. We retrospective...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Martin SI,Wellington L,Stevenson KB,Mangino JE,Sai-Sudhakar CB,Firstenberg MS,Blais D,Sun BC

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is the fastest method for diagnosing aortic dissection type A and allows 3D TEE, even in hemodynamically instable patients. 3D TEE may provide additional information on aortic morphology, the involvement of coronary arteries by the dissection and aortic valve function. In this re...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Scohy TV,Geniets B,McGhie J,Bogers AJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine jugular veins (BJVs) (Contegra) are valve-bearing pulmonary artery substitutes. Their valves have higher profiles than human pulmonary valves; this might result in less optimal performance. Therefore, we investigated the impact of stress and undersizing on conduit performance with ergometry, echocardiography an...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Boethig D,Ernst F,Sarikouch S,Norozi K,Lotz J,Opherk JP,Meister M,Breymann T

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this report is to share our experience with the different types of cardiac tumors, surgical management, postoperative complications and mid-term outcome of patients in an Australian tertiary hospital. Nineteen patients underwent cardiac surgery for tumors between 2001 and 2008. Their data was prospect...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Matebele MP,Peters P,Mundy J,Shah P

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Open repair of aortic aneurysm causes spinal cord perfusion pressure to decrease due to the steal phenomenon from the bleeding of intercostal arteries and cross-clamping of the aorta. We attempted to perfuse the intercostal arteries for preoperative detection of the artery of Adamkiewicz using newly developed catheter...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Kawaharada N,Ito T,Koyanagi T,Harada R,Hyodoh H,Kurimoto Y,Watanabe A,Higami T

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison of the outcome of cardiac operations performed by surgical trainees with those performed by consultant surgeons has been an interesting topic in recent years. We set out to examine the outcome of a high volume-training firm. Cardiac operations performed by surgical trainees and a consultant between January ...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Hosseini MT,Saeed I,Mandal K,Kourliouros A,Valencia O,Jahangiri M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous lung hernias are unusual conditions which usually follow attacks of excessive straining. Spontaneous bowel hernias are even rarer. Here, we present the first reported case of a combined spontaneous herniation of both the lung and bowel following an attack of acute bronchitis and coughing together with a de...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Habib A,Elsayed H,Dhanji AR,Wood A

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plombage, a variant of collapse therapy for patients with pulmonary tuberculosis that uses a variety of foreign materials, was undertaken until the 1950s before the invention of effective antimicrobial therapy. Complications related to previous plombage procedures are not uncommon. Management of these complications ca...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Yadav S,Sharma H,Iyer A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergency repair has been successfully performed in acute type A aortic dissection complicated by cerebral malperfusion. Despite the lack of criteria to define irreversible brain damage, immediate surgery is often denied in case of stroke or coma. We report two patients presenting with coma and altered brainstem refle...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Pocar M,Passolunghi D,Moneta A,Donatelli F

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac myxomas are the commonest benign tumour of the heart. We are describing a rare presentation of a myxoma in a patient with renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Since there was no single reported case of myxoma with RCC, a presumptive diagnosis of RCC with right atrial extension of tumour thrombus was made. Both the tumo...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Gopalakrishnan M,Benjamin M,Kamath M,Thekkepurackal R

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour of the lung is considered a rare diagnosis of lung masses. We report the case of a five-year-old girl who presented with recurrent pyrexia, dry cough, and shortness of breath. Chest X-ray and computed tomography showed a total atelectasis of the left lower lobe and a segmental a...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Ochs K,Hoksch B,Frey U,Schmid RA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study is to assess the immediate and mid-term results of hypogastric artery bypass (HAB) in open repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). METHODS:The clinical data of 24 patients with an average age of 70.4 years [standard deviation (S.D.)+/-8.1 years] with AAA treated between January 2005...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Milite D,Campanile F,Tosato F,Pilon F,Zaramella M

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult patients supported on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) are very sick and many complications are often present in each single patient; therefore, it is not always easy to find some risk factors that can predict the early outcome. This retrospective study reports our experience in ECMO support treatment ...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Formica F,Avalli L,Colagrande L,Ferro O,Greco G,Maggioni E,Paolini G

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:To determine whether conventional coarctation repair results in sustained growth of hypoplastic transverse arches, we examined the follow-up of 20 patients operated through a thoracotomy between 1990 and 1995 who had available serial echocardiographic examinations. Mean age at operation was 8.6+/-5.7 days. I...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Liu JY,Kowalski R,Jones B,Konstantinov IE,Cheung MM,Donath S,Brizard CP,d'Udekem Y

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the impact of hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) on myocardium in the setting of cold crystalloid cardioplegia and cardiopulmonary bypass (CP/CPB). Eighteen male Yorkshire pigs underwent 1 h CP/CPB followed by 2 h of reperfusion. Pigs received either: placebo (control, n=9), or H(2)S (as NaHS) as a bolus/infusio...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Osipov RM,Robich MP,Feng J,Chan V,Clements RT,Deyo RJ,Szabo C,Sellke FW

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to determine the response of the right ventricle (RV) to surgically induced pressure and volume overload in both acute and chronic settings. Four-month-old sheep were operated via left anterior thoracotomy. Pressure overload of the RV was established by banding of the pulmonary trunk. Volume overload was indu...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Yerebakan C,Klopsch C,Niefeldt S,Zeisig V,Vollmar B,Liebold A,Sandica E,Steinhoff G

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Success of the modified maze procedure after valvular operation with giant atria and permanent atrial fibrillation (AF) remains suboptimal. We report an aggressive approach for these patients utilizing biatrial reduction plasty with a reef imbricate suture technique concomitantly with valvular and maze procedure for A...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Wang W,Guo LR,Martland AM,Feng XD,Ma J,Feng XQ

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the diagnostic accuracy of computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA) for the diagnosis of significant coronary artery disease (CAD) compared to conventional coronary angiography (CCA) in patients with primary cardiac tumors. Thirty-eight consecutive patients with primary cardiac tumors (27 females, 11...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Scheffel H,Stolzmann P,Plass A,Leschka S,Grünenfelder J,Falk V,Marincek B,Alkadhi H

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a patient who underwent removal of an external stent of the bronchus. She had undergone external stenting for tracheobronchomalacia. After removal of the external stent, the bronchus was just as widely patent as preoperative state. ...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Nakamura Y,Aoki M,Nagase Y,Fujiwara T

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour (IMT) or inflammatory pseudotumour is a histologically distinctive lesion occurring primarily in the viscera and soft tissue of children and young adults. We report an unusual case of IMT which had undergone malignant transformation in the chest wall at the pacemaker site. A 64-year...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Rathinam S,Kuntz H,Panting J,Kalkat MS

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical aortic arch (CAA) is a rare congenital anomaly. An aneurysm developed on a CAA is even rarer and a life threatening condition. We report the diagnosis and surgical treatment of an aneurysm on a CAA associated with an anomalous origin of the left main coronary artery. The surgical procedure consisted in the re...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Charrot F,Tarmiz A,Glock Y,Léobon B

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The different aspects of quality of life (QOL) in patients of different sex structure have been examined as well as the presumption that sex structure could be a predictor of QOL changes after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). METHODS:The study included 243 consecutive patients who underwent an electi...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Peric V,Borzanovic M,Stolic R,Jovanovic A,Sovtic S,Djikic D,Marcetic Z,Dimkovic S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrated positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET/CT) scanning has become the standard for oncologic imaging. We sought to determine the role of PET/CT in mediastinal non-small cell lung cancer staging. One hundred and twenty-seven consecutive patients were enrolled in the study where PET/CT was per...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Tasci E,Tezel C,Orki A,Akin O,Falay O,Kutlu CA

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Reliable suture line hemostasis should improve the outcome of aortic surgery. We examined the hemostatic effect and the tissue response of a novel elastomeric surgical sealant. METHODS:Using porcine internal carotid arteries, we performed 16 end-to-end anastomoses with four stitches of simple interrupted su...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Oda S,Morita S,Tanoue Y,Eto M,Matsuda T,Tominaga R

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Foregut duplication cysts are rare congenital anomalies of enteric origin that arise during early embryonic development. They are usually incidentally found on routine imaging studies. The diagnosis can usually be made by computed tomography (CT) and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) appearance. On CT, cyst attenuation valu...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Diehl DL,Cheruvattath R,Facktor MA,Go BD

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An algorithm of preoperative mediastinal nodal staging with endobronchial/endoesophageal ultrasonography (EBUS/EUS) and transcervical extended mediastinal lymphadenectomy (TEMLA) combined with laparoscopy/peritoneal lavage and cytology was analyzed to establish the realistic criteria for radical multimodality treatmen...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Zielinski M,Hauer J,Hauer L,Pankowski J,Nabialek T,Szlubowski A

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of a male patient diagnosed with a large inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery (IPDA) aneurysm, associated with a fresh thrombotic occlusion of the celiac trunk. Given the risk of splanchnic ischaemia, radiologic embolisation of the aneurysm combined with celiac axis stenting was deemed unsafe. Managem...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Ritter JC,Johnston M,Caruana MF,Laws PE

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pericardial effusion is one of the frequent complications of malignancies, up to 15-20% of the autopsy specimens showing pericardial or cardiac metastasis. Often the pericardial fluid accumulates in large quantities leading to cardiac tamponade, which can be fatal in the absence of appropriate treatment. The authors p...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Motas C,Motas N,Rus O,Horvat T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an unusual complication of left-sided diaphragmatic plication, namely bleeding from the spleen due to tearing of adhesions between the spleen and the abdominal aspect of the diaphragm. We believe that making a small incision in the diaphragm prior to the plication to identify and divide the adhesions could h...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Pathak S,Page RD

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embolized intracardiac foreign bodies have been previously described in the literature. Those related to iatrogenic procedures, such as catheters and pacemaker electrodes, are the most common. However, traumatic embolization of a metal foreign body is scantily described. We report a case of a peripheral venous emboliz...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Marcello P,García-Bordes L,Méndez López JM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This retrospective study was carried out to evaluate the indications for and outcomes of the hemiclamshell (HCS) approach (longitudinal partial sternotomy with antero-lateral thoracotomy) in patients undergoing mass resection in thoracic surgery. All patients (50) who underwent a HCS procedure in our department, betwe...

journal_title：Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery

authors： Lebreton G,Baste JM,Thumerel M,Delcambre F,Velly JF,Jougon J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00