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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
Congenital
- Pulmonary Valve Replacement After Tetralogy of Fallot Repair in Preadolescent Patients
- Early timing of surgical intervention in patients with Ebstein's anomaly predicts superior long-term outcome
DECEMBER 2009
Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Acute Treatment of ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Is There a Role for the Cardiac Surgeon?
- Selective cerebral perfusion at 28 °C — is the spinal cord safe?
General Thoracic
- Induction Chemotherapy Before Sleeve Lobectomy for Lung Cancer: Immediate and Long-Term Results
- Sleeve lobectomy for patients with non-small-cell lung cancer: a simplified approach
Congenital
- Recurrent Coarctation: Is Surgical Repair of Recurrent Coarctation of the Aorta Safe and Effective?
- Open-heart surgery in premature and low-birth-weight infants — a single-centre experience
NOVEMBER 2009
Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Choice of Conduit for the Right Coronary System: 8-Year Analysis of Radial Artery Patency and Clinical Outcomes Trial
- Postoperative blood loss in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery after preoperative treatment with clopidogrel. A prospective randomised controlled study
- Survival after transapical and transfemoral aortic valve implantation: Talking about two different patient populations
General Thoracic
- Surgical Lung Resection for Severe Hemoptysis
- Chronic postpneumonic pleural empyema: comparative merits of thoracoscopic versus open decortication
- Routine surgical videothoracoscopy as the first step of the planned resection for lung cancer
Congenital
- Current Surgical Management of Ascending Aortic Aneurysm in Children and Young Adults
- An empirically based tool for analyzing mortality associated with congenital heart surgery