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Adult Cardiac Surgery
- In Situ Replacement for Mycotic Aneurysms on the Thoracic and Abdominal Aorta Using Rifampicin-Bonded Grafting and Omental Pedicle Grafting
- Impact of endoscopic versus open saphenous vein harvest technique on late coronary artery bypass grafting patient outcomes in the ROOBY (Randomized On/Off Bypass) Trial [JTCS, Feburary 2011]
- Favorable effects of left ventricular reconstruction in patients excluded from the Surgical Treatments for Ischemic Heart Failure (STICH) trial [JTCS, April 2011]
- Impact of pulmonary hypertension on outcomes after aortic valve replacement for aortic valve stenosis [JTCS, June 2011]
General Thoracic
- Impact of Hospital Volume of Thoracoscopic Lobectomy on Primary Lung Cancer Outcomes
- Randomized trial of mediastinal lymph node sampling versus complete lymphadenectomy during pulmonary resection in the patient with N0 or N1 (less than hilar) non–small cell carcinoma: Results of the American College of Surgery Oncology Group Z0030 Trial [JTCS, March 2011]
- Predictors of recurrence and disease-free survival in patients with completely resected esophageal carcinoma [JTCS, May 2011]
- The utility of automated volumetric growth analysis in a dedicated pulmonary nodule clinic [JTCS, March 2011]
Congenital
- Reoperation After the Ross Procedure: Incidence, Management, and Survival
- Intraoperative device closure of atrial septal defects with inferior vena cava rim deficiency: A safe alternative to surgical repair [JTCS, March 2011]
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
JANUARY 2012
Adult Cardiac Surgery
General Thoracic
Congenital
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
DECEMBER 2011
Adult Cardiac Surgery
- The impact of deep and moderate body temperatures on end-organ function during hypothermic circulatory arrest
- Durability of Porcine Bioroots in Younger Patients With Aortic Root Pathology: A Propensity-Matched Comparison With Composite Mechanical Roots
General Thoracic
- Current evidence on transcervical mediastinal lymph nodes dissection
- Survival After Lobectomy Versus Segmentectomy for Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Population-Based Analysis
Congenital
- Cardiac and neurological assessment of normothermia/warm blood cardioplegia vs hypothermia/cold crystalloid cardioplegia in pediatric cardiac surgery: insight from a prospective randomized trial
- A Growing Problem: Maternal Death and Peripartum Complications Are Higher in Women With Grown-Up Congenital Heart Disease
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
NOVEMBER 2011
Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis in patients with concomitant mitral regurgitation: should the mitral valve be dealt with?
- Baseline Left Ventricular Volume and Shape as Determinants of Reverse Remodeling Induced by Surgical Ventricular Reconstruction
General Thoracic
- The role of sleeve resections in advanced nodal disease
- Is Sublobar Resection Sufficient for Carcinoid Tumors?
Congenital
- Outcomes following more than two decades of paediatric cardiac transplantation
- Long-Term Functional Analysis of the Atrioventricular Valve in Patients Undergoing Single Ventricle Palliation
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
OCTOBER 2011
Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Closed chest hybrid coronary revascularization for multivessel disease — current concepts and techniques from a two-center experience
- Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: Transfemoral Versus Transapical Approach
General Thoracic
- Management of thoracic esophageal perforations
- Cumulative Radiation Dose From Medical Imaging Procedures in Patients Undergoing Resection for Lung Cancer
Congenital
- Risk factors for failed staged palliation after bidirectional Glenn in infants who have undergone stage one palliation
- The Use of Oral Budesonide in Adolescents and Adults With Protein-Losing Enteropathy After the Fontan Operation
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
SEPTEMBER 2011
Adult Cardiac Surgery
- The role of gender in coronary surgery
- Saddle-Shape Annuloplasty Increases Mitral Leaflet Coaptation After Repair for Flail Posterior Leaflet
- Outcomes of coronary artery bypass grafting and reduction annuloplasty for functional ischemic mitral regurgitation: A prospective multicenter study (Randomized Evaluation of a Surgical Treatment for Off-Pump Repair of the Mitral Valve) [JTCS, January 2011]
General Thoracic
- Efficacy of endoscopic ultrasound in patients with esophageal cancer predicted to have N0 disease
- A Comparative Analysis of Video-Assisted Mediastinoscopy and Conventional Mediastinoscopy
- Optimal care of patients with non–small cell lung cancer reduces perioperative morbidity [JTCS, January 2011]
Congenital
- Single-center 50 years’ experience with surgical management of tetralogy of Fallot
- Continuous Cerebral Perfusion for Aortic Arch Repair: Hypothermia Versus Normothermia
- One slide fits all: The versatility of slide tracheoplasty with cardiopulmonary bypass support for airway reconstruction in children [JTCS, January 2011]
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
AUGUST 2011
Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Who Is the High-Risk Recipient? Predicting Mortality After Heart Transplant Using Pretransplant Donor and Recipient Risk Factors
- Aortic valve repair with ascending aortic aneurysms: associated lesions and adjunctive techniques
General Thoracic
- Accuracy of FDG-PET to Diagnose Lung Cancer in a Region of Endemic Granulomatous Disease
- Airways colonizations in patients undergoing lung cancer surgery
Congenital
- Risk Factors for Mortality and Morbidity After the Neonatal Blalock-Taussig Shunt Procedure
- Significance of the residual aortic obstruction in multistage repair of hypoplastic left heart syndrome
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
JULY 2011
Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Transapical Aortic Valve Implantation Off-Pump in Patients With Impaired Left Ventricular Function
- Increased systemic perfusion pressure during cardiopulmonary bypass is associated with less early postoperative cognitive dysfunction and delirium
General Thoracic
- Esophageal Stent Placement for the Treatment of Acute Intrathoracic Anastomotic Leak After Esophagectomy
- Esophagectomy for clinical high-grade dysplasia
Congenital
- Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Reconstruction With an Allograft Conduit in Patients After Tetralogy of Fallot Correction: Long-Term Follow-Up
- Predictors of long intensive care unit stay following cardiac surgery in children
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
JUNE 2011
Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Is aortopathy in bicuspid aortic valve disease a congenital defect or a result of abnormal hemodynamics? A critical reappraisal of a one-sided argument
- Morbidity of Bleeding After Cardiac Surgery: Is It Blood Transfusion, Reoperation for Bleeding, or Both?
General Thoracic
- Tumor Necrosis as a Prognostic Factor for Stage IA Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Current status of pulmonary metastasectomy
Congenital
- Comparison of surgical and interventional therapy of native and recurrent aortic coarctation regarding different age groups during childhood
- Outcomes of Surgery for Simple Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage in Neonates
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
JUNE 2011
Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Is aortopathy in bicuspid aortic valve disease a congenital defect or a result of abnormal hemodynamics? A critical reappraisal of a one-sided argument
- Morbidity of Bleeding After Cardiac Surgery: Is It Blood Transfusion, Reoperation for Bleeding, or Both?
General Thoracic
- Tumor Necrosis as a Prognostic Factor for Stage IA Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Current status of pulmonary metastasectomy
Congenital
- Comparison of surgical and interventional therapy of native and recurrent aortic coarctation regarding different age groups during childhood
- Outcomes of Surgery for Simple Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage in Neonates
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
MAY 2011
Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Staged Versus Synchronous Carotid Endarterectomy and Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Analysis of 10-Year Nationwide Outcomes
- Does stentless aortic valve implantation increase perioperative risk? A critical appraisal of the literature and risk of bias analysis
- Less-invasive perfusion techniques may improve outcome in thoracoabdominal aortic surgery [JTCS, December 2010]
General Thoracic
- Pathologic Lymph Node Staging Practice and Stage-Predicted Survival After Resection of Lung Cancer
- Cystic fibrosis and the thoracic surgeon
- General thoracic surgery is safe in patients taking clopidogrel (Plavix) [JTCS, November 2010]
- Outcomes of unexpected pathologic N1 and N2 disease after video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy for clinical stage I non–small cell lung cancer [JTCS, December 2010]
Congenital
- Center Variation in Patient Age and Weight at Fontan Operation and Impact on Postoperative Outcomes
- Pediatric heart transplantation: 23-year single-center experience
- Repair of major congenital cardiac defects in low-birth-weight infants: Is delay warranted? [JTCS, November 2010]
- Surgical repair of congenital mitral valve malformations in infancy and childhood: A single-center 36-year experience [JTCS, December 2010]
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
APRIL 2011
Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Minimized extracorporeal circulation system in coronary artery bypass surgery: a 10-year single-center experience with 2243 patients
- Incidence, Determinants, and Prognostic Impact of Operative Refusal or Denial in Octogenarians With Severe Aortic Stenosis
- Predictors of low cardiac output syndrome after isolated mitral valve surgery [JTCS, October 2010]
General Thoracic
- Carcinoid lung tumors – incidence, treatment and outcomes: a population-based study
- Variation in Esophagectomy Outcomes in Hospitals Meeting Leapfrog Volume Outcome Standards
- The effect of regionalization on outcome in pulmonary lobectomy: A Canadian national study [JTCS, October 2010]
Congenital
- Tranexamic acid: an alternative to aprotinin as antifibrinolytic therapy in pediatric congenital heart surgery
- The Aristotle Comprehensive Complexity Score Predicts Mortality and Morbidity After Congenital Heart Surgery
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
MARCH 2011
Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Predictors, Causes, and Consequences of Conversions in Robotically Enhanced Totally Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery [ATS, March 2011]
- Meta-analysis of short-term and long-term survival following repair versus replacement for ischemic mitral regurgitation [EJCTS, March 2011]
- Minimally Invasive Versus Sternotomy Approach for Mitral Valve Surgery in Patients Greater Than 70 Years Old: A Propensity-Matched Comparison [ATS, February 2011]
- Factors influencing blood transfusion requirements in robotic totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass grafting on the arrested heart [EJCTS, February 2011]
- The Italian study on the Mitroflow postoperative results (ISTHMUS): a 20-year, multicentre evaluation of Mitroflow pericardial bioprosthesis [EJCTS, January 2011]
General Thoracic
- Utility of Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration in the Diagnosis of Mediastinal Masses of Unknown Etiology [ATS, March 2011]
- Determining the appropriate sleeve lobectomy versus pneumonectomy ratio in central non-small cell lung cancer patients: an audit of an aggressive policy of pneumonectomy avoidance [EJCTS, March 2011]
- Bronchopulmonary Carcinoid Tumors: Long-Term Outcomes After Resection [ATS, February 2011]
- Video-assisted thoracic surgery of major pulmonary resections for lung cancer: the Southampton experience [EJCTS, February 2011]
- Arch replacement and downstream stent grafting in complex aortic dissection: first results of an international registry [EJCTS, January 2011]
Congenital
- Anomalous pulmonary venous connection to superior vena cava: Warden technique [EJCTS, March 2011]
- Bloodstream Infections Increased After Delayed Sternal Closure: Cause or Coincidence [ATS, March 2011]
- Outcomes and re-interventions after one-stage repair of transposition of great arteries and aortic arch obstruction [EJCTS, February 2011]
- Risk Factors for Preoperative and Postoperative Progression of Aortic Regurgitation in Congenital Ruptured Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm [ATS, February 2011]
- Junctional ectopic tachycardia after surgery for congenital heart disease: incidence, risk factors and outcome [EJCTS, January 2011]
