Changqing Gao, Ming Yang, Gang Wang, and Jiali Wang

Totally robotic resection of myxoma and atrial septal defect repair (Work in progress report - Cardiac general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:947-950. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kenji Minatoya, Hitoshi Ogino, Hitoshi Matsuda, and Hiroaki Sasaki

Rapid and safe establishment of cardiopulmonary bypass in repair of acute aortic dissection: improved results with double cannulation (Work in progress report - Vascular thoracic)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:951-953. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Leo A. Bockeria, Anatoliy I. Malashenkov, and Sergey V. Rychin

eComment: Rapid and safe establishment of cardiopulmonary bypass in repair of acute aortic dissection: improved results with double cannulation (eComment)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:953. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chen-Sung Lin, Liang-Shun Wang, Chun-Ming Tsai, and Yau-Huei Wei

Low copy number and low oxidative damage of mitochondrial DNA are associated with tumor progression in lung cancer tissues after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (Work in progress report - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:954-958. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paul E. Achouh, Serge Simonet, Jean-Noël Fabiani, and Tony J. Verbeuren

Carbon monoxide induces relaxation of human internal thoracic and radial arterial grafts (Work in progress report - Experimental)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:959-962. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ulrich Goebel and Matthias Siepe

eComment: Carbon monoxide and its vasodilatative properties: another good reason for clinical implication (eComment)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:962-963. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Krystyna Bochenek-Klimczyk, Kelvin K.W. Lau, Manuel Galiñanes, and Andrzej W. Sosnowski

Preassembled stentless valved-conduit for the replacement of the ascending aorta and aortic root (Work in progress report - Vascular thoracic)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:964-968. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wilhelm Alexander Osthaus, Jan Sievers, Thomas Breymann, and Robert Suempelmann

Bicarbonate buffered ultrafiltration leads to a physiologic priming solution in pediatric cardiac surgery (Work in progress report - Cardiopulmonary bypass)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:969-972. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael Scharfschwerdt, Hans-H. Sievers, Marie von Heinz, and Claudia Schmidtke

Vena cava as autologous tissue for pulmonary valve substitute (Work in progress report - Valves)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:973-976. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kiyoshi Koizumi, Hankei Shin, Toru Matayoshi, and Ryohei Yozu

Comparison of active and passive coronary perfusion in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (Work in progress report - Experimental)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:977-980. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maninder S. Kalkat, Asad Abedin, Stephen Rooney, Alan Doherty, Muzaffar Faroqui, Michael Wallace, and Timothy R. Graham

Renal tumours with cavo-atrial extension: surgical management and outcome (Institutional report - Cardiac general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:981-985. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Emanuel Melloul, Bernhard Egger, Thorsten Krueger, Cai Cheng, Francois Mithieux, Christiane Ruffieux, Lennart Magnusson, and Hans-Beat Ris

Mortality, complications and loss of pulmonary function after pneumonectomy vs. sleeve lobectomy in patients younger and older than 70 years (Institutional report - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:986-989. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Parwis B. Rahmanian, Farzan Filsoufi, Sacha Salzberg, Anthony Coppolino, Javier G. Castillo, and David H. Adams

Surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation using cryothermy in patients undergoing mitral valve surgery (Institutional report - Arrhythmia)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:990-995. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ryoichi Nakanishi, Toshihiro Yamashita, and Soichi Oka

Initial experience of video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy with partial removal of the pulmonary artery (Institutional report - Pulmonary)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:996-1000. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Katsuhiko Shimizu, Masao Nakata, Yuji Hirami, Ai Maeda, and Kazuo Tanemoto

Recent results regarding the clinical impact of smoking history on postoperative complications in lung cancer patients (Institutional report - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1001-1006. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Binay Krishna Sarkar, Pratim Sengupta, and Uday Narayan Sarkar

Surgical outcome in thymic tumors with myasthenia gravis after plasmapheresis – a comparative study (Institutional report - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1007-1010. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Keiji Kushibe, Takeshi Kawaguchi, Michitaka Kimura, Makoto Takahama, Takashi Tojo, and Shigeki Taniguchi

Changes in ventilatory capacity, exercise capacity, and pulmonary blood flow after lobectomy in patients with lung cancer – which lobectomy has the most loss in exercise capacity? (Institutional report - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1011-1014. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elias A. Karfis, Evangelos Roustanis, John Beis, and John Kakadellis

Video-assisted cervical mediastinoscopy: our seven-year experience (Institutional report - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1015-1018. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [On-line video]  

Jwa-Kyung Kim, Seung Hun Jang, Jae Woong Lee, Dong-Gyu Kim, Ki Woo Hong, and Ki-Suck Jung

Clinical parameters affecting prediction accuracy of postoperative lung function in non-small cell lung cancer (Institutional report - Pulmonary)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1019-1023. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Narendra Nath Basu, Nikolaos Fassiadis, and Andrew McIrvine

Mobility one year after unilateral lower limb amputation: a modern, UK institutional report (Institutional report - Vascular general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1024-1026. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Narcis Hudorovic

eComment: Survival and lower limb amputees (eComment)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1026-1027. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vivek Agrawal, Mohit Kumar Joshi, Bhupendra Kumar Jain, Debajyoti Mohanty, and Arun Gupta

Tuberculotic osteomyelitis of rib – a surgical entity (Institutional report - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1028-1030. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xicheng Deng, Yifeng Yang, Zuosheng Deng, and Erjia Huang

Experiences in severe chest trauma of children in 20 years (Institutional report - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1031-1034. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ashish Joshi, Diane Smith, Mohit Arora, and Robert Poston

Anticoagulant monitoring in ventricular assist device patients: a feasibility study (Institutional report - Assisted circulation)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1035-1038. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Siyamek Neragi-Miandoab, Shoshana Weiner, and David J. Sugarbaker

Incidence of atrial fibrillation after extrapleural pneumonectomy vs. pleurectomy in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (Institutional report - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1039-1042. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karsten Knobloch

eComment: Postoperative atrial fibrillation following extrapleural pneumonectomy – which atrium is the driving force? (eComment)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1043. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Noriyoshi Sawabata, Youko Karube, Hideo Umezu, Motohiko Tamura, Norio Seki, Hiromi Ishihama, Koichi Honma, and Shinichiro Miyoshi

Cytologically malignant margin without continuous pulmonary tumor lesion: cases of wedge resection, segmentectomy and lobectomy (Institutional report - Pulmonary)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1044-1048. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zaccaria Ricci, Giulia V. Stazi, Luca Di Chiara, Stefano Morelli, Vincenzo Vitale, Chiara Giorni, Claudio Ronco, and Sergio Picardo

Fenoldopam in newborn patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass: controlled clinical trial (Institutional report - Congenital)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1049-1053. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jacobo Silva, Natalia Ridao-Cano, Antonio Segura, Luis C. Maroto, Javier Cobiella, Manuel Carnero, Alberto Barrientos, and José E. Rodríguez

Can estimated glomerular filtration rate improve the EuroSCORE? (Institutional report - Cardiac general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1054-1057. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sachin Talwar, Shiv Kumar Choudhary, Srikrishna Reddy, Anita Saxena, Shyam Sunder Kothari, Rajnish Juneja, and Balram Airan

Total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage beyond childhood (Institutional report - Congenital)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1058-1061. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Roberto Di Bartolomeo, Luca Botta, Alessandro Leone, Emanuele Pilato, Sofia Martin-Suarez, Massimo Bacchini, and Davide Pacini

Bio-Valsalva^TM prosthesis: ‘new’ conduit for ‘old’ patients (Institutional report - Vascular thoracic)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1062-1066. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christian Torbrand, Angelica Wackenfors, Sandra Lindstedt, Rolf Ekman, Richard Ingemansson, and Malin Malmsjö

Sympathetic and sensory nerve activation during negative pressure therapy of sternotomy wounds (Institutional report - Cardiac general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1067-1070. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

José Luis Iribarren, Fernando Martínez Sagasti, Juan José Jiménez, Maitane Brouard, Eduardo Salido, Rafael Martínez, and María Luisa Mora

TNFβ+250 polymorphism and hyperdynamic state in cardiac surgery with extracorporeal circulation (Institutional report - Cardiopulmonary bypass)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1071-1074. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yuji Shiraishi, Naoya Katsuragi, Hidefumi Kita, Masayuki Toishi, and Takahito Onda

Experience with pulmonary resection for extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (Institutional report - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1075-1078. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bassam Abboud, Ronald Daher, Ghassan Sleilaty, Samia Madi-Jebara, Bechara El Asmar, Ramzi Achouch, and Victor Jebara

Is prompt exploratory laparotomy the best attitude for mesenteric ischemia after cardiac surgery? (Institutional report - Cardiopulmonary bypass)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1079-1083. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rodrigo R. Brigato, José R.M. Campos, Fabio B. Jatene, Luiz F.P. Moreira, and Eduardo B. Rebeis

Pectus excavatum: evaluation of Nuss technique by objective methods (Institutional report - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1084-1088. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Edmo Atique Gabriel, Rafael Fagionato Locali, Priscila Katsumi Matsuoka, Ludmila Santiago Almeida, Ismael Guerreiro Silva, Vera Lúcia Capelozzi, Tomas Antonio Salerno, and Enio Buffolo

Lung perfusion during cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass: is it necessary? (Institutional report - Experimental)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1089-1095. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ludwig K. von Segesser, Giuseppe Siniscalchi, Kwang Kang, Olaf Maunz, Judith Horisberger, Enrico Ferrari, Dominique Delay, and Piergiorgio Tozzi

Temporary caval stenting improves venous drainage during cardiopulmonary bypass (ESCVS article - Cardiopulmonary bypass)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1096-1100. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Piotr Knapik, Piotr Rozentryt, Pawel Nadziakiewicz, Lech Polonski, and Marian Zembala

Retrospective cross-validation of simplified predictive index for renal replacement therapy after cardiac surgery (ESCVS article - Cardiac general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1101-1106. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Laszlo Göbölös, Alois Philipp, Maik Foltan, and Karsten Wiebe

Surgical management for Stanford type A aortic dissection: direct cannulation of real lumen at the level of the Botallo's ligament by Seldinger technique (Proposal for bail-out procedures - Vascular thoracic)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1107-1109. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Salvatore Lentini, Marcello Savasta, Francesco Monaco, and Roberto Gaeta

eComment: Perfusion of the true lumen during surgery for aortic dissection (eComment)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1109. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dimitrios Buklas, Massimo Massetti, Eugenio Neri, and Sidney Chocron

Built-in defect of a biological pericardial aortic prosthesis? (Negative results - Valves)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1110-1111. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Can C. Erdem

eComment: Early postoperative failure of a pericardial aortic prosthesis (eComment)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1111. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Francesco Patanè, Fabrizio Sansone, Paolo Centofanti, and Mauro Rinaldi

Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm after pericardiocentesis (Negative results - Cardiac general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1112-1113. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Atsushi Tajima, Mitsutomo Kohno, Masazumi Watanabe, Yotaro Izumi, Sadatomo Tasaka, Ikuro Maruyama, Taku Miyasho, and Koichi Kobayashi

Occult injury in the residual lung after pneumonectomy in mice (Negative results - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1114-1120. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vitaly Aleksandrovich Sorokin, Theo Kofidis, Felix Woitek, Eliana Cecilia Martinez, Chuen Neng Lee, and Uwe Klima

Consequences of incomplete repair of acute type A aortic dissection (Negative results - Aortic and aneurysmal)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1121-1123. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maurizio Salati, Andrea Moneta, and Francesco Donatelli

Late thoracic pseudo-aneurysm causing collapse of vascular prostheses (Negative results - Vascular thoracic)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1124-1126. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Akihito Matsushita, Tatsuhiko Komiya, Nobushige Tamura, and Genichi Sakaguchi

Pneumopericardium caused by a permanent endocardial pacing lead (Negative results - Cardiac general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1127-1128. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tomohiro Mizuno

Wall rupture of Medtronic Freestyle stentless porcine aortic root bioprosthesis (Negative results - Valves)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1129-1130. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shi-Min Yuan, Amihay Shinfeld, and Ehud Raanani

Displacement of the Amplatzer occluder device from the mitral paraprosthetic leak (Negative results - Valves)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1131-1133. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [On-line Video]  

Yuki Okamoto, Masahiko Matsumoto, Hidenori Inoue, and Kisyo Shimura

Aortic valve papillary fibroelastoma that developed rapidly after open-heart surgery (Negative results - Valves)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1134-1136. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [On-line video]  

Karthik R. Vaidyanathan

eComment: Did the papillary fibroelastoma really grow rapidly? (eComment)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1136. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yuki Okamoto, Masahiko Matsumoto, and Hidenori Inoue

eResponse: Did the papillary fibroelastoma really grow rapidly? (eResponse)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1136. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Miguel Maia, Pedro Brandão, Pedro Monteiro, Paulo Barreto, Daniel Brandão, Joana Ferreira, Sandrina Braga, and Guedes Vaz

Upper limb ischemia in a patient with Wegener's granulomatosis (Follow-up papers - Vascular general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1137-1140. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrew J. Turley, Shahzad G. Raja, Kareem Salhiyyah, and Kumaresan Nagarajan

Does cardiac resynchronisation therapy improve survival and quality of life in patients with end-stage heart failure? (Best evidence topic - Cardiac general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1141-1146. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ioanna Koniari, Spyridon Gkizas, and Efstratios Apostolakis

eComment: Does cardiac resynchronisation therapy improve survival andquality of life in patients with end-stage heart failure? (eComment)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1146-1147. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Boudewijn P.J. Leeuwenburgh, Michael I.M. Versteegh, Jacinta J. Maas, and Joel Dunning

Should amiodarone or lidocaine be given to patients who arrest after cardiac surgery and fail to cardiovert from ventricular fibrillation? (Best evidence topic - Arrhythmia)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1148-1151. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anne Freynet and Pierre-Emmanuel Falcoz

Does non-invasive ventilation associated with chest physiotherapy improve outcome after lung resection? (Best evidence topic - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1152-1154. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sandro Mattioli, Richard G. Berrisford, Maria Luisa Lugaresi, and Beatrice Aramini

Survey on chest drainage systems adopted in Europe (Brief communication - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1155-1159. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karsten Knobloch

eComment: A tribute to Gotthard Bülau and Vincenzo Monaldi (eComment)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1159. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marek Gwozdziewicz

Left internal thoracic artery harvesting: measurement of the length required for coronary bypass surgery (Brief communication - Coronary)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1160-1161. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Federico Benetti

eComment: No need to open the upper part of the sternum to measure the length of the left internal mammary artery (eComment)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1161. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hazem B. Fallouh and David J. Chambers

Is blood versus crystalloid cardioplegia relevant? Significantly improved protection may require new cardioplegic concepts! (Brief communication - Cardiac general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1162-1163. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kazuma Okamoto, Filip P. Casselman, Raphael De Geest, and Hugo Vanermen

Giant left coronary ostial aneurysm after modified Bentall procedure in a Marfan patient (Case report - Aortic and aneurysmal)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1164-1166. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter Matt and Friedrich Eckstein

eComment: Stabilizing aortic tissue after aortic root surgery in Marfan syndrome (eComment)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1166. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Leo A. Bockeria, Anatoliy I. Malashenkov, and Sergey V. Rychin

eComment: Giant left coronary ostial aneurysm after modified Bentall procedure in a Marfan patient (eComment)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1166. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Matthew M. Miller, Robert Hipp, and Martin E. Matsumura

Freedom from complications related to dual ball-and-cage mechanical valve prostheses despite thirty years without anticoagulation (Case report - Valves)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1167-1169. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Leo A. Bockeria, I.I. Skopin, and E.V. Kuts

eComment: Freedom from complications related to dual ball-and-cage mechanical valve prostheses despite thirty years without anticoagulation (eComment)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1169. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lognathen Balacumaraswami, Suresh Fernando, and Filip Van Tornout

A rapid bail-out technique for reinsertion of a displaced tracheostomy tube in difficult situations (Case report - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1170-1171. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alptekin Yasim, Hafize Oksuz, and Mesut Ozkaya

Open heart surgery in a patient with diabetes insipidus (Case report - Cardiopulmonary bypass)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1172-1173. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Roman Gebauer, Stepan Cerny, Pavel Vojtovic, and Petr Tax

Congenital atresia of the left coronary artery – myocardial revascularization in two children (Case report - Congenital)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1174-1175. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Claire Irving and Milind Chaudhari

Enlarged bronchial collateral artery complicating recovery after arterial switch for simple transposition of the great arteries (Case report - Congenital)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1176-1177. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masashi Yanada and Shogo Toda

Venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support for treatment of bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax (Case report - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1178-1179. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mitsugi Nagashima, Narutoshi Hibino, Eiichi Yamamoto, and Takashi Higaki

Total cavopulmonary connection for functionally single ventricle with pulmonary atresia and abnormal arborization of pulmonary arteries – exclusion of overwhelmed area by collateral arteries from Fontan circulation (Case report - Congenital)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1180-1182. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Walter Teixeira de Mello Junior, José Roberto Coutinho Nogueira, Marcos Santos, and Washington José Pelissari França

Isolated absence of the right pulmonary artery as a cause of massive hemoptysis (Case report - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1183-1185. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shinji Mine, Harushi Udagawa, Yoshihiro Kinoshita, and Rie Makuuchi

Post-esophagectomy chylous leakage from a duplicated left-sided thoracic duct ligated successfully with left-sided video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (Case report - Esophagus)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1186-1188. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shang Dong Xu, Zhan Ming Fan, Yu Li, and Fang Jiong Huang

Endovascular repair after stent elephant trunk procedure for extensive thoracic aortic aneurysm (Case report - Vascular thoracic)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1189-1190. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jeroen De Cocker, Nouredin Messaoudi, Wim Waelput, and Paul E.Y. Van Schil

Intrapulmonary glomus tumor in a young woman (Case report - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1191-1193. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Johan Fierens, Urbain Mees, Michel Vanbockrijck, and Marc Hendrikx

Amyloidoma of the chest wall: a rare entity (Case report - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1194-1195. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shin-ichi Takeda, Masaru Koma, and Hajime Maeda

Huge thymoma: role of preoperative WHO histological classification (Case report - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1196-1198. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hiroyuki Nishi, Masataka Mitsuno, Masaaki Ryomoto, and Yuji Miyamoto

Severe mitral regurgitation due to cardiac amyloidosis – a rare reason for ruptured chordae (Case report - Valves)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1199-1200. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stefano Censi, Andrea Dell'Amore, Rita Conti, and Paolo Lorenzini

Cardiac mesothelial/monocytic-incidental-excrescence: more than an artifactual lesion? (Case report - Cardiac general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1201-1203. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Amit Modi, Narain Moorjani, David Pontefract, and Steve Livesey

Isolated papillary endothelial hyperplasia in the left atrial appendage (Case report - Arrhythmia)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1204-1206. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ioanna Koniari, Gregorios Tsigkas, Efstratios Apostolakis, and Dimitrios Dougenis

eComment: Cardiac papillary endothelial hyperplasia: a current assessment (eComment)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1206. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Takeshi Shimamoto, Akira Marui, Yoshiaki Saji, and Masashi Komeda

Infarction-exclusion technique with the on-pump beating heart approach for ventricular septal perforation (Case report - Coronary)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1207-1209. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Erdal Okur, Cagatay Tezel, Volkan Baysungur, and Semih Halezeroglu

Extrathoracic herniation of a lung bulla through a tube thoracostomy site (Case report - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2008;7:1210-1211. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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