| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveCase Reports Oesphageal Stenting for palliation of malignant mesothelioma Enoch Akowuah and Joseph Rahamim PMCID: PMC2253537 Aortic valve replacement in a young patient with essential thrombocytosis Kashif Ahmed, Hunaid A Vohra, Alison Milne, and Stephen M Langley PMCID: PMC2246126 Axillary artery to left anterior descending coronary artery bypass with an externally stented graft: a technical report Thanos Athanasiou, Emmanouil I Kapetanakis, Christopher Rao, Loris Salvador, and Ara Darzi PMCID: PMC2267781 Cardiac surgery in patients with previous pneumonectomy Sanjay V Ghotkar, Vikram Aerra, and Neeraj Mediratta PMCID: PMC2270840 Left atrial giant thrombus infected by Escherichia Coli. Case report Panagiotis Dedeilias, Antonios Roussakis, Efstratios N Koletsis, Dimitrios Zervakis, Panagiotis Hountis, Christos Prokakis, Christina Balaka, and Konstantinos Bolos PMCID: PMC2373784 Large asymptomatic Left Atrial Myxoma with ossification: case report Mattheos Panagiotou, Nikolaos D Panagopoulos, Panagiota Ravazoula, Loukas Kaklamanis, and Efstratios N Koletsis PMCID: PMC2383893 Penetration of left and right atrial wall and aortic root by an Amplatzer atrial septal occluder in a nine year old boy with Marfan syndrome: Case report Florian Loeffelbein, Christian Schlensak, and Sven Dittrich PMCID: PMC2397405 Interventional bronchoscopy for benign tracheobronchial diseases under cardiopulmonary bypass support: case reports and literature review Hussamuddin Adwan, Christopher H Wigfield, Stephen Clark, and Sion Barnard PMCID: PMC2409331 Subannular left ventricular pseudoaneurysm following mitral valve replacement Narayanan Namboodiri, Santosh K Dora, Bejoy Thomas, and Manoranjan Misra PMCID: PMC2424049 Massive benign pericardial cyst presenting with simultaneous superior vena cava and middle lobe syndromes Pankaj Kaul, Kalyana Javangula, and Shahme A Farook PMCID: PMC2408924 Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) presenting with ventricular fibrillation in an adult: a case report Thomas Kristensen, Klaus Fuglsang Kofoed, Steffen Helqvist, Morten Helvind, and Lars Søndergaard PMCID: PMC2414822 Long-term event-free survival with an embolised prosthetic valve leaflet in the thoracic aorta Mohan P Devbhandari, Edwin BC Woo, and Timothy L Hooper PMCID: PMC2533661 Successful surgical treatment of a giant coronary artery aneurysm presenting with recurrent profuse haemoptysis Opoku-Ware Mensah, Philip AR Hayward, Michael Koeppe, and Christof Huth PMCID: PMC2443137 Intra-abdominal pectus bar migration – a rare clinical entity: case report Ramon Tahmassebi, Hutan Ashrafian, Caner Salih, Ranjit P Deshpande, Thanos Athanasiou, and Julian E Dussek PMCID: PMC2459180 Coronary artery fistula; coronary computed topography – The diagnostic modality of choice SA Early, TB Meany, HM Fenlon, and J Hurley PMCID: PMC2491619 Transvenous right ventricular pacing in a patient with tricuspid mechanical prosthesis Juan Sierra and José Rubio PMCID: PMC2491618 Aberrant right subclavian artery and calcified aneurysm of kommerell's diverticulum: an alternative approach Jose Rubio J Alvarez, Sierra JL Quiroga, Adrio B Nazar, Martinez JM Comendador, and Garcia J Carro PMCID: PMC2475520 The effect of a large proximal haemodialysis arterio-venous fistula on weaning off cardiopulmonary bypass: case report Brian Nyawo, Amit Pawale, Leena Pardeshi, David Talbot, and Jonathan Forty PMCID: PMC2491617 Pulmonary valve endocarditis caused by right ventricular outflow obstruction in association with sinus of valsalva aneurysm: a case report Katsufumi Nishida, Osamu Fukuyama, and Dean S Nakamura PMCID: PMC2491616 Unexpected limited chronic dissection of the ascending aorta Andrea Venturini, Giampaolo Zoffoli, Domenico Mangino, Raimondo Ascione, Alberto Terrini, Angiolino Asta, Gianni Angelini, and Elvio Polesel PMCID: PMC2518549 Cardiac Valvular Inflammatory Pseudotumor Pradeep Vaideeswar, Anil M Patwardhan, and Pragati A Sathe PMCID: PMC2564916 Novel thoracoscopic approach to posterior mediastinal goiters: report of two cases Faisal Al-Mufarrej, Marc Margolis, Barbara Tempesta, Eric Strother, and Farid Gharagozloo PMCID: PMC2577642 Antegrade selective cerebral perfusion in patients with "bovine aortic arch": is it easier? Federico Bizzarri, Consalvo Mattia, Matteo Di Nardo, Emanuele Di Marzio, Massimo Ricci, Flaminia Coluzzi, Giacomo Frati, Paolo Pagliaro, Luigi Muzzi, and Vincenzo Petrozza PMCID: PMC2586021 Cardiogenic shock as a complication of acute mitral valve regurgitation following posteromedial papillary muscle infarction in the absence of coronary artery disease Federico Bizzarri, Consalvo Mattia, Massimo Ricci, Flaminia Coluzzi, Vincenzo Petrozza, Giacomo Frati, Giuseppe Pugliese, and Luigi Muzzi PMCID: PMC2586022 Septic rupture of the ascending aorta after aortocoronary bypass surgery Christof M Sommer, Tobias Heye, Ulrike Stampfl, Ursula Tochtermann, Boris A Radeleff, Hans U Kauczor, and Goetz M Richter PMCID: PMC2614984 Case Studies Extracardiac Fontan with T-shape conduit in non-confluent pulmonary arteries Jae Gun Kwak, Jeong Ryul Lee, Woo-Sung Jang, and Eun Jung Bae PMCID: PMC2276489 Surgical strategy to prevent cardiac injury during reoperation in infants Christopher J Knott-Craig, Steven P Goldberg, and James K Kirklin PMCID: PMC2270272 VATS intraoperative tattooing to facilitate solitary pulmonary nodule resection Lourens Willekes, Cherif Boutros, and Michael A Goldfarb PMCID: PMC2278144 Traumatic aortic arch false aneurysm after blunt chest trauma in a motocross rider Federico Bizzarri, Consalvo Mattia, Massimo Ricci, Ilaria Chirichilli, Chiara Santo, David Rose, Luigi Muzzi, Giuseppe Pugliese, Giacomo Frati, Patrizio Sartini, Riccardo Ferrari, Carlo Della Rocca, and Andrea Laghi PMCID: PMC2387154 Gastrointestinal stromal tumor masquerading as a lung neoplasm. A case presentation and literature review S Papaspyros and K Papagiannopoulos PMCID: PMC2409332 Commentary Coronary artery aneurysm: case report Jeffrey E Everett and Harold M Burkhart PMCID: PMC2259352 Letters to the Editor Migration of superior vena cava stent Nitin B Bagul, Phillipa Moth, Narayan J Menon, Fiona Myint, and George Hamilton PMCID: PMC2292162 Should we perform systematic electrophysiological study in Steinert's disease? Abdallah Fayssoil PMCID: PMC2576248 Research Articles How I do it: transapical cannulation for acute type-A aortic dissection Andrzej W Sosnowski, Rajwinder S Jutley, Nicola Masala, Christos Alexiou, and Justiaan Swanevelder PMCID: PMC2248573 Clinical implications of granulomatous inflammation detected by endobronchial ultrasound transbronchial needle aspiration in patients with suspected cancer recurrence in the mediastinum Marcus P Kennedy, Carlos A Jimenez, Ashwini D Mhatre, Rodolfo C Morice, and Georgie A Eapen PMCID: PMC2291049 Factors which influence the cardiac surgeon's decision not to operate on patients referred for consideration of surgery Paul D Waterworth, Sing Y Soon, Rohith Govindraj, Rajesh Sivaprakasam, Mark Jackson, and Antony D Grayson PMCID: PMC2267167 Influence of ultra-low dose Aprotinin on thoracic surgical operations: a prospective randomized trial Efstratios Apostolakis, Nikolaos Panagopoulos, Efstratios N Koletsis, James Crockett, Helen Stamou-Kouki, Efrosini Sourgiadaki, Kriton Filos, and Dimitrios Dougenis PMCID: PMC2287179 Long term survival after coronary endarterectomy in patients undergoing combined coronary and valvular surgery – a fifteen year experience Sanjay Kumar, Sandeep Agarwala, Charlie Talbot, and R Unnikrishnan Nair PMCID: PMC2291048 Alterations in plasma soluble vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-1 (sFlt-1) concentrations during coronary artery bypass graft surgery: relationships with post-operative complications Yves Denizot, Alexandre Leguyader, Elisabeth Cornu, Marc Laskar, Isabelle Orsel, Christelle Vincent, and Nathalie Nathan PMCID: PMC2365942 Does preservation of the sub-valvular apparatus during mitral valve replacement affect long-term survival and quality of life? A Microsimulation Study Christopher Rao, Jonathan Hart, Andre Chow, Fotios Siannis, Polyxeni Tsalafouta, Bari Murtuza, Ara Darzi, Frank C Wells, and Thanos Athanasiou PMCID: PMC2374780 Accelerated intimal hyperplasia in aortocoronary internal mammary vein grafts in minipigs Aron Frederik Popov, Hilmar Dorge, Jose Hinz, Jan Dieter Schmitto, Tomislav Stojanovic, Ralf Seipelt, Vassilios Didilis, and Friedrich Albert Schoendube PMCID: PMC2386461 Concomitant ablation of atrial fibrillation in octogenarians: an observational study Herko Grubitzsch, Sven Beholz, Pascal M Dohmen, Simon Dushe, and Wolfgang Konertz PMCID: PMC2394520 Why can pulmonary vein stenoses created by radiofrequency catheter ablation worsen during and after follow-up ? A potential explanation Pierre-André Doriot, Pierre-André Dorsaz, and Dipen Chandrakant Shah PMCID: PMC2408572 Cardiac retransplantation is an efficacious therapy for primary cardiac allograft failure Pavan Atluri, William Hiesinger, Robert C Gorman, Alberto Pochettino, Mariell Jessup, Michael A Acker, Rohinton J Morris, and Y Joseph Woo PMCID: PMC2432055 Effects of implantation of bone marrow cells on cytokine levels in the ischemic heart tissue. An experimental study Yahya Unlu and Sami Karapolat PMCID: PMC2414821 Double vs single internal thoracic artery harvesting in diabetic patients: role in perioperative infection rate Marco Agrifoglio, Matteo Trezzi, Fabio Barili, Luca Dainese, Faisal H Cheema, Veli K Topkara, Chiara Ghislandi, Alessandro Parolari, Gianluca Polvani, Francesco Alamanni, and Paolo Biglioli PMCID: PMC2467417 Effects of retinoic acid on compensatory lung growth Sami Karapolat, Aydin Sanli, Ahmet Onen, Unal Acikel, and Oya Sivrikoz PMCID: PMC2459181 On-pump beating heart coronary surgery for high risk patients requiring emergency multiple coronary artery bypass grafting Enrico Ferrari, Nicolas Stalder, and Ludwig K von Segesser PMCID: PMC2474599 Hydroxyethyl starch versus Ringer solution in cardiopulmonary bypass prime solutions (a randomized controlled trial) Osman Tiryakioğlu, Gürdeniz Yıldız, Hakan Vural, Tugrul Goncu, Ahmet Ozyazıcıoglu, and Şenol Yavuz PMCID: PMC2483980 Survival benefit of coronary-artery bypass grafting accounted for deaths in those who remained untreated Boris G Sobolev, Guy Fradet, Robert Hayden, Lisa Kuramoto, Adrian R Levy, and Mark J FitzGerald PMCID: PMC2494549 Excision of sympathetic ganglia and the rami communicantes with histological confirmation offers better early and late outcomes in Video assisted thoracoscopic sympathectomy Sridhar Rathinam, Prakash Nanjaiah, Sivakumar Sivalingam, and Pala B Rajesh PMCID: PMC2531102 A novel survival model of cardioplegic arrest and cardiopulmonary bypass in rats: a methodology paper Fellery de Lange, Kenji Yoshitani, Mihai V Podgoreanu, Hilary P Grocott, and G Burkhard Mackensen PMCID: PMC2553064 Fatigue testing of three peristernal median sternotomy closure techniques Cameron Wangsgard, David J Cohen, and Lanny V Griffin PMCID: PMC2561021 Echocardiographic evaluation of mitral geometry in functional mitral regurgitation Anita Sadeghpour, Firoozeh Abtahi, Majid Kiavar, Maryam Esmaeilzadeh, Niloofar Samiei, Seyedeh Zahra Ojaghi, Hooman Bakhshandeh, Majid Maleki, Feridoun Noohi, and Ahmad Mohebbi PMCID: PMC2572601 Protective efficiacy of taurine against pulmonary edema progression: experimental study Orhan Yucel, Zeki Ilker Kunak, Enis Macit, Armagan Gunal, Alper Gozubuyuk, Husamettin Gul, and Onur Genc PMCID: PMC2583976 Higher cerebral oxygen saturation may provide higher urinary output during continuous regional cerebral perfusion Takashi Miyamoto, Kagami Miyaji, Hirotsugu Okamoto, Satoshi Kohira, Takahiro Tomoyasu, Nobuyuki Inoue, and Kuniyoshi Ohara PMCID: PMC2583975 Spontaneous pneumomediastinum: diagnostic and therapeutic interventions Faisal Al-Mufarrej, Jehangir Badar, Farid Gharagozloo, Barbara Tempesta, Eric Strother, and Marc Margolis PMCID: PMC2596119 The prevalence of elevated hemoglobin A1c in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery Milo Engoren, Robert H Habib, Anoar Zacharias, Thomas A Schwann, Christopher J Riordan, Samuel J Durham, and Aamir Shah PMCID: PMC2613378 Reviews A simple reproducible method of preventing lobar torsion Manoj Purohit and Joseph Zacharias PMCID: PMC2390547 Bacteroides fragilis aortic arch pseudoaneurysm: case report with review Hsin-Ling Lee, Kung-Hung Liu, Yu-Jen Yang, and Chung-Dann Kan PMCID: PMC2430200 Peri-operative data on the nuss procedure in children with pectus excavatum: independent survey of the first 20 years' data Aristotle D Protopapas and Thanos Athanasiou PMCID: PMC2474598 Contegra conduit for reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract: a review of published early and mid-time results Aristotle D Protopapas and Thanos Athanasiou PMCID: PMC2596120 Study Protocol Use of continuous subcutaneous anesthetic infusion in cardiac surgical patients after median sternotomy Ioannis Koukis, Mihalis Argiriou, Antonia Dimakopoulou, Victor Panagiotakopoulos, Nikolaos Theakos, and Christos Charitos PMCID: PMC2259353 Does physiotherapy reduce the incidence of postoperative complications in patients following pulmonary resection via thoracotomy? a protocol for a randomised controlled trial Julie C Reeve, Kristine Nicol, Kathy Stiller, Kathryn M McPherson, and Linda Denehy PMCID: PMC2500000 |
