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Issue Highlights - Adult

• Adult: Aorta

  Association of hernia with subsequent aortic aneurysm in geriatric patients

  Hung et al.

• Adult: Aorta

  Comparison of microstructural alterations in the proximal aorta between aortic stenosis and regurgitation

  • Tatiana M. Sequeira Gross
  • Diana Lindner
  • Francisco M. Ojeda
  • Johannes Neumann
  • Nimrat Grewal
  • Thomas Kuntze
  • and others

• Adult: Aortic Valve

  Transapical aortic valve replacement versus surgical aortic valve replacement: A subgroup analyses for at-risk populations

  Stachon et al.

• Adult: Coronary

  Long-term outcome of the in situ versus free internal thoracic artery as the second arterial graft

  Marzouk et al.

Issue Highlights - Congenital

• Congenital: Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

  High-degree Norwood neoaortic tapering is associated with abnormal flow conduction and elevated flow-mediated energy loss

  Schäfer et al.

• Congenital: Fontan

  Imposition of Fontan physiology: Effects on strain and global measures of ventricular function

  Shiraga et al.

• Congenital: Fontan: Invited Expert Opinion

  The optimal Fontan operation: Lateral tunnel or extracardiac conduit?

  Daley et al.

• Congenital: Perioperative Management

  Association between Z-score for birth weight and postoperative outcomes in neonates and infants with congenital heart disease

  Steurer et al.

Issue Highlights - Thoracic

• Definition and assessment of high risk in patients considered for lobectomy for stage I non–small cell lung cancer: The American Association for Thoracic Surgery expert panel consensus document

  Pennathur et al.

• Thoracic: Lung Cancer

  Outcomes of sleeve lobectomy versus pneumonectomy: A propensity score-matched study

  Chen et al.

• Thoracic: Esophageal Cancer

  Residual tumor characteristics of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy

  Tang et al.

• Thoracic: Perioperative Management

  Thoracic surgery outcomes for patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019

  Chang et al.

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  Adult: Aorta

  Association of hernia with subsequent aortic aneurysm in geriatric patients

  Hung et al.
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  Adult: Aorta

  Comparison of microstructural alterations in the proximal aorta between aortic stenosis and regurgitation

  Sequeira Gross et al.
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  Adult: Aortic Valve

  Transapical aortic valve replacement versus surgical aortic valve replacement: A subgroup analyses for at-risk populations

  Stachon et al.
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  Adult: Coronary

  Long-term outcome of the in situ versus free internal thoracic artery as the second arterial graft

  Marzouk et al.
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  Congenital: Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

  High-degree Norwood neoaortic tapering is associated with abnormal flow conduction and elevated flow-mediated energy loss

  Schäfer et al.
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  Congenital: Perioperative Management

  Association between Z-score for birth weight and postoperative outcomes in neonates and infants with congenital heart disease

  Steurer et al.
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  Thoracic: Lung Cancer: 2021 AATS Expert Consensus Document: Definition and Assessment of High Risk in Patients Considered for Lobectomy for Stage I Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

  Definition and assessment of high risk in patients considered for lobectomy for stage I non–small cell lung cancer: The American Association for Thoracic Surgery expert panel consensus document

  Pennathur et al.
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  Thoracic: Esophageal Cancer

  Residual tumor characteristics of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy

  Tang et al.

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Adult: Summary of the presented study: Aortic inflammation and medial degeneration differ between regurgitation and stenosis Sequeira Gross & Girdauskas

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Congenital: Narrative of background, aim, methods, results, and conclusions of the study. Steurer & Rajagopal

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Thoracic: Minimally invasive esophagectomy for ESCC after nCRT. A 66-year-old man was diagnosed with locally advanced ESCC and received nCRT. Tang & Tan

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Adult: The Kaplan–Meier curves of cumulative probability of developing an event of aortic aneurysm showed a significantly greater risk in geriatric patients with hernia than the counterpart in propensity score–matched nonhernia controls during the 14 follow-up years (2000-2013). CI, Confidence interval; HR, hazard ratio. Hung & Chu

Congenital: Representative comparison of viscous energy loss (EL′) in a group L patient (left) and a group H patient (right). Note the location of vortex formation in the aortic arch corresponding with the region of elevated EL′ in the group H patient
Schafer & Mitchell

Thoracic: Flowchart demonstrating the exclusion criteria, the methods, the results, and the implications of the study. NSCLC, Non–small cell lung cancer; SL, sleeve lobectomy; PN, pneumonectomy Chen & Jiang

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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery presents original, peer-reviewed articles on diseases of the heart, great vessels, lungs and thorax with emphasis on surgical interventions. An official publication of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association, the Journal focuses on techniques and developments in acquired cardiac surgery, congenital cardiac repair, thoracic procedures, heart and lung transplantation, mechanical circulatory support and other procedures.

 

The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

The American Association for Thoracic Surgery is an international organization of over 1,500 of the world's foremost cardiothoracic surgeons representing 41 countries. Founded in 1917, its members have a proven record of distinction within the specialty and have made significant contributions to the care and treatment of cardiothoracic disease throughout the world.

 

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  • Joseph E. Bavaria

  Published online: December 6, 2021
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  Endoscopic Pyloromyotomy Is Feasible and Effective in Improving Post–Lung Transplant Gastroparesis

  Rappaport et al.

  Published online: December 6, 2021
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  Full length article

  Incidence of and Risk Factors for Pacemaker Implantation After the Modified Cryo-Maze Procedure for Atrial Fibrillation

  Kakuta et al.

  Published online: December 6, 2021
• Editorial

  Commentary: Systemic VADs for the Fontan Circulation: We can, but for whom and when?

  • Jeremy L. Herrmann

  Published online: December 6, 2021

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  Thoracic: Feature expert opinion: Lung cancer

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  • Frank C. Detterbeck

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  Thoracic: AATS expert consensus guidelines: Empyema

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  The American Association for Thoracic Surgery consensus guidelines for the management of empyema

  Shen et al.

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  Thoracic: Lung cancer: Letter to the editor

  Open Archive

  Ground-glass opacities: A curable disease but a big challenge for surgeons

  Cioffi et al.

  Published in issue: July 2017
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  Adult: Perioperative Management: Expert Opinion

  Open Archive

  How to bridge? Management of anticoagulation in patients with mechanical heart valves undergoing noncardiac surgical procedures

  Tan et al.

  Published online: July 20, 2018
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  Open Archive

  Height alone, rather than body surface area, suffices for risk estimation in ascending aortic aneurysm

  Zafar et al.

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• Open Access

  Comparison of pulmonary segmentectomy and lobectomy: Safety results of a randomized trial

  • Suzuki et al.

  Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol.158, No.3, p895-907

  September 2019
• Open Access

  Midterm outcomes after aortic valve neocuspidization with glutaraldehyde-treated autologous pericardium

  • Ozaki et al.

  Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol.155, No.6, p2379-2387

  June 2018
• Open Access

  Initial results of pulmonary resection after neoadjuvant nivolumab in patients with resectable non–small cell lung cancer

  • Bott et al.

  Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol.158, No.1, p269-276

  July 2019
• Open Access

  The American Association for Thoracic Surgery consensus guidelines on bicuspid aortic valve–related aortopathy: Full online-only version

  • Borger et al.

  Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol.156, No.2, e41-e74

  August 2018
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  Intraoperative extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and the possibility of postoperative prolongation improve survival in bilateral lung transplantation

  • Hoetzenecker et al.

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