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Issue Highlights - Adult

• Adult: Aorta

  A tailored strategy for repair of acute type A aortic dissection

  Lau et al.

• Adult: Aortic Valve

  Modern practice and outcomes of reoperative cardiac surgery

  Kindzelski et al.

• Adult: Coronary: Clinical Trial

  Optimal medical therapy with or without surgical revascularization and long-term outcomes in ischemic cardiomyopathy

  Farsky et al.

• Adult: Mechanical Circulatory Support

  Less-invasive ventricular assist device implantation: A multicenter study

  Jawad et al.

Issue Highlights - Congenital

• Congenital: Transposition of the Great Arteries

  Contemporary outcomes of the double switch operation for congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries

  Marathe et al.

• Congenital: Transposition of the Great Arteries

  Outcomes of the arterial switch operation in patients with inverted coronary artery anatomy

  Fricke et al.

• Congenital: Right Ventricle: Basic Science

  Neuregulin-1 enhances cell-cycle activity, delays cardiac fibrosis, and improves cardiac performance in rat pups with right ventricular pressure load

  Bossers et al.

• Congenital: Heart Transplantation

  Heart-kidney listing is better than isolated heart listing for pediatric heart transplant candidates with significant renal insufficiency

  Dani et al.

Issue Highlights - Thoracic

• Thoracic: Lung Cancer

  Extended resection for potentially operable patients with stage III non–small cell lung cancer after induction treatment

  Furrer et al.

• Thoracic: Lung Cancer: Clinical Trial

  Early ligation of the pulmonary vein can reduce the dissemination of shed tumor cells during thoracoscopic lobectomy

  Duan et al.

• Thoracic: Esophagus

  A comparative study of robotic and laparoscopic approaches to Heller myotomy

  Raja et al.

• Thoracic: Esophageal Cancer: Expert Review

  Open versus hybrid versus totally minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy: Systematic review and meta-analysis

  Bras Harriott et al.

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  Thoracic: Lung Cancer

  Extended resection for potentially operable patients with stage III non–small cell lung cancer after induction treatment

  Furrer et al.
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  Thoracic: Esophagus

  A comparative study of robotic and laparoscopic approaches to Heller myotomy

  Raja et al.
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  Adult: Aorta

  A tailored strategy for repair of acute type A aortic dissection

  Lau et al.
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  Adult: Aortic Valve

  Modern practice and outcomes of reoperative cardiac surgery

  Kindzelski et al.
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  Adult: Mitral Valve

  Midterm results of transventricular mitral valve repair: Single-center experience

  Budra et al.
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  Adult: Coronary: Clinical Trial

  Optimal medical therapy with or without surgical revascularization and long-term outcomes in ischemic cardiomyopathy

  Farsky et al.
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  Adult: Mechanical Circulatory Support

  Less-invasive ventricular assist device implantation: A multicenter study

  Jawad et al.
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  Congenital: Transposition of the Great Arteries

  Contemporary outcomes of the double switch operation for congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries

  Marathe et al.
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  Congenital: Transposition of the Great Arteries

  Outcomes of the arterial switch operation in patients with inverted coronary artery anatomy

  Fricke et al.

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Adult: The patient is a 75-year-old man with a distal arch aneurysm of 55 mm in size complicated with chronic type B AD.

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Congenital: Presentation of the surgical procedure of pulmonary artery banding in rats. Because of ethical restrictions, the experimental animal in this video is an adult rat. The procedure is identical in 3-week-old rat pups. The size of the needle in the video is 19G (22G in rat pups).

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Thoracic: Left upper lobectomy with lobe-specific lymph node dissection for clinical T1c N0 M0 lung adenocarcinoma via hybrid video-assisted thoracic surgery.

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Adult: In an observational study of 11,820 (STS indexed) coronary or valvular surgeries from 2010 to 2018, 4605 (39.0%) had PAC insertion. Propensity score matching was performed using preoperative variables and yielded 3519 evenly balanced pairs. PAC use was not associated with improved operative mortality in the overall cohort. However, ICU LOS was longer in the PAC group (P < .001), and there were more postoperative packed red blood cell transfusions in the PAC group (P < .001). Brown

Congenital: Pediatric patients with heart failure with SRI should be listed for HKTx and receive an HKTx, unless these patients improve their renal function, then HTx alone is recommended. Dani

Thoracic: A total of 1696 patients with lung cancer were reviewed, of whom 53 with AIS and 72 with MIA were included. The RFSs of AIS and MIA were all 100%, and the 10-year OSs of AIS and MIA were 98.1% and 97.2%, respectively. The risks of developing SPLC for patients with AIS and MIA 10 years after resection were 8.4% and 4.3%, respectively, and were not correlated with EGFR mutation status. Li

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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.

 

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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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  Surgical Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation is Efficacious in Patients with Giant Left Atria

  McGilvray et al.

  Published online: November 24, 2022
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  Feasibility of Shape-Sensing Robotic-Assisted Bronchoscopy for Biomarker Identification in Thoracic Malignancies

  Connolly et al.

  Published online: November 24, 2022
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  Long-term survival and centre-volume, for functionally single ventricle congenital heart disease in England and Wales

  Brown et al.

  Published online: November 24, 2022
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  Aortic Valve Reimplantation in Patients with Connective Tissue Disorders: Are the Leaflets Durable?

  Svensson et al.

  Published online: November 24, 2022

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