July 2014

Historical perspectives of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery: Robert B. Wallace

• John V. Conte

2014 AHA/ACC guideline for the management of patients with valvular heart disease

A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines

• Rick A. Nishimura,
• Catherine M. Otto,
• Robert O. Bonow,,
• ...
• Paul Sorajja,
• Thoralf M. Sundt III,
• James D. Thomas,

• Jeffrey L. Anderson,
• Jonathan L. Halperin,
• Nancy M. Albert,
• ...
• Win-Kuang Shen,
• William G. Stevenson,
• Clyde W. Yancy

A novel approach for the accurate prediction of thoracic surgery workforce requirements in Canada

• Janet P. Edwards,
• Indraneel Datta,
• John Douglas Hunt,
• ...
• Chad G. Ball,
• Elijah Dixon,
• Sean C. Grondin

Thoracoscopic lobectomy is associated with acceptable morbidity and mortality in patients with predicted postoperative forced expiratory volume in 1 second or diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide less than 40% of normal

• Bryan M. Burt,
• Andrzej S. Kosinski,
• Joseph B. Shrager,
• Mark W. Onaitis,
• Tracey Weigel

Malignant pleural mesothelioma and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database: An analysis of surgical morbidity and mortality

• Bryan M. Burt,
• Robert B. Cameron,
• Nathan M. Mollberg,
• ...
• Paul H. Schipper,
• Joseph B. Shrager,
• Wickii T. Vigneswaran

Chordal cutting in ischemic mitral regurgitation: A propensity-matched study

• Antonio M. Calafiore,
• Reda Refaie,
• Angela L. Iacò,
• ...
• Hussein Al-Amri,
• Antonella Romeo,
• Michele Di Mauro

Long-term outcomes after thoracic aortic surgery: A population-based study

• Jennifer Higgins,
• May K. Lee,
• Caroll Co,
• Michael T. Janusz

Hybrid repair of aortic aneurysm in patients with previous coarctation

• Jahanzaib Idrees,
• Amr Arafat,
• Lars G. Svensson,
• Daniel Clair,
• Eric E. Roselli

Long-term clinical outcomes after aortic valve replacement using cryopreserved aortic allograft

• Satsuki Fukushima,
• Peter J. Tesar,
• Bronwyn Pearse,
• ...
• Lisa Sparks,
• John F. Fraser,
• Peter G. Pohlner

The independent role of the aortic root ganglionated plexi in the initiation of atrial fibrillation: An experimental study

• Hong-Tao Wang,
• Zhi-Li Li,
• Bo-Yuan Fan,
• ...
• Jin-Bo Zhao,
• Jun Ren,
• Qiang-Sun Zheng

Open total aortic arch reconstruction for patients with advanced age in the era of endovascular repair

• Arudo Hiraoka,
• Genta Chikazawa,
• Toshinori Totsugawa,
• ...
• Kentaro Tamura,
• Taichi Sakaguchi,
• Hidenori Yoshitaka

Mitral valve annular downsizing forces: Implications for annuloplasty device development

• Morten O. Jensen,
• Jesper L. Honge,
• Jon A. Benediktsson,
• ...
• J. Michael Hasenkam,
• Hans Nygaard,
• Sten L. Nielsen

Aortic valve replacement after previous heart surgery in high-risk patients: Transapical aortic valve implantation versus conventional aortic valve replacement—a risk-adjusted and propensity score-based analysis

• Maximilian Scherner,
• Navid Madershahian,
• Kathrin Kuhr,
• ...
• Jens Wippermann,
• Justus Strauch,
• Thorsten Wahlers

Predictors of late aortic events after Stanford type B acute aortic dissection

• Tomoaki Kudo,
• Akihito Mikamo,
• Hiroshi Kurazumi,
• Ryo Suzuki,
• Noriyasu Morikage,
• Kimikazu Hamano

Early experience with off-the-shelf endografts using a zone 0 proximal landing site to treat the ascending aorta and arch

• Rodrigo C. Bernardes,
• Tulio P. Navarro,
• Fernando R. Reis,
• ...
• Ricardo J. Procopio,
• Francesco E. Botelho,
• Alan Dardik

Surgical treatment of primary pulmonary artery sarcoma

• Valentina Grazioli,
• Nicola Vistarini,
• Marco Morsolini,
• ...
• Giulio Orlandoni,
• Roberto Dore,
• Andrea Maria D'Armini

Acute type I aortic dissection: Traditional versus hybrid repair with antegrade stent delivery to the descending thoracic aorta

• Ourania Preventza,
• Roberto Cervera,
• Denton A. Cooley,
• ...
• Lorraine Cornwell,
• Katherine H. Simpson,
• Joseph S. Coselli

Hemodynamics of the Edwards Sapien XT transcatheter heart valve in noncircular aortic annuli

• Michael Scharfschwerdt,
• Roza Meyer-Saraei,
• Claudia Schmidtke,
• Hans-Hinrich Sievers

Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement using right minithoracotomy is associated with better outcomes than ministernotomy

• Antonio Miceli,
• Michele Murzi,
• Danyiar Gilmanov,
• ...
• Matteo Ferrarini,
• Marco Solinas,
• Mattia Glauber

Transapical neochord implantation: Is tension of artificial chordae tendineae dependent on the insertion site?

• Henrik Jensen,
• Morten O. Jensen,
• Farhad Waziri,
• ...
• Erik Sloth,
• Morten Fenger-Gron,
• Sten L. Nielsen

Mitral procedure selection in patients on dialysis: Does mitral repair influence outcomes?

• Christina M. Vassileva,
• J. Matthew Brennan,
• James S. Gammie,
• ...
• Theresa Boley,
• Paramita Saha-Chaudhuri,
• Stephen Hazelrigg

Salvage periaortic pericardial baffle equalizes mortality in bleeding patients undergoing aortic surgery

• John Matthew Toole,
• Martha R. Stroud,
• John S. Ikonomidis

Less invasive versus conventional heart valve surgery in patients with severe heart failure

• Tomislav Mihaljevic,
• Mislav Planinc,
• Sarah J. Williams,
• ...
• Randall C. Starling,
• Nicholas G. Smedira,
• Eugene H. Blackstone

Hemodynamic outcomes of geometric ring annuloplasty for aortic valve repair: A 4-center pilot trial

• Domenico Mazzitelli,
• Christof Stamm,
• J. Scott Rankin,
• ...
• Christian Schreiber,
• Roland Hetzer,
• Rüdiger Lange

Three-dimensional valve repair—the better care? Midterm results of a saddle-shaped, rigid annuloplasty ring in patients with ischemic mitral regurgitation

• Ralf Guenzinger,
• Eike Philipp Schneider,
• Thomas Guenther,
• ...
• Domenico Mazzitelli,
• Ruediger Lange,
• Bernhard Voss

Functional impact of transmitral gradients at rest and during exercise after restrictive annuloplasty for ischemic mitral regurgitation

• Philippe B. Bertrand,
• Herbert Gutermann,
• Christophe J.P. Smeets,
• ...
• David Verhaert,
• Pieter Vandervoort,
• Robert Dion

Evaluation of different minimally invasive techniques in the surgical treatment of atrial septal defect

• Hong Luo,
• Jing Wang,
• Chenhui Qiao,
• Xin Zhang,
• Weihua Zhang,
• Laichun Song

Outcomes of patients born with single-ventricle physiology and aortic arch obstruction: The 26-year Melbourne experience

• Melissa G.Y. Lee,
• Christian P. Brizard,
• John C. Galati,
• ...
• Igor E. Konstantinov,
• Andreas Pflaumer,
• Yves d'Udekem

Early postoperative systemic inflammatory response is an important determinant for adverse 2-year neurodevelopment-associated outcomes after the Norwood procedure

• Xiaohui Li,
• Charlene M.T. Robertson,
• Xiaoyang Yu,
• Andriy Cheypesh,
• Irina A. Dinu,
• Jia Li

Restrictive lung function in pediatric patients with structural congenital heart disease

• Stephen M.M. Hawkins,
• Amy L. Taylor,
• Stefan H. Sillau,
• Max B. Mitchell,
• Christopher M. Rausch

Preoperative B-type natriuretic peptide levels are associated with outcome after total cavopulmonary connection (Fontan)

• Monique Radman,
• Roberta L. Keller,
• Peter Oishi,
• ...
• Rambod Amrinovin,
• Ian Adatia,
• Jeffrey R. Fineman

Surgical strategies for anomalous origin of coronary artery from pulmonary artery in adults

• Bijoy G. Rajbanshi,
• Harold M. Burkhart,
• Hartzell V. Schaff,
• Richard C. Daly,
• Sabrina D. Phillips,
• Joseph A. Dearani

Off-pump epicardial ventricular reconstruction restores left ventricular twist and reverses remodeling in an ovine anteroapical aneurysm model

• Yanping Cheng,
• Michael S. Aboodi,
• Lon S. Annest,
• ...
• Greg L. Kaluza,
• Juan F. Granada,
• Geng-Hua Yi

Association between Technical Performance Scores and neurodevelopmental outcomes after congenital cardiac surgery

• Meena Nathan,
• Anjali Sadhwani,
• Kimberlee Gauvreau,
• ...
• Janice Ware,
• Jane W. Newburger,
• Frank Pigula

Abnormal left ventricular diastolic function at late follow-up after repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage: The impact of altered ventricular loading in utero

• Luciana D.F. Marcondes,
• John C. Galati,
• Bryn O. Jones,
• ...
• Yves d’Udekem,
• Christian P. Brizard,
• Michael M.H. Cheung

Pulmonary vein stenosis and the pathophysiology of “upstream” pulmonary veins

• Hideyuki Kato,
• Yaqin Yana Fu,
• Jiaquan Zhu,
• ...
• Jason T. Maynes,
• John G. Coles,
• Christopher A. Caldarone

Late left ventricular dysfunction after anatomic repair of congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries

• Victor Bautista-Hernandez,
• Patrick O. Myers,
• Frank Cecchin,
• Gerald R. Marx,
• Pedro J. del Nido

Risk factors for requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support after a Norwood operation

• Joshua M. Friedland-Little,
• Jennifer C. Hirsch-Romano,
• Sunkyung Yu,
• ...
• Courtney E. Canada,
• Parisa Soraya,
• Ranjit Aiyagari

Pretransplant serum human chitinase-like glycoprotein YKL-40 concentrations independently predict bronchiolitis obliterans development in lung transplant recipients

• Peter Jaksch,
• Shahrokh Taghavi,
• Walter Klepetko,
• Mohamed Salama

The benefits of 24/7 in-house intensivist coverage for prolonged-stay cardiac surgery patients

• Kanwal Kumar,
• Rohit Singal,
• Rizwan A. Manji,
• ...
• Darren H. Freed,
• Rakesh C. Arora
• on behalf of the Cardiovascular Health Research in Manitoba Investigator Group

Effect of pregabalin on cerebral outcome after cardiopulmonary bypass with deep hypothermic circulatory arrest in rats

• Jae-Kwang Shim,
• Qing Ma,
• Zhiquan Zhang,
• Mihai V. Podgoreanu,
• G. Burkhard Mackensen