December 2019

Valve-sparing root replacement and composite valve graft replacement in patients with aortic regurgitation: From the Japan Cardiovascular Surgery Database

• Takashi Kunihara,
• Nao Ichihara,
• Hiroaki Miyata,
• ...
• Minoru Matsuhama,
• Shinichi Takamoto
• for the Japan Cardiovascular Surgery Database

Commentary: Aortic valve sparing procedure: Is this the future of aortic root surgery?

• Vito Domenico Bruno,
• Mustafa Zakkar

Commentary: Valve sparing in aortic root aneurysms—An old promise or a concrete chance?

• Lorenzo Di Bacco,
• Mattia Glauber,
• Antonio Miceli

The “thoracic endovascular aortic repair-first” strategy for acute type A dissection with mesenteric malperfusion: Initial results compared with conventional algorithms

• Bradley G. Leshnower,
• W. Brent Keeling,
• Yazan M. Duwayri,
• William D. Jordan Jr.,
• Edward P. Chen

Commentary: A lethal disease begging for treatment consensus

• Jennifer S. Lawton

Commentary: Building bridges, not walls

• Anthony L. Estrera

Tissue versus mechanical aortic valve replacement in younger patients: A multicenter analysis

• Alexander Iribarne,
• Bruce J. Leavitt,
• Michael P. Robich,
• ...
• David J. Malenka,
• Anthony W. DiScipio
• for the Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group

Discussion

Commentary: Aortic valve reoperation: “You are probably not going to have one”

• Joanna Chikwe

Commentary: Knowledge is power

• Sigrid E. Sandner,
• Mario Gaudino

Effects of blood transfusions on transcatheter aortic valve replacement outcomes

• Clancy W. Mullan,
• Matthew D. Pichert,
• Arnar Geirsson

Reply: Analysis of administrative claims data provides valid and meaningful conclusions despite its imperfections

• Dhaval Kolte,
• Herbert D. Aronow,
• Kevin F. Kennedy,
• Afshin Ehsan

Reply: “Sensitivity” and “specificity” reduction of blood transfusion after transcatheter aortic valve replacement: Is that all that matters?

• Davide Pacini,
• Giacomo Murana

St Thomas' Hospital polarizing blood cardioplegia improves hemodynamic recovery in a porcine model of cardiopulmonary bypass

• David Santer,
• Anne Kramer,
• Attila Kiss,
• ...
• David J. Chambers,
• Seth Hallström,
• Bruno K. Podesser

Commentary: Advancing the ongoing great cardioplegia debate

• Daniel J.P. Burns

Commentary: Do not kill (especially for nothing)

• Irbaz Hameed,
• Mario Gaudino

Is the era of bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting coming for diabetic patients? An updated meta-analysis

• Pengyu Zhou,
• Peng Zhu,
• Zhiqiang Nie,
• Shaoyi Zheng

Commentary: A tree in winter: The case for arterial grafting in the diabetic patient

• Paul Kurlansky

Commentary: Is the era of bilateral internal thoracic artery coming for diabetic patients? Yes, 取决于你问谁 [depends who you ask]

• Chaim Locker

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for primary graft dysfunction after heart transplant

• Scott C. DeRoo,
• Hiroo Takayama,
• Samantha Nemeth,
• ...
• Maryjane Farr,
• Yoshifumi Naka,
• Koji Takeda

Commentary: From primary graft dysfunction to delayed graft function after heart transplantation with veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: A life-saving approach!

• Michel Carrier,
• Yoan Lamarche

Commentary: The evolving management of primary graft dysfunction in heart transplantation

• John W.C. Entwistle III

Delayed aneurysmal complication of bicuspid aortic valve disease after heart transplantation

• Markian Bojko,
• Howard Eisen,
• Paul Mather,
• Prashanth Vallabhajosyula

Commentary: Pseudoaneurysm aortopathy after heart transplantation—A link too far?

• Karen Booth,
• John H. Dark

Preoperative β-blocker use correlates with worse outcomes in patients undergoing aortic valve replacement

• Sarah A. Schubert,
• Robert B. Hawkins,
• J. Hunter Mehaffey,
• ...
• Irving L. Kron,
• Leora T. Yarboro,
• Gorav Ailawadi

Discussion

Commentary: All members of β-blocker house on probation!

• Frank A. Baciewicz Jr.

Commentary: Preoperative β-blockers—One size does not fit all when considering management

• Gal Levy,
• Vincent R. Conti

Timeless lessons from the past and present leaders of cardiothoracic surgery part 1: Professional accomplishment

• Jason J. Han,
• John J. Kelly,
• Amit Iyengar,
• William L. Patrick,
• Ibrahim Sultan

Vision, leadership, and scholarship

• David H. Adams

Autologous stem cell therapy for hypoplastic left heart syndrome: Safety and feasibility of intraoperative intramyocardial injections

• Harold M. Burkhart,
• Muhammad Yasir Qureshi,
• Joseph W. Rossano,
• ...
• Walter Kremers,
• Timothy J. Nelson
• the Wanek HLHS Consortium Clinical Pipeline

Commentary: Myocardial regeneration with stem cells—Hope was never the problem!

• Manan Desai,
• Lok Sinha,
• Can Yerebakan

Commentary: Cross my heart and stick a needle in it—I hope to live

• Ronald K. Woods

Surgical ventricular restoration and mitral valve replacement in a pediatric patient with complex congenital heart disease and malignant ventricular arrhythmias

• Guglielmo Saitto,
• Serenella Castelvecchio,
• Carmelo Arcidiacono,
• Lorenzo Menicanti

Commentary: Perhaps smaller is better in smaller patients

• Ibrahim Abdullah,
• Zohair Al-Halees,
• Mamdouh Al Ahmadi

Cavopulmonary assist: Long-term reversal of the Fontan paradox

• Mark D. Rodefeld,
• Alison Marsden,
• Richard Figliola,
• Travis Jonas,
• Michael Neary,
• Guruprasad A. Giridharan

Discussion

Commentary: Cavopulmonary assist: Closing in on the white whale of single-ventricle palliation

• Nicholas D. Andersen,
• Sonya Kirmani,
• Joseph W. Turek

Commentary: The future fourth stage of single-ventricle palliation

• Ryan R. Davies

Commentary: Subpulmonary pump in Fontan circulation: Can it be a breakthrough in treatment of the single ventricle?

• Katsuhide Maeda

Management of the bad atrioventricular valve in Fontan…time for a change

• Elizabeth H. Stephens,
• Joseph A. Dearani

Commentary: Moderate atrioventricular valve regurgitation may be too much to bear for a single ventricle

• Gregory King,
• Yves d'Udekem

Time for evidence-based, standardized donor size matching for pediatric heart transplantation

• Kyle W. Riggs,
• Courtney M. Giannini,
• Nicholas Szugye,
• ...
• Ryan A. Moore,
• David L.S. Morales,
• Farhan Zafar

Commentary: Improving donor size matching in pediatric heart transplantation—Moving beyond body weight

• Katsuhide Maeda,
• John C. Dykes

Commentary: Is donor acceptance a bigger problem than donor availability? Time for a realistic look

• James D. St Louis,
• Mark Plunkett

Survival after adjuvant radiation therapy in localized small cell lung cancer treated with complete resection

• Kathryn E. Engelhardt,
• Julia M. Coughlin,
• Malcolm M. DeCamp,
• ...
• Shari L. Meyerson,
• Ankit Bharat,
• David D. Odell

Discussion

• Stephen C. Yang

Commentary: Is radiation needed after resecting an early-stage small cell lung cancer?

• Melissa Taylor,
• Ikenna Okereke

Commentary: Are two local therapies better than one for early-stage small cell lung cancer?

• Chukwumere E. Nwogu

Outcomes of surgery versus chemoradiotherapy in patients with clinical or pathologic stage N3 non–small cell lung cancer

• Vignesh Raman,
• Oliver K. Jawitz,
• Chi-Fu J. Yang,
• ...
• Thomas A. D'Amico,
• David H. Harpole,
• Betty C. Tong