There has been an increase in the complexity of patients requiring operative management for infective endocarditis (IE).
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OBJECTIVES The prevalence of mediastinal masses in large-scale populations in China has been rarely reported. During COVID19 pandemic, many incidentalomas were reported due to the large amount of chest computed tomography scan performed in emergency setting. METHODS Retrospective analysis of ...
Endoscopic thymectomy is generally performed via the lateral intercostal space, but the usefulness of the subxiphoid approach has recently been reported [1].
Patients with ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms (ATAA) are at risk of aortic dissection, rupture and sudden death.
OBJECTIVES Reliable methods for predicting pathological complete response (pCR) in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy are still under exploration. Although Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography ( 18 F-FDG ...
Trials in cardiac surgery are often hampered at the design level by small sample sizes and ethical considerations. The conventional analytical approach, combining frequentist statistics with null hypothesis significance testing, has known limitations and its associated p-values are often ...
Objectives The German Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection Type A (GERAADA) score is a risk score for predicting 30-day mortality after surgery for type A acute aortic dissection (TAAAD). This meta-analysis sought to assess the performance of the GERAADA model and compare it to the EuroSCORE II. ...
Two large trials, JCOG0802/WJOG4607L and CALGB140503, recently revealed the efficacy of sublobar resection as compared to lobectomy in peripheral early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) [1, 2].
Objective This study aimed to investigate the benefits and potential risks of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in pediatric and congenital heart disease patients in the current era. Methods All patients with congenital heart disease, pediatric cardiomyopathy, or primary electrical disease, ...
OBJECTIVES Although many studies have examined lung adenocarcinoma with multiple additional lesions with ground-glass opacity on high-resolution computed tomography including pure ground-glass nodule and part-solid nodule, no study has yet investigated patients who had resected adenocarcinoma with ...
Despite significant advancements in aortic arch surgery, neurological deficit remains a major complication.
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