EDITORIAL

Valve Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch: Clinical Implications in Japanese Patients

Shigefumi Suehiro

REVIEW

Patient-Prosthesis Mismatch: The Japanese Experience

Kazuhiro Hashimoto

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Assessment of the Perioperative Hemodynamics and Right Ventricular Performance of Lung Cancer Patients Using a Continuous Cardiac Output Monitoring System: Comparison between Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery and Muscle-Sparing Thoracotomy

Shigeki Yamagishi, et al.

Early Angiographic Results of Multivessel Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Mimiko Tabata, et al.

Paraplegia and Paraparesis after Descending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Repair: A Risk Factor Analysis

Takashi Yamauchi, et al.

CASE REPORT

A Case of Cuff Stenosis Following Tracheostomy Responding Well to T-tube Stent Insertion: With Special Reference to Methods of Dilating the Stenosed Site

Junzo Shimizu, et al.

Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma Complicated with Pulmonary Infarction Presented as Intrapulmonary Metastases: A Report of a Case

Mitsutaka Kadokura, et al.

Thoracoscopic Surgery Combined with a Supraclavicular Approach for Removing a Cervico-Mediastinal Neurogenic Tumor: A Case Report

Masafumi Yamaguchi, et al.

Thoracoscopic Findings and Surgical Management of Catamenial Hemopneumothorax

Yoshio Tsunezuka, et al.

Middle Mediastinal Thymoma of Unusual Pathologic Type

Jarosław Kużdżał, et al.

Clinical Outcomes Following Extended Thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis: Report of 17 Cases

Ryunosuke Hase, et al.

Protein-Losing Enteropathy Seven Years after Total Right Ventricular Exclusion Procedure for Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia

Koki Nakamura, et al.

Right Atrial Separation Effect for Chronic Atrial Fibrillation with Atrial Septal Defect: Report of Four Cases

Masanori Murakami, et al.

Aortic Valve Replacement after Esophagectomy with Substernal Gastric Tube Reconstruction

Satoru Tobinaga, et al.

A Sewing Needle Completely Buried in the Myocardium Removed under Extracorporeal Circulation

Masanori Murakami, et al.

A Case Report of Emergency Off-Pump CABG in an Aged Patient with ACS Renewing Ventricular Fibrillation

Hiroshi Masuhara, et al.

Spontaneous Rupture of the Ascending Thoracic Aorta Resulting in a Mimicking Pseudoaneurysm

Shinji Hirai, et al.