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Issue Highlights - Adult

• Adult: Aorta

  Extent of aortic replacement and operative outcome in open proximal thoracic aortic aneurysm repair

  Yamabe et al.

• Adult: Aorta

  Putative computed tomography scan-negative type A dissection

  Aziz et al.

• Adult: Aortic Valve

  PROSE: Prospective Randomized Trial of the On-X Mechanical Prosthesis and the St Jude Medical Mechanical Prosthesis Evaluation: Part 2: Study results—prostheses, positions, and economic development

  Jamieson et al.

• Adult: Perioperative Management

  Enhanced recovery after cardiac surgery protocol reduces perioperative opioid use

  Loria et al.

Issue Highlights - Congenital

• Congenital: Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage

  Outcomes of total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage repair in neonates and the impact of pulmonary hypertension on survival

  Schulz et al.

• Congenital: Tricuspid Valve

  Tailored strategy to match anatomy and physiology with intervention can improve outcomes of symptomatic neonates with Ebstein anomaly

  Pizarro et al.

• Congenital: Coronary: Basic Science

  Location matters: Offset in tissue-engineered vascular graft implantation location affects wall shear stress in porcine models

  Contento et al.

• Congenital: Perioperative Management

  Cardiac surgery in children with trisomy 13 or trisomy 18: How safe is it?

  Rosenblum et al.

Issue Highlights - Thoracic

• Thoracic: Lung Cancer

  Intraoperative challenges after induction therapy for non–small cell lung cancer: Effect of nodal disease on technical complexity

  Feldman et al.

• Thoracic: Lung Cancer

  Trends of utilization and perioperative outcomes of robotic and video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in patients with lung cancer undergoing minimally invasive resection in the United States

  Alwatari et al.

• Thoracic: Lung Cancer

  Germline mutations in high penetrance genes are associated with worse clinical outcomes in patients with non–small cell lung cancer

  Krantz et al.

• Thoracic: Esophageal Cancer

  Time to treatment of esophageal cancer in Ontario: A population-level cross-sectional study

  Hanna et al.

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Did ethno-racial disparities in access to transcatheter aortic valve replacement change over time? Cohen

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 Graphical abstract summarizing the background, methods, major findings, and implications of this study. Krantz

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JTCVS Open

JTCVS Open is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal from the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the publisher of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (JTCVS). Brought to you by the same editorial team as JTCVS, JTCVS Open maintains rigorous standards of peer review and is dedicated to publishing high-quality information for thoracic and cardiac surgeons. JTCVS Open focuses on developments in acquired cardiac surgery, congenital cardiac repair, thoracic procedures, heart and lung transplantation, mechanical circulatory support and perioperative management.

 

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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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  Bioprosthetic versus mechanical tricuspid valve replacement: biological age is not the same as chronological age

  Van den Eynde et al.

  Published online: March 24, 2023
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  Published online: March 22, 2023
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  Infants less than or equal to 2.5kg have increased mortality and worse motor neurodevelopmental outcomes at 2 years of age after Norwood-Sano palliation

  Averin et al.

  Published online: March 21, 2023
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  Impact of robotic access on outcomes after lung cancer surgery in France: Analysis from the Epithor database

  Madelaine et al.

  Published online: March 17, 2023

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