September 2022

Nationwide database analysis of one-year readmission rates after open surgical or thoracic endovascular repair of Stanford Type B aortic dissection

• John A. Treffalls,
• Christopher B. Sylvester,
• Umang Parikh,
• ...
• Joseph S. Coselli,
• Subhasis Chatterjee,
• Ravi K. Ghanta

Safety and arch complications after hemiarch versus total arch replacement with stented elephant trunk in acute type 1 dissection: Is a stent graft always beneficial?

• Jun Hayashi,
• Hiroyuki Nakajima,
• Toshihisa Asakura,
• ...
• Chiho Tokunaga,
• Akitoshi Takazawa,
• Akihiro Yoshitake

Age, sex, and contemporary outcomes in surgical repair of type A aortic dissection: Insights from the National Inpatient Sample

• Michael A. Catalano,
• Tania Mamdouhi,
• Stevan Pupovac,
• ...
• Derek R. Brinster,
• Alan Hartman,
• Pey-Jen Yu

Unilateral versus bilateral antegrade cerebral perfusion during surgical repair for patients with acute type A aortic dissection

• Seung Jun Song,
• Wan Kee Kim,
• Tae-Hoon Kim,
• Suk-Won Song

Intravenous landiolol for the prevention of atrial fibrillation after aortic root, ascending aorta, and aortic arch surgery: A propensity score-matched analysis

• Jun Kaminohara,
• Masahiko Hara,
• Kenji Uehara,
• Maya Suruga,
• Keiji Yunoki,
• Makoto Takatori

A word of caution: Spontaneous rupture of the noncoronary sinus of the Freestyle xenograft: Two cases and review of the literature

• Ziyad Gunga,
• Salah Dine Qanadli,
• Guillaume Fahrni,
• ...
• Valentina Rancati,
• Zied Ltaief,
• Matthias Kirsch

Influence of center surgical aortic valve volume on outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve replacement

• Matthew Gandjian,
• Arjun Verma,
• Zachary Tran,
• ...
• Peter Downey,
• Richard J. Shemin,
• Peyman Benharash

Durability of a bovine pericardial aortic bioprosthesis based on Valve Academic Research Consortium-3 echocardiographic criteria

• Stéphane Kermen,
• Juliette Strella,
• Arthur Aupart,
• ...
• Michel Aupart,
• Anne Bernard,
• Thierry Bourguignon

Sutureless aortic valves: The ace up the sleeve of the cardiac surgeon, do we know when to use it?

• Alina Zubarevich,
• Arian Arjomandi Rad,
• Arjang Ruhparwar,
• Alexander Weymann

Subtle is the sutureless, but malicious it is not

• Hazem Mamdooh,
• Theodor Fischlein,
• Francesco Pollari

Age- and sex-matched controls should not be the standard for the Ross procedure

• Lin Chen,
• Miza Salim Hammoud,
• Michael Jiang,
• Nadia H. Bakir,
• Tara Karamlou

The annuloplasty ring in mitral valve repair

• Ovidio A. García-Villarreal

Reply from authors: The scientific method is needed to create scientific principles

• Augusto D'Onofrio,
• Gino Gerosa

Risk stratification for isolated tricuspid valve surgery: Still on the way

• Jinmiao Chen,
• Wenyu Song,
• Lai Wei

Reply from authors: Why improve high-risk prediction if early surgery is low risk?

• Gloria Färber,
• Torsten Doenst

Poor long-term outcomes of intravenous drug users with infectious endocarditis

• Juan Caceres,
• Aroosa Malik,
• Tom Ren,
• ...
• Alexander Makkinejad,
• Xiaoting Wu,
• Bo Yang

Left ventricular remodeling following septal myectomy in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy

• Tsuyoshi Yamabe,
• Jonathan Ginns,
• Vijay Vedula,
• ...
• Yuichi J. Shimada,
• Shepard D. Weiner,
• Hiroo Takayama

Discussion

• Nicholas G. Smedira

Occurrence rate and fate of competitive flow of the left internal thoracic artery used in Y-composite grafts

• Ji Seong Kim,
• Yoonjin Kang,
• Suk Ho Sohn,
• Ho Young Hwang

Can we talk? The residual, urgent questions about surgery for coronary artery anomalies

• Paolo Angelini,
• Carlo Uribe

Composite graft and remodeling of the saphenous vein in coronary artery bypass graft

• José Glauco Lobo Filho,
• Matheus Duarte Pimentel,
• Heraldo Guedis Lobo Filho

Reply: In search of a better saphenous vein graft

• Giovanni Jr Soletti,
• Mario Gaudino

Incremental cost-effectiveness of extracorporeal membranous oxygenation as a bridge to cardiac transplant or left ventricular assist device placement in patients with refractory cardiogenic shock

• Joseph Reza,
• Ashley Mila,
• Bradford Ledzian,
• Jingwei Sun,
• Scott Silvestry

Unloading the left ventricle in venoarterial extracorporeal life support: The urgent need of speaking the same language!

• Paolo Meani,
• Mariusz Kowalewski,
• Giuseppe Maria Raffa,
• Roberto Lorusso

Reply from authors: Defining ventricular distension on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and triggers to intervene

• Yiorgos Alexandros Cavayas,
• Pierre-Emmanuel Noly,
• Gurmeet Singh,
• Yoan Lamarche

Mechanism of stroke in the setting of postcardiotomy venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support

• Matan Grunfeld,
• Masashi Kai,
• Suguru Ohira

Reply: Right, wrong, or somewhere in between?

• Hellmuth R. Muller Moran,
• Michael H. Yamashita,
• Rakesh C. Arora

Perfusion royalty, behind the standardization

• Ignazio Condello

Reply from authors: Attempting to solve the puzzle—How to unveil the truth about the origin of stroke in postcardiotomy extracorporeal life support?

• Anne-Kristin Schaefer,
• Günther Laufer,
• Dominik Wiedemann

Acute kidney injury following cardiopulmonary bypass in Jamaica

• Lori-Ann Fisher,
• Sunil Stephenson,
• Marshall Tulloch Reid,
• Simon G. Anderson

Comparing three wearable accelerometers to measure early activity after cardiac surgery

• Charles H. Brown IV,
• Lisa Yanek,
• Ryan Healy,
• ...
• Vadim Zipunnikov,
• Jennifer Schrack
• the Cardiac Surgery Mobility Working Group

Global geographical discrepancy in numerical distribution of cardiovascular surgeries and human resource development in South Asia

• Nazmul Hosain,
• Farzana Amin,
• Mohammad Fazle Maruf,
• ...
• Tahmina Akter,
• Md Anisuzzaman,
• Asif Rahim

Discussion

Estimating the causal effect of the Medicaid expansion on heart transplant volume with a differences-in-differences model

• Ashwin Palaniappan,
• David Blitzer,
• Hiroo Takayama,
• Frank W. Sellke

Parsimonious machine learning models to predict resource use in cardiac surgery across a statewide collaborative

• Arjun Verma,
• Yas Sanaiha,
• Joseph Hadaya,
• ...
• Richard J. Shemin,
• Peyman Benharash
• the University of California Cardiac Surgery Consortium

Impact of autonomic regulation on burnout and performance in thoracic surgery residents

• Lauren K. Barron,
• Marc R. Moon

Discussion

• Mara Antonoff,
• Andrew Goldstone

The utilization of educational resources published by the Thoracic Surgery Residents Association

• Alexander A. Brescia,
• Clauden Louis,
• Jessica G.Y. Luc,
• ...
• Gurjit Sandhu,
• J. Hunter Mehaffey
• on behalf of the Thoracic Surgery Residents Association

Discussion

• Craig J. Baker

Sex differences in authorship in cardiothoracic surgery during the early coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic

• Lina A. Elfaki,
• Jessica G.Y. Luc,
• Mara B. Antonoff,
• ...
• Nikki Stamp,
• Thomas K. Varghese Jr.,
• Maral Ouzounian

Treatment quality and outcomes vary with hospital burden of uninsured and Medicaid patients with cancer in early non–small cell lung cancer

• Zaid Muslim,
• Syed S. Razi,
• Kostantinos Poulikidis,
• ...
• Joanna F. Weber,
• Cliff P. Connery,
• Faiz Y. Bhora

Discussion

• Cherie Erkmen

Surgical decision-making in advanced-stage non–small cell lung cancer is influenced by more than just guidelines

• Terrance Peng,
• Albert J. Farias,
• Kimberly A. Shemanski,
• ...
• Scott M. Atay,
• Robert J. Canter,
• Elizabeth A. David

Role of ground-glass opacity in pure invasive and lepidic component in pure solid lung adenocarcinoma for predicting aggressiveness

• Takahiro Mimae,
• Yoshihiro Miyata,
• Yasuhiro Tsutani,
• ...
• Haruhiko Nakayama,
• Norihiko Ikeda,
• Morihito Okada

Ventilatory efficiency in combination with peak oxygen uptake improves risk stratification in patients undergoing lobectomy

• Karolina Kristenson,
• Johan Hylander,
• Miklos Boros,
• Anna Fyrenius,
• Kristofer Hedman

Evaluation of gastroesophageal reflux disease and hiatal hernia as risk factors for lobectomy complications

• Michael F. Kaminski,
• Theresa Ermer,
• Maureen Canavan,
• ...
• Peter Zhan,
• Daniel J. Boffa,
• Meaghan Dendy Case

Systematic or targeted sampling during endobronchial ultrasound for mediastinal staging in patients with lung cancer and abnormal mediastinum

• José Sanz-Santos,
• Pere Serra,
• Antoni Rosell

Reply from author: Systematic or targeted sampling during endobronchial ultrasound for mediastinal staging in patients with lung cancer and abnormal mediastinum

• Waël C. Hanna

Caspase-Independent programmed cell death is not necessarily necroptosis

• Yujie Lin,
• Hongyao Li,
• Jian Li,
• Hao Gu,
• Peiwu Li

Reply From Authors: How a cell dies matters and how to evaluate it also matters

• Satoshi Ueda,
• Toyofumi F. Chen-Yoshikawa,
• Satona Tanaka,
• ...
• Daisuke Nakajima,
• Akihiro Ohsumi,
• Hiroshi Date