Minimally invasive surgery

Contributing journals to this CTSNet collection:
Annals of Thoracic Surgery, European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals, and Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

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Valves
Management for intraoperative acute aortic dissection during minimally invasive aortic valve replacement

Shigehiko Tokunaga, Shigeki Morita, Shinji Sumiyoshi, and Ryuji Tominaga
Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery icvts.2005.111666. [Abstract] Rapid PDF ?

Images in cardio-thoracic surgery
Hybrid treatment of a symptomatic aortic and left subclavian false aneurysm

Sylvain Rubin, Olivier N. Pages, Fran?ois Bonnet, and Bernard Baehrel
Eur. J. Cardiothorac. Surg. 2005; 28: 491. [Full text] [PDF] ?

Letters to the Editor
OPCAB: time to call off the search for the Holy Grail!

Shahzad G. Raja
Eur. J. Cardiothorac. Surg. 2005; 28: 515-516. [Full text] [PDF] ?

Evolving Technology
Video-assisted bilateral pulmonary vein isolation and left atrial appendage exclusion for atrial fibrillation

Randall K. Wolf, E. William Schneeberger, Robert Osterday, Doug Miller, Walter Merrill, John B. Flege, Jr, and A. Marc Gillinov
J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 2005; 130: 797-802. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] ?

Evolving Technology
Surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation with off-pump, epicardial, high-intensity focused ultrasound: Results of a multicenter trial

Jean Ninet, Xavier Roques, Rainald Seitelberger, Claude Deville, Jose Luis Pomar, Jacques Robin, Olivier Jegaden, Francis Wellens, Ernst Wolner, Catherine Vedrinne, Roman Gottardi, Javier Orrit, Marc-Alain Billes, Drew A. Hoffmann, James L. Cox, and Gerard L. Champsaur
J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 2005; 130: 803. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] ?

Brief Communication
Preliminary experience with minimally invasive video-assisted surgery for thymic diseases, including myasthenia gravis, through a horizontal ministernotomy

Masazumi Watanabe, Ryohei Yozu, and Koichi Kobayashi
J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 2005; 130: 912-913. [Full text] [PDF] ?

Brief Communication
Video-assisted thoracoscopic bilateral lung metastasectomy with a subxiphoid access port

Yuji Taniguchi, Yoshimasa Suzuki, Takako Suda, Tomoko Inoue, Kunio Araki, Norimasa Ito, Koichiro Okada, Kiyosuke Ishiguro, Hiroshige Nakamura, and Shigetsugu Ohgi
J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 2005; 130: 916-917. [Full text] [PDF] ?

Brief Communication
Sudden cardiac arrest after coronary artery bypass grafting as a result of massive carbon dioxide embolism

Alan P. Kypson
J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 2005; 130: 936-937. [Full text] [PDF] ?

Letters to the Editor
Does the introduction of off-pump coronary artery bypass into aortic arch aneurysm repair minimize the period of myocardial ischemia and cardiopulmonary bypass?

Hisato Takagi and Takuya Umemoto
J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 2005; 130: 950-951. [Full text] [PDF] ?

Coronary
Long term angiographic monitoring reveals safety and efficacy of the Converge end-to-side anastomotic coupler

Uwe Klima, Theo Kofidis, Andreas Boening, and Axel Haverich
Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery icvts.2005.109199. [Abstract] Rapid PDF ?