Michel I M Versteegh,Andrew Tjon Jouk Tjien
Michel I M Versteegh
Diaphragm paralysis in adults can cause severe dyspnea which results from the paradoxical movement of the diaphragm. Surgical plication can be done with excellent long-term results.
Federico Venuta,Erino A Rendina,Tiziano De Giacomo et al.
Federico Venuta et al.
Emphysema is a debilitating lung disease continuing to be a major source of morbidity and mortality in the developed countries. Medical treatment is the mainstay of therapy and consists of smoking cessation, pulmonary rehabilitation, admini...
Mattia Glauber,Marco Solinas,Jamshid Karimov
Mattia Glauber
In this presentation we provide a summary of aortic valve replacement with a supra-annular stentless aortic valve, the Freedom Solo prosthesis. Stentless valves were designed to provide more physiological flow and lower transvalvular gradie...
Biruta Witte,Martin Hürtgen
Biruta Witte
Systematic mediastinal lymphadenectomy is usually done at thoracotomy together with lung resection. It is a prerequisite for accurate nodal staging and has an impact on survival. With the introduction of neoadjuvant therapy for stage III lu...
Mahesh S Sharma,Martin Kostolny,Marc R de Leval et al.
Mahesh S Sharma et al.
In this document, we include under the heading of univentricular heart, complex cardiac malformations which have in common the presence of a functionally single ventricle. The evolution of the surgical management of univentricular hearts is...
Christian Schreiber,Jürgen Hörer,Manfred Vogt et al.
Christian Schreiber et al.
Holes permitting shunting between the atrial chambers can take various anatomical forms, varying from the patent oval foramen, which shunts only from right-to-left, to the so-called sinus venosus defect, which is associated with anomalous c...
Lorenzo Spaggiari,Massimiliano D&#x;Aiuto,Giulia Veronesi et al.
Lorenzo Spaggiari et al.
Tumors arising anteriorly in the apex of the chest were long considered unresectable because of early invasion of vascular structures limiting radical resection through the conventional Paulson approach. These tumors became operable in 1993...
Split lung transplantation with intraoperative extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support [0.03%]
术中体外膜肺氧合支持下的劈半式供肺移植
Gabriel Mihai Marta,Clemens Aigner,Walter Klepetko
Gabriel Mihai Marta
Pulmonary bipartitioning or split lung transplantation, which was first described in 1997, presently represents the most efficient use of donor lungs. With this technique, a left donor lung can be separated into an upper and lower lobe and ...
Torsten Doenst
Torsten Doenst
Direct cannulation of the coronary ostia is a technique used by many surgeons in aortic valve surgery, especially when the valve is incompetent. It is safe and feasible, but the small risk of it causing a potentially devastating ostial sten...
Hiroshi Date,Motoi Aoe,Yoshifumi Sano et al.
Hiroshi Date et al.
Bilateral living-donor lobar lung transplantation is a procedure for patients considered too ill to await cadaveric transplantation. In this relatively new procedure, right and left lower lobes from two healthy donors are implanted in the r...