DOI: 10.1055/s-00000085

The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

Issue 06 · Volume 62 · September 2014 DOI: 10.1055/s-004-27709

Editorial

  • 459
    Heinemann, Markus K.:

    Lost in Translation

    • Obituary: Donald Nixon Ross

  • 461
    Yankah, Charles:

    In Memoriam: Mr. Donald Nixon Ross October 4, 1922 to July 7, 2014

    • Review Article

  • 463
    Doenst, Torsten; Amorim, Paulo A.; Diab, Mahmoud; Hagendorff, Andreas; Faerber, Gloria; Graff, Jürgen; Rastan, Ardawan; Deutsch, Oliver; Eichinger, Walter; PAR I Investigators:

    Novel Thoughts on Patient–Prosthesis Mismatch in Aortic Valve Replacement: The Rationale for the PAR I Trial

    • Original Cardiovascular

  • 469
    Hoffmann, Grischa; Ogbamicael, Selam Abraham; Jochens, Arne; Frank, Derk; Lutter, Georg; Cremer, Jochen; Petzina, Rainer:

    Impact of Patient–Prosthesis Mismatch Following Aortic Valve Replacement on Short-Term Survival: A Retrospective Single Center Analysis of 632 Consecutive Patients with Isolated Stented Biological Aortic Valve Replacement

  • 475
    Böning, Andreas; Niemann, Bernd; Ennker, Ina; Richter, Michael; Roth, Peter; Ennker, Jürgen:

    Are Aortic Valve Reoperations after Primary Replacement with Stentless Heart Valve Prostheses More Demanding than after Stented Biological Prostheses?

  • 482
    Haldenwang, Peter; Trampisch, Matthias; Schlömicher, Markus; Pillokeit, Nina; Rehman, Attik; Garstka, Nathalie; Bechtel, Matthias; Strauch, Justus:

    Risk Factors for Acute Kidney Injury following TA-TAVI or Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement: Which Procedure Is Less Kidney Damaging in Elderly Patients?

  • 489
    O' Sullivan, Katie E.; Bracken-Clarke, Darragh; Segurado, Ricardo; Barry, Mitchel; Sugrue, Declan; Flood, Georgina; Hurley, John:

    Is Local Anesthesia the Optimum Strategy in Retrograde Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  • 498
    Conradi, Lenard; Seiffert, Moritz; Shimamura, Kazuo; Schirmer, Johannes; Blankenberg, Stefan; Reichenspurner, Hermann; Diemert, Patrick; Treede, Hendrik:

    Successful Use of a Left Ventricular Apical Access and Closure Device for Second-Generation Transapical Aortic Valve Implantation

    • Letters to the Editor

  • 503
    Vural, Kerem M.:

    Pitfalls in Interpreting the Patient-Prosthesis Mismatch Outcome

    • Original Thoracic

  • 505
    Kim, Jung Tae; Oh, Tae Yoon; Chang, Woon Ha; Kong, Joon Hyuk; Baek, Kang Seok; Lee, Won Jin; Bang, Yun Yi:

    Natural Course of Spontaneous Pneumothorax without Bullae or Blebs under High-Resolution Computed Tomography

  • 509
    Jablonski, Slawomir; Brocki, Marian; Wawrzycki, Marcin; Smigielski, Jacek Arkadiusz; Kozakiewicz, Marcin:

    Efficacy Assessment of the Drainage with Permanent Airflow Measurement in the Treatment of Pneumothorax with Air Leak

  • 516
    Karasaki, Takahiro; Shintomi, Shizuya; Nomura, Yukihiro; Tanaka, Nobutaka; Saito, Haruhisa; Yoshida, Yukihiro:

    Outcomes of Outpatient Treatment for Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax Using a Small-Bore Portable Thoracic Drainage Device

  • 521
    Kang, Du-Young; Lee, Sungsoo:

    Lymphatic Vessel Invasion and Lymph Node Metastasis in Patients with Clinical Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

    • How to Do It

  • 525
    Wei, Bo; Jiang, Fusheng; Yin, Jinshu:

    A Specific Instrument to Facilitate Thoracoscopic Ligation

    • Case Report

  • 528
    Özdemir, Ahmet Coşkun; Yüksel, Volkan; Hüseyin, Serhat; Baltalarlı, Ahmet:

    Aortic Valve Regurgitation and Ventricular Septal Defect Diagnosed 5 Years after Penetrating Cardiac İnjury

  • 531
    Chea, J. S.; Chae, S. M.; Moon, S. W.:

    Tension Subcutaneous Emphysema during Laparoscopic Surgery Treatment of Colon Cancer: A Case Report