Brain atrophy in heart failure patients following left ventricular assist device implantation or heart transplantation by D.Alan Herbst, MD, Banafsheh Shakibajahromi, MD, Michael V. Genuardi, MD, Amit Iyengar, MD, Dawn Mechanic-Hamilton, PhD, H. Branch Coslett, MD, Pavan Atluri, MD, Christopher G. Favilla, MD

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Postoperative complications and long-term outcomes after total and subtotal thyroidectomy: a retrospective study by Sobhan Javidi, Sepehr Sadrizadeh, Ali Sadrizadeh, Shokoufeh Bonakdaran, Lida Jarahi

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A Short Period of Ventilation without Perfusion Seems to Reduce Atelectasis without Harming the Lungs during Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion by Sandra Lindstedt, Leif Pierre, Richard Ingemansson

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Early Clinical Outcomes of Surgical Management following Vacuum-Assisted Closure in Poststernotomy Mediastinitis by Rafik F. Soliman, Hatem M. Soltan, Saeed O. Abdelwahed, Ibrahim M. Khalil

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Effect of Refined Nursing on Wound Complications After Thoracoscopic Surgery for Lung Cancer by Yanxia Dong, Guangqin Ma, Shuaishuai Wu, Shuling Zhang

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Outcomes of patients after successful left ventricular assist device explantation: a EUROMACS study by Christiaan F.J. Antonides, Felix Schoenrath, Theo M.M.H. deBy, Rahatullah Muslem, Kevin Veen, Yunus C. Yalcin, Ivan Netuka, Jan Gummert, Evgenij V. Potapov, Bart Meyns, Mustafa Özbaran, David Schibilsky, Kadir Caliskan, the EUROMACS investigators

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Supra-Annular Versus Intra-Annular Self-Expanding Valves in Small Aortic Annulus: A Propensity Score-Matched Study by Michel Pompeu Sá, MD, MSc, MHBA, PhD, Danial Ahmad, MD, MPH, Yisi Wang, MPH, Floyd Thoma, BS, Amber Makani, MD, Dustin Kliner, MD, Catalin Toma, MD, David West, MD, Derek Serna-Gallegos, MD, Ibrahim Sultan, MD

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Primary Lymphoepithelioma-Like Carcinoma of Lung by Alejandro Guerrero, Michael Laflamme, S Nicholas Agoff, William M Williams, Riyad Karmy-Jones

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Ghostly intrusion on a frightful Halloween night: a case report of dual valve endocarditis by Margarida Castro, Mariana Tinoco, Rafael Martins, Mário Jorge Amorim, Luísa Pinheiro, Marina Fernandes, Filipa Cardoso, Filipa Almeida, Paulo Pinho, João Português, António Lourenço

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PPARG Could Work as a Valid Therapeutic Strategy for the Treatment of Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Shunbin Shi, Guiping Yu, Bin Huang, Yedong Mi, Yan Kang, Julia Pia Simon

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Clinical Study on Long-Term Sinus Reversion Rate and Left Atrial Function Recovery of Mitral Valve Disease with Atrial Fibrillation under Modified Surgical Radiofrequency Ablation by Jingle Cui, Ziyang Hu, Tao Li, Ziyang Guo, Weiquan Luo, Zhiyong Huang

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Surgical Management of Right Atrial Mass Associated with a Vascular Access Catheter by David Ferreira, Anthony Le, John Khoo, Paul Nguyen, Manish Jain, Timothy Spicer, Craig Juergens

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Inflammatory Pericardial Pseudocyst Secondary to Atrial Myocardial Perforation: A Rare Complication following Transvenous Pacemaker Implantation by Mohammad Mowaswes, Tawfik Khoury, Ziv Lahav, Ashraf Sanduka, Ayelet Shapira-Daniels, Oz M. Shapira

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Endoscopic Vein Harvesting for Coronary Bypass Grafting: A Blessing or a Trojan Horse? by Ryan Accord, Jos Maessen

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Mediastinal Teratoma with Neuroendocrine Features in 34-Year-Old Male with Syncope by Peter A. Andrawes, Masood A. Shariff, Qing Chang, Fanyi Kong, Frank M. Rosell

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Bilateral Absence of the Superior Vena Cava by Kaisa Ylänen, Tuija Poutanen, Päivi Savikurki-Heikkilä, Jukka Uotila, Matti Korppi, Anneli Eerola

“…Though usually innocent, this anomaly may complicate cardiothoracic surgery and certain procedures like central venous catheter insertion. …”
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Early and Midterm Outcome of Surgical Repair of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection by Sandy Adel, Karam Mosallam Eisa, Mohamed Adel Elgamal, Asmaa Gaber Rizk

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Factors associated with prolonged length of stay following cardiac surgery in a major referral hospital in Oman: a retrospective observational study by Paul Aylin, Ahmed Almashrafi, Hilal Alsabti, Mirdavron Mukaddirov, Baskaran Balan

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Nutrition before and during Surgery and the Inflammatory Response of the Heart: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Marlieke Visser, Hans W. M. Niessen, Wouter E. M. Kok, Riccardo Cocchieri, Willem Wisselink, Paul A. M. van Leeuwen, Bas A. J. M. de Mol

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Nonlinear effect of body mass index on postoperative survival following isolated heart transplantation by Reid Dale, PhD, Nataliya Bahatyrevich, MD, MS, Matthew Leipzig, BSc, Maria Elizabeth Currie, MD, PhD

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