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Vol 4, No 4 (July 13, 2015): Mitral Valve Repair (II)

Quantitation of mitral regurgitation after percutaneous MitraClip repair: comparison of Doppler echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

Christian Hamilton-Craig, Wendy Strugnell, Niranjan Gaikwad, Matthew Ischenko, Vicki Speranza, Jonathan Chan, Johanne Neill, David Platts, Gregory M. Scalia, Darryl J. Burstow, Darren L. Walters

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Current state of transcatheter mitral valve repair with the MitraClip

Emily A. Downs, D. Scott Lim, Mike Saji, Gorav Ailawadi

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Vol 4, No 3 (May 28, 2015): Mitral Valve Repair (I)

Lifting posterior mitral annuloplasty for enhancing leaflet coaptation in mitral valve repair: midterm outcomes

Meong Gun Song, Je Kyoun Shin, Hyun Keun Chee, Jun Seok Kim, Hyun Suk Yang, Jong Bum Choi

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Posterior annulus shortening increases leaflet coaptation in ischemic mitral incompetence: a new and valid technique

Roland Hetzer, Natalia Solowjowa, Henryk Siniawski, Eva Maria Delmo Walter

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Vol 4, No 2 (March 29, 2015): Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Surgery (II)

Sutureless Aortic Valve Replacement International Registry (SU-AVR-IR): design and rationale from the International Valvular Surgery Study Group (IVSSG)

Marco Di Eusanio, Kevin Phan, Denis Bouchard, Thierry P. Carrel, Otto E. Dapunt, Roberto Di Bartolomeo, Harald C. Eichstaedt, Theodor Fischlein, Thierry Folliguet, Borut Gersak, Mattia Glauber, Axel Haverich, Martin Misfeld, Peter J. Oberwalder, Giuseppe Santarpino, Malakh Lal Shrestha, Marco Solinas, Marco Vola, Francesco Alamanni, Alberto Albertini, Gopal Bhatnagar, Michel Carrier, Stephen Clark, Federic Collart, Utz Kappert, Alfred Kocher, Bart Meuris, Carmelo Mignosa, Ahmed Ouda, Marc Pelletier, Parwis Baradaran Rahmanian, David Reineke, Kevin Teoh, Giovanni Troise, Emmanuel Villa, Thorsten Wahlers, Tristan D. Yan

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Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement: 12-year single center experience

Daniyar Gilmanov, Marco Solinas, Pier Andrea Farneti, Alfredo Giuseppe Cerillo, Enkel Kallushi, Filippo Santarelli, Mattia Glauber

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Minimally invasive primary aortic valve surgery: the OLV Aalst experience

Johan van der Merwe, Filip Casselman, Bernard Stockman, Frank Van Praet, Roel Beelen, Lieven Maene, Yvette Vermeulen, Ivan Degrieck

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Minimally invasive aortic valve surgery: Cleveland Clinic experience

Douglas R. Johnston, Eric E. Roselli

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Minimally invasive valve sparing aortic root replacement (David procedure) is safe

Malakh Shrestha, Heike Krueger, Julia Umminger, Nurbol Koigeldiyev, Erik Beckmann, Axel Haverich, Andreas Martens

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Vol 4, No 1 (January 20, 2015): Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Surgery (I)

Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement: the Leipzig experience

Sven Lehmann, Denis R. Merk, Christian D. Etz, Joerg Seeburger, Thomas Schroeter, Andreas Oberbach, Madlen Uhlemann, Robert Hoellriegel, Martin Haensig, Sergey Leontyev, Jens Garbade, Martin Misfeld, Friedrich W. Mohr

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Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement versus aortic valve replacement through full sternotomy: the Brigham and Women’s Hospital experience

Robert C. Neely, Marko T. Boskovski, Igor Gosev, Tsuyoshi Kaneko, Siobhan McGurk, Marzia Leacche, Lawrence H. Cohn

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Vol 3, No 6 (November 30, 2014): Mechanical Circulatory Support (II)

Hemorrhage and thrombosis with different LVAD technologies: a matter of flow?

Vincenzo Tarzia, Edward Buratto, Giacomo Bortolussi, Michele Gallo, Jonida Bejko, Roberto Bianco, Tomaso Bottio, Gino Gerosa

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Comparison of continuous-flow and pulsatile-flow left ventricular assist devices: is there an advantage to pulsatility?

Allen Cheng, Christine A. Williamitis, Mark S. Slaughter

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Ventricular assist device implantation in the elderly

William Hiesinger, Jack H. Boyd, Y. Joseph Woo

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Minimally invasive and alternative approaches for long-term LVAD placement: the Vanderbilt strategy

Simon Maltais, Mary E. Davis, Nicholas Haglund

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Vol 3, No 5 (September 26, 2014): Mechanical Circulatory Support (I)

Evaluation and treatment of pump thrombosis and hemolysis

Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili, Fabio Sagebin, Ronald E. Ross, William Hallinan, Karl Q. Schwarz, H. Todd Massey

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Clinical psychological and neuropsychological issues with left ventricular assist devices (LVADs)

Daniela Mapelli, Annachiara Cavazzana, Chiara Cavalli, Tomaso Bottio, Vincenzo Tarzia, Gino Gerosa, Bianca Rosa Volpe

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Gastrointestinal bleed after left ventricular assist device implantation: incidence, management, and prevention

Laura Harvey, Christopher T. Holley, Ranjit John

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Vol 3, No 4 (July 25, 2014): Type B Aortic Dissection (II)

Open repair of chronic complicated type B aortic dissection using the open distal technique

Anthony L. Estrera, Harleen Sandhu, Rana O. Afifi, Ali Azizzadeh, Kristofer Charlton-Ouw, Charles C. Miller, Hazim J. Safi

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Possible graft-related complications in visceral debranching for hybrid B dissection repair

Roberto Chiesa, Yamume Tshomba, Davide Logaldo, Andrea Kahlberg, Domenico Baccellieri, Luca Apruzzi

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Long-term outcomes in thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair for chronic type B dissection

Mohamad Bashir, Matthew Shaw, Matthew Fok, Deborah Harrington, Mark Field, Manoj Kuduvalli, Aung Oo

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Vol 3, No 3 (May 31, 2014): Type B Aortic Dissection (I)

Current management and outcome of chronic type B aortic dissection: results with open and endovascular repair since the advent of thoracic endografting

Nicholas D. Andersen, Jeffrey E. Keenan, Asvin M. Ganapathi, Jeffrey G. Gaca, Richard L. McCann, G. Chad Hughes

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Predictors of false lumen thrombosis in type B aortic dissection treated with TEVAR

Jip L. Tolenaar, John A. Kern, Frederik H. W. Jonker, Kenneth J. Cherry, Megan C. Tracci, John F. Angle, Saher Sabri, Santi Trimarchi, David Strider, Gorav Alaiwaidi, Gilbert R. Upchurch Jr

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Vol 3, No 2 (March 31, 2014): Sublobar Resection

Lobectomy vs. segmentectomy for NSCLC (T<2 cm)

Nestor Villamizar, Scott J. Swanson

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Segmentectomy versus lobectomy for clinical stage IA lung adenocarcinoma

Morihito Okada, Takahiro Mimae, Yasuhiro Tsutani, Haruhiko Nakayama, Sakae Okumura, Masahiro Yoshimura, Yoshihiro Miyata

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Vol 3, No 1 (January 28, 2014): Atrial fibrillation surgery

Comparison of the stand-alone Cox-Maze IV procedure to the concomitant Cox-Maze IV and mitral valve procedure for atrial fibrillation

Christopher P. Lawrance, Matthew C. Henn, Jacob R. Miller, Laurie A. Sinn, Richard B. Schuessler, Ralph J. Damiano Jr

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Rationale and design of the Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Study (LAAOS) III

Richard Whitlock, Jeff Healey, Jessica Vincent, Kate Brady, Kevin Teoh, Alistair Royse, Pallav Shah, Yingqiang Guo, Marco Alings, Richard J. Folkeringa, Domenico Paparella, Andrea Colli, Steven R. Meyer, Jean-François Legare, François Lamontagne, Wilko Reents, Andreas Böning, Stuart Connolly

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Effectiveness and safety of simultaneous hybrid thoracoscopic and endocardial catheter ablation of lone atrial fibrillation

Laurent Pison, Sandro Gelsomino, Fabiana Lucà, Orlando Parise, Jos G. Maessen, Harry J.G.M. Crijns, Mark La Meir

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Vol 2, No 6 (November 29, 2013): Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery

Concomitant tricuspid valve repair in patients with minimally-invasive mitral valve surgery

Bettina Pfannmüller, Piroze Davierwala, Gregor Hirnle, Michael A. Borger, Martin Misfeld, Jens Garbade, Joerg Seeburger, Friedrich W. Mohr

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Rate of repair in minimally invasive mitral valve surgery

Patrick Perier, Wolfgang Hohenberger, Fitsum Lakew, Gerhard Batz, Anno Diegeler

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Minimally-invasive mitral valve surgery: “The Leipzig experience”

Piroze M. Davierwala, Joerg Seeburger, Bettina Pfannmueller, Jens Garbade, Martin Misfeld, Michael A. Borger, Friedrich W. Mohr

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Total percutaneous femoral vessels cannulation for minimally invasive mitral valve surgery

Matteo Pozzi, Roland Henaine, Daniel Grinberg, Jacques Robin, Christine Saroul, Bertrand Delannoy, Olivier Desebbe, Jean-François Obadia

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Cross-sectional survey on minimally invasive mitral valve surgery

Martin Misfeld, Michael Borger, John G. Byrne, W. Randolph Chitwood, Lawrence Cohn, Aubrey Galloway, Jens Garbade, Mattia Glauber, Ernesto Greco, Clark W. Hargrove, David M. Holzhey, Ralf Krakor, Didier Loulmet, Yugal Mishra, Paul Modi, Douglas Murphy, L. Wiley Nifong, Kazuma Okamoto, Joerg Seeburger, David H. Tian, Marcel Vollroth, Tristan D. Yan

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Vol 2, No 5 (September 01, 2013): Frozen Elephant Trunk

Sun’s procedure of total arch replacement using a tetrafurcated graft with stented elephant trunk implantation: analysis of early outcome in 398 patients with acute type A aortic dissection

Wei-Guo Ma, Jun Zheng, Song-Bo Dong, Wei Lu, Kai Sun, Rui-Dong Qi, Yong-Min Liu, Jun-Ming Zhu, Qian Chang, Li-Zhong Sun

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Overall Essen’s experience with the E-vita open hybrid stent graft system and evolution of the surgical technique

Konstantinos Tsagakis, Daniel Dohle, Jaroslav Benedik, Helmut Lieder, Heinz Jakob

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Early- and medium-term results after aortic arch replacement with frozen elephant trunk techniques—a single center study

Sergey Leontyev, Martin Misfeld, Piroze Daviewala, Michael A. Borger, Christian D. Etz, Sergey Belaev, Joerg Seeburger, David Holzhey, Farhard Bakhtiary, Friedrich W. Mohr

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Frozen elephant trunk surgery—the Bologna’s experience

Marco Di Eusanio, Antonio Pantaleo, Giacomo Murana, Giovanni Pellicciari, Sebastiano Castrovinci, Paolo Berretta, Gianluca Folesani, Roberto Di Bartolomeo

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Vol 2, No 4 (July 30, 2013): Total arterial revascularization

Mid-term results of the Radial Artery Patency and Clinical Outcomes randomized trial

Philip A. Hayward, Brian F. Buxton

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Radial artery as a second arterial graft in the elderly and both sexes

Robert H. Habib, Nadeem E. Abou-Arraj, Thomas A. Schwann

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Full myocardial revascularization with bilateral internal mammary artery Y grafts

Hugh S. Paterson, Rishendran Naidoo, Karen Byth, Cheng Chen, A. Robert Denniss

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Vol 2, No 3 (May 30, 2013): Aortic arch surgery (II)

Aortic arch surgery using moderate hypothermia and unilateral selective antegrade cerebral perfusion

Bradley G. Leshnower, Richard J. Myung, Edward P. Chen

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Type I and Type II hybrid aortic arch replacement: postoperative and mid-term outcome analysis

Prashanth Vallabhajosyula, Wilson Szeto, Nimesh Desai, Joseph E. Bavaria

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Vol 2, No 2 (March 18, 2013): Aortic Arch Surgery (I)

Total arch replacement using selective antegrade cerebral perfusion as the neuroprotection strategy

Yutaka Okita, Kenji Okada, Atsushi Omura, Hiroya Kano, Hitoshi Minami, Takeshi Inoue, Toshihito Sakamoto, Shunsuke Miyahara, Tomonori Shirasaka, Katsuhiro Yamanaka, Taimi Ohara, Yoshikatsu Nomura, Hidekazu Nakai

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Consensus on hypothermia in aortic arch surgery

Tristan D. Yan, Paul G. Bannon, Joseph Bavaria, Joseph S. Coselli, John A. Elefteriades, Randall B. Griepp, G. Chad Hughes, Scott A. LeMaire, Teruhisa Kazui, Nicholas T. Kouchoukos, Martin Misfeld, Friedrich W. Mohr, Aung Oo, Lars G. Svensson, David H. Tian

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