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    A patient with Marfan’s syndrome who developed an acute aortic dissection at 28 weeks of pregnancy treated with aortic root replacement

    The patient was a 31-year-old pregnant woman who gave birth to her first child by vaginal delivery 7 years ago. She was diagnosed with Marfan’s syndrome based on physical findings; however, the condition was n...

    Riki Sumiyoshi, Hideki Morita, Kento Fujii in General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (2021)

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    Surgical outcomes of acute type A aortic dissection in dialysis patients

    Acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) is relatively uncommon in dialysis patients, and characteristics and repair outcomes are not fully understood.

    Kei Akiyoshi, Naoyuki Kimura, Kei Aizawa in General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (2019)

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    Successful non-operative management of left atrioesophageal fistula following catheter ablation

    Atrioesophageal fistula (AEF) is a potentially lethal complication of catheter radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation. A 49-year-old man with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation who underwent catheter abla...

    Manabu Shiraishi, Hideki Morita, Kenichi Muramatsu, Akira Sato in Surgery Today (2014)

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    Is the threshold for postoperative prosthesis-patient mismatch the same for all prostheses?

    The effective orifice area index (EOAI) is used to define the prosthesis-patient mismatch (PPM) after aortic valve replacement (AVR). However, few studies have so far evaluated whether the cutoff value for PPM...

    Homare Okamura, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Hideki Morita, Kazuhiro Naito in Surgery Today (2013)

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    Rudimentary right ventricle to pulmonary artery shunt in the Norwood procedure

    We describe here successful palliative repair of tricuspid atresia, hypoplastic right ventricle, transposition of the great arteries, and hypoplastic aortic arch in a neonate. The repair consisted of the Norwo...

    Atsushi Tateishi, Masaaki Kawada in General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (2010)