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June 2024Volume 167Issue 6

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Issue Highlights - Adult

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  Long-term outcomes of aortic root procedures for heterogenous ascending aneurysm disease in bicuspid aortic valve syndrome First author: Milewski

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  Race, neighborhood disadvantage, and survival of Medicare beneficiaries after aortic valve replacement and concomitant coronary artery bypass grafting First author: Shih

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  Pacemaker implantation associated with tricuspid repair in the setting of mitral valve surgery: Insights from a Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network randomized trial First author: Ailawadi

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  Randomized feasibility trial of prophylactic radiofrequency ablation to prevent atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery First author: Willekes

Issue Highlights - Congenital

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  Contemporary outcomes for functional single ventricle with total anomalous pulmonary venous connection First author: Geoffrion

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  When the left ventricle is not adequate, is biventricular repair possible? First author: Nakamura

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  The majority of pediatric Fontan patients have excellent post-transplant survival First Author: Kulshrestha

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  In the era of outpatient ventricular assist devices, is it time to reconsider the practice of bridging older children to transplant on outpatient inotropes?

Issue Highlights - Thoracic

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  Induction chemoimmunotherapy with surgery versus concurrent chemoradiation followed by immunotherapy for stage III-N2 non–small cell lung cancer First author: Kumar

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  Computational risk model for predicting 2-year malignancy of pulmonary nodules using demographic and radiographic characteristics First author: Sarnaik

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  Tumor differentiation impacts response to neoadjuvant therapy and survival in patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma First Author: McKay

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  Early outcomes of lung transplantation with lung allografts from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)–positive donors First Author: Jeon

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  Thoracic: Lung Cancer

  Induction chemoimmunotherapy with surgery versus concurrent chemoradiation followed by immunotherapy for stage III-N2 non–small cell lung cancer

  Kumar et al.
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  Thoracic: Esophageal Cancer

  Tumor differentiation impacts response to neoadjuvant therapy and survival in patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma

  McKay et al.
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  Adult: Aorta

  Branch-first aortic arch replacement strategy decreases perioperative mortality

  Abt et al.
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  Adult: Aorta

  Branch-first aortic arch replacement strategy decreases perioperative mortality

  Abt et al.
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  Adult: Aortic Valve

  Race, neighborhood disadvantage, and survival of Medicare beneficiaries after aortic valve replacement and concomitant coronary artery bypass grafting

  Shih et al.
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  Adult: Mitral Valve

  Pacemaker implantation associated with tricuspid repair in the setting of mitral valve surgery: Insights from a Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network randomized trial

  Ailawadi et al.
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  Adult: Arrhythmias: Clinical Trial

  Randomized feasibility trial of prophylactic radiofrequency ablation to prevent atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery

  Willekes et al.
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  Congenital: Single Ventricle

  Contemporary outcomes for functional single ventricle with total anomalous pulmonary venous connection

  Geoffrion et al.
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  Congenital: Fontan

  The majority of pediatric Fontan patients have excellent post-transplant survival

  Kulshrestha et al.

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Adult: Graphical abstract.Vianna

Congenital: Graphical Abstract. Heart failure is common and associated with decreased long-term survival. Machine learning yields a novel 7-feature risk model for postoperative morbidity/mortality, in which EF is the most influential. Griffeth

Thoracic: Retrospective analysis of national transplant database between April 2020 and June 2022 identified 47 cases of lung transplantation with COVID-19–positive donor. Lung transplantation with carefully selected COVID-19–positive lung allografts had comparable early posttransplant outcomes with the lung transplantation with COVID-19–negative lung allografts. Jeon

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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery presents original, peer-reviewed articles on diseases of the heart, great vessels, lungs and thorax with emphasis on surgical interventions. An official publication of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association, the Journal focuses on techniques and developments in acquired cardiac surgery, congenital cardiac repair, thoracic procedures, heart and lung transplantation, mechanical circulatory support and other procedures.

 

The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

The American Association for Thoracic Surgery is an international organization of over 1,500 of the world's foremost cardiothoracic surgeons representing 41 countries. Founded in 1917, its members have a proven record of distinction within the specialty and have made significant contributions to the care and treatment of cardiothoracic disease throughout the world.

 

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  Research Article

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  Features and Outcomes of Females and Males Requiring Postcardiotomy Extracorporeal Life Support

  Mariani et al.

  Published online: May 16, 2024
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  Research Article

  Outcomes of Surgical Septal Myectomy for Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy After Prior Septal Reduction Therapy

  Qamar et al.

  Published online: May 13, 2024
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  Research Article

  External Validation of the ARCH Score in Patients Undergoing Aortic Arch Reconstruction Under Circulatory Arrest

  Ahmad et al.

  Published online: May 13, 2024
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  Congenital

  Reprint of: How He Did It – The James S. Tweddell Approach to Single Ventricle Palliation in Patients With Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

  O’Donnell et al.

  Published online: May 9, 2024

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