European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Article	Citations
2021 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease	345
Corrigendum to: 2021 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease	163
International consensus statement on nomenclature and classification of the congenital bicuspid aortic valve and its aortopathy, for clinical, surgical, interventional and research purposes	80
Five-year outcome in 18 010 patients from the German Aortic Valve Registry	53
Results of endovascular aortic arch repair using the Relay Branch system	53
Outcomes of surgical resection after neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy in locally advanced stage IIIA non-small-cell lung cancer	44
Long-term outcome after the arterial switch operation: 43 years of experience	43
Final 5-year outcomes following aortic valve replacement with a RESILIA™ tissue bioprosthesis	41
Long-term and short-term outcomes of robot- versus video-assisted anatomic lung resection in lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis	36
Transplantation of donor hearts after circulatory death using normothermic regional perfusion and cold storage preservation	33
Evaluation of the GERAADA score for prediction of 30-day mortality in patients with acute type A aortic dissection	33
Propensity score-based analysis of long-term follow-up in patients supported with durable centrifugal left ventricular assist devices: the EUROMACS analysis	31
Short- and long-term mortality after deep sternal wound infection following cardiac surgery: experiences from SWEDEHEART	29
Bicuspid aortic valve repair: outcomes after 17 years of experience	29
The European Registry for Patients with Mechanical Circulatory Support of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery: third report	27
Coronary artery bypass surgery in the UK, trends in activity and outcomes from a 15-year complete national series	27
Aortic valve-sparing root replacement with Tirone E. David’s reimplantation technique: single-centre 25-year experience	26
Robotic off-pump totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass in the current era: report of 544 patients	25
Two decades of valve-sparing root reimplantation in tricuspid aortic valve: impact of aortic regurgitation and cusp repair	25
Clinical outcomes of a fenestrated frozen elephant trunk technique for acute type A aortic dissection	25
Comparative outcomes of total arch versus hemiarch repair in acute DeBakey type I aortic dissection: the impact of 21 years of experience	25
Long-term durability of bicuspid aortic valve repair: a comparison of 2 annuloplasty techniques	24
Eco-audit of conventional heart surgery procedures	24
Mechanical versus bioprosthetic valve for aortic valve replacement: systematic review and meta-analysis of reconstructed individual participant data	24
The frozen elephant trunk technique: impact of proximalization and the four-sites perfusion technique	24

Radial artery versus saphenous vein versus right internal thoracic artery for coronary artery bypass grafting	21
Aortic valve neocuspidization with autologous pericardium in adult patients: UK experience and meta-analytic comparison with other aortic valve substitutes	21
Prognostic impact of tumour spread through air space in radiological subsolid and pure solid lung adenocarcinoma	21
The zone 2 concept and distal stent graft positioning in TH 2–3 are associated with high rates of secondary aortic interventions in frozen elephant trunk surgery	21
Ross procedure provides survival benefit over mechanical valve in adults: a propensity-matched nationwide analysis	21
Strategies to improve outcomes for acute type A aortic dissection with cerebral malperfusion	20
Predictors of safety and success in minimally invasive surgery for degenerative mitral disease	20
Long-term survival after coronary bypass surgery with multiple versus single arterial grafts	20
Thymomectomy plus total thymectomy versus simple thymomectomy for early-stage thymoma without myasthenia gravis: a European Society of Thoracic Surgeons Thymic Working Group Study	20
Long-term results after aortic valve replacement for bicuspid or tricuspid valve morphology in a Swedish population	19
Residual immune response towards decellularized homografts may be highly individual	19
Efficacy of central extracorporeal life support for patients with fulminant myocarditis and cardiogenic shock	19
Type A aortic dissection is more aggressive in women	19
Effect of minimally invasive mitral valve surgery compared to sternotomy on short- and long-term outcomes: a retrospective multicentre interventional cohort study based on Netherlands Heart Registrati	18
Does deeper hypothermia reduce the risk of acute kidney injury after circulatory arrest for aortic arch surgery?	18
Risk factors for postoperative delirium after cardiac surgical procedures with cardioplegic arrest	18
On-line risk prediction models for acute type A aortic dissection surgery: validation of the German Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection Type A score and the European System for Cardiac Operative Risk	18
Urgent endovascular repair of thoracoabdominal aneurysms using an off-the-shelf multibranched endograft	18
Days alive and out of hospital after enhanced recovery video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy	17
Cerebral oximetry and preventing neurological complication post-cardiac surgery: a systematic review	17
Machine learning: principles and applications for thoracic surgery	17
Reduction in acute kidney injury post cardiac surgery using balanced forced diuresis: a randomized, controlled trial	17
Report from the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons database 2019: current surgical practice and perioperative outcomes of pulmonary metastasectomy	17
Five-year outcomes in trials comparing transcatheter aortic valve implantation versus surgical aortic valve replacement: a pooled meta-analysis of reconstructed time-to-event data	17
Effect of a dedicated mitral heart team compared to a general heart team on survival: a retrospective, comparative, non-randomized interventional cohort study based on prospectively registered data	16
Comparison of uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic versus thoracotomy bronchial sleeve lobectomy with pulmonary arterioplasty for centrally located non-small-cell lung cancer	16
Post-pericardiotomy syndrome: insights into neglected postoperative issues	16
Risk analysis for early mortality in emergency acute type A aortic dissection surgery: experience of Tokyo Acute Aortic Super-network	16
Is total aortic arch replacement with the frozen elephant trunk procedure reasonable in elderly patients?	16
Outcomes of valve-sparing surgery in heritable aortic disorders: results from the AVIATOR registry	16
Assessment of long-term outcomes: aortic valve reimplantation versus aortic valve and root replacement with biological valved conduit in aortic root aneurysm with tricuspid valve	16
Four-dimensional flow analysis reveals mechanism and impact of turbulent flow in the dissected aorta	16
Fate of patients weaned from post-cardiotomy extracorporeal life support	15
Minimally invasive thymectomy for myasthenia gravis favours left-sided approach and low severity class	15
Five-year outcomes of patients supported with HeartMate 3: a single-centre experience	15
How to build a multi-arterial coronary artery bypass programme: a stepwise approach	15
Multicentre experience with the frozen elephant trunk technique to treat penetrating aortic ulcers involving the aortic arch	15
FAME 3 fails to defame coronary artery bypass grafting: what went wrong in the percutaneous coronary intervention arm?	15
Surgical treatment for post-infarction papillary muscle rupture: a multicentre study	15
Multicentre prospective observational study for pulmonary vein stump thrombus after anatomical lung resections	15
External validation of six existing multivariable clinical prediction models for short-term mortality in patients undergoing lung resection	15
Management of acute type A aortic dissection in the elderly: an analysis from IRAD	14
Is the EuroSCORE II reliable in surgical mitral valve repair? A single-centre validation study	14
Guidelines for enhanced recovery after lung surgery: need for re-analysis	14
Surgical therapy of infective endocarditis following interventional or surgical pulmonary valve replacement	14
Open or endovascular treatment of downstream thoracic or thoraco-abdominal aortic pathology after frozen elephant trunk: perioperative and mid-term outcomes	14
The impact of gender bias in cardiothoracic surgery in Europe: a European Society of Thoracic Surgeons and European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery survey	14
Prediction for future occurrence of type A aortic dissection using computational fluid dynamics	14
The robotic surgery learning curve of a surgeon experienced in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery compared with his own video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery learning curve for anatomical lung resect	14
Outcomes of tricuspid valve surgery in patients with functional tricuspid regurgitation	14

Machine learning-based risk profile classification of patients undergoing elective heart valve surgery	14
Predicting pathological lymph node status in clinical stage IA peripheral lung adenocarcinoma	13
Unilateral versus bilateral cerebral perfusion during aortic surgery for acute type A aortic dissection: a multicentre study	13
A heart-team hybrid approach for atrial fibrillation: a single-centre long-term clinical outcome cohort study	13
Lobe-specific lymph node dissection in stage IA non-small-cell lung cancer: a retrospective cohort study	13
Second pulmonary resection for a second primary lung cancer: analysis of morbidity and survival	13
5-Year results from the prospective European multi-centre study on decellularized homografts for pulmonary valve replacement ESPOIR Trial and ESPOIR Registry data	13
Type A acute aortic dissection with ≥40-mm aortic root: results of conservative and replacement strategies at long-term follow-up	13
Long-term outcome of hemiarch replacement in a proximal aortic aneurysm repair: analysis of over 1000 patients	13
Robotic thymectomy for thymoma in patients with myasthenia gravis: neurological and oncological outcomes	13
Outcomes of open and endovascular repair of Kommerell diverticulum	13
Aortic valve repair versus mechanical valve replacement for root aneurysm: the CAVIAAR multicentric study	13
Surgical aortic valve replacement in patients aged 50–69 years—insights from the German Aortic Valve Registry (GARY)	13
Long-term outcomes in children undergoing vascular ring division: a multi-institution experience	13
Permanent pacemaker implantation following mitral valve surgery: a retrospective cohort study of risk factors and long-term outcomes	13
Elective replacement of the ascending aorta: is the 5.5-cm threshold appropriate? The insidious, small aorta	13
Clinical implications of late-onset right ventricular failure after implantation of a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device as bridge to transplantation	12
Cardiac surgery practice during the COVID-19 outbreak: a multicentre national survey	12
Anatomical analysis of the aortic arch and feasibility study of double and triple branched thoracic endografts in the treatment of isolated arch pathologies	12
Right aortic arch forming a true vascular ring: a clinical review	12
Effects of postoperative cognitive training on neurocognitive decline after heart surgery: a randomized clinical trial	12
Significantly favourable outcome for patients with non-small-cell lung cancer stage IIIA/IIIB and single-station persistent N2 (skip or additionally N1) disease after multimodality treatment	12
Uniportal versus multiportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery does not compromise the outcome of segmentectomy	12
Variation in incidence, prevention and treatment of persistent air leak after lung cancer surgery	12
The value of perioperative biomarker release for the assessment of myocardial injury or infarction in cardiac surgery	12
Impact of chronic kidney disease in 29 893 patients undergoing transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement from the German Aortic Valve Registry	12
Impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the Italian congenital cardiac surgery system: a national survey	12
Right axillary artery cannulation for venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a retrospective single centre observational study	12
Comparison of shunt types in the neonatal Norwood procedure for single ventricle	12
Common carotid artery true lumen flow impairment in patients with type A aortic dissection	11
Mid-term outcomes of isolated tricuspid valve surgery according to preoperative clinical and functional staging	11
Long-term durability after surgical aortic valve replacement with the Trifecta and the Intuity valve—a comparative analysis	11
Frozen elephant trunk in acute aortic type a dissection: risk analysis of concomitant root replacement	11
Comparison of operative and postoperative characteristics and outcomes between thoracoscopic segmentectomy and lobectomy for non-small-cell lung cancer: a propensity score matching study from the Ital	11
Long-term results of hybrid aortic arch repair using landing zone 0: a single-centre study	11
Extracorporeal life support rewarming rate is associated with survival with good neurological outcome in accidental hypothermia	11
Perioperative platelet reduction after sutureless or stented valve implantation: results from the PERSIST-AVR controlled randomized trial	11
Aortic valve replacement with biological prosthesis in patients aged 50–69 years	11
Cluster analysis of emphysema for predicting pulmonary complications after thoracoscopic lobectomy	11
Supracommissural replacement of the ascending aorta and the aortic valve via partial versus full sternotomy—a propensity-matched comparison in a high-volume centre	11
Predictors of reoperation and mortality after complete atrioventricular septal defect repair	11
Preoperative prognostic nutritional index level is associated with tumour-infiltrating lymphocyte status in patients with surgically resected lung squamous cell carcinoma	11
Complex segmentectomy is not a complex procedure relative to simple segmentectomy	11
Effect on the donor lungs of using abdominal normothermic regional perfusion in controlled donation after circulatory death	11
The prognostic value of lymph node ratio in patients with surgically resected stage I–III small-cell lung cancer: a propensity score matching analysis of the SEER database	11
Carotid versus femoral access for transcatheter aortic valve replacement: comparable results in the current era	11
Neuroprotective strategies in acute aortic dissection: an analysis of the UK National Adult Cardiac Surgical Audit	11
Unplanned readmission and survival after video-assisted thoracic surgery and open thoracotomy in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer: a 12-month nationwide cohort study	11
Treatment of infectious aortic disease with bovine pericardial tube grafts	11
Super Glenn for staged biventricular repair: impact on left ventricular growth?	11
Taking the frozen elephant trunk technique to the next level by a stented side branch for a left subclavian artery connection: a feasibility study	11
Carpentier-Edwards Magna Ease bioprosthesis: a multicentre clinical experience and 12-year durability	11
Safety of patients and providers in lung cancer surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Implications of abnormal ascending aorta geometry for risk prediction of acute type A aortic dissection	11
Results of a prospective follow-up study after type A aortic dissection repair: a high rate of distal aneurysmal evolution and reinterventions	11
Obesity is not a contraindication to veno-arterial extracorporeal life support	11
Excessive oozing through the fabric of the branched Cryolife-Jotec Evita Open NEO hybrid prosthesis	11
The prognostic impact of the ground-glass opacity component in nearly pure-solid stage IA non-small-cell lung cancer	10
Nationwide cohort study of tricuspid valve repair versus replacement for infective endocarditis	10
Is hybrid coronary revascularization really beneficial in the long term?	10
Open surgical replacement of the descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aorta in patients with confirmed Marfan and Loeys-Dietz syndromes: A 20-year single-centre experience	10
Early discharge on postoperative day 1 following lobectomy for stage I non-small-cell lung cancer is safe in high-volume surgical centres: a national cancer database analysis	10
Outcomes of thoracic endovascular aortic repair for penetrating aortic ulcers involving the left subclavian artery with the Castor single-branched stent graft	10
Mitral and tricuspid annuloplasty ring dehiscence: a systematic review with pooled analysis	10
Artificial intelligence-based early detection of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery	10
Surgery for infective endocarditis following low-intermediate risk transcatheter aortic valve replacement—a multicentre experience	10
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement for structural degeneration of previously implanted transcatheter valves (TAVR-in-TAVR): a systematic review	10
Microinvasive cardiac surgery: when less is more—‘render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to the surgeon the things that are the surgeons’’	10
Cardiac recovery following left ventricular assist device therapy: experience of complete device explantation including ventricular patch plasty	10
Pre-operative glycaemic control and long-term survival in diabetic patients after coronary artery bypass grafting	10
Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting is safe and effective in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction	10
Persisting and reoccurring cyanosis after Fontan operation is associated with increased late mortality	10
Laryngotracheal resection can be performed safely without a guardian Chin stitch—a single-centre experience including 165 consecutive patients	10
Progression of aortic valve insufficiency during centrifugal versus axial flow left ventricular assist device support	10
Primary sutureless repair for infracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous connection	10
Matched comparison of 3 cerebral perfusion strategies in open zone-0 anastomosis for acute type A aortic dissection	10
Artificial intelligence analysis of three-dimensional imaging data derives factors associated with postoperative recurrence in patients with radiologically solid-predominant small-sized lung cancers	10
In-hospital mortality and organ failure after open and endovascular thoraco-abdominal aortic surgery can be predicted by increased levels of circulating dipeptidyl peptidase 3	10
Increased cerebral mitochondrial dysfunction and reactive oxygen species with cardiopulmonary bypass	10
Outcome of patients undergoing isolated tricuspid repair or replacement surgery	10

Composition of the surgical team in aortic arch surgery—a risk factor analysis	10
Differences in life expectancy between men and women after aortic valve replacement	10
Thoracoscopic anatomical individual basilar segmentectomy	10
Genetic-pathological prediction for timing and site-specific recurrence pattern in resected lung adenocarcinoma	9
Impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the care of patients with acute and chronic aortic conditions	9
Role of nodal skip metastasis in patients with mid-thoracic oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a propensity score matching study	9
Flow displacement and decreased wall shear stress might be associated with the growth rate of an ascending aortic dilatation	9
Pleural complications in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): how to safely apply and follow-up with a chest tube during the pandemic?	9
Clinicopathological features and current treatment outcomes of neuroendocrine thymic tumours	9
Exploring consensus for the optimal sealant use to prevent air leak following lung surgery: a modified Delphi survey from The European Society of Thoracic Surgeons	9
Vascular complications after transcatheter aortic valve implantation: treatment modalities and long-term clinical impact	9
Oncological outcome of segmentectomy for early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer with invasive characteristics: a multicentre study	9
Anatomic resection has superior long-term survival compared with wedge resection for second primary lung cancer after prior lobectomy	9
Long-term survival after surgical aortic valve replacement in patients aged 80 years and over	9
Erratum to: 2021 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease	9
Bridging patients in cardiogenic shock with a paracorporeal pulsatile biventricular assist device to heart transplantation—a single-centre experience	9
Changes of stent-graft orientation after frozen elephant trunk treatment in aortic dissection	9
A national analysis of open versus minimally invasive thymectomy for stage I–III thymic carcinoma	9
Robotic subxiphoid thymectomy versus lateral thymectomy: a propensity score-matched comparison	9
Endovascular repair of ascending aortic diseases with custom-made endografts	9
Percutaneous versus surgical femoral access in minimally invasive cardiac operations	9
Effects of the harvesting technique and external stenting on progression of vein graft disease 2 years after coronary artery bypass	9
Identifying risk factors for early neurological outcomes following thoracic endovascular aortic repair using the SUMMIT database	9
Contemporary surgical outcome and symptomatic relief following vascular ring surgery in children: effect of prenatal diagnosis	9
Comparative analysis of surgical and percutaneous pulmonary valve implants over a 20-year period	9
Type II hybrid arch repair versus total arch replacement with frozen elephant trunk: a propensity score-matched analysis	9
Anomalous aortic origin of coronary arteries: is the unroofing procedure always appropriate?	9
Predictors of survival in paediatric mitral valve replacement	9
The presence of an additional ventricular chamber does not change the outcome of Fontan circulation: a comparative study	9
Isolated tricuspid valve surgery: first outcomes report according to a novel clinical and functional staging of tricuspid regurgitation	9
The questionable benefit of pectus excavatum repair on cardiopulmonary function: a prospective study	9
Factors predicting recurrence in thymic epithelial neoplasms	9
Pre-emptive BioGlue priming of the branched Evita Open NEO hybrid prosthesis: tackling excessive oozing	9
Fewer transfusions are still more—red blood cell transfusions affect long-term mortality in cardiac surgery	8
Validation of a novel risk score to predict mortality after surgery for acute type A dissection	8
Critical oxygen delivery threshold during cardiopulmonary bypass in older cardiac surgery patients with increased frailty risk	8
Modes of the bioprosthetic valve failure of the porcine and pericardial valves in the mitral position	8
Incidence, clinical relevance and therapeutic options for outflow graft stenosis in patients with left ventricular assist devices	8
The impact of dissection membrane motility on mid-term aortic remodelling after thoracic endovascular repair	8
Risk factors for non-cancer death after surgery in patients with stage I non-small-cell lung cancer	8
Extracardiac conduit adequacy along the respiratory cycle in adolescent Fontan patients	8
Effect of postoperative atrial fibrillation on early and mid-term outcomes of coronary artery bypass graft surgery	8
Two centres experience of lung cancer resection in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer upon treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors: safety and clinical outcomes	8
Surgical management of long-segment congenital tracheal stenosis with tracheobronchial malacia	8
Driveline exit-site care protocols in patients with left ventricular assist devices: a systematic review	8
Computed tomography to identify risk factors for left circumflex artery injury during mitral surgery	8
Surgical repair of tetralogy of Fallot using autologous right atrial appendages: short- to mid-term results	8
Outcomes of single ventricle palliation in infants with heterotaxy syndrome	8
Clinical and haemodynamic variables associated with intensive care unit length of stay and early adverse outcomes after the Norwood procedure	8
Cardiopulmonary bypass increases endothelial dysfunction after pulmonary ischaemia-reperfusion in an animal model	8
Virtual-assisted lung mapping in sublobar resection of small pulmonary nodules, long-term results	8
Cerebral microemboli during extracorporeal life support: a single-centre cohort study	8
Serial right ventricular assessment in patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome: a multiparametric cardiovascular magnetic resonance study	8
Aortic valve surgery in the UK, trends in activity and outcomes from a 15-year complete national series	8
Endovascular repair of descending thoracic aortic aneurysms—a mid-term report from the Global Registry for Endovascular Aortic Treatment (GREAT)	8
The impact of diabetes on short-, intermediate- and long-term mortality following left ventricular assist device implantation	8
Secondary chordal resection with septal myectomy for treatment of symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy	8
Novel risk score for predicting recurrence of atrial fibrillation after the Cryo-Maze procedure	8
Sex difference in the risk factor distributions and outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft surgery in the young population	8
Risk evaluation in adult congenital heart surgery: analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database risk models on data from the European Congenital Heart Surgeons Associ	8
Detection of blood stains using computer vision-based algorithms and their association with postoperative outcomes in thoracoscopic lobectomies	8
Extracorporeal life support as a bridge to pulmonary retransplantation: prognostic factors for survival in a multicentre cohort analysis	8
Histopathological changes in dilated ascending aorta associated with aortic valve cuspidity	7
Survival and adverse events in patients with atrial fibrillation at left ventricular assist device implantation: an analysis of the European Registry for Patients with Mechanical Circulatory Support	7
Preinterventional frailty assessment in patients scheduled for cardiac surgery or transcatheter aortic valve implantation: a consensus statement of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery	7
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with moderate septal thickness and mitral regurgitation: long-term surgical results	7
Minimally invasive surgery versus thoracotomy for resectable stage II and III non-small-cell lung cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Differences in baseline characteristics and outcomes of bicuspid and tricuspid aortic valves in surgical aortic valve replacement	7
Propensity matched long-term analysis of mechanical versus stentless aortic valve replacement in the younger patient	7
Retrograde autologous priming in cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Surgical management of failing Fontan circulation: results from 30 cases with 285 patient-years follow-up	7
Robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery demonstrates a lower rate of conversion to thoracotomy than video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for complex lobectomies	7
A scoping review of artificial intelligence applications in thoracic surgery	7
Performance of prolonged air leak scoring systems in patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery segmentectomy	7
How often segmentectomy is feasible in lung cancer surgery: a population-based evaluation	7
Long-term outcome of minimally invasive thymectomy versus open thymectomy for locally advanced cases	7
Prospective validation and extension of the Multimodality Prognostic Score for the treatment allocation of pleural mesothelioma patients	7
Are 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography results reliable in patients with ascending aortic grafts? A prospective study in non-infected patients	7
Pulmonary Metastasectomy in Colorectal Cancer: has the randomized controlled trial brought enough reliable evidence to convince believers in metastasectomy to reconsider their oncological practice?	7
Tricuspid valve repair concomitant with the Norwood operation among babies with hypoplastic left heart syndrome	7
Subannular repair for functional mitral regurgitation type IIIb in patients with ischaemic versus dilated cardiomyopathy	7
Assessment tool validation and technical skill improvement in the simulation of the Norwood operation using three-dimensional-printed heart models	7
Cryopreserved aortic homografts for complex aortic valve or root endocarditis: a 28-year experience	7
About usefulness of GERAADA score	7
Consensus document on optimal management of patients with common arterial trunk	7
Perfusion strategy using axillary or femoral cannulation for minimally invasive cardiac surgery: experience in 270 patients with computed tomography-based criteria	7
Preoperative evaluation for lung resection in patients with bronchiectasis: should we rely on standard lung function evaluation?	7
Long-term outcomes of patients with primary graft dysfunction after cardiac transplantation	7
Combined large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma: clinical characteristics, prognosis and postoperative management	7
Pulmonary Metastasectomy in Colorectal Cancer (PulMiCC) randomized controlled trial: a systematic review of published responses	7
Impact of age on the outcomes of extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation: analysis using inverse probability of treatment weighting	7
Biological or mechanical mitral valve replacement in patients 50–70 years of age—a propensity-adjusted analysis	7
A classification of abdominal lymphatic perfusion patterns after Fontan surgery	7
Cardiac surgery following transcatheter aortic valve replacement	7
Influence of residual primary entry following the tear-oriented strategy for acute type A aortic dissection	7