Surgical treatment of anomalous aortic origin of the coronary artery in paediatric patients: a Chinese single-center experience by Kai Luo, Bin Ji, Qi-Liang Zhang, Xiao-Yang Zhang, Yan-Jun Pan, Zhong-Qun Zhu, Qiang Chen, Xiao-Min He, Jing-Hao Zheng

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Two Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for One Gunshot by Louis Pot, Alizée Porto, Audrey Le Saux, Amandine Bichon, Emi Cauchois, Marc Gainnier, Julien Carvelli, Jeremy Bourenne

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Congenital Ventricular Diverticulum or Aneurysm: A Difficult Diagnosis to Make by Lloyd Halpern, Carl Garabedian, Neil K. Worrall

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Hybrid repair of type A aortic dissection after infrarenal endovascular aortic repair and bilateral iliac branched grafts by Quynh-Anh L. Dang, BS, BBA, Ciaran S. O'Brien, MD, William Rothstein, MD, Chase Brown, MD, Venkat Kalapatapu, MD

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Successful Management of Coronary Artery Rupture with Stent-Graft: A Case Report by Berkay Ekici, Aycan Fahri Erkan, Utku Kütük, Hasan Fehmi Töre

“…According to the type of coronary perforation, various methods of correction are employed, ranging from conservative approach to emergency cardiac surgery. Coronary stent-grafts are composed of two metal stents and a polytetrafluoroethylene layer between them. …”
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Postpartum Deterioration of Hemodynamics in a Case of Uncorrected Ebstein's Anomaly by Masato Kimura, Shuhei Kakizaki, Seiichi Tazawa, Osamu Adachi, Yoshikatsu Saiki, Shigeo Kure

“…We report a case with Ebstein's anomaly, whose condition was asymptomatic before pregnancy but remarkably deteriorated down during the postpartum period, even though a successful pregnancy and cardiac surgery were achieved. Women with Ebstein's anomaly should be carefully assessed and may need to be advised to have corrective surgery prior to pregnancy even if they were asymptomatic.…”
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Ischemic Stroke and Ruptured Mycotic Aneurysm, Two Complications of Infective Endocarditis in One Patient by Alassane Mamadou Diop, Ahmadou Bamba Mbodj, Serigne Abdou Aziz Fall, Ibrahima Niang

“…She underwent endovascular embolisation and subsequent cardiac surgery.…”
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Alpha-2-adrenergic receptor agonists for the prevention of delirium and cognitive decline after open heart surgery (ALPHA2PREVENT): protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled... by Eva Skovlund, Rune Haaverstad, Henrik Zetterberg, Jorunn L Helbostad, Rolf Busund, Johan Raeder, Theis Tønnessen, Torgeir Bruun Wyller, Melanie R Simpson, Nils Kristian Skjærvold, Bjørn Erik Neerland, Svein Aslak Landsverk, Ieva Martinaityte, Hilde Margrethe Norum, Geir Selbaek, Elisabeth Skaar, Arjen JC Slooter, Øyvind Sverre Svendsen, Alexander Wahba

“…Introduction Postoperative delirium is common in older cardiac surgery patients and associated with negative short-term and long-term outcomes. …”
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Ventral Primary Hernia with Liver Content by Inès Dufour, Lancelot Marique, Thomas Valembois, Arnaud Ghilain, Gabriela Beniuga, Nicolas Tinton, Sabrina Urso, Benoît Colinet

“…Most cases occur within an incisional hernia (mostly upper abdomen surgery or cardiac surgery). Only two reports mentioned liver herniation without previous abdominal incision. …”
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On the Effect of Estimation Error for the Risk-Adjusted Charts by Sajid Ali, Naila Altaf, Ismail Shah, Lichen Wang, Syed Muhammad Muslim Raza

“…Furthermore, a bootstrap method is also used to compute the ARL assuming different Phase-I data sets to minimize the effect of estimation error on risk-adjusted control charts. The results for cardiac surgery and respiratory disease data sets show that the modified control charts improve the performance in detecting small shifts.…”
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Fallacies and Possible Remedies of the SYNTAX Score by Yong-Ming He, Li Shen, Jun-Bo Ge

“…Quite a few studies have revealed the clinical values regarding the outcome predictions in the cohort of the Synergy between Percutaneous Coronary Intervention with Taxus and Cardiac Surgery (SYNTAX) trial and decision-making with the SYNTAX score. …”
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Steroids In caRdiac Surgery (SIRS) trial: acute kidney injury substudy protocol of an international randomised controlled trial by Michael Walsh, Salim Yusuf, Chirag Parikh, Jessica Vincent, P J Devereaux, Francois Lamontagne, Matthew T V Chan, Richard Whitlock, Meaghan Cuerden, Amit X Garg, Andre Lamy, Daniel I Sessler, Kevin Teoh, Ainslie Hildebrand, Yunxia Zuo, Pallav Shah, Seyed Hesameddin Abbasi, Mackenzie Quantz, Jean-Pierre Yared, Nicolas Noiseux, Georgios Tagarakis, Antoine Rochon, Janice Pogue, Abbas Salehiomran

“…Introduction Steroids In caRdiac Surgery trial (SIRS) is a large international randomised controlled trial of methylprednisolone or placebo in patients undergoing cardiac surgery with the use of a cardiopulmonary bypass pump. …”
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Anomalous origin of a right pulmonary artery identified with echocardiography combined with CT: a case in a juvenile patient by Yan-ling Li, Ping Xie, Jia Wei, Zhao-xia Guo

“…Although the estimated mean pulmonary artery pressure (MAP) from the TTE was 51 mmHg, which seemed to contraindicate corrective cardiac surgery, the limitations of TTE were considered. …”
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Skipping Breakfast Is Associated with Hypertension in Adults: A Meta-Analysis by Zishuo Li, Hongli Li, Qin Xu, Yanli Long

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Congenital Heart Disease and Its Impact on the Development of Anastomotic Strictures after Reconstruction of Esophageal Atresia by Pernilla Stenström, Martin Salö, Magnus Anderberg, Einar Arnbjörnsson

“…The frequency of dilatations of AS during the first year following EA reconstruction was compared between children with and without severe CHD requiring cardiac surgery during their first year of life. Endoscopic signs of stricture were an indication for dilatation. …”
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Successful Management in an Infant Patient of PHACE Syndrome with a Complicated Aortic Arch Anomaly by Shun Suzuki, Mitsuru Seki, Koichi Kataoka, Reina Koga, Tomoyuki Sato, Masaaki Kawada, Takanori Yamagata

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Antioxidant Vitamins in the Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation: What Is the Evidence? by Sonia Rasoli, Nicholaos Kakouros, Leanne Harling, Philemon Gukop, Manish Soni, Thanos Athanasiou, Antonios Kourliouros

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BTT-ECMO Trends and Outcomes Under Revised Heart Allocation System by Aniket S. Rali, MD, FACC, FCCP, Het Patel, Matthew M. Lander, Kaitlyn Brennan, John Trahanas, Kelly Schlendorf, JoAnn Lindenfeld, Manreet Kanwar

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Delayed Amplatzer Occluder Device Closure of Postinfarction Ventricular Septal Defect: A Case Report by Francis Ting, Aditya Bhat, Neville Sammel, David Muller

“…It is a medical emergency with sobering survival numbers, having a mortality rate of 70–80% within two weeks of the incident event (Bouchart et al., 1998). Cardiac surgery is considered the gold standard in the management of these defects; however, its main limitation is that it carries a high risk of perioperative mortality and postoperative sequelae. …”
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SMARCA4-Deficient Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Presenting with Fatal Paraneoplastic Hypercalcemia in a Heart Transplant Recipient: First Report in a Male Patient by Abbas Agaimy, Deike Strobel, Thomas Strecker

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