Fujii, Hirofumi Hino, Yutaka Fujiwara, Hiroyoshi Sumida, Tomohiko Otani, Hajime Imamura, Hiroji
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The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
We have experienced 2 patients with coronary subclavian steal syndrome which progressed each to a different prognosis. Both cases received percutaneous transluminal angioplasty for subclavian artery stenosis after coronary artery bypass grafting. Although one case is doing well without any symptoms, the other case required a xilloaxillary artery by...
Takahashi, Kenro Yoshida, Junji Nishimura, Mitsuyo Nagai, Kanji
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The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Objective: There is no standard treatment for diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma. Sporadic extrapleural pneumonectomy for the disease in off-protocol set has been performed when the disease was judged as being confined to a hemithorax.Subject: To evaluate the role of extrapleural pneumonectomy in the treatment for the disease, cases that underw...
Koyanagi, Toshiya Kyo, Shunei Ouchi, Hiroshi Asano, Haruhiko Yokote, Yuji Omoto, Ryozo
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The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
A 46-year-old man accepted for heart transplantation due to persistent cardiac failure from dilated cardiomyopathy underwent a transplant in Germany on July 13, 1995. The donor heart was suspected of coronary artery disease at explantation, but he could wait no longer because of his rapidly deteriorating hemodynamics. Postoperative coronary angiogr...
Fukui, Toshihiro Shimizu, Yoshihiro Takanashi, Shuichiro Nishizawa, Keijiro Minamimura, Hirokazu Ishikawa, Takumi Fumimoto, Kennu
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The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Objective: We determined the efficacy of surgery for acute pulmonary thromboembolism with a floating right-heart thrombus.Methods and Results: Thrombi were diagnosed by transthoracic echocardiography and electron beam computed tomography in 4 patients with acute pulmonary thromboembolism with a floating right-heart thrombus, and thromboembolectomy ...
Sato, Shuichi Koike, Teruaki Yamato, Yasushi Yoshiya, Katsuo Honma, Keiichi Tsukada, Hiroko
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The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
We report a case of well-differentiated fetal adenocarcinoma (WDFA), which is a variant of pulmonary blastoma. A 36-year-old man was found to have a tumor shadow in the right middle field of a chest radiograph as part of a mass screening examination, and chest computed tomography (CT) showed a 4.5-cm pulmonary mass in the right lower lobe. A diagno...
Ikeya, Eriko Taguchi, Junichi Yamaguchi, Masaomi Shibuya, Makoto Kanabuchi, Kazuo
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The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
A 49-year-old man presented with palpitation and shortness of breath. He was seen to have a massive pleural and pericardial effusion on radiography and echocardiography. Computed tomography (CT) scanning showed that cardiac tumors arose from the right atrium with epicardial and endocardial extension. Pathology examination of samples at pericardioto...
Shimomura, Takeru Toyama, Masahiro Takagi, Ysushi Usui, Akihiko Ueda, Yuichi
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The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
ObjectiveRepair for mitral commissural prolapse can represent a challenging surgical problem. Although there are various reports of repair for mitral commissural prolapse, the technique is not necessarily simple. There are few reports of repair by the edge-to-edge suture for commissural prolapse, and the results are not entirely clarified. We repor...
Yamada, Shunsuke Masuda, Daisuke Inoue, Hiroshi
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The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation (PAVM) consists of abnormal communications between the pulmonary arteries and veins. Because PAVM may cause neurological defects (such as stroke and brain abscess) or hemoptysis and hemothorax, embolization therapy or surgery is required. Resection using video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) has recently been p...
Hattori, Koji Hoshino, Ryo Tochii, Masato Sato, Masato Yamashita, Mitsuru Ando, Motomi
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The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting is rarely applied to patients who have previously received a renal transplant in Japan. A 59-year-old male renal transplant recipient was admitted for unstable angina pectoris. Emergency coronary angiography revealed triple-vessel disease. Intraaortic balloon pumping was applied, followed by emergency off-pu...
Yoshino, Mitsuru Mizobuchi, Teruaki Fujiwara, Taiki Noro, Masahiro Akikusa, Bunshiro Iwai, Naomichi
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The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
A 49-year-old man was admitted to hospital for investigation of a mediastinal shadow seen on a chest radiograph. Chest completed tomography revealed a mediastinal mass of 65 × 55 mm. At surgery, the mass was found to be contained within the upper mediastinum and adherent to the vertebrae, esophagus, trachea, and superior vena cava. We therefore sel...
