1. Thoracic aortic aneurysm: unlocking the “silent killer” secrets

   • Ayman A. Saeyeldin
   • Camilo A. Velasquez
   • John A. Elefteriades

   SPECIAL EDITION 04 December 2017 Pages: 1 - 11

   

2. Is there a role for biomarkers in thoracic aortic aneurysm disease?

   • Damian Balmforth
   • Amer Harky
   • Mohamad Bashir

   SPECIAL EDITION 28 October 2017 Pages: 12 - 19

3. Why I choose to repair and not to replace the aortic valve?

   • Athanasios Antoniou
   • Amer Harky
   • Gebrine El Khoury

   SPECIAL EDITION 05 April 2018 Pages: 20 - 24

4. Surgical strategy for refractory aortitis

   • Hitoshi Ogino

   SPECIAL EDITION 05 February 2018 Pages: 25 - 31

   

5. Decoding the volume–outcome relationship in Type A aortic dissection

   • Athanasios Antoniou
   • Mohamad Bashir
   • Rakesh Uppal

   SPECIAL EDITION 12 May 2018 Pages: 32 - 36

6. Measuring what matters to the patient: health related quality of life after aortic valve and thoracic aortic surgery

   • Frederiek de Heer
   • Arjen L. Gökalp
   • Johanna J. M. Takkenberg

   SPECIAL EDITION Open access 13 September 2017 Pages: 37 - 43

7. How to treat aortic graft infection? With a special emphasis on xeno-pericardial aortic tube grafts

   • Thierry Carrel
   • Lars Englberger
   • Jürg Schmidli

   SPECIAL EDITION 25 September 2017 Pages: 44 - 52

   

8. Thoracoabdominal aortic replacement in patients aged 50 and younger

   • Kenji Minatoya
   • Yosuke Inoue
   • Junjiro Kobayashi

   SPECIAL EDITION 02 April 2018 Pages: 53 - 58

   

9. Guidelines for the management of thoracic aortic disease in 2017

   • Suyog A. Mokashi
   • Lars G. Svensson

   SPECIAL EDITION 13 October 2017 Pages: 59 - 65

   

10. Tirone on Tirone David operation and types

    • Tirone E. David

    SPECIAL EDITION 28 August 2017 Pages: 66 - 69

    

11. A systematic review and meta-analysis of mechanical vs biological composite aortic root replacement, early and 1-year results

    • Mohamad Bashir
    • Amer Harky
    • Rakesh Uppal

    SPECIAL EDITION 10 October 2017 Pages: 70 - 76

    

12. PRO-CON debate: valve sparing aortic root surgery. PRO: reimplantation

    • Ruggero De Paulis

    SPECIAL EDITION 10 October 2017 Pages: 77 - 81

    

13. Valve-sparing aortic root surgery. CON: remodeling

    • Takashi Kunihara

    SPECIAL EDITION 16 September 2017 Pages: 82 - 92

14. Bicuspid aortic valve related aortopathy

    • Sina Stock
    • Salah A. Mohamed
    • Hans-Hinrich Sievers

    SPECIAL EDITION 30 August 2017 Pages: 93 - 101

    

15. Brain protection in aortic arch aneurysm: antegrade or retrograde?

    • Amer Harky
    • Matthew Fok
    • Anthony L. Estrera

    SPECIAL EDITION 03 January 2018 Pages: 102 - 110

16. Is the frozen elephant trunk frozen?

    • Roberto Di Bartolomeo
    • Giacomo Murana
    • Davide Pacini

    SPECIAL EDITION 28 March 2018 Pages: 111 - 117

    

17. Redo proximal thoracic aortic surgery: challenges and controversies

    • Athanasios Antoniou
    • Mohamad Bashir
    • Carmelo Di Salvo

    SPECIAL EDITION 18 May 2018 Pages: 118 - 126

18. Aortic arch aneurysm surgery: what is the gold standard temperature in the absence of randomized data?

    • Amer Harky
    • Mohamad Bashir
    • Giovanni Mariscalco

    SPECIAL EDITION 16 November 2017 Pages: 127 - 131

19. Is there a prospect for hybrid aortic arch surgery?

    • Mohamad Bashir
    • Amer Harky
    • Haris Bilal

    SPECIAL EDITION 16 May 2018 Pages: 132 - 136

20. How should we manage type A aortic dissection?

    • Arminder S. Jassar
    • Thoralf M. Sundt III

    SPECIAL EDITION 20 June 2018 Pages: 137 - 145

    

21. The IRAD and beyond: what have we unravelled so far?

    • Xun Yuan
    • Andreas Mitsis
    • Christoph A. Nienaber

    SPECIAL EDITION 06 September 2017 Pages: 146 - 153

    

22. How should we manage type B aortic dissections?

    • J. Fleerakkers
    • M. Schepens

    SPECIAL EDITION 29 August 2017 Pages: 154 - 160

23. Direct perfusion of the carotid artery in patients with brain malperfusion secondary to acute aortic dissection

    • Yutaka Okita
    • Yuki Ikeno
    • Hiroshi Tanaka

    SPECIAL EDITION 28 December 2017 Pages: 161 - 167

    

24. Reflection of pioneers: redo thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair controversies in thoracic aortic aneurysm surgery

    • Joseph S. Coselli

    SPECIAL EDITION 01 August 2018 Pages: 168 - 174

    

25. Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair: open, endovascular, or hybrid?

    • Joshua M. Rosenblum
    • Edward P. Chen

    SPECIAL EDITION 30 August 2017 Pages: 175 - 179

26. Differential selective hypothermic intercostal artery perfusion: a new method to probe spinal cord perfusion during thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair

    • Yoshikatsu Saiki
    • Koyu Watanabe
    • Shunsuke Kawamoto

    SPECIAL EDITION 05 September 2018 Pages: 180 - 186

    

27. Japanese perspective in surgery for thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms

    • Norihiko Shiiya
    • Naoki Washiyama
    • Yoshiro Matsui

    SPECIAL EDITION 20 September 2017 Pages: 187 - 191

    

28. Renal protection in thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm surgery

    • Mohamad Bashir
    • Amer Harky
    • Aung Oo

    SPECIAL EDITION 27 September 2017 Pages: 192 - 195