1. Where does the new regime of medical specialty certification go?

   • Hikaru Matsuda

   Guest Review Article 01 October 2013 Pages: 547 - 550

2. Current treatment of active infective endocarditis with brain complications

   • Takashi Miura
   • Kiyoyuki Eishi

   Current Topics Review Article 01 October 2013 Pages: 551 - 559

   

3. Surgical strategy for aortoesophageal fistula in the endovascular era

   • Suguru Kubota
   • Norihiko Shiiya
   • Yoshiro Matsui

   Original Article 01 October 2013 Pages: 560 - 564

   

4. Thoracoscopic resection of solitary lung metastases evaluated by using thin-section chest computed tomography: is thoracoscopic surgery still a valid option?

   • Kook Nam Han
   • Chang Hyun Kang
   • Young Tae Kim

   Original Article 01 October 2013 Pages: 565 - 570

   

5. Reconstruction of mitral valve chordae and leaflets with one piece of autologous pericardium in extensively destructed mitral valve due to active infective endocarditis

   • Toshiaki Ito
   • Atsuo Maekawa
   • Yasunari Hayashi

   Case Report 01 October 2013 Pages: 571 - 573

   

6. Intractable pneumothorax with empyema in a patient with interstitial pneumonia

   • Shinichiro Miyoshi
   • Motohiko Tamura
   • Masayuki Chida

   Case Report 01 October 2013 Pages: 574 - 577

   

7. Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery in Japan during 2011

   • Jun Amano
   • Hiroyuki Kuwano
   • Hiroyasu Yokomise

   ANNUAL REPORT 01 October 2013 Pages: 578 - 607

   

8. Erratum to: Acute respiratory distress syndrome after pulmonary resection

   • Takuro Kometani
   • Tatsuro Okamoto
   • Ichiro Yoshino

   Erratum 01 October 2013 Pages: 608 - 608