1. Natural history of the ascending aorta after aortic valve replacement: risk factor analysis for late aortic complications after aortic valve replacement

   • Koji Tsutsumi
   • Kenichi Hashizume
   • Yoshito Inoue

   Original Article 24 December 2015 Pages: 243 - 250

   

2. Impact of acquired and innate immunity on spinal cord ischemia and reperfusion injury

   • Katsuhiro Yamanaka
   • Naoto Sasaki
   • Yutaka Okita

   Original Article 19 February 2016 Pages: 251 - 259

   

3. Immediate and mid-term result of restrictive mitral annuloplasty using a small semi-rigid ring

   • Masayoshi Umesue
   • Hironori Baba
   • Satoshi Kimura

   Original Article 16 February 2016 Pages: 260 - 266

   

4. Surgical treatment for elderly patients with secondary spontaneous pneumothorax

   • Hitoshi Igai
   • Mitsuhiro Kamiyoshihara
   • Kimihiro Shimizu

   Original Article 09 March 2016 Pages: 267 - 272

   

5. Successful treatment of an infected thoracic endovascular stent graft

   • Taijiro Sueda
   • Shinya Takahashi
   • Katsuhiko Imai

   Case Report 04 July 2014 Pages: 273 - 276

   

6. Pneumocephalus and subcutaneous scalp emphysema in a neonate on a low-flow nasal cannula

   • Ai Sugimoto
   • Masashi Takahashi
   • Masanori Tsuchida

   Case Report 20 July 2014 Pages: 277 - 279

   

7. Thoracic endovascular aortic repair for patent ductus arteriosus in an elderly patient with congestive heart failure

   • Gentaro Kato
   • Mikizo Nakai
   • Masahiro Okada

   Case Report 24 July 2014 Pages: 280 - 282

   

8. Acute aortic dissection in pregnant women

   • Zhaohua Yang
   • Shouguo Yang
   • Chunsheng Wang

   Case Report 02 August 2014 Pages: 283 - 285

   

9. Total absence of the pericardium incidentally found during surgery for spontaneous pneumothorax

   • Ato Sugiyama
   • Yotaro Izumi
   • Mitsuo Nakayama

   Case Report 04 October 2014 Pages: 286 - 289

   

10. New onset of myasthenia gravis 10 years after proton beam therapy for thymoma

    • Takahiro Karasaki
    • Tomohiro Murakawa
    • Jun Nakajima

    Case Report 10 October 2014 Pages: 290 - 293

    

11. Reconstruction with a pectoralis major myocutaneous flap after left first rib and clavicular chest wall resection for a metastasis from laryngeal cancer

    • Francesco Paolo Caronia
    • Alfonso Fiorelli
    • Sergio Castorina

    Case Report 16 October 2014 Pages: 294 - 297

    

12. Sentinel node navigation surgery with indocyanine green fluorescence-guided method for metachronous early gastric carcinoma arising from reconstructed gastric tube after esophagectomy

    • Junya Oguma
    • Soji Ozawa
    • Masashi Yoshida

    Case Report 24 February 2016 Pages: 298 - 301

    

13. Re: “Did you write a protocol before starting your project?”

    • Shivanchan Rajmohan
    • Buket Gundogan
    • Riaz A. Agha

    Letter to the Editor 18 March 2016 Pages: 302 - 303