1. Editorial comment regarding “Total aortic arch replacement using the frozen elephant trunk technique with J Graft Open Stent Graft for distal aortic arch aneurysm”

   • Kazuo Yamanaka

   Current Topics Review Article 23 July 2018 Pages: 501 - 503

2. Minimally invasive cardiac surgery in Japan: history and current status

   • Kazuma Okamoto

   Current Topics Review Article 17 July 2018 Pages: 504 - 508

3. Pulmonary valve replacement after repaired Tetralogy of Fallot

   • Hideki Tatewaki
   • Akira Shiose

   Review Article 19 May 2018 Pages: 509 - 515

   

4. Clinical and pathological characteristics of spontaneous pneumothorax in women: a 25-year single-institutional experience

   • Tomohito Saito
   • Yukihito Saito
   • Tomohiro Murakawa

   Original Article 30 May 2018 Pages: 516 - 522

   

5. Morphometrical and biomechanical analyses of a stentless bioprosthetic valve: an implication to avoid potential primary tissue failure

   • Hiroki Takaya
   • Shinya Masuda
   • Yoshikatsu Saiki

   Original Article 28 June 2018 Pages: 523 - 528

   

6. Effect of early tracheostomy on clinical outcomes in critically ill lung transplant recipients

   • Ryo Miyoshi
   • Toyofumi F. Chen-Yoshikawa
   • Hiroshi Date

   Original Article 23 May 2018 Pages: 529 - 536

   

7. A risk score to predict postoperative complications after lobectomy in elderly lung cancer patients

   • Yo Kawaguchi
   • Jun Hanaoka
   • Kazuki Hayashi

   Original Article 28 June 2018 Pages: 537 - 542

   

8. Undiagnosed mitroflow bioprosthesis deformation causing early structural valve deterioration

   • Marco Gennari
   • Gianluca Polvani
   • Marco Agrifoglio

   Case Report 29 November 2017 Pages: 543 - 545

   

9. Aortic valve reconstruction using autologous pericardium (Ozaki procedure) for active infective endocarditis: a case report

   • Kimiaki Okada
   • Yoshito Inoue
   • Satoru Suzuki

   Case Report 12 December 2017 Pages: 546 - 548

   

10. Rare case of radiation-induced primary tracheal carcinoma

    • Makoto Mori
    • Frank C. Detterbeck

    Case Report 15 March 2018 Pages: 549 - 551

    

11. Atraumatic tension hemothorax associated with ruptured aneurysm of intercostal artery–azygous fistula: a case report

    • Takashi Nakayama
    • Hirofumi Uehara
    • Masafumi Kawamura

    Case Report 26 April 2018 Pages: 552 - 555

    

12. Correction to: Development of a simple device enabling percutaneous flow regulation for a small vascular graft for a Blalock–Taussig shunt capable of flow regulation: complete translation of an original article originally published in Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery (154–159, 2016: vol. 32)

    • Yoshikazu Motohashi
    • Ryo Shimada
    • Shintaro Nemoto

    Correction 27 June 2018 Pages: 556 - 556