1. In memoriam: Frederick Griffith Pearson, a legend in thoracic surgery and a great teacher (1926–2016)

   • Noriaki Tsubota
   • Jean Deslauriers

   Obituary 10 December 2016 Pages: 71 - 73

2. Treatment of uncomplicated type B aortic dissection

   • Hitoshi Matsuda

   Current Topics Review Article 05 December 2016 Pages: 74 - 79

   

3. Anesthesia of Torek’s operation: the first successful resection of a cancer in the thoracic esophagus—an abridged translation of an essay in Japanese

   • Hiromasa Fujita

   Review Article 29 December 2016 Pages: 80 - 84

   

4. Atrial natriuretic peptide induces peroxisome proliferator activated receptor γ during cardiac ischemia–reperfusion in swine heart

   • Tomoyuki Suzuki
   • Yuriko Saiki
   • Yoshikatsu Saiki

   Original Article 10 August 2016 Pages: 85 - 95

   

5. Incidence and risk factors for aspiration pneumonia after cardiovascular surgery in elderly patients

   • Eriko Miyata
   • Atsushi Tanaka
   • Nobuo Sakagoshi

   Original Article 09 September 2016 Pages: 96 - 101

   

6. Attributable harm of severe bleeding after cardiac surgery in hemodynamically stable patients

   • J. Trent Magruder
   • Stephen Belmustakov
   • Glenn R. Whitman

   Original Article 20 September 2016 Pages: 102 - 109

   

7. Predictive factors for responders to tolvaptan in fluid management after cardiovascular surgery

   • Takashi Kido
   • Hiroyuki Nishi
   • Yoshiki Sawa

   Original Article Open access 19 September 2016 Pages: 110 - 116

   

8. The frequency and treatment of pneumothorax associated with pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infection

   • Masaki Ikeda
   • Koji Takahashi
   • Takuji Fujinaga

   Original Article 03 December 2016 Pages: 117 - 121

   

9. Complete removal of infected devices and simultaneous implantation of new devices for infective endocarditis after pacemaker implantation

   • Takuya Miura
   • Kazushige Inoue
   • Masao Yoshitatsu

   Case Report 31 July 2015 Pages: 122 - 126

   

10. Simultaneous repair of pectus excavatum and pulmonary valve implantation years after complete repair of tetralogy of Fallot

    • Eylem Tuncer
    • Ali Can Vuran
    • Hakan Ceyran

    Case Report 01 August 2015 Pages: 127 - 129

    

11. Unusual late presentation of metastatic extrathoracic thymoma to gastrohepatic lymph node treated by surgical resection

    • Andrea Billè
    • Sandeep Sachidananda
    • Nabil P. Rizk

    Case Report 30 November 2015 Pages: 130 - 132

    

12. New technique to prevent prolonged air leak: use of ‘Tachosuture’ technique

    • Tatsuya Nishida
    • Iwao Mikami
    • Yoshitaka Fujii

    How to Do It 02 December 2016 Pages: 133 - 136