1. Perioperative intervention by oral medicine team in cardiovascular surgery patients

   • Masaya Akashi
   • Nagisa Nanba
   • Takahide Komori

   Current Topics Review Article 05 October 2018 Pages: 197 - 202

2. Acute medical management of aortic dissection

   • Shuichiro Kaji

   Current Topics Review Article 19 November 2018 Pages: 203 - 207

   

3. Initial clinical evaluation of preoperative frailty in surgical patients with Stanford type A acute aortic dissection

   • Hiroshi Furukawa
   • Naoki Yamane
   • Kazuo Tanemoto

   Original Article 22 August 2018 Pages: 208 - 213

   

4. Analysis of the perioperative change in cognitive function of patients with risk factors for cognitive impairment in cardiovascular surgery

   • Akihiro Yoshimoto
   • Takafumi Inoue
   • Yoshihiro Suematsu

   Original Article 24 August 2018 Pages: 214 - 218

   

5. Anatomical variations of aortic arch vessels in Japanese patients with aortic arch disease

   • Yuki Ikeno
   • Yutaka Koide
   • Yutaka Okita

   Original Article 03 September 2018 Pages: 219 - 226

   

6. Early and mid-term outcomes of simultaneous thoracic endovascular stent grafting and combined resection of thoracic malignancies and the aortic wall

   • Seijiro Sato
   • Atsuhiro Nakamura
   • Masanori Tsuchida

   Original Article Open access 01 September 2018 Pages: 227 - 233

   

7. Influence of intersegmental plane size and segment division methods on preserved lung volume and function after pulmonary segmentectomy

   • Hiroyuki Tao
   • Masataro Hayashi
   • Kazunori Okabe

   Original Article 30 August 2018 Pages: 234 - 238

   

8. Clinicopathologic characteristics of non-small cell lung cancer in patients with smoking-related chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

   • Ryo Maeda
   • Masaki Tomita
   • Hidetaka Uramoto

   Original Article 05 September 2018 Pages: 239 - 246

   

9. Risk factor analysis of cerebral infarction and clinicopathological characteristics of left upper pulmonary vein stump thrombus after lobectomy

   • Aritoshi Hattori
   • Kazuya Takamochi
   • Kenji Suzuki

   Original Article 24 September 2018 Pages: 247 - 253

   

10. Is postoperative anticoagulation necessary after left innominate vein division in general thoracic surgery?

    • Hironobu Hoshino
    • Takeshi Matsunaga
    • Kenji Suzuki

    Original Article 29 October 2018 Pages: 254 - 258

    

11. Preservation of the infected thoracic aortic endograft with thoracoscopic drainage and continuous irrigation

    • Fumiya Yoneyama
    • Fujio Sato
    • Yuji Hiramatsu

    Case Report Open access 30 January 2018 Pages: 259 - 262

    

12. Right heart failure caused by direct pressure of distal arch aneurysm

    • Hironobu Sugiyama
    • Ryo Tohma
    • Nobuhiro Tanimura

    Case Report 17 February 2018 Pages: 263 - 265

    

13. The changes underwent by free fat pads used for pulmonary air leakage repair

    • Isao Matsumoto
    • Makoto Oda
    • Hirofumi Takemura

    Case Report 22 May 2018 Pages: 266 - 269