1. Severe intraluminal atheroma and iliac artery access affect spinal cord ischemia after thoracic endovascular aortic repair for degenerative descending aortic aneurysm

   • Yoshimasa Seike
   • Tetsuya Fukuda
   • Hitoshi Matsuda

   Original Article 10 February 2021 Pages: 1367 - 1375

   

2. Hypofibrinogenemia can be estimated by the predictive formula in aortic surgery

   • Toshihiko Nishi
   • Masato Mutsuga
   • Akihiko Usui

   Original Article 25 January 2021 Pages: 1376 - 1382

   

3. Mitral valve repair with artificial chordae replacement in children: a single-center experience

   • Yaojun Dun
   • Jiayi Xing
   • Keming Yang

   Original Article 03 March 2021 Pages: 1383 - 1391

   

4. Preoperative use of furosemide may increase the incidence of acute kidney injury after coronary artery bypass grafting: a propensity score-matched study

   • Hui Zheng
   • Le Liu
   • Baocheng Chang

   Original Article Open access 06 February 2021 Pages: 1392 - 1399

5. Fungus ball removal with video-cavernoscopy for complex aspergilloma

   • Hiromasa Arai
   • Michihiko Tajiri
   • Munetaka Masuda

   Original Article 09 May 2021 Pages: 1400 - 1406

   

6. Efficacy of pleural coverage with polyglycolic acid sheet after bullectomy for postoperative recurrence of spontaneous pneumothorax in young patients: a multi-institutional cohort study

   • Takashi Iwazawa
   • Yoshihisa Kadota
   • Yasushi Shintani

   Original Article 17 May 2021 Pages: 1407 - 1413

   

7. A prospective comparative study of thoracoscopic transareolar and uniportal approaches for young male patients with primary spontaneous pneumothorax

   • Hitoshi Igai
   • Mitsuhiro Kamiyoshihara
   • Natsumi Matsuura

   Original Article 18 June 2021 Pages: 1414 - 1420

   

8. Current status of inhaled nitric oxide therapy for lung transplantation in Japan: a nationwide survey

   • Nobuyuki Yoshiyasu
   • Masaaki Sato
   • Jun Nakajima

   Original Article 17 May 2021 Pages: 1421 - 1431

   

9. Anatomical variants of pulmonary segments and uni-portal thoracoscopic segmentectomy for lung cancer in a patient with Kartagener syndrome: a case report

   • Di Zhou
   • Ye Tian
   • Xueying Yang

   Case Report Open access 20 July 2021 Pages: 1432 - 1437

   

10. Thoracic endovascular aortic repair of a ruptured acute type B aortic dissection presenting with right hemothorax: a case report and review of the literature

    • Shintaro Takago
    • Satoru Nishida
    • Toru Yamamoto

    Case Report 30 June 2021 Pages: 1438 - 1443