European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Article	Citations
Benefit of mechanical ventilation during neonatal cardiopulmonary bypass: too good to be true?	262
Corrigendum to ‘Predictors of safety and success in minimally invasive surgery for degenerative mitral disease’	36
Effects of ischaemic postconditioning in aortic valve replacement: a multicenter randomized controlled trial	35
Retraction to ‘The effects of preoperative aspirin therapy on platelet function in cardiac surgery’ [Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1992;6:598–602]	33
Human leukocyte antigen mismatch on lung transplantation outcomes	30
A reappraisal of the sinus venosus defect	30
Cryopreserved aortic homografts for complex aortic valve or root endocarditis: a 28-year experience	29
Pulmonary sequestration with feeding arterial pseudoaneurysm	28
Commissural closure to treat severe mitral regurgitation: standing the test of time	28
Robotic subxiphoid thymectomy versus lateral thymectomy: a propensity score-matched comparison	26
Expanding the definition of a ‘heart team’	26
Extracorporeal life support as a bridge to pulmonary retransplantation: prognostic factors for survival in a multicentre cohort analysis	25
Segmentectomy versus lobectomy for solid predominant cN0 lung cancer considering Deauville score	24
Spread through air spaces is a common phenomenon of pulmonary metastasized tumours regardless of origins	24
‘Mixed’ total anomalous pulmonary venous connection—neglect at your own peril	24
Transcatheter versus surgical aortic valve replacement for severe aortic stenosis: Pat Garrett versus Billy the Kid?	24
New single-branch stent grafts for the subclavian artery during distal arch endovascular repair should be designed according to morphological studies of supra-aortic trunks	24
Of hypes and paradigms in the search of the ideal valved conduit in the young	23
Support, mentor and empower: female cardiothoracic surgeons across Europe and the role of the society	22
Composition of the surgical team in aortic arch surgery—a risk factor analysis	22
A case of the blues	22
Effect of minimally invasive mitral valve surgery compared to sternotomy on short- and long-term outcomes: a retrospective multicentre interventional cohort study based on Netherlands Heart Registrati	21
Left ventricular assist device-related infections, strokes and management: a changing landscape	21
Non-robotic minimally invasive mitral valve repair: a 20-year single-centre experience	21
Survival of a Large Traumatic Ventricular Septal Defect Caused by a Firework Explosion	20

Non-occlusive mesenteric ischaemia: just avoid norepinephrine, what else?	18
Safety of Percutaneous Thermal Ablation of Lung Tumours in Pulmonary Hypertension	18
Perineural Invasion Affects the Risk and Pattern of Recurrence in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer	18
Ross redux versus aortic valve repair	17
Pulmonary metastasectomy: the discussion continues	17
Transcatheter edge-to-edge valve repair in functional mitral regurgitation	17
Long-term results of tricuspid valve repair using three-dimensional versus flexible rings in patients with functional tricuspid regurgitation	17
Minimally invasive thymectomy: the best option for early and locally advanced epithelial thymomas	17
Aortic root replacement: what is in your wallet?	17
Impact of hypoxemia and re-interventions on clinical outcomes after bidirectional cavopulmonary shunt	16
Long-term evolution of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide levels and exercise capacity in 132 left ventricular assist device recipients	16
Segmental volumetric analysis with a ventilated or perfused area: identifying the intersegmental plane	16
Sex difference in the risk factor distributions and outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft surgery in the young population	16
Extracardiac conduit adequacy along the respiratory cycle in adolescent Fontan patients	16
Unintentional False Lumen Placement of Frozen Elephant Trunk in Aortic Dissections: Root Cause Analysis of Morphological Risk Factors	15
Perioperative stroke and survival in coronary artery bypass grafting patients: a SWEDEHEART study	15
Anatomical analysis of the aortic arch and feasibility study of double and triple branched thoracic endografts in the treatment of isolated arch pathologies	15
Challenges to rescuing patients in cardiogenic shock	15
Does it still make sense to publish papers on valve bioprostheses with a short-term follow-up?	14
OUP accepted manuscript	14
Treatment strategy for patients with chronic coronary disease: surgical data versus big data—who is right?	14
Aortic valve repair using pericardial patch standardized with external ring annuloplasty	14
Modes of the bioprosthetic valve failure of the porcine and pericardial valves in the mitral position	13
Predictive risk scores for patients with acute type A aortic dissection: Magic 8-Ball or inconvenient truth?	13
The surgical anatomy of hearts with isomeric atrial appendages—implications for surgical management	13
Frozen elephant trunk technique using hybrid grafts: 15-year outcomes from a single-centre experience	13
Another big win for cardiorespiratory fitness now in aortic valve disease	13
Outcomes of the Ross procedure in patients older versus younger than 50 years old	13
Left ventricular rehabilitation in an infant with transposition of the great arteries, intact ventricular septum, pulmonary stenosis and small left ventricle	13
Late clinical and echocardiographic results with the Magna Ease© pericardial aortic bioprosthesis	12
Cannulation strategies for acute type A dissection—role of central cannulation	12
Safety and efficacy of surgical correction of anomalous aortic origin of coronary arteries: experiences from 2 tertiary cardiac centres	12
Thoracic endovascular repair in patients with concomitant blunt aortic injuries and abdominal trauma: what are the risks and results?	12
Open surgical replacement of the descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aorta in patients with confirmed Marfan and Loeys-Dietz syndromes: A 20-year single-centre experience	12
Repair of insufficient aortic valve and single coronary artery with intramural course	12
Successful repair of an outflow graft twisting of Heartmate II left ventricular assist device: a case report	12
Is aortic valve-sparing root reimplantation sustainable in Loeys–Dietz patients?	12
Predictive factors and prognosis of microscopic residual disease in non-small-cell lung cancer surgery	12
Cardiorespiratory fitness and the incidence of surgery for aortic valve stenosis—the HUNT study	12
Invited commentary: indigo carmine and lipiodol mixture marking in lung segmentectomy	12
Reply to Vervoort et al.	12
Long-term durability after surgical aortic valve replacement with the Trifecta and the Intuity valve—a comparative analysis	11
Preoperative percutaneous needle indigo carmine and lipiodol mixture marking in lung segmentectomy	11
Five-year results of Amaze: a randomized controlled trial of adjunct surgery for atrial fibrillation	11
Activation of the NF-κB Signalling Pathway by Angiotensin II Aggravates Renal Inflammatory Injury During Non-Pulsatile Perfusion	11
Twenty-five years’ experience with isolated bicuspid aortic valve repair: impact of commissural orientation	11
Impact of pre-existing right or left bundle branch block on patients undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement	11
Effects of postoperative cognitive training on neurocognitive decline after heart surgery: a randomized clinical trial	11
HVAD to HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device exchange: Best practices recommendations	11
Progression of aortic insufficiency with durable mechanical support	11

Ventricular assist devices in transposition and failing systemic right ventricle: role of tricuspid valve replacement	11
Cannulation strategy in frozen elephant trunk for type A aortic dissection: double arterial cannulation approach	11
Reply to Ignazio Condello	11
Intraoperative myocardial protection: still the cornerstone of cardiac surgery	11
The Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index as an Alternative to the EuroSCORE II in Estimating Cardiac Surgery Risk	10
Mid-term outcomes of isolated tricuspid valve surgery according to preoperative clinical and functional staging	10
Comparing survival between neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by open or thoracoscopic oesophagectomy in patients with oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma	10
Use of Aprotinin versus Tranexamic Acid in Cardiac Surgery Patients with High-Risk for Excessive Bleeding (APACHE) trial: a multicentre retrospective comparative non-randomized historical study	10
Cardiac catheterization in the postoperative period: often too late, never too soon	10
Midterm results of arch augmentation with autologous vascular patch in interrupted aortic arch	10
Editorial comments on ‘Effects of ischaemic postconditioning in aortic valve replacement: a multicenter randomized controlled trial’	10
Reply to Maze and Tokui	10
A bilateral lung transplant and giant pulmonary artery aneurysm reconstruction with an aortic graft in a woman with pulmonary hypertension	10
Robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for mediastinal tumours in children: a single-centre retrospective study of 149 patients	10
Risk factors for mortality after cardiovascular surgery in patients with functional single ventricle and right isomerism	10
The prognostic impact of the ground-glass opacity component in nearly pure-solid stage IA non-small-cell lung cancer	10
Commentary: Gender differences in payments to cardiothoracic surgeons are unacceptable	10
Anastomosis oversewing technique to prevent leakage after oesophagectomy: a propensity score-matched analysis	10
Effects of the harvesting technique and external stenting on progression of vein graft disease 2 years after coronary artery bypass	10
Intravenous infusion of cardiac progenitor cells in animal models of single ventricular physiology	10
Efficacy of singular and composite annular repositioning and subvalvular surgical techniques to treat functional tricuspid regurgitation due to leaflet tethering: Early results of a feasibility study	10
Anatomical variant of the right pulmonary artery	10
Comprehensive investigation of lung cancer associated with cystic airspaces: predictive value of morphology	9
Should we leave the door closed or open in thymic carcinoma surgery?	9
Pulmonary Metastasectomy in Colorectal Cancer (PulMiCC) randomized controlled trial: a systematic review of published responses	9
Late outcome of extracardiac Fontan patients: 32 years of follow-up	9
Detection of blood stains using computer vision-based algorithms and their association with postoperative outcomes in thoracoscopic lobectomies	9
Surgical treatment of infective endocarditis: is there a role for rapid deployment aortic valve replacement?	9
Alaska pollock gelatin sealant shows long-term efficacy and safety in a pulmonary air leakage rat model	9
Pleural effusion: a potential surrogate marker for higher-risk patients with acute type B aortic dissections	9
Combined large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma: clinical characteristics, prognosis and postoperative management	9
Rapid deployment and sutureless aortic valve replacement international registry: a step forward to define the ideal target patient population	9
Artificial intelligence in thoracic oncology: moving from proof of concept to clinical practice	9
Myocardial or endothelial protection! Preferably both, but is that achievable with current cardioplegic solutions?	9
Adaption of EuroSCORE II to predict mortality in acute type A aortic dissection: an effort to make fit what does not	9
Reply to Van den Eyde et al.	9
Heterotopic ossification of a pedicled intercostal muscle flap	9
Tricuspid annuloplasty ring for external support of right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery conduit	9
Fontan conversion for Fontan failure: lessons from a vanishing craft	8
Pulmonary metastasectomy for metastatic head and neck cancer prolongs survival significantly compared to non-surgical therapy	8
Effect of postoperative atrial fibrillation on early and mid-term outcomes of coronary artery bypass graft surgery	8
Reporting surgical outcomes of left-sided endocarditis: can patient features and analysis methods matter more than prosthesis type?	8
Can preoperative features predict residual false lumen remodelling after tear-oriented limited resection for acute type I dissection?	8
Contemporary management of borderline left ventricle	8
Treatment and intention-to-treat propensity score analysis to evaluate the impact of video-assisted thoracic surgery on 90-day mortality after anatomical resection for lung cancer	8
Pediatric cardiac surgery in Colombia	8
An aberrant anterior ascending segmental pulmonary artery (A3aii) in a patient with lung cancer	8
Is extension of Florida Sleeve indications taking us in the right direction?	8
Esophageal anastomosis: to oversew or to not oversew—is that the question?	8
Reply to Sankar et al.	8
Evaluation of multiple ventricular septal defects using three-dimensional reconstruction models	8
How non-committed is non-committed?	8
Risk factors for postoperative delirium after cardiac surgical procedures with cardioplegic arrest	8
The transformation of risk modelling in cardiac and thoracic surgery through artificial intelligence	8
Prognostic thresholds of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography mean and maximum standardized uptake values for survival and nodal involvement in lung neuroendocrine neoplasms	8
VATS versus open thoracotomy for lung cancer resection: is the game still running?	8
Magnetic resonance angiography-derived flow parameters to assess thoracic aortic disease risk	8
Bouncing back after thoracic surgery	8
Surgical treatment of tricuspid valve dysplasia in children	7
Mechanical versus biological valve prostheses for left-sided infective endocarditis	7
Does danger impend not after arrival but before arrival?	7
Reply to de Kerchove et al.: ‘Rather addition than extension of Florida sleeve indications’	7
Reply to Liu and Bu	7
Surgery Versus Surveillance: A Quality-of-Life Analysis of Patients With Moderately Dilated Aortic Root or Ascending Aorta	7
Surgical repair for post-infarction papillary muscle rupture: where do we stand?	7
Is it time for an endovascular first approach for ruptured thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms?	7
Ascending aortic morphology: the need for standardization of nomenclature	7
Evaluation of custom-made Relay® stent-grafts for aortic arch landing zones 0 and 1: experience from two high-volume aortic centres	7
Anatomical feasibility of the total endovascular aortic arch repair—and what lies beyond	7
Mechanical circulatory support in the failing systemic right ventricle: a step towards better outcome	7
Relationship of smoking cessation period with the incidence of complications in lung cancer surgery	7
Tear-oriented strategy to avoid tears of patients and surgeons	7
Lung transplantation long-term survival is worse in patients who have undergone previous cardiac surgery	7
Reply to Lei et al.	7
A cloud with a silver lining: ground glass in a hypermetabolic sky	7
The double-edged sword of cardiac surgical care: rethinking sustainability in an ever-growing field	7
Double arterial cannulation: a classical yet useful cannulation strategy—comment on cannulation strategy in frozen elephant trunk for type A aortic dissection: double arterial cannulation approach	7
Prognosis of epidermal growth factor receptor-mutated stage I lung adenocarcinoma with radiologically solid features	7
Standardized papillary muscle relocation for type IIIb secondary mitral regurgitation improves 2-year outcome	6
The state of left ventricular device therapy for advanced heart failure: midway upon the journey towards euvolemia and full functional recovery	6

Quantification of visceral perfusion and impact of femoral cannulation: in vitro model of aortic dissection	6
Invited commentary to: 4D-flow cardiac magnetic resonance for the assEssmeNt of AOrtic valve repair with OzAki TEchnique	6
Application of electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy-guided microwave ablation in multiple pulmonary nodules: a single-centre study	6
Beware of the distal last remnant: how we should deal with the remaining dissected aorta after open thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair in case of post-dissection aneurysm	6
Weekday and outcomes of elective cardiac surgery in the UK: a large retrospective database analysis	6
Maximizing lymph node dissection from fresh lung cancer specimens	6
Prognostic factors of 10-year mortality after coronary artery bypass graft surgery: a secondary analysis of the arterial revascularization trial	6
Two-year outcome after standardized papillary muscle relocation for type IIIb secondary mitral regurgitation: is it enough to assess the result improvement?	6
Outcomes in very low birthweight infants with severe congenital heart defect following cardiac surgery within the first year of life	6
Surgical management of long-segment congenital tracheal stenosis with tracheobronchial malacia	6
A national analysis of open versus minimally invasive thymectomy for stage I–III thymic carcinoma	6
Invited commentary to: surgical treatment of tricuspid valve regurgitation in patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices	6
Reply to Huang et al.	6
Management of acute type A aortic dissection in the elderly: an analysis from IRAD	6
Influence of age at surgery on left ventricular strain in patients with anomalous origin of left coronary artery from pulmonary artery	6
Bridging patients in cardiogenic shock with a paracorporeal pulsatile biventricular assist device to heart transplantation—a single-centre experience	6
Sleeve lobectomy in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer: a report from the European Society of Thoracic Surgery database 2021	6
The figure-of-8 aortic valve suturing technique optimizes the effective orifice area of a small aortic annulus—an ex vivo study	5
What my life will be like after surgery?	5
Surgical valve replacement in adults late after total cavo-pulmonary connection/Fontan procedure	5
Preoperative oral magnesium loading to prevent postoperative atrial fibrillation following coronary surgery: a prospective randomized controlled trial	5
Robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery demonstrates a lower rate of conversion to thoracotomy than video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for complex lobectomies	5
Ross procedure provides survival benefit over mechanical valve in adults: a propensity-matched nationwide analysis	5
Surgery for infective endocarditis following low-intermediate risk transcatheter aortic valve replacement—a multicentre experience	5
Invited commentary to: Intraoperative echocardiographic assessment of mitral valve translocation	5
Demonstrating equal perfusion during coarctation repair using transfontanellar contrast-enhanced ultrasound: diagnostic niche or future standard imaging?	5
Mechanical support of pulmonary blood flow as a strategy to support the Norwood circulation-lumped parameter model study	5
Adam Smith’s invisible hand in robotic surgery	5
A novel method of tracheal anastomosis healing using a single submucosal injection of basic fibroblast growth factor: initial report	5
Single-centre outcome of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation after the neonatal Norwood procedure	5
A new dissection-specific hybrid stent graft for patients with DeBakey type I aortic dissection	5
Garbage in, garbage out	5
Right ventricular dysfunction in hypoplastic left heart syndrome: superimposed effects of afterload and insulin resistance in puberty?	5
Taking tricuspid valve surgery to the next level: repair techniques below the annulus	5
Repair with annuloplasty only of balanced bileaflet mitral valve prolapse with severe regurgitation	5
Outcomes of isolated tricuspid valve surgery in contemporary practice	5
Ground-Glass Opacity Component as a Protective Factor for Patients With Invasive Adenocarcinoma ≤3 cm With Micropapillary or Solid Pathological Patterns	5
Enduring nemesis: human leucocyte antigen mismatch on lung transplant outcomes	5
Influence of residual primary entry following the tear-oriented strategy for acute type A aortic dissection	5
A risk model to predict an unplanned admission to the intensive care unit following lung resection	4
The importance of what proposed is not diminished if you are the first or the second	4
Reply to Centofanti et al.	4
Surgery for aberrant origin of coronary arteries from the aorta: questions that remain and how we may find the answers	4
2025 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease	4
5-Year results from the prospective European multi-centre study on decellularized homografts for pulmonary valve replacement ESPOIR Trial and ESPOIR Registry data	4
Late infection of permanent epicardial pacing wires	4
Perfection in the staging of thymic epithelial tumours: is it always obligatory?	4
External validation of the Eurolung risk models: a necessary analysis to audit their reliability	4
Immunoreaction to xenogenic tissue in cardiac surgery: alpha-Gal and beyond	4
Development of a soft three-dimensional replica of the mitral valve for procedural planning	4
Reply to Loomba et al.	4
Bridge to retransplant with ECMO	4
Lung transplant and severe coronary artery disease: results from a single-centre experience	4
Association between overweight and obesity with coronary artery bypass graft failure: an individual patient data analysis of clinical trials	4
Heart transplantation from an extended criteria donation after circulatory death donor	4
The value of foreseeing unplanned conversion during video-assisted anatomical lung resections	4
Corrigendum to: Incidence and 1-year outcome of periprocedural myocardial infarction following cardiac surgery: are the Universal Definition and Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention	4
Tissue aortic valve replacement: expectations and reality	4
Adipocyte-derived relaxing factor—a fat load to be learnt	4
ERS/ESTS/ESTRO/ESR/ESTI/EFOMP statement on management of incidental findings from low dose CT screening for lung cancer	4
Early discharge on postoperative day 1 following lobectomy for stage I non-small-cell lung cancer is safe in high-volume surgical centres: a national cancer database analysis	4
Adjuvant chemotherapy for visceral pleural invasion in 3–4-cm non-small-cell lung cancer improves survival	4
A predictive model of lymph node metastasis for thymic epithelial tumours	4
Physician-modified stent graft with inner branches for treating ruptured thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm	3
Invited commentary to: Treatment of the aortic root in acute aortic dissection type A: insights from the German Registry for Acute Aortic Dissection Type A (GERAADA) registry	3
Thoracic bilateral sympathectomy as a new method of pulmonary arterial hypertension treatment: gaps of evidence	3
Prospective validation and extension of the Multimodality Prognostic Score for the treatment allocation of pleural mesothelioma patients	3
Vascular complications after transcatheter aortic valve implantation: treatment modalities and long-term clinical impact	3
European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Statement regarding the 2021 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology/Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Coronar	3
Multibranched endovascular repair using a modified endograft with hydrogel-reinforced fenestrations	3
Pretreatment prediction of tumour spread through air spaces in clinical stage I non-small-cell lung cancer	3
Prognostic Value of 18Fluorodeoxyglucose-Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in Type A Aortic Intramural Haematoma	3
Surgical tricuspid valve repair—to 3D or not 3D	3
E-vita OPEN NEO in the treatment of acute or chronic aortic pathologies: first interim results of the NEOS study	3
The impact of left atrial mechanics on adverse events and clinical outcome after cardiac surgery	3
Use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in non-elective major thoracic surgery for infectious lung abscess	3
Fate of remaining dissected aorta after descending thoracic or thoracoabdominal aorta replacement for chronic dissection	3
Artificial intelligence analysis of three-dimensional imaging data derives factors associated with postoperative recurrence in patients with radiologically solid-predominant small-sized lung cancers	3
Reply to Gasparovic et al.	3
Competence of the European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation II to predict operative mortality in acute type A aortic dissection surgery	3
Tackling postoperative sudden cardiac death in high-risk cardiac surgical patients—role of wearable cardioverter defibrillators	3
Five-year outcomes in trials comparing transcatheter aortic valve implantation versus surgical aortic valve replacement: a pooled meta-analysis of reconstructed time-to-event data	3
Surgical decision-making and the ART of risk factor exploration	3
Surgical aortic valve replacement optimizing the small aortic annulus size	3
Comparison of in-hospital mortality and 30-day mortality in cardiac surgery	3
Durability of a simple repair method for commissural leaflet prolapse	3
Outcomes of No-Touch Vs Conventionally Harvested Saphenous Veins for Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials	3
Can we Trust the References? The Challenge of Misinformation in Medical Research	3
Direct plasty or bypass? That is still a question	3
Changes in left ventricular geometry after subannular repair in type IIIb functional mitral regurgitation	3
Isolated tricuspid valve surgery: no longer the devil it used to be	3
The power of randomized controlled trials	3
Carpentier-Edwards Magna Ease bioprosthesis: a multicentre clinical experience and 12-year durability	3
Looking for a medication that suppresses the expansion of the ascending aorta	3
Epicardial open chest ventricular tachycardia ablation in no entry left ventricle	3