European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Article	Citations
The Right of Having Doubts in a World of Certainties	41
A Novel Aortic End-to-End Anastomotic Stapler Device—Results of a Human Cadaver Study	36
A Question of Mechanism: Unraveling the True Driver of Survival in Neoadjuvant Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Therapy	36
Surgical Outcome of Supra-Valvular Aortic Stenosis: A 50-Year Single-Centre Experience	30
Beyond Annuloplasty: Anatomy-based Tricuspid Valve Repair for Right Ventricular Dysfunction	28
Longer-Term Follow-up of Self-Expanding Transcatheter Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Low Risk Patients: What Does the Data Tell Us?	21
Safety and Efficacy of Stand-Alone and Hybrid Thoracoscopic Atrial Fibrillation Ablation	21
Pulmonary sequestration with feeding arterial pseudoaneurysm	18
EACTS Expert Consensus Statement on the Ross Procedure in Adult Patients	17
Safety of Percutaneous Thermal Ablation of Lung Tumours in Pulmonary Hypertension	16
Five-Year Hospital Readmission After Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in the United Kingdom	16
Left ventricular assist device-related infections, strokes and management: a changing landscape	15
Survival of a Large Traumatic Ventricular Septal Defect Caused by a Firework Explosion	14
Three Decades of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) Residents’ Committee	12
Midterm Outcomes of Handmade Pericardial Valved Conduits in Congenital Heart Disease: A Viable Cost-Effective Alternative in Resource-Limited Settings	12
What Is the 10-Year Reoperation Rate After Mitral Valve Repair for Degenerative Disease?	12
Long-Term Incidence and Risk Factors of Subaortic Pannus Overgrowth After Bileaflet Mechanical Aortic Valve Replacement	10
Perineural Invasion Affects the Risk and Pattern of Recurrence in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer	9
Segmental volumetric analysis with a ventilated or perfused area: identifying the intersegmental plane	9
Ross redux versus aortic valve repair	9
Unintentional False Lumen Placement of Frozen Elephant Trunk in Aortic Dissections: Root Cause Analysis of Morphological Risk Factors	8
The “Heart-and-Brain Interaction” in Newborns with Complex Congenital Heart Disease	8
Comparative Evaluation of ARCH and GERAADA Scores for Mortality Prediction in Acute Type A Aortic Dissection	8
Ventricular free-wall rupture, ventricular pseudoaneurysm, and papillary muscle rupture complicating acute myocardial infarction	8
Hospital Variation in Aortic Valve Replacement Approach Selection for Aortic Stenosis in Patients Under 65	8

How Endpoint Definitions and Ascertainment Methods Can Influence Clinical Trial Results	7
Methods and Criteria for Evaluating the Success of Surgical Left Atrial Appendage Closure: A Systematic Review	7
Endoscopic Combined Aortic and Mitral Valve Surgery: Feasibility and Mid-term Outcomes	7
An Innovative Echocardiographic Scoring System for Bicuspid Aortic Valve Repair	6
Palpation-Free Robot-Assisted Thoracoscopic Wedge Resection Using Radiofrequency Identification Marking for Synchronous Multiple Primary Lung Cancers	6
Is Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting the Best Revascularization Strategy for Women?	6
Left ventricular rehabilitation in an infant with transposition of the great arteries, intact ventricular septum, pulmonary stenosis and small left ventricle	5
Mitral Annular Disjunction: A Roadmap for the Surgeon	5
Another big win for cardiorespiratory fitness now in aortic valve disease	5
A Prospective, Multicenter, Single-Arm Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Augmented Reality Navigation-Guided Pulmonary Nodule Localization System	5
Safety and efficacy of surgical correction of anomalous aortic origin of coronary arteries: experiences from 2 tertiary cardiac centres	5
Insights from Year 1 of Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency: A US Perspective	5
Outcomes of the Ross procedure in patients older versus younger than 50 years old	4
Short-Term Outcomes After Lung Transplantation Using Grafts Preserved at 10 °C: A Single-Centre Study	4
Invited commentary: indigo carmine and lipiodol mixture marking in lung segmentectomy	4
Results from a Multicentre Italian Registry on the Use of a Novel “Custom/Off the Shelf” Inner-Branch Device for Endovascular Repair of Complex Aortic Lesions	4
Late clinical and echocardiographic results with the Magna Ease© pericardial aortic bioprosthesis	4
Frozen elephant trunk technique using hybrid grafts: 15-year outcomes from a single-centre experience	4
Thoracic endovascular repair in patients with concomitant blunt aortic injuries and abdominal trauma: what are the risks and results?	4
Why MICS Has Been the Future of CABG for The Last 20 Years?	4
Progressive Versus Conservative Chest Tube Management Following Surgery for Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax	4
Successful repair of an outflow graft twisting of Heartmate II left ventricular assist device: a case report	4
Beyond the Clock: Rethinking Surgical Timing in the Immunotherapy Era for Esophageal Cancer	4
The Valsalva Graft: From A Kitchen Table to Global Adoption	3
The Price of Consensus: Reviewer Disagreement, Editorial Dynamics, and Impact in Thoracic Oncology Publishing	3
Use of Inverse Probability Weighting in Cardiovascular Surgical Outcomes Research: Principles, Limitations, and Recommendations	3
Evaluation of Radiofrequency Identification for Accurate Wedge Resection of Small Lung Lesions With Reference to Dye Marking	3
The Benefits of a Standardized Approach in Fontan Patients–an Effective Approach for Tailoring Treatment to Individual Needs	3
Patient-Specific Susceptibility to the Nadir Oxygen Delivery on Cardiopulmonary Bypass	3
Comparison of 3 Surgical Procedures for DeBakey Type I Acute Aortic Dissection: When Is Frozen Elephant Trunk Recommended?	3
Activation of the NF-κB Signalling Pathway by Angiotensin II Aggravates Renal Inflammatory Injury During Non-Pulsatile Perfusion	3
Reply to Chen et al	3
Twenty-five years’ experience with isolated bicuspid aortic valve repair: impact of commissural orientation	3
New Editor-in-Chief for the EJCTS: Reflecting on the Past, Turning the Page, and Looking Ahead	3
Cardiorespiratory fitness and the incidence of surgery for aortic valve stenosis—the HUNT study	3
Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of Artificial Aortic Valves: Impact of Tilted Implantation on Haemodynamics	3
Textbook Outcome in Mitral Valve Surgery—Results from the Netherlands Heart Registration	3
Preoperative percutaneous needle indigo carmine and lipiodol mixture marking in lung segmentectomy	3
Surgical Strategy and Outcomes in Prenatally Diagnosed Neonates With Ebstein’s Anomaly and Circular Shunt	3
Central Aortic Cannulation as a Primary Strategy in Acute Type A Aortic Dissection Surgery	3
Reply to Ignazio Condello	3
The Role of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Airway Surgery: Experience From a French Referral Centre for Tracheobronchial Diseases	2
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	2
The Critical Role of Concomitant Revascularization in Mitral Valve Surgery for Post-Infarction Papillary Muscle Rupture	2
Questioning the Evidence for Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair in Functional Mitral Regurgitation	2
Patient-Reported Outcomes in Thoracic Surgery: An International Survey of European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) and Japanese Association for Chest Surgery (JACS) Members	2
Types of Bleeding Following Mechanical Aortic Valve Replacement	2
Impact of Partial- to Full-Support Escalation With Microaxial Flow Pumps Prior to Durable Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation	2
Rapid deployment and sutureless aortic valve replacement international registry: a step forward to define the ideal target patient population	2
Anatomic Versus Physiologic Repair in Congenitally Corrected Transposition: A Propensity-Matched European Multicentre Study	2

Over 40 Years of Experience With Aortic Valve Surgery in the Paediatric Population—What Is the Current Best Strategy?	2
Intravenous infusion of cardiac progenitor cells in animal models of single ventricular physiology	2
Interpreting Redox Biology in the Perioperative Setting	2
Commentary: Gender differences in payments to cardiothoracic surgeons are unacceptable	2
Effect of Donor Age on Survival in Lung Transplantation: A Multicentric Retrospective Study	2
Postoperative Fibrosis-4 Index and Hemocompatibility-Related Events After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation	2
Weathering the Aorta: The Impact of Environmental Factors on Acute Aortic Dissection	2
Alaska pollock gelatin sealant shows long-term efficacy and safety in a pulmonary air leakage rat model	2
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy for Failing Single Ventricle Physiology	2
A bilateral lung transplant and giant pulmonary artery aneurysm reconstruction with an aortic graft in a woman with pulmonary hypertension	2
The Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index as an Alternative to the EuroSCORE II in Estimating Cardiac Surgery Risk	2
Mid-term Outcomes of the Ross II Procedure in Infants and Young Children with Irreparable Mitral Disease	2
Robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for mediastinal tumours in children: a single-centre retrospective study of 149 patients	2
Surgical Implications of the 2025 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the Management of Valvular Heart Disease: Key Recommendations Bridging Guidelines and Clinical Practice	2
Prognostic thresholds of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography mean and maximum standardized uptake values for survival and nodal involvement in lung neuroendocrine neoplasms	2
Ross(-Konno) Procedure in Neonates and Infants: A Multicentre Experience	2
Reply to Mukharyamov et al	2
Reply to de Kerchove et al.: ‘Rather addition than extension of Florida sleeve indications’	1
Artificial Intelligence-Advanced Imaging for Solid-Type Lung Adenocarcinoma: Towards Greater Clinical Relevance	1
Lung transplantation long-term survival is worse in patients who have undergone previous cardiac surgery	1
Surgical Outcomes of Subxiphoid Thoracoscopic Complex Basilar Sublobar Resection Versus Lower Lobectomy: A Single-Centre Retrospective Analysis	1
Surgery Versus Surveillance: A Quality-of-Life Analysis of Patients With Moderately Dilated Aortic Root or Ascending Aorta	1
Impact of Mild-to-Moderate Donor Lung Infiltration on Post-lung Transplant Survival Outcomes and Risk Factors: A National Cohort Study	1
A Nomogram for Predicting Residual Mitral Regurgitation in Patients With Obstructive Hypertrohpic Cardiomyopathy Undergoing Transapical Beating-Heart Septal Myecotmy	1
Two-year outcome after standardized papillary muscle relocation for type IIIb secondary mitral regurgitation: is it enough to assess the result improvement?	1
Lymph Node Upstaging in Robotic, Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery, and Open Lung Resections: A Matched Analysis From the Brazilian Lung Cancer Registry	1
Y-Incision Aortic Annular Enlargement in Patients With Anomalous Left Circumflex Artery	1
Maximizing lymph node dissection from fresh lung cancer specimens	1
Volumetric Compensation After Anatomical Lung Resection: Comparative Analysis of Lobectomy and Segmentectomy	1
The 2025 Accra Declaration on Upskilling and Cost- Effective Cardiac Surgery in Africa	1
Robotic-Assisted Single-Port Subcostal Entry Technique: The Cornell Method	1
Artificial Intelligence Models to Predict Recurrence Risk Prediction in Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review	1
2025 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease	1
Lung transplant and severe coronary artery disease: results from a single-centre experience	1
Contemporary Real-world Outcomes of Stage 1 Palliation for Single-ventricle Patients: A Kids’ Inpatient Database Analysis	1
Erratum to: Evolution of Right Ventricular Function and Pulmonary Artery Coupling After Transapical Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement	1
Recurrence Patterns of Oesophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Differ by Tumour Location and Pathologic Stage	1
Excess of open access	1
Beyond Survival—Tricuspid Valve as Key Determinant for Long-Term Success After ccTGA Repair	1
Erratum to: Surgical Strategy and Outcomes in Prenatally Diagnosed Neonates With Ebstein’s Anomaly and Circular Shunt	1
Evaluation of multiple ventricular septal defects using three-dimensional reconstruction models	1
Prognostic Significance of the Controlling Nutritional Status Score in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Undergoing Neoadjuvant Therapy: Development of a Predictive Nomogram	1
Towards a More Standardized Bicuspid Aortic Valve Repair: Rationale and Design of the CONTOUR Trial	1
Is Cooler Safer and More Advantageous? A Feasibility Study in Rabbits	1
Can we Trust the References? The Challenge of Misinformation in Medical Research	1
How I Came up with the Idea of Using Cerebrospinal Fluid Drainage for Neuroprotection During Descending Thoracic Aortic Surgery	1
Neoadjuvant Chemoimmunotherapy in Non-small-cell Lung Cancer Patients: Effects on Pulmonary Function and Incidence of Postoperative Pulmonary Complications—A Multicentre Real-World Study	1
Predictors of Loco-Regional Recurrence After Pulmonary Non-Anatomical Metastasectomy: A Multicentre Retrospective Analysis	1
Invited commentary to: 4D-flow cardiac magnetic resonance for the assEssmeNt of AOrtic valve repair with OzAki TEchnique	1
A Subgroup Analysis of Perioperative Pembrolizumab in Clinical Stage II Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer from the Randomized KEYNOTE-671 Study	1
Surgery for aberrant origin of coronary arteries from the aorta: questions that remain and how we may find the answers	1
Evaluation of custom-made Relay® stent-grafts for aortic arch landing zones 0 and 1: experience from two high-volume aortic centres	1
Sternal Complications After Clamshell Surgery for (Heart-)Lung Transplantation—A Systematic Literature Review	1
Outcomes of Hemiarch Versus Zone 2 Arch Replacement for DeBakey Type I Aortic Dissection	1
Long-Term Durability of the Sorin Soprano Aortic Bioprosthetic Valve—A Swedish Nationwide Study	1
Aortic Arch Morphology as a Predictor of Dissection Type: Unveiling the Hidden Link	1
Ross(-Konno) Procedure in Neonates and Infants: A Multicentre Experience	1
Effect of Surgical Resection on Isolated Pleural Dissemination in Patients with Stage IV (M1a) Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Analysis from a Cohort-Based Registry and a Population-Based Database	1
Long-Term Durability of Paediatric Mitral Valve Repair: Balancing Stenosis and Regurgitation	1
Influence of age at surgery on left ventricular strain in patients with anomalous origin of left coronary artery from pulmonary artery	1
Does Robotic Segmentectomy Improve Long-Term Outcomes in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer?	1
Quantitative Analysis of Changes in the Thoracic Anatomy over Time after Pneumonectomy Using Computed Tomography	1
More Questions Than Answers: The Elusive Meaning of Success in Left Atrial Appendage Closure	1
Ascending aortic morphology: the need for standardization of nomenclature	1
The Dilemma of Hypertension During Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Clevidipine May be the Answer	1
Randomized Trials in Cardiothoracic Surgery: Make Sure You Do It Right	1
Surgical valve replacement in adults late after total cavo-pulmonary connection/Fontan procedure	1
Contemporary management of borderline left ventricle	1
Suitability Analysis of 2 Devices for Endovascular Aortic Arch Repair Following Type A Aortic Dissection Surgery	1
Outcomes of No-Touch Vs Conventionally Harvested Saphenous Veins for Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials	1
Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion During Cardiac Surgery; Should the Indications Expand?	1
The Difference Between Learning and Claiming: Why Hypothesis Testing and Multiplicity Control Should Depend on Context	1
Comparison of Short-Term Surgical Outcomes for Thymectomy With Various Minimally Invasive Approaches: A Single-Centre Experience	1
Fully Supported Ross Procedure is Associated With Neo-Aortic Regurgitation in Adolescents and Young Adults	1
Ground-Glass Opacity Component as a Protective Factor for Patients With Invasive Adenocarcinoma ≤3 cm With Micropapillary or Solid Pathological Patterns	1
Anaortic Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting With and Without Saphenous Vein: 20-Year Clinical Results	1
Reply to Lei et al.	1
ERS/ESTS/ESTRO/ESR/ESTI/EFOMP statement on management of incidental findings from low dose CT screening for lung cancer	1
The Incidence of Malignancy and Autoimmune Disorders After Thymectomy: An Exploratory Study	1
Optimized Extracorporeal Perfusion Strategy: A New Concept	1

Interdisciplinary and Cross-Sectoral Perioperative Care Model in Cardiac Surgery: ERAS Implementation in the Setting of Minimally Invasive Heart Valve Surgery (INCREASE)—Results of a Randomized Contro	1
Endovascular Repair for Type B Aortic Dissection Accompanied by Retrograde Intramural Haematoma	1
The Use of Root Computed Tomography Angiography as Morphological Evaluation for Aortic Valve Repair and Valve Sparing Aortic Root Replacement	1
How to Read Non-Inferiority Trials	1
Annulus-guided Neochord Length Setting for Anterior Mitral Leaflet Repair	1
Sleeve lobectomy in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer: a report from the European Society of Thoracic Surgery database 2021	1
Video Analysis of Intraoperative Complications and Management in Robotic Lung Segmentectomy	1
Outcomes of Transcatheter Mitral Valve Implantation for Failed Bioprostheses and Annuloplasty Rings	1
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	1
“Knowing is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Willing is Not Enough; We Must Do.”	1
Do You Need a Robot for Mini-Mitrals?	1
The transformation of risk modelling in cardiac and thoracic surgery through artificial intelligence	1
Surgical Ventricular Restoration: Lesson From the Past for a Better Future	1
Association between overweight and obesity with coronary artery bypass graft failure: an individual patient data analysis of clinical trials	1