Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Article	Citations
The future direction of post-transcatheter aortic valve replacement re-interventions: insights from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Database	43
Spinal cord protection: lessons learned from endovascular repair	38
Spinal cord injury after frozen elephant trunk procedures—prevention and management	31
Robotic aortic valve replacement in the Middle East: reproducibility into practice with evolving complexity	30
Cardiac transplantation in controlled donation after circulatory death: a meta-analysis of long-term survival using reconstructed time-to-event data	27
Uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery anatomic segmentectomies	26
Ablation or drug therapy for initial atrial fibrillation	25
Technical aspects of robotically assisted left atrial myxoma resection	25
Developing a thoracoabdominal normothermic regional perfusion (TA-NRP) program for the recovery of organs for thoracic transplant: lessons from the United States experience	21
The current state of redo transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and limitations: why TAVR explant is important as the valve reintervention strategy	21
Sex differences in long-term outcomes following surgery for acute type A aortic dissection: a systematic review and meta-analysis	21
Elastin integrity in bicuspid valve-associated aortopathy is associated with altered biomechanical properties and influenced by age	19
Valve-sparing aortic root replacement after previous Ross procedure: two different surgical strategies	19
Update on biomarkers of bicuspid aortic disease: still a long road to run?	19
Surgery for endocarditis in patients with bicuspid aortic valves	19
Neuromonitoring for descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair	18
Heritable aortic root aneurysms	18
Echocardiography of the aortic root: a practical approach for aortic valve-sparing surgery	17
Surgical management of the anterior leaflet in mitral valve repair: the legacy of Professor Alain Carpentier	17
Advancing robotic aortic valve replacement beyond isolated therapy: a platform for multivalve therapy	16
Neochords: how to best use them and when not to use them	16
Historical landmarks in the development of robotic coronary bypass grafting	15
The perioperative outcomes of uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgeries—a systematic review and meta-analysis of surgical cohort studies and case reports	15
Robotic mitral valve repair with complete excision of mitral annular calcification	15
Outcomes of aortic root replacement in patients with Marfan syndrome: the role of valve-sparing and valve-replacing approaches	15

Complications and their management in robotic mitral valve surgery from the surgical assistant’s perspective	15
Aortic valve-sparing procedure in the pediatric population	15
Mitral valve surgery in mitral annular calcification	15
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement for bicuspid aortic valve disease: does conventional surgery have a future?	14
Left atrial appendage therapies: a new topic for the Heart Team	14
Biomechanics and clinical outcomes of various conduit configurations in valve sparing aortic root replacement	13
What did the transcatheter aortic valve replacement-surgical aortic valve replacement (TAVR-SAVR) trials tell us?	12
Robotic endoscopic aortic valve replacement with rapid deployment valve: technique and outcomes	12
Multi-institutional surgical outcomes of robotic single-port surgery: a Korean experience	12
Incidence of bicuspid valve related aortic dissection: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Ross procedure in bicuspid aortic valve pathologies	11
Thoracic endograft repair for a complicated type B aortic dissection	11
Aortic root remodeling	11
Management of anomalous coronary anatomy during aortic valve repair	11
Atrial fibrillation ablation during robotic mitral valve surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Robotic mitral valve surgery: the future is now	10
Comparison of uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery pulmonary anatomic resections with multiport robotic-assisted thoracic surgery: a multicenter study of the European experience	10
Sutureless repair of subacute left ventricular free wall rupture	10
Outcomes of robotic and endoscopic combined aortic and mitral valve surgery: experience from National Taiwan University Hospital	10
Small incisions still require great anesthesia: anesthesiology techniques to enhance recovery in robotic coronary bypass grafting	10
Left atrial appendage occlusion techniques for open heart surgery and for minimally invasive thoracotomy	10
Teaching the next generation of robotic coronary surgeons	10
Robotic mitral repair: maintaining quality at all levels of complexity	10
Simultaneous epicardial atrial fibrillation ablation and left atrial appendage ligation: early considerations	9
Electrical graft assessment of machine-perfused hearts donated after circulatory death	9
Short-term outcomes of uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery anatomic pulmonary resections: experience of Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital	9
Heart and multiple organ transplantation from donation after circulatory death using mobile normothermic regional perfusion and cardiac surgery extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation team out of the hub	9
4D flow imaging—state of the art	9
Surgical management for mechanical complications of acute myocardial infarction: a systematic review of long-term outcomes	9
Percutaneous mechanical aspiration in tricuspid valve infective endocarditis	9
The role of sex hormones in abdominal aortic aneurysms: a topical review	9
Systematic review and meta-analysis of the mechanical complications of ischemic heart disease: papillary muscle rupture, left ventricle rupture and post-infarct ventricular septal defect	9
Total aortic arch replacement with frozen elephant trunk in patients with Marfan syndrome	8
Robotic atrial myxoma resection—papillary subtype	8
Frozen elephant trunk with T-NEXT	8
Tricuspid regurgitation and right ventricular dysfunction: preoperative non-procedural interventions to improve procedural outcomes	8
Total aortic arch replacement using frozen elephant trunk: the beating-heart technique	8
Endovascular repair of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms	8
A critical evaluation of donor heart offer acceptance in the United Kingdom	8
Issues and considerations in perioperative management of robotic coronary bypass grafting	8
Uniportal fully robotic-assisted sleeve resections: surgical technique and initial experience of 30 cases	8
Features and short-term outcomes of real-world transcatheter tricuspid valve repair vs. replacement in Asia-Pacific	7
Prophylactic cerebrospinal fluid drainage and spinal cord ischemia in thoracic and thoracoabdominal endovascular procedures: a systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Changes in aortic root dimensions post aortic root enlargement with Y-incision and modified aortotomy	7
Importance of bicuspid aortic valve phenotype on aortopathy	7
Robotic-assisted coronary artery bypass grafting: how I teach it	7
Robotic degenerative mitral valve repair: an evolution	7
RapidlinkTM: a new technology to simplify the supra-aortic vessel anastomoses in total aortic arch surgery	7
Establishing a robotic aortic valve replacement program in Spain: growing opportunities for Europe	7
Mitral valve surgery and maze procedure: the Korean experience in rheumatic versus degenerative disease	7

Aortic root replacement with the reimplantation technique for recurrent root aneurysm, 24 years after root replacement with the remodeling technique in a Marfan patient	6
Robotic mitral repair in echocardiographically symmetrical and asymmetrical Barlow’s disease	6
The current state of transcatheter aortic valve replacement explant: an updated systematic review	6
Exposure technique for the circumflex artery territory in robotic totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass grafting	6
Emergent repair of post myocardial infarction ventricular septal defect with prophylactic left ventricular assist device	6
Atrial fibrillation symptom reduction and improved quality of life following the hybrid convergent procedure: a CONVERGE trial subanalysis	6
The transition to uniportal robotic surgery in the second decade of uniportal surgery	6
Robotic and endoscopic mitral valve repair for degenerative disease	6
Outcomes of cardiothoracic surgery in women with Turner syndrome	6
Adult cardiac transplantation utilizing donors after circulatory death	6
Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm in women: many questions remain regarding their poor outcome	6
The reverse frozen elephant trunk: the Thoracoflo® hybrid-graft	6
Robotic aortic valve replacement and aortic root enlargement for optimal prosthesis selection	6
Lateral access fully robotic aortic valve replacement “RAVR”: from novel to normal	6
Outcomes of aortic valve repair with the reimplantation technique and maintenance of commissural orientation	6
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement explant various techniques	6
Surgical repair techniques for partial or total ischemic papillary muscle rupture	6
Robotically assisted mitral valve surgery—experience during the restart of a robotic program in Germany	5
Patient selection in robotic mitral valve surgery	5
Collateral network concept in 2023	5
Non-intubated uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery: the future of thoracic surgery?	5
Surgical management is associated with improved survival for endocarditis after transcatheter aortic valve replacement	5
Frozen elephant trunk in chronic dissection	5
Comparison of the short-term outcomes between Y-incision aortic annular enlargement and traditional aortic annular enlargement techniques	5
Robotic-assisted double valve surgery	5
Innovations in robotic surgery and recent developments in the SP platform	5
Origin of prefabricated frozen elephant trunk	5
Functional and pathomorphological anatomy of the aortic valve and root for aortic valve sparing surgery in tricuspid and bicuspid aortic valves	5
Three decades of aortic valve sparing operations	5
Impact of preoperative identification of the artery of Adamkiewicz on spinal cord injury after descending aortic and thoracoabdominal aortic repair	5
The outcomes of robotic-assisted coronary artery bypass grafting surgery in the Atlantic demographic—a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature	5
The outcomes of three decades of the David and Yacoub procedures in bicuspid aortic valve patients—a systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Lateral approach in robotic aortic valve replacement: optimizing visualization from the orient and down under	5
Impact of mitral annular calcification in mitral valve surgery: 25-year Mayo Clinic experience	5
Robotic mitral valve repair in National Taiwan University Hospital: 10-year results	5
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement explant for self-expandable valves	5
Mitral valve repair in papillary muscle rupture	4
Uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery for mediastinal tumors	4
Normothermic regional perfusion and donation after circulatory death heart-lung procurement	4
Robotic mitral valve replacement; results from the world’s largest series	4
Minimally invasive surgical coronary artery bypass in women	4
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement explantation experience in Japanese high-volume center	4
How to advance from minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting to totally endoscopic coronary bypass grafting: challenges in Europe versus United States of America	4
Prognostic significance of right ventricular-pulmonary artery coupling in patients undergoing tricuspid valve surgery	4
Systematic review and meta-analysis of mid-term survival, reoperation, and recurrent mitral regurgitation for robotic-assisted mitral valve repair	4
Aortic annular enlargement with Y-incision/rectangular patch	4
Overcoming prosthesis-patient mismatch with transcatheter aortic valve replacement	4
Surgical repair of post-infarction ventricular free-wall rupture in the Netherlands: data from a nationwide registry	4
Mind the gap: transcatheter edge to edge repair vs. surgical repair in degenerative mitral regurgitation	4
The worst MitraClip Scenario: acute mitral regurgitation due to papillary muscle rupture	4
Trends in sex-specific differences following aortic arch repair: results from the Canadian Thoracic Aortic Collaborative	4
Historical evolution of robot-assisted cardiac surgery: a 25-year journey	4
Transcatheter and surgical management of tricuspid valve disease: multidisciplinary lifetime management considerations	4
Speaking a common language: the international consensus on bicuspid aortic valve nomenclature and classification	4
The thoracic surgeon perspective—lung transplantation in controlled donation after circulatory determination of death: any conflict with the heart?	4
Surgical techniques for cardiac allograft procurement and perfusion in controlled donation after circulatory death	4
Aortic root replacement in bicuspid versus tricuspid aortic valve patients	4
Minimally invasive left atrial appendage occlusion plus reduced dose direct oral anticoagulant to prevent stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation—the LAAO-PlusRE	4
The development of the Siena graft	4
My approach to Barlow’s disease	4
Prosthesis-patient mismatch in transcatheter and surgical aortic valve replacement	3
Extended sandwich patch technique to repair ventricular septal rupture	3
Aortic root anatomy: insights into annular and root enlargement techniques	3
Uniportal hybrid robotic-assisted right upper sleeve lobectomy in an 83-year-old patient with severe pulmonary hypertension	3
Overview of prevalence, trends, and outcomes of post myocardial infarction mechanical complications	3
Mitral annular calcification: implications on clinical outcomes and interventions	3
Donation after circulatory death transplantation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of outcomes and methods of donation	3
Transcatheter versus surgical aortic valve replacement in low- to intermediate-risk patients: a meta-analysis of reconstructed time-to-event data	3
Left atrial strain importance in atrial fibrillation screening process	3
The anesthetist perspective: optimization of cardiac allograft from withdrawal of life support to reperfusion in the controlled donation after circulatory death	3
Reflections on valve-sparing operations utilizing straight tube versus Valsalva grafts	3
Surgical versus transcatheter aortic valve replacement: the future role of robotic aortic valve replacement	3
Spinal cord injury after open and endovascular repair of descending thoracic aneurysm and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Effectiveness of Maze IV procedure versus thoracoscopic ablation for atrial fibrillation: a propensity score-matched analysis	3
How to perform distal anastomosis using a robotic platform: totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass	3
How to implement a clinical robotic mitral valve surgery program	3
Hybrid strategies for stand-alone surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation	3
Chord transfer and leaflet management for Barlow’s valve repair	3
Total aortic arch replacement using the Thoraflex Hybrid device: evolution from investigational to federally approved use in the United States	3
Hybrid repair of a thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm in female patient with Loeys-Dietz syndrome	3

The impact of technology—use of hypothermic machine perfusion: the next standard of care for controlled donation after circulatory death allograft preservation?	3
Explanting transcatheter aortic valves: comparative insights and surgical nuances in native versus valve-in-valve scenarios	3
Reimplantation of the aortic valve in patients with tricuspid aortic valve: the Toronto General Hospital experience	3
Tackling MAC and other complex mitral valve repair scenarios through the lens of robotics	3
Remodeling of the aortic root—a 28-year journey	3
Modified-Manougian aortic root enlargement	3
Surgical ventricular reconstruction for ischemic cardiomyopathy—a systematic review and meta-analysis of 7,685 patients	3
Heart transplantation in controlled donation after circulatory determination of death: the Italian experience	3
David procedure through an upper ministernotomy	3
Thoracoabdominal normothermic regional perfusion—approaches to arch vessels and options of cannulation allowing donation after circulatory death multi-organ perfusion and procurement	3
Clinical and echocardiographic outcomes of patients with mitral annular calcification undergoing mitral valve surgery: a 10-year single center experience	3
Ten-year outcomes of hybrid coronary revascularization at a single center	3
Type B dissection with retrograde progression of intramural haematoma managed with frozen elephant trunk surgery	2
Transcatheter mitral valve options for severe mitral annular calcification	2
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement explant and aortomitral curtain reconstruction	2
The cardiac surgeon perspective—cardiac transplantation following donation after circulatory death: expanding the donor pool	2
Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography: the roadmap for successful mitral valve repair	2
Mini-access David Procedure with endoscopic assessment of aortic valve competency: the “Snorkelling” technique	2
Single incision right transaxillary robotic valve and coronary artery bypass grafting: a future therapy	2
Extensive posterior bar decalcification with novel calcific emulsification to enable endoscopic minimally invasive mitral valve repair	2
Use of ultrasonic aspirator for decalcifying the mitral annulus during mitral valve replacement	2
Robotic mitral valve repair in the setting of mitral annular calcification	2
Surgical implant of Medtronic Penditure left atrial appendage exclusion clip during off-pump bilateral internal thoracic artery coronary artery bypass grafting	2
Australian outcomes from heart transplantation in the machine perfusion era	2
Effective orifice diameter: a new sizing parameter of surgical valve prostheses to inform valve selection	2
Current perioperative management of cerebrospinal fluid drains	2
The value of bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting in incomplete revascularization and advanced hybrid revascularization	2
The origin of the elephant trunk	2
Video atlas of each uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy and lymphadenectomy	2
The outcomes of concomitant catheter ablation in non-mitral valve cardiac surgery—a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature	2
Twenty-five years’ experience with root remodeling and bicuspid aortic valve repair	2
Robotic versus conventional sternotomy mitral valve surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis	2
Ultrasonic emulsification to facilitate mitral valve reconstruction in mitral annular calcification	2
Uniportal robotic versus thoracoscopic assisted surgery: a propensity score-matched analysis of the initial 100 cases	2
Pitfalls of transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement: lessons from a decade of experience	2
Transition from multiportal video-assisted thoracic surgery to uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery… and evolution to uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery?	2
Concomitant atrial fibrillation ablation in minimally invasive cardiac surgery	2
T-NEXT graft: step by step operative technique	2
Managing and repairing ventricular free-wall rupture: the triple-patch technique	2
Ethical considerations in controlled donation after circulatory death	2
Simplified technique for bilateral access totally thoracoscopic Maze	2
Simple bicuspid valve repair	2
Medium and long-term patency results of distal anastomosis connectors: a meta-analysis	2
Robotic mitral valve repair—the Bruxelles experience	2
The role of robotic coronary artery bypass grafting in the current practice of surgical myocardial revascularization	2
The aortic team and bicuspid aortic valve patients	2
Mid-to-long-term recurrence of atrial fibrillation in surgical treatment vs. catheter ablation: a meta-analysis using aggregated survival data	2
Minimally invasive tricuspid valve surgery after failed transcatheter tricuspid valve repair	2
Uniportal robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery right upper lobectomy for aspergilloma	2
Total endoscopic coronary artery bypass on a DaVinci Xi platform without an EndoWrist stabilizer combining the technology of GelPOINT Mini, AirSeal, and Octopus Nuvo	2
The soft elephant trunk: a new approach in the treatment of aortic dissection	2
Aortic valve-sparing root replacement or Bentall?	2