Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Official Journal of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery
Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is devoted to keeping the practicing surgeon current. Each issue of the
quarterly journal presents state of the art review articles, news and views editorial pieces, current reading sections that highlight
up to date articles on fundamental or controversial issues, and features a roundtable discussion on a pre-selected topic with experts
in the field answering important how-to questions.
2012 Topics, Volume 24
Spring:
The demise of the stentless
valve
The future of tissue-engineered organs for transplant?
Optimizing Control of pleural space
Current Status of lung cancer
screening
Mitral valve surgery for dilated cardiomyopathy
Post infarction ventricular septal defect
Mediastinal lymph node
dissection for lung cancer
Summer:
Anaortic Coronary Bypass Surgery
What is the Optimal Interval Between Chemoradiation
and Esophagectomy?
Lung Cancer Resection Volume: Is Procedure Volume Really and Indicator of Quality?
Specialty Matters in the
Treatment of Lung Cancer
Awake Thoracic Surgery - Is it Worth the Trouble?
Unilateral Extended Thoracoscopic Thymectomy for Nontumoral
Myasthenia Gravis - A New Standard
Cerebral Protection For Aortic Arch Surgery
Thoracoscopic Mediastinal Lymph Node Dissection
for Lung Cancer - Part 2
Implantation of Total Artificial Heart in Congenital Heart Disease
Fall:
Alternate Approaches
to Sternal Closure
MicroRNA as a New Factor in Lung and Esophageal Cancer
Sleep Deprivation and the Surgeon
Right Ventricular
Failure After Cardiac Surgery
Apical Aortic Valve Conduit
Laparoscopic Repair of Epiphrenic Diverticulum
Huge Ruptured and
Infected Pseudoaneurysm of the Ascending Aorta after Previous Cardiac Surgery