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  1. Thymic mucoepidermoid carcinomas (MECs) are extremely rare malignant neoplasms. We describe a rare case of a MEC with a high histological grade in a patient who survived for more than 20 years after the initia...

    Authors: Shoko Hayashi, Keigo Matsushima, Masashi Mikubo, Masataka Tochimoto, Masaaki Ichinoe and Yukitoshi Satoh
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:105
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  2. Perioperative acute ischemic stroke following lung resection is relatively rare, though a devastating complication. Specifically, patients undergoing left upper lung lobectomy for lung cancer are likely to dev...

    Authors: Tomohito Saito, Takenobu Kunieda, Yasumasa Hashimoto, Mitsuaki Ishida, Natsumi Maru, Takahiro Utsumi, Hiroshi Matsui, Yohei Taniguchi, Haruaki Hino and Tomohiro Murakawa
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:104
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  3. Aortic–esophageal fistula (AEF) after thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) has a high fatality rate and is difficult to treat. Endoluminal vacuum therapy (EVT) has recently appeared and proven to be a u...

    Authors: Shizuka Yoshidome, Ken Sasaki, Hideyuki Fumoto, Yusuke Tsuruda, Masataka Shimonosono, Yasuto Uchikado, Daisuke Matsushita, Takaaki Arigami, Kenji Baba, Hiroshi Kurahara and Takao Ohtsuka
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:103
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  4. Various complications of permanent pacemaker implantation have been reported. However, late pacemaker lead-related myocardial perforation rarely occurs. Conservative treatment is generally selected, if possibl...

    Authors: Yoshiyuki Maruya, Takumi Yamaura, Hayato Mine and Hiroyuki Suzuki
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:102
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  5. An esophageal diverticulum is a relatively rare disease, with reports of treatment for esophageal cancer in the diverticulum even rarer.

    Authors: Momoko Fukuda, Toru Aoyama, Norio Yukawa, Mihwa Ju, Kazuki Kano, Tetsushi Ishiguro, Keisuke Kazama, Sho Sawazaki, Hiroshi Tamagawa, Ryosuke Ikeda, Hiroaki Kaneko, Shin Maeda, Aya Saito and Yasushi Rino
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:101
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  7. A unilateral absence of the pulmonary artery (UAPA) is a rare congenital anomaly, which in most patients is associated with congenital cardiovascular abnormalities. Some patients with UAPAs do not have associa...

    Authors: Megumi Kusano, Takashi Sakai, Takahiro Yoshizawa, Satoshi Koezuka, Yoko Azuma, Kazuma Kishi and Akira Iyoda
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:99
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  8. In bronchoplasty of wedge resections, it is necessary to transect the bronchus at a sharp angle and depth. As a result, anastomoses after wedge resections have the disadvantages of poor visibility and operabil...

    Authors: Hironori Oyamatsu, Yusuke Shimura, Ryota Kiriyama, Takehiko Okagawa, Takaki Fujimura and Seijirou Niimi
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:98
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  9. When cystic lesions are detected in the chest wall, postoperative seroma and abscesses can be considered in the differential diagnoses. Herein, we present a case of a large chest wall cyst with rapid growth 5 ...

    Authors: Shumpei Kato, Takashi Sakai, Megumi Kusano, Satoshi Koezuka, Hajime Otsuka, Yoko Azuma, Yasuko Kurose, Naobumi Tochigi and Akira Iyoda
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:97
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  10. Black esophagus, or acute esophageal necrosis (AEN), is a rare disease with a poor prognosis in which the esophageal mucosa is black in color. We report a case of esophageal perforation due to AEN that was suc...

    Authors: Takahiro Ochiai, Shinsuke Takeno, Fumiaki Kawano, Kousei Tashiro, Atsushi Nanashima, Ryo Tsuzuki and Kouichi Doi
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:96
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  11. Aspiration of fish bones is common, but perforation of the gastrointestinal tract is very rare. Once perforation occurs, fatal complications such as mediastinitis and cardiac tamponade can occur. Here, we pres...

    Authors: Yoshifumi Itoda, Toshiya Fukushima, Shuhei Kawamoto, Motoharu Shimozawa, Retsu Tateishi, Fumiya Haba, Shunya Ono, Yoshinori Nakahara and Takeyuki Kanemura
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:95
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  12. Primary cardiac angiosarcomas are extremely rare and their prognosis is poor. Surgical resection is the first-line treatment; however, no clear standard of care has been clearly established because of the rari...

    Authors: Yasuo Suehiro, Tetsuya Kajiyama, Ayaka Satoh, Hisashi Uemura, Takaya Nakagawa, Hajime Matsue and Hisashi Satoh
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:94
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  13. Asymptomatic bronchial artery aneurysms (BAA) could be underdiagnosed, and the precise prevalence is unknown. Bronchial artery angiography revealed that this rare disease in about 1% of patients. BAA is fatal ...

    Authors: Hanae Higa, Takeaki Miyata, Toshifumi Saga and Takashi Yoshimatsu
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:93
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  14. Congenital bronchial atresia (CBA) is a rare bronchial abnormality. Adult patients with CBA generally do not show any symptoms. Although surgical resection is the first-line treatment, the indication for the s...

    Authors: Hironobu Samejima, Naoko Ose, Hideki Nagata, Soichiro Funaki and Yasushi Shintani
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:92
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  15. In the field of thoracic surgery, catamenial pneumothorax (CP) is known as a disease peculiar to women, but it is rare among female pneumothoraces and is rarely encountered in clinical practice. Meigs syndrome...

    Authors: Mao Takayama, Tetsuya So, Naoki Yamashita, Masatoshi Yamaoka, Takashi Yoshimatsu and Tsuneiro Oyama
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:90
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  16. Aspergillus empyema due to rupture of a pulmonary cavity including an aspergilloma is a serious condition especially in immunocompromised patients with various co-morbidities. Open window thoracotomy is usuall...

    Authors: Yue Cong, Masaaki Nagano and Masaaki Sato
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:91
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  17. Neonatal truncal valve plasty remains a significant challenge. Several surgical techniques have been reported, but there is no standard procedure. We herein report a novel operative technique for the quadricus...

    Authors: So Motono, Akihiko Higashida, Masaya Aoki and Naoki Yoshimura
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:62
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  18. Pleural mesothelioma is an aggressive malignant tumor and has a poor prognosis. In particular, biphasic pleural mesothelioma is a less common histologic type, and successful outcomes are rare.

    Authors: Kenshiro Omura, Ryuta Fukai, Tomoki Nishida, Nobuo Yamaguchi, Wataru Naitoh, Shinichi Teshima, Shunichi Tobe, Makoto Hibino, Fumihiro Tanaka and Masayuki Noguchi
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:57
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  19. Restrictive ventricular septal defect resulting in suprasystemic right ventricular pressure is a rare entity in tetralogy of Fallot patients. It is often caused by accessory tricuspid valve tissue protruding t...

    Authors: Kenichi Amano, Yasutaka Hirata, Miyuki Shibata and Minoru Ono
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:59
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  20. Traumatic diaphragmatic hernias are frequently associated with multiple organ injuries caused by high-energy trauma. Herein, we report a case of left traumatic diaphragmatic hernia complicated by traumatic Sta...

    Authors: Yuta Matsubayashi, Yusuke Takanashi, Keigo Sekihara, Takamitsu Hayakawa, Kiyomichi Mizuno, Akikazu Kawase, Masanori Sato, Norihiko Shiiya and Kazuhito Funai
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:89
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  21. Tyrosine-kinase inhibitors (TKIs) of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) usually provide a potent anti-tumor efficacy with robust radiographic response for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring acti...

    Authors: Yasuhiro Fujita, Nobuyuki Take, Shinji Shinohara, Masataka Mori, Masatoshi Kanayama, Masaru Takenaka, Koji Kuroda, Shohei Shimajiri and Fumihiro Tanaka
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:60
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  22. Tracheobroncho-gastric fistula (TGF), a rare but potentially fatal complication following esophagectomy with gastric conduit reconstruction, has conventionally been treated with surgical repair and/or airway s...

    Authors: Masayuki Urabe, Koichi Yagi, Shuntaro Yoshimura, Motonari Ri, Shoh Yajima, Yasuhiro Okumura and Yasuyuki Seto
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:58
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  23. Aerococcus urinae infection is a rare clinical condition that causes urinary tract infections in older individuals. Infective endocarditis (IE) caused by A. urinae in healthy young men is extremely rare; however,...

    Authors: Akira Sugaya, Arata Muraoka, Masayuki Doi and Koji Kawahito
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:56
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  24. The early survival rate of patients with acute type A aortic dissection (TAAD) has improved remarkably over the past two decades. However, a false lumen may remain after proximal aortic repair and is a potenti...

    Authors: Seito Shimizu, Yujiro Kawai, Yuki Horinouchi, Ayaka Yu, Masanori Hayashi, Kanako Kobayashi, Takahito Itoh, Naoki Fujimura, Hirohisa Harada and Satoshi Ohtsubo
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:55
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  25. Left upper lobectomy (LUL) is considered a risk factor for thrombus formation in the pulmonary vein stump compared with other lobectomies, and it occurs in 11.7–13.5% of cases. Although cerebral infarction aft...

    Authors: Tomohiko Matsuzaki, Kazuhiro Matsuo, Tomoki Higeta, Kie Shioyama, Kei Nakano, Hiroto Onozawa, Takaaki Tsuboi, Ryo Hashimoto, Atsushi Wada, Naohiro Aruga, Ryota Masuda and Masayuki Iwazaki
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:54
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  26. Solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura is rarely observed, accounting for 1% of all mediastinum tumors. There have been only a few reports of preoperative embolization for hypervascular tumors around the artery ...

    Authors: Takehiko Manabe, Masataka Mori, Masatoshi Kanayama, Taiji Kuwata, Masaru Takenaka, Koji Kuroda, Satoshi Fukumitsu, Yu Murakami, Takatoshi Aoki, Toshiyuki Nakayama and Fumihiro Tanaka
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:53
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  28. Heyde’s syndrome is known as a combination of gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding and aortic valve stenosis. However, there are no reports of an association between GI bleeding and bioprosthetic valve stenosis init...

    Authors: Takeshi Oda, Ryo Kanamoto, Mizue Miyawaki, Keiichi Akaiwa, Katsuhiko Nakamura, Minako Kubochi, Seiya Kato and Eiki Tayama
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:52
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  29. Left ventricular (LV) pseudo-false aneurysm is a rare and fatal complication secondary to myocardial infarction. Sometimes, it may perforate the right ventricle (RV) and lead to acute heart failure. We experie...

    Authors: Hiroki Moriuchi, Masaaki Koide, Yoshifumi Kunii, Minori Tateishi, Takuya Maeda and Kumiko Sone
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:87
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  30. Ruptured lung abscess is rare and a serious medical concern. We reported a rare case of exploratory thoracoscopy for hemoptysis and empyema due to ruptured lung abscess.

    Authors: Yutaka Miyano, Kunihiro Oyama, Yuka Saito and Masato Kanzaki
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:86
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  31. Mixed-type total anomalous pulmonary venous connection is a rare condition in which the pulmonary veins possess multiple drainage sites. In the treatment of multiple lesions, it is sometimes necessary to treat...

    Authors: Yoshinobu Watabe, Nobuyasu Kato, Haruki Niwano, Yasushige Shingu, Tomonori Ooka, Hiroki Kato, Shinji Abe and Satoru Wakasa
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:85
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  32. Severe thoracic deformity caused by scoliosis often hampers lung transplantation (LTx) due to its underlying restrictive ventilatory dysfunction. Postoperative stenosis of the reconstructed bronchus due to spi...

    Authors: Junichi Takada, Masaaki Sato, Chihiro Konoeda, Hiroyuki Kaneko, Shogo Shimada, Yasutaka Hirata, Erika Yuasa, Takayuki Oyanagi, Hiroyuki Fukushima and Jun Nakajima
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:84
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  33. Delayed hemothorax after thoracic trauma complicates approximately 7.4–36% of blunt traumas. Cases of delayed hemothorax that suddenly increase and require surgery are rare. We report a case of delayed massive...

    Authors: Hideomi Ichinokawa, Takashi Sowa, Mikiko Suzuki and Kenji Suzuki
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:50
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  34. A secondary aortoenteric fistula after an aortic graft replacement or endovascular aortic repair is a rare but devastating complication that leads to extremely high morbidity and mortality. Because reports of ...

    Authors: Hiroaki Osada, Kazuhiro Yamazaki, Takahide Takeda and Kenji Minatoya
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:83
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  35. Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy is a rare syndrome characterized by a triad that includes periostitis, digital clubbing, and painful arthropathy of the large joints, especially large joints in the lowe...

    Authors: Akimu Sobue, Teruaki Mizobuchi, Fumihiro Ishibashi, Kaoru Nagato, Hiroki Imabayashi, Yasuo Ishida and Isamu Sugano
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:49
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  36. Cerebral infarction after pulmonary resection is a minor but critical complication. We report a rare case of postoperative complication of Wallenberg syndrome caused by cerebral infarction in the posterior inf...

    Authors: Tsubasa Matsuo, Daisuke Kimura, Kengo Tani, Takahiro Sasaki and Masahito Minakawa
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:48
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  37. Immunoglobulin G4-related disease (IgG4RD) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by a dense lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate containing IgG4-positive plasma cells that can cause aneurysms in various organ...

    Authors: Toshiki Yokoyama, Ryo Suzuki, Hiroshi Kurazumi, Akira Tanaka, Hiroo Kawano, Akihito Mikamo, Eiji Ikeda and Kimikazu Hamano
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:47
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  38. Arterio-venous fistula is a rare clinical entity that occurs as a result of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm into the inferior vena cava or iliac vein. Open surgery has been considered the treatment of cho...

    Authors: Jun Hayashi, Yuki Sekine, Shuji Toyama, Tetsuro Uchida and Tetsuo Watanabe
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:82
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  39. Sclerosing pneumocytoma is a benign tumor that occurs mostly in the lungs and very rarely in the middle mediastinum. It may be difficult to diagnose, as its radiological features and histologic heterogeneity m...

    Authors: Chihiro Yoshida, Mototsune Kakizaki, Chang Sung Soo and Taku Okamoto
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:45
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  40. Chylothorax after cardiovascular surgery is primarily caused by direct injury to the thoracic duct or its branches, and occurs in early postoperative period. In the present case, we describe a rare case of chy...

    Authors: Yasuhito Nakamura, Kiyoshi Doi, Ryo Fujii, Hiroki Ogura, Etsuji Umeda, Takayoshi Kato, Osamu Sakai and Katsuya Shimabukuro
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:81
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  41. The indication of additional aortic arch surgery for residual aortic dissection remains controversial as some patients experience aneurysm rupture at a smaller diameter of 55 mm.

    Authors: Yuki Ikeno, Yoshishige Takayama, Takashi Matsueda, Maiko Miyoshi, Tatsuo Motoki, Atsushi Kurushima, Takashi Otani and Yoshiaki Fukumura
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:80
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  42. This report describes the case of a woman with small-sized peripheral lung cancer who underwent thoracoscopic right superior subsegmentectomy of S6a + b. Preoperative multiplanar reconstruction computed tomogr...

    Authors: Yo Tsukamoto, Mitsuo Yabe, Ai Ishikawa, Daiki Kato, Takamasa Shibazaki, Takeo Nakada and Takashi Ohtsuka
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:35
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  43. Bronchopulmonary foregut malformation (BPFM) is a rare congenital anomaly characterized by a fistula between an isolated portion of respiratory tissue and the esophagus or stomach. Srikanth et al. reported tha...

    Authors: Risa Kanai, Koji Fukumoto, Hiromu Miyake, Tatsuya Kawasaki, Katsumi Okuyama, Hideto Iwafuchi and Masashi Koyama
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:79
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  44. We report herein a case of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (MPNST), an extremely rare, esophageal malignancy. A 67-year-old, female patient presented with a nodular lesion in the cervical esophagus whi...

    Authors: Eito Nakagawa, Akinori Miura, Kunihito Suzuki, Katsumasa Saito, Hajime Shinohara, Koudai Ueno, Yu Naito and Toru Motoi
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:78
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  45. Persistent blood flow is common in aortic aneurysms following endovascular repair. However, the recanalization of thrombosed intercostal arteries after open aortic repair is rare. We report a case of aortic an...

    Authors: Shun Tanaka, Haruo Yamauchi, Sachito Minegishi and Minoru Ono
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:77
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  46. Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) is a relatively uncommon clinical syndrome characterized by dyspnea and deoxygenation accompanying postural changes, such as sitting or standing from a recumbent position.

    Authors: Yuki Wada, Jun Hirokami, Atsushi Nagasawa, Akira Marui and Nobuhisa Ohno
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:76
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  47. Descending necrotizing mediastinitis (DNM) is a fatal disease that originates from odontogenic, pharyngeal, and cervical infections and spreads to the mediastinum. Although adequate drainage of the neck and me...

    Authors: Mitsuhiro Tsuboi, Daisuke Matsumoto and Toshiyuki Hirose
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:75
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  48. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) colitis with colonic perforation is an exceedingly rare but life-threatening condition. The most comorbid diagnosis in patients with perforated CMV colitis is human immunodeficiency virus...

    Authors: Naoto Fukunaga, Tatsuto Wakami, Akio Shimoji, Toshi Maeda, Otohime Mori, Kosuke Yoshizawa, Tatsuji Okada and Nobushige Tamura
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:69
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  49. Hemodialysis patients are at high risk for prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) because of the risk of bacteria entering with each hemodialysis session. To avoid the use of artificial materials as much as possi...

    Authors: Seimei Go, Taiichi Takasaki, Keijiro Katayama and Shinya Takahashi
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:66
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  50. It has been reported that veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is useful for treating patients with acute respiratory failure following severe thoracic trauma. However, the removal of an obstructive...

    Authors: Atsushi Tanikawa, Motoo Fujita, Yasushi Kudo, Ken Katsuta, Yoshiaki Kurokawa, Takeaki Sato and Shigeki Kushimoto
    Citation: General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 2023 2:64
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