{"title":"Incidentally Discovered Anomalous Mitral Chordae at the Time of Mitral Valve Repair","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.atssr.2024.02.016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.atssr.2024.02.016","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Anomalous supravalvular mitral chordae tendineae that originate from the mitral leaflet(s) and attach to the interatrial septum or dome of the left atrium are a rare congenital anomaly. These supravalvular chordae are often associated with severe mitral regurgitation and surgical experience has included resection of the anomalous chord as part of the repair. We describe an unusual presentation of an incidentally discovered anomalous supravalvular chord at the time of mitral valve repair for degenerative mitral regurgitation related to a flail posterior leaflet. The anomalous chord did not contribute to the mechanism of mitral regurgitation and was therefore left intact.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72234,"journal":{"name":"Annals of thoracic surgery short reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772993124001190/pdfft?md5=9127152d6872f3fcfa9b4ad7a6f7335a&pid=1-s2.0-S2772993124001190-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142129353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Melody Valve in Small Children Undergoing First Mitral Valve Replacement: Better Than Mechanical?","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.atssr.2024.04.016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.atssr.2024.04.016","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>In small children with left atrioventricular valve dysfunction, valve repair is preferred but some will require valve replacement. No prosthetic valve has growth potential, bioprostheses have poor durability, and mechanical prostheses have high rates of thromboembolic and hemorrhagic complications. We reviewed our experience with a modified bovine jugular vein valve designed for use in the right ventricular outflow tract (Melody valve, Medtronic) and compared this with contemporary mechanical valve replacement.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>We reviewed outcomes of all left-sided atrioventricular valve replacements (AVVR) performed between January 2017 and April 2023 on patients with biventricular circulation less than 5 years old at time of surgery, N = 19. We compared mortality and major morbidity outcomes between mechanical AVVR (mAVVR, n = 14) and Melody AVVR (MAVVR, n=5).</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>MAVVR was performed on younger and smaller patients (5.7 ± 4.2 vs 28.4 ± 22.3 months, <em>P</em> = .002; 6 ± 1.7 vs10 ± 5.1 kg, <em>P</em> = .01). There were 2 early and 1 late death in the mAVVR group, and none in the MAVVR group. There was a trend towards more hemorrhagic and neurologic complications in the mAVVR group (<em>P</em> = .1, 0.28, respectively).</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>In this small series, despite its use in younger and smaller patients, our preliminary experience with the Melody valve compares favorably with our contemporaneous outcomes with mechanical prostheses by way of simpler anticoagulation management with a trend towards better overall outcomes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72234,"journal":{"name":"Annals of thoracic surgery short reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772993124001967/pdfft?md5=930df2fff4f62b9a3e7fcc8f39a14e2c&pid=1-s2.0-S2772993124001967-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141038427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aortopulmonary Window in Adult Patient Operated on With Echocardiography Assessment","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.atssr.2024.04.023","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.atssr.2024.04.023","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Adult aortopulmonary window is a rare presentation of a rare disease; only a few cases are reported to have undergone successful surgical closure without development of Eisenmenger syndrome. We describe the second oldest patient, a 25-year-old woman, who underwent successful surgical repair of aortopulmonary window after favorable indirect measures on echocardiography without the “gold standard” preoperative cardiac catheterization study. At 2 months after the operation, the patient remains in New York Heart Association class II.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72234,"journal":{"name":"Annals of thoracic surgery short reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772993124002067/pdfft?md5=b6b057a97aeb805da163bcfbdcc3cd6d&pid=1-s2.0-S2772993124002067-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141038101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Institutional Experience With Robotic Lobectomy After Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy and Chemotherapy","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.atssr.2024.02.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.atssr.2024.02.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>The real-world safety of robotic resections after neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy remains poorly defined in patients with non-small cell lung cancer. Due to reported increased operative challenges after neoadjuvant immunotherapy, we aim to describe our early institutional experience and outcomes after robotic resection in this clinical context.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>We performed a retrospective chart review of patients with non-small cell lung cancer who underwent a robotic lobectomy, comparing patients from June 1, 2022, through October 31, 2023, who were treated with neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy consistent with the Checkmate-816 protocol and a control group with upfront resection.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>A total of 21 patients underwent neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy and robotic lobectomy in our cohort, and 64 patients were in the control group. Compared with control, the median tumor size was 3.2 cm vs 2.0 cm (<em>P</em> = .001). The most common clinical stage was IIIA (11 patients, 52%) in the neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy group and IA2 in the control group (26 patients, 45%) (<em>P</em> < .001). Operative time was greater in the neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy group (224 vs 177 minutes, <em>P</em> = .011). The median quantity of lymph nodes resected in the neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy group was greater (21 vs 16.5, <em>P</em> = .042). A R0 resection was achieved in all cases and no conversions to an open lobectomy occurred. Postoperative length of stay was 2 days in both groups (<em>P</em> = .92), and there were similar rates of postoperative air leak (33% vs 48%, <em>P</em> = .23) and acute post-hemorrhagic anemia (19% vs 14%, <em>P</em> = .58).</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>In our cohort, robotic-assisted lobectomy was safe and of comparable quality in the setting of neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72234,"journal":{"name":"Annals of thoracic surgery short reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772993124001116/pdfft?md5=8cbaa50fd93cade796322fdd11c03196&pid=1-s2.0-S2772993124001116-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140275341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kendal M. Endicott, Hannah Pambianchi, David Spinosa, Liam Ryan
{"title":"Arch Bare Metal Stent Grafting in Type I Aortic Dissections Following Hemiarch Repair","authors":"Kendal M. Endicott, Hannah Pambianchi, David Spinosa, Liam Ryan","doi":"10.1016/j.atssr.2024.06.025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atssr.2024.06.025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72234,"journal":{"name":"Annals of thoracic surgery short reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141713461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Steimer, Peter J. Tramontozzi, Patrick Gedeon, Matthew Pommerening, Ariadne DeSimone, R. Bueno, Hisashi Tsukada
{"title":"The Role of Endobronchial Ultrasound for Mediastinal Staging in Mesothelioma","authors":"D. Steimer, Peter J. Tramontozzi, Patrick Gedeon, Matthew Pommerening, Ariadne DeSimone, R. Bueno, Hisashi Tsukada","doi":"10.1016/j.atssr.2024.06.024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atssr.2024.06.024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72234,"journal":{"name":"Annals of thoracic surgery short reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141712121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kevin W. Lobdell, Shannon Crotwell, Larry T. Watts, B. LeNoir, E. R. Skipper, Thomas Maxey, Gregory B. Russell, Robert Habib, Geoffrey A. Rose, John Frederick
{"title":"Remote Perioperative Monitoring in Adult Cardiac Surgery: The Impact on 1000 Consecutive Patients","authors":"Kevin W. Lobdell, Shannon Crotwell, Larry T. Watts, B. LeNoir, E. R. Skipper, Thomas Maxey, Gregory B. Russell, Robert Habib, Geoffrey A. Rose, John Frederick","doi":"10.1016/j.atssr.2024.06.018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atssr.2024.06.018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72234,"journal":{"name":"Annals of thoracic surgery short reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141704729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lydia E. Federico, Joshua M. Diamond, Malek Kamoun, Maria M. Crespo, Christian A. Bermudez, Andrew M. Courtwright
{"title":"Donor Specific Antibodies in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation-Bridged Lung Transplant Recipients","authors":"Lydia E. Federico, Joshua M. Diamond, Malek Kamoun, Maria M. Crespo, Christian A. Bermudez, Andrew M. Courtwright","doi":"10.1016/j.atssr.2024.06.021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atssr.2024.06.021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72234,"journal":{"name":"Annals of thoracic surgery short reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141697501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liam D. Hyland, Abdelrahman Elsayed, Mohammad Hawari
{"title":"Successful management of chronic chylothorax secondary to Gorham-Stout Disease","authors":"Liam D. Hyland, Abdelrahman Elsayed, Mohammad Hawari","doi":"10.1016/j.atssr.2024.06.020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atssr.2024.06.020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72234,"journal":{"name":"Annals of thoracic surgery short reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141707284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christopher M. Bobba, Robert S. Hoffberger, Ryan Azarrafiy, John R. Spratt, Tomas D. Martin, Daniel Demos, Eric I. Jeng, Thomas M. Beaver
{"title":"Diffuse Coronary Vasospasm Following Zone 2 Debranching and Antegrade TEVAR","authors":"Christopher M. Bobba, Robert S. Hoffberger, Ryan Azarrafiy, John R. Spratt, Tomas D. Martin, Daniel Demos, Eric I. Jeng, Thomas M. Beaver","doi":"10.1016/j.atssr.2024.06.022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atssr.2024.06.022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72234,"journal":{"name":"Annals of thoracic surgery short reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141710192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}