{"title":"Beyond the manuscripts: a thank you note to our reviewers in 2023.","authors":"Marina Dias Neto","doi":"10.48729/pjctvs.430","DOIUrl":"10.48729/pjctvs.430","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74480,"journal":{"name":"Portuguese journal of cardiac thoracic and vascular surgery","volume":"30 4","pages":"9-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139725282","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}
W Samir Cubas, Ludwig Cáceres-Farfán, Miguel Rojas-Huillca, Milagros Moreno-Loaiza, Franco Albán-Sánchez, Anna Paredes-Temoche, Milagros Salazar-Cuizano, Félix Tipacti-Rodríguez, Julio Huayllara-Reduzzi, Johnny Mayta-Rodríguez
{"title":"Survival, Short And Long-Term Outcomes Of Open And Endovascular Surgical Repair Of Unruptured Infrarenal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms.","authors":"W Samir Cubas, Ludwig Cáceres-Farfán, Miguel Rojas-Huillca, Milagros Moreno-Loaiza, Franco Albán-Sánchez, Anna Paredes-Temoche, Milagros Salazar-Cuizano, Félix Tipacti-Rodríguez, Julio Huayllara-Reduzzi, Johnny Mayta-Rodríguez","doi":"10.48729/pjctvs.358","DOIUrl":"10.48729/pjctvs.358","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Endovascular Aortic Repair (EVAR) has become the standard management of Unruptured Infrarenal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (UIAAA); however, current evidence is limited and uncertain in our environment compared to Open repair. Our study aimed to determine the survival, short and long-term outcomes of EVAR vs. Open in a Peruvian cohort of UIAAA.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A single-center observational, analytical, longitudinal study using a retrospective registry of 251 patients treated (EVAR=205 vs Open=46) for UIAAA from 2000 to 2017. Variables considered were baseline, comorbidities, type of treatment, short-term (<30 days) and long-term (<5 years) outcomes, postoperative mortality according to the Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) Risk Score, survival curves including reoperation-free rate and according to size (<65 mm vs. >65 mm) of long-term UIAAA. All variables were grouped according to the treatment performed (EVAR vs. Open) and we used the descriptive, multivariate, Cox regression, and Kaplan-Meier survival statistical analyses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>251 UIAAA were evaluated and the mean age was 74.5 years [±13.32], smoking, family members with UIAAA, and previous abdominal surgery were the main antecedents. Diabetes mellitus 2 was the main comorbidity; more than 50% of patients with UIAAA had diameters greater than 65 mm (p=0.021). The calculated mortality (VQI) was Open=2.21% vs. EVAR=1.65%. The outcomes in short-term were mortality (Open=2.92% vs. EVAR=0%; p=0.039), blood transfusion >4 Units (Open=72.68% vs. EVAR=17.39%; p=0.021) and overall hospital stay (Open=14 vs. EVAR=5 days; p=0.049. A reduction in mortality (HR 0.76, 95% CI, 0.62-0.96, p=0.045) and readmission for aneurysmal rupture was identified for EVAR (HR 0.81, 95% CI, 0.79-0.85, p=0.031). In long-term outcomes, mortality (Open=3.41% vs. EVAR=19.56%; p=0.047), aneurysmal rupture (Open=0% vs. EVAR 13.04%; p=0.032) and reinterventions (Open=2.43% vs. EVAR=10.86%; p=0.002). An 86% risk of mortality (HR 1.86, 95% CI, 1.32-2.38, p=0.039) and elevated risk of readmission for aneurysmal rupture was identified for EVAR (HR 2.21, 95% CI, 1.98-2.45, p=0.028). At 5 years, survival for Open=93.67% vs. EVAR=80.44% (p=0.043), reintervention-free survival for Open=89.26% vs. EVAR=47.82% (p=0.021), survival for treated IUAAA <65 mm for Open=95.77% vs. EVAR=63.63% (p=0.019) and >65 mm for Open=92.53% vs. EVAR=85.71% (p=0.059).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>EVAR has shown better short-term benefits and survival than Open management; however, the latter still prevails in the long term in our Peruvian UIAAA cohort. Further follow-up studies are required to demonstrate the long-term benefit of EVAR in our population.</p>","PeriodicalId":74480,"journal":{"name":"Portuguese journal of cardiac thoracic and vascular surgery","volume":"30 4","pages":"39-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139725292","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}
{"title":"Iliac False Aneurysm Due To Stent Fracture.","authors":"Eduardo Silva, Leonor Baldaia","doi":"10.48729/pjctvs.399","DOIUrl":"10.48729/pjctvs.399","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74480,"journal":{"name":"Portuguese journal of cardiac thoracic and vascular surgery","volume":"30 4","pages":"85-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139725286","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}
Tiago Paulino Torres, Pedro Costa, Herculano Moreira, Teresa Dionísio, Pedro Sousa
{"title":"Treatment Of Post-Operative Chylothorax: The Role Of Intranodal Lymphangiography And Thoracic Duct Disruption.","authors":"Tiago Paulino Torres, Pedro Costa, Herculano Moreira, Teresa Dionísio, Pedro Sousa","doi":"10.48729/pjctvs.343","DOIUrl":"10.48729/pjctvs.343","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thoracic duct embolization has been increasingly adopted as a first-line therapy of chylothorax and this procedure includes lipiodol lymphangiography, thoracic duct access and embolization. Lymphangiography itself has a therapeutic role, with volume-dependent success rates of 37%-97% and even a reported 100% success rate in outputs of < 500 mL/day. We present a clinical case of a 48-years-old man diagnosed with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, who underwent esophagectomy and presented with post-operative high-output (> 1L/day) chylothorax; thoracic duct embolization was proposed. Even though thoracic duct access and embolization were not achieved due to technical and anatomical factors, lipiodol lymphangiography and possibly thoracic duct maceration (after several punctures/attempts) contributed to the clinical success of the procedure, and this chylothorax with output values superior to those reported in the literature resolved within three days. As such, the therapeutic role of intranodal lymphangiography and thoracic duct disruption should be taken into account.</p>","PeriodicalId":74480,"journal":{"name":"Portuguese journal of cardiac thoracic and vascular surgery","volume":"30 4","pages":"67-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139725294","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}
Patricia M Castro, Joana Rei, Cátia Silva, José Miranda, Miguel Guerra
{"title":"Spreading Through Air Spaces And Thinking About Lung Metastases.","authors":"Patricia M Castro, Joana Rei, Cátia Silva, José Miranda, Miguel Guerra","doi":"10.48729/pjctvs.325","DOIUrl":"10.48729/pjctvs.325","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Spread through air spaces (STAS) is a novel pattern of invasion in primary lung cancers, which was introduced in the 2015 World Health Organization classification. Several studies have validated STAS to be a predictor of clinical outcome in lung adenocarcinoma. However, little is known about STAS as a mode of intraparenchymal diffusion of pulmonary metastases (PMs).</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of STAS among PMs and the association between STAS and clinicopathological characteristics of PMs.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>From August 1, 2017 to July 31, 2022, 50 patients underwent pulmonary metastectomy in our center. Clinicopathological characteristics of patients were retrospectively evaluated. Continuous variables were compared by using unpaired Students t-test or MannWhitney test, as appropriate. Categorical variables were compared by using Qui-squared test or Fishers exact test as appropriate.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 50 patients with PMs who underwent surgical resection were analyzed, 68% being male. The median age of the study population was 60 years (range 24-80). Most patients had primary cancer originating from epithelial tissue (n=45) and the remaing from mesenchymal tissue (n=5). Colorectal cancer was the most frequent primary site of PMs (n= 32), followed by kidney (n=4) and osteosarcoma (n=3). 60% of patients (n=30) underwent sublobar resection (wedge resection or anatomic segmentectomy). STAS was observed in 10 patients (20%): 7 patients with PMs from CRC, 1 with PM from palatine tonsil, 1 from kidney and 1 from uterus. STAS was more frequent in elder patients (62 years, SD=7.099 vs 60 years, SD= 13.889; p = 0.034). Notably, STAS was significantly more frequent in PMs with larger dimension (2.8 cm, SD=2.049 vs 2.03 SD=1.104; p = 0.010), patients with lymph node metastases (p = 0.004) and in patients who underwent lobectomy rather than sublobar resection (70% vs 32.5%; p = 0.03). Although without statistically significant difference, locorregional recurrence and mortality was higher in patients with STAS+ (40% vs 22.5% and 40% vs 20%, respectively).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>VSTAS is nowadays considered to be a lung-specific tumour invasion pattern and is commonly observed in PMs of different origins.</p>","PeriodicalId":74480,"journal":{"name":"Portuguese journal of cardiac thoracic and vascular surgery","volume":"30 3","pages":"31-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140159682","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}
Celso Nunes, Juliana Sousa, João O'Neill Pedrosa, Vânia Oliveira, Eduardo Silva, Leonor Baldaia, Miguel Silva, Luís Antunes
{"title":"An Incidental Finding Of A Persistent Sciatic Artery - Case Report And Literature Review.","authors":"Celso Nunes, Juliana Sousa, João O'Neill Pedrosa, Vânia Oliveira, Eduardo Silva, Leonor Baldaia, Miguel Silva, Luís Antunes","doi":"10.48729/pjctvs.370","DOIUrl":"10.48729/pjctvs.370","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Persistent sciatic artery is a rare anatomic variation due to the lack of regression during fetal development, associated sometimes with abnormalities of the iliofemoral arterial axis and predisposing the patients to aneurysm formation and thromboembolism, which can compromise the limb. In our department, we assisted a 59-year-old male with an acute limb ischemia as result of an incidental finding of a thrombosed persistent sciatic artery aneurysm.</p>","PeriodicalId":74480,"journal":{"name":"Portuguese journal of cardiac thoracic and vascular surgery","volume":"30 3","pages":"67-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140159671","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}
Ágata Nawojowska, Daniel Cabral, Samuel Mendes, Mariana Antunes, Francisco Félix
{"title":"An Unusual Location for a Lymph Node.","authors":"Ágata Nawojowska, Daniel Cabral, Samuel Mendes, Mariana Antunes, Francisco Félix","doi":"10.48729/pjctvs.352","DOIUrl":"10.48729/pjctvs.352","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We report a case of a 67-years old non-smoking female diagnosed with hypertension when 24-years-old and complicated with chronic kidney and hypertensive heart diseases. On CT-Chest an incidental discovery of a lesion (16x14x23mm) adjacent to the abdominal aorta was made. Initially suspected to be paraganglioma, a hypothesis which the subsequent MRI did not exclude. Urine analysis showed normal Metanephrine with slightly elevated Chromogranin-A levels. During VATs-procedure \"bulging\" below the adventitial layer of the descending aorta at the level of the diaphragmatic gutter was identified. By opening the adventitia, a lipomatous lesion with a nodular, consistent center was identified and excised. Final histopathological report confirmed the diagnosis of lymph node not suggestive of neoplasia. Currently, 12 months after the surgery, the patient's condition is good being under surveillance in the Thoracosurgical Outpatient Clinic. Despite not having identified any neuroendocrine component, the patient had clinical signs of clear improvement of arterial hypertension.</p>","PeriodicalId":74480,"journal":{"name":"Portuguese journal of cardiac thoracic and vascular surgery","volume":"30 3","pages":"93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140159672","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}
Ágata Nawojowska, Samuel Mendes, Daniel Cabral, Mariana Antunes, Francisco Félix
{"title":"Innovative 3d-Printed Prosthesis In A Rare Case Of A Huge Mass Of Anterior Thoracic Wall - Low Grade Fibromyxoid Sarcoma (Lgfms).","authors":"Ágata Nawojowska, Samuel Mendes, Daniel Cabral, Mariana Antunes, Francisco Félix","doi":"10.48729/pjctvs.346","DOIUrl":"10.48729/pjctvs.346","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The need for complete resection of chest wall tumors creates a huge challenge in terms of reconstructing the complex dynamics of the thorax. We are reporting a case of a low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma (LGFMS) diagnosed in a young male, where the complete resection of the mass, sternum and parcially the pericardium was performed. Subsequently, a composite porous high-density polyethylene StarPore® prosthesis of the sternum and costal arches was used and the latissimus dorsi muscle free flap with skin graft was implanted over the sternum.</p>","PeriodicalId":74480,"journal":{"name":"Portuguese journal of cardiac thoracic and vascular surgery","volume":"30 3","pages":"81-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140159676","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}