December 2015

Masthead
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Editorial Board
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Contents
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Articles to Appear in Future Issues
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Editorials

Thoughts on the Intra-aorta Balloon Pump
• Andre Coetzee,
• Pieter Fourie
Published in issue: December 2015
p1405-1407
Channeling Phaedrus: How Do the 2007 and 2014 ACC/AHA Guidelines Compare on the Horns of a Dilemma?
• Angela M. Bader,
• John A. Fox,
• David L. Hepner
Published online: October 08, 2015
p1408-1409

Original Articles

A 6-Year Single-Center Experience of Intra-aortic Balloon Pump Treatment—Retrospective Analysis of 223 Patients
• Emmi Saura,
• Jukka Savola,
• Jarmo Gunn
Published online: July 06, 2015
p1410-1414

Levosimendan Treatment for Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
• Bojun Gong,
• Zicheng Li,
• Philip Ching Yat Wong
Published online: August 11, 2015
p1415-1425

Carperitide Increases the Need for Renal Replacement Therapy After Cardiovascular Surgery
• Yusuke Sasabuchi,
• Hideo Yasunaga,
• Hiroki Matsui,
• Alan K. Lefor,
• Kiyohide Fushimi,
• Masamitsu Sanui
Published online: August 11, 2015
p1426-1431

Severity and Duration of Metabolic Acidosis After Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest for Thoracic Aortic Surgery
• Kamrouz Ghadimi,
• Jacob T. Gutsche,
• Samuel L. Setegne,
• ...
• E. Andrew Ochroch,
• Joseph E. Bavaria,
• Albert T. Cheung
Published in issue: December 2015
p1432-1440

Evaluation of Serial Arterial Lactate Levels as a Predictor of Hospital and Long-Term Mortality in Patients After Cardiac Surgery
• Juan C. Lopez-Delgado,
• Francisco Esteve,
• Casimiro Javierre,
• ...
• Konstantina Skaltsa,
• Rafael Mañez,
• Josep L. Ventura
Published online: August 25, 2015
p1441-1453

Postoperative Lactate Levels and Hospital Length of Stay After Cardiac Surgery
• Lars W. Andersen,
• Mathias J. Holmberg,
• Michelle Doherty,
• ...
• Adam Lerner,
• Katherine M. Berg,
• Michael W. Donnino
Published online: October 08, 2015
p1454-1460
Independent Risk Factors for Fast-Track Failure Using a Predefined Fast-Track Protocol in Preselected Cardiac Surgery Patients
• Waseem Zakhary,
• Jacob Lindner,
• Sophia Sgouropoulou,
• ...
• Stefan Probst,
• Markus Scholz,
• Joerg Ender
Published online: September 02, 2015
p1461-1465
Open Access

Predictors of Failure in Fast-Track Cardiac Surgery
• Pouya Youssefi,
• David Timbrell,
• Oswaldo Valencia,
• ...
• Caterina Vlachou,
• Marjan Jahangiri,
• Mark Edsell
Published online: September 29, 2015
p1466-1471

Incidence of and Risk Factors for Delirium After Cardiac Surgery at a Quaternary Care Center: A Retrospective Cohort Study
• Lurdes Tse,
• Stephan K.W. Schwarz,
• John B. Bowering,
• Randell L. Moore,
• Alasdair M. Barr
Published online: September 19, 2015
p1472-1479

Urinary Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin as Predictor of Short- or Long-Term Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery Patients
• Mercedes Garcia-Alvarez,
• Neil J. Glassford,
• Antoni J. Betbese,
• ...
• Glenn M. Eastwood,
• M. Victoria Moral,
• Rinaldo Bellomo
Published online: August 18, 2015
p1480-1488

Association of Robotic Totally Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Associated With a Preliminary Cardiac Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Program: A Retrospective Analysis
• Cédrick Zaouter,
• Julien Imbault,
• Louis Labrousse,
• ...
• Giorgio Colonna,
• Jean-Luc Jansens,
• Alexandre Ouattara
Published online: June 25, 2015
p1489-1497

Transesophageal Echocardiography Guidance of Antegrade Cardioplegia Delivery for Cardiac Surgery
• David J. Canty,
• Prashant Joshi,
• Colin F. Royse,
• James McMillan,
• Sara Tayeh,
• Julian A. Smith
Published online: July 01, 2015
p1498-1503

Manual Skill Acquisition During Transesophageal Echocardiography Simulator Training of Cardiology Fellows: A Kinematic Assessment
• Robina Matyal,
• Mario Montealegre-Gallegos,
• John D. Mitchell,
• ...
• Vanessa Wong,
• Phillip E. Hess,
• Feroze Mahmood
Published online: September 02, 2015
p1504-1510

Video Fluoroscopy for Positioning of Pulmonary Artery Catheters in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
• Laurence Weinberg,
• Lachlan F. Miles,
• Maysana Allaf,
• Param Pillai,
• Philip Peyton,
• Laurie Doolan
Published in issue: December 2015
p1511-1516
Open Access

Pulmonary Artery Acceleration Time in Cardiac Surgical Patients
• Claude Tousignant,
• Jordan R. Van Orman
Published online: July 01, 2015
p1517-1523

Perioperative Follow-Up of Patients With Severe Pulmonary Artery Hypertension Secondary to Left Heart Disease: A Single Center, Prospective, Observational Study
• Sethu Madhavan,
• Puri Goverdhan Dutt,
• Shyam Kumar Singh Thingnam,
• Manoj Kumar Rohit,
• Aveek Jayant
Published in issue: December 2015
p1524-1532

Preoperative Prevalence of J-Wave Syndrome Electrocardiographic Patterns and Their Association With Perioperative Cardiac Events
• Masaki Fuyuta,
• Shinichi Nakao,
• Atsuhiro Kitaura,
• ...
• Shinichi Hamasaki,
• Shouhei Iwasaki,
• Takashi Kurita
Published online: September 29, 2015
p1533-1536

Increased Rate of Poor Laryngoscopic Views in Patients Scheduled for Cardiac Surgery Versus Patients Scheduled for General Surgery: A Propensity Score-Based Analysis of 21,561 Cases
• Sebastian Heinrich,
• Andreas Ackermann,
• Johannes Prottengeier,
• Ixchel Castellanos,
• Joachim Schmidt,
• Jürgen Schüttler
Published online: August 25, 2015
p1537-1543

Evaluation of the Double-Lumen Tube Vivasight-DL (DLT-ETView): A Prospective Single-Center Study
• Julien Massot,
• Virginie Dumand-Nizard,
• Marc Fischler,
• Morgan Le Guen
Published online: October 12, 2015
p1544-1549

Comparison Between Intraoperative Two-Space Injection Thoracic Paravertebral Block and Wound Infiltration as a Component of Multimodal Analgesia for Postoperative Pain Management After Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Lobectomy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
• Xuezheng Zhang,
• Luowa Shu,
• Chaoxi Lin,
• ...
• Xiaoming Lin,
• Lielie Jin,
• Tianzuo Li
Published online: September 22, 2015
p1550-1556

Target-Controlled Infusion of Remifentanil Without Muscle Relaxants Allows Acceptable Surgical Conditions During Thoracotomy Performed Under Sevoflurane Anesthesia
• Mohamed R. El-Tahan,
• Mohamed Regal
Published online: May 25, 2015
p1557-1566

Effect of Postoperative Administration of Pregabalin for Post-thoracotomy Pain: A Randomized Study
• Noritaka Yoshimura,
• Hiroki Iida,
• Motoyasu Takenaka,
• ...
• Kazuhiro Kitoh,
• Koyo Shirahashi,
• Hisashi Iwata
Published online: September 02, 2015
p1567-1572

Tracheostomy After Cardiac Surgery With Median Sternotomy and Risk of Deep Sternal Wound Infections: Is It a Matter of Timing?
• Kevin Pilarczyk,
• Guenter Marggraf,
• Michaela Dudasova,
• ...
• Valerie Scheer,
• Heinz Jakob,
• Fabian Dusse
Published online: July 02, 2015
p1573-1581

Continuous Intraoperative Cefazolin Infusion May Reduce Surgical Site Infections During Cardiac Surgical Procedures: A Propensity-Matched Analysis
• J. Trent Magruder,
• Joshua C. Grimm,
• Samuel P. Dungan,
• ...
• Bethany R. Shoulders,
• Laeben Lester,
• Viachaslau Barodka
Published online: August 11, 2015
p1582-1587

Vascular Surgery Kidney Injury Predictive Score: A Historical Cohort Study
• Kianoush Kashani,
• Jon H. Steuernagle IV,
• Abbasali Akhoundi,
• Anas Alsara,
• Andrew C. Hanson,
• Daryl J. Kor
Published online: July 06, 2015
p1588-1595

Case Reports

Acute Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy During Elective Hernia Repair in a Patient With Previously Resected Pheochromocytoma
• Ethan L. Sanford,
• Thomas Hickey,
• Jeffrey Lu
Published online: March 24, 2015
p1596-1598

Acute Lateral Myocardial Infarction Secondary to Tramadol-Induced Kounis Syndrome
• Suat Gormel,
• Tolga Ege,
• Mustafa Koklu,
• Murat Celik,
• Uygar Cagdas Yuksel
Published online: May 01, 2015
p1599-1602
Transfemoral Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in a Patient With Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia: Intraoperative Anticoagulation Management With Bivalirudin (Angiomax)
• Bharathi Scott,
• Christopher W. Tam,
• Roger S. Moon
Published online: January 17, 2015
p1603-1605

Right Coronary Artery Occlusion After Tricuspid Ring Annuloplasty
• Jordan Goldhammer,
• William Clark Hargrove III,
• William J. Vernick
Published online: February 04, 2015
p1606-1609

Acute Drainage of Pericardial Effusion May Precipitate Right Ventricular Failure
• Deepu S. Ushakumari,
• Andrej Alfirevic,
• Shiva Sale
Published online: January 22, 2015
p1610-1613

Recurrent Clotting of a Continuous-Flow Right Ventricular Assist Device—Repeated Thrombolysis With Two Different Protocols
• Anna Maria Schürner,
• Markus J. Wilhelm,
• Volkmar Falk,
• Frank Ruschitzka,
• Dominique Bettex,
• Alain Rudiger
Published online: February 07, 2015
p1614-1617

Lung Injury From Use of a Suction Catheter via the Double-Lumen Tube
• Tze Yeng Yeoh,
• Elizabeth S.H. Ng,
• Thirugnanam Agasthian,
• Lian Kah Ti
Published online: December 19, 2014
p1618-1620
An Unexpected Cause of Hypoxemia After Left Pneumonectomy Due to Late Presentation of an Intracardiac Shunt: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
• Elena Assimakopoulou,
• Orathi Sanjay
Published online: February 18, 2015
p1621-1623

Acute Lower Limb Ischemia After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
• Clémence Le Tanneur,
• Nicolas Mongardon,
• Hakim Haouache,
• ...
• Rabih Houballah,
• Costin Radu,
• Gilles Dhonneur
Published online: February 04, 2015
p1624-1626

Can Mismatch Negativity Reduce Uncertainty in the Prediction of Awakening From Coma During Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation?
• Rosendo A. Rodriguez,
• Michel Shamy,
• Dar Dowlatshahi,
• Howard J. Nathan
Published online: January 17, 2015
p1627-1631
Pregnancy in a Patient With Severe Aortic Stenosis Requiring Unusual Management
• Liana Valeanu,
• Jean-Pol Depoix,
• Daniel Enguerand,
• ...
• Daniel Longrois,
• Bernard Iung,
• Philippe Montravers
Published online: January 30, 2015
p1632-1635

Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in an Adult Patient With Congenital Factor VII Deficiency: A Case Report of Perioperative Coagulation Management
• Michael Lux,
• Andreas Koköfer,
• Catharina Schreiber,
• Christian Torgersen
Published online: December 19, 2014
p1636-1638

Review Articles

Comparison Between the 2007 and 2014 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guidelines on Perioperative Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery
• Adriana D. Oprea,
• Manuel L. Fontes,
• Mark W. Onaitis,
• Miklos D. Kertai
Published online: September 01, 2015
p1639-1650

Left Atrial Appendage, Intraoperative Echocardiography, and the Anesthesiologist
• Khurram Owais,
• Feroze Mahmood,
• Mario Montealegre-Gallegos,
• Kamal R. Khabbaz,
• Robina Matyal
Published online: August 25, 2015
p1651-1662

Preventive Strategies for Minimizing Hemodilution in the Cardiac Surgery Patient During Cardiopulmonary Bypass
• Nian Chih Hwang
Published online: October 29, 2015
p1663-1671

Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Impact of the Ebola Virus: A Review of Current Literature and Practices
• Joshua A. Heller,
• Samuel DeMaria,
• Adam Levine,
• ...
• Marc Stone,
• George Silvay,
• Andrew Goldberg
Published in issue: December 2015
p1672-1676
Postoperative Delirium in Cardiac Surgery: An Unavoidable Menace?
• Alexa Hollinger,
• Martin Siegemund,
• Nicolai Goettel,
• Luzius A. Steiner
Published online: October 08, 2015
p1677-1687

Emerging Technology Review

The Heart: Pressure-Propulsion Pump or Organ of Impedance?
• Branko Furst
Published online: May 27, 2015
p1688-1701
Open Access

Case Conferences and CAFE

CASE 11–2015
Intraoperative Transthoracic Cardiac and Pulmonary Ultrasonography
• Thomas Edrich,
• Martin W. Dünser,
• Michael Lux,
• ...
• Christian Dinges,
• Kimberly L. Kesner,
• Michael J. Davidson
Published online: August 19, 2015
p1702-1711