: In general thoracic surgery, extracorporeal mechanical cardio-respiratory support (EMCS) techniques are performed intraoperatively mainly for respiratory but also cardiocirculatory support. The increasing panel of EMCS technologies available in surgery is the result a century clinical practices, engineering progress, and improvements physiological knowledge. Complex procedures tumor resection...

As part of the peer review process for the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EJCTS) and the Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery (ICVTS), a statistician reviews any manuscript that includes a statistical analysis. To facilitate authors considering submitting a manuscript and to make it clearer about the expectations of the statistical reviewers, we present up-to-date guide...

The objective is to write a literature review of the relevant information related to quality control in cardiovascular surgery. The authors have studied several parameters to allow quality control in cardiovascular surgery: 1. Construction of a database as complete as possible to the similar ones of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery; 2. To...

Despite the enormous development of medicine in general during the last several decades, each speciality is still struggling with patients for whom no evidence-based, guideline-supported and generally accepted treatment strategy exists. Our field of cardiothoracic surgery is no exception. Even though new surgical strategies for complex cardio-thoracic diseases are published in the form of origi...

INTRODUCTION The study aimed to perform an audit of intensive care unit admissions in the paediatric cardio-thoracic population in Enugu, Nigeria and examine the challenges and outcome in this high risk group. Ways of improvement based on this study are suggested. METHODS The hospital records of consecutive postoperative pediatric cardiothoracic admissions to the multidisciplinary and cardiot...

Aortic arch (AA) is a prolongation of aorta ascendens and forms a part of mediastenum superius. It begins right above the joint of sternum and the second rib at the posterior right half of manubrium sterni. Presently, aorta has been pointed out not only to perform the duty of a canal but in fact has been shown to have a significant role in regulating left ventricular function and myocardial per...

In 2014, the Task Force on Myocardial Revascularization of the European Society of Cardiology and the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery with the special contribution of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions published a comprehensive set of recommendations on myocardial revascularization in patients presenting with acute or chronic coronary artery d...