Department of Surgery, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, Texas; Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado; Weill Co...

introduction: infective endocarditis is well known to produce neurologic complications from septic emboli, which mandates a multidisciplinary approach between neurosurgery and cardiac surgery. however, literature is not clear as to the optimal interval length between neurosurgery and cardiac surgery.presentation of cases: the first case involves a 60-year-old woman with significant past medical...

1Endovascular Section, Lenox Hill Heart & Vascular Institute of NY, New York, New York; 2Division of Vascular Surgery, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey; 3Division of Vascular Surgery, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California; 4Department of Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery, Arizona Heart Institute and Arizona Heart Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona; 5Division of Vascu...

The Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) randomized 780 patients to an initial strategy of coronary surgery or medical therapy. Of medically randomized patients, 6% had surgery within 6 months and a total of 40%o had surgery by 10 years. At 10 years, there was no difference in cumulative survival (medical, 79%, vs. surgical, 82%; NS) and no difference in percentage free of death and nonfatal my...

1Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Minneosta, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA 2Department of Otolaryngology & Communication Sciences, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA 3Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Gentofte University Hospital of Copenhagen, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark 4Department of Otorhinolaryngolo...

Murat TAVLAŞOĞLU, Ahmet Barış DURUKAN*, Mustafa KÜRKLÜOĞLU, Adem GÜLER, Zekeriye ARSLAN, Mehmet Ali ŞAHİN, Hasan Alper GÜRBÜZ, Leyla GÜLER Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Diyarbakır Military Hospital, Diyarbakır, Turkey Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Medicana International Ankara Hospital, Ankara, Turkey Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children’s National Heart Institute, Chi...

Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200438, China Prof. Meng Chao Wu, graduated from Tongji Medical College in 1949, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, specialized in hepatic surgery, having more than 200 papers published. Correspondence to: Prof. Meng Chao Wu, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, S...

1Renuka A Bradoo, 2Rahul R Modi, 3Anagha A Joshi, 4Vikas Wahane 1Professor and Head, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, LTM Medical College and General Hospital Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 2Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, LTM Medical College and General Hospital Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 3Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngolo...

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA *These authors contributed equally to this work. Correspondence to: Inderpal S. Sarkaria, MD, FACS. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Shadyside Medical Building, Suite 715...