algorithms and recommendations on different fields. Actually there is not an European ‘Thoracic Anesthesia’ society, and the issues of this subject area are often discussed and managed by national and international Cardiothoracic and Vascular anesthesia societies. This phenomenon can be related to the fact that in most of North American and Anglo-Saxon countries cardiac and thoracic surgery are...

OBJECTIVES Pericardial tamponade after cardiac surgery is difficult to diagnose, thereby rendering timing of rethoracotomy hard. We aimed at identifying factors predicting the outcome of surgery for suspected tamponade after cardio-thoracic surgery, in the intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS Twenty-one consecutive patients undergoing rethoracotomy for suspected pericardial tamponade in the ICU...

Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery (ICVTS) is pleased to announce that the European Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion (EBCP) has adopted ICVTS (www.icvts.org) as its official publication. The EBCP (www.ebcp.org) was founded in 1991 in order to unite the European perfusionists in their desire for equality of standards in both training and professional status, goals which were strong...

1010-7940/$ see front matter Q 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.ejcts.2005.04.043 * Corresponding author. Tel.: C81 19 651 5111; fax: C81 19 624 8384. E-mail address: [email protected] (K. Yoshioka). 16-row multi-slice CT clearly demonstrated the artery of Adamkiewicz and its collateral circulation via internal thoracic artery (Figs. 1 and 2). European Journal of Cardi...

1010-7940/$ — see front matter # 2010 European Association for Cardio-Thoracic S doi:10.1016/j.ejcts.2010.04.016 A 43-year-old female sustained blunt trauma after amotor vehicle collision. Computed tomography (CT) angiogram revealed a displaced left fifth rib fragment impinging on the descending thoracic aorta (Figs. 1 and 2). On hospital day 3, she underwent surgery with excision of the rib fr...

A 44-year-old man was admitted with coughing and dyspnea for 3 weeks. Chest radiography and thoracic CT scanning confirmed a huge left lung arteriovenous malformation (Fig. 1). Due to a prohibitively high operative risk, he was investigated with pulmonary angiography in preparation for embolization therapy (Fig. 2). The patient subsequently refused all further therapy. European Journal of Cardi...

Hoarseness due to left recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis was first described in 1897 by Norbert Ortner. Various cardiopulmonary and thoracic arch aorta pathologies associated with left recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy have been described over the last 100 years and is also known as cardio-vocal syndrome. We report our experience with seven cases of Ortners syndrome due to thoracic aortic aneur...