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Sex, crime and surgery: Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery in the age of fake news

Sex, crime and surgery: Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery in the age of fake news Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery 26 (2018) 894–896 EDITORIAL doi:10.1093/icvts/ivy144 Cite this article as: von Segesser LK. Sex, crime and surgery: Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery in the age of fake news. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2018;26:894–6. Sex, crime and surgery: Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery in the age of fake news Ludwig K. von Segesser Department of Surgery and Anesthesiology, Cardio-Vascular Research, Lausanne, Switzerland * Corresponding author. Department of Surgery and Anesthesiology, Cardio-Vascular Research, CHUV, BH 05-105, Rue du Bugnon 46, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland. Tel: +41-21-3142279; fax: +41-21-3202442; e-mail: lk@segesser.com (L.K. von Segesser). Received 28 March 2018; accepted 1 April 2018 Keywords: Cardiac surgery � Vascular Surgery � Thoracic Surgery � History The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) The positive outcome of the dual strategy of having both print was founded in 1986 by a group of enthusiastic cardiothoracic sur- and online versions of ICVTS and EJCTS is that the articles are geons led by the late Francis Fontan in Bordeaux [1]. The mission readily available in the print issues and are easily accessible on- of this new association included from the beginning the publica- line for EACTS members, at least for recent publications. tion of a scientific journal [2]. In the ensuing years, the EACTS has Unfortunately, older MMCTS content can no longer be down- produced 3 scientific publications, namely the European Journal of loaded from the publication’s website (www.mmcts.org) and has Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EJCTS) founded by Hans Borst, the even disappeared from the publication’s index. EJCTS, which was Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery (ICVTS)founded by supposed to offer free access through the journal’s website Ludwig K. von Segesser and the MultiMedia Manual for Cardio- (www.ejcts.org) for content older than 1 year, no longer offers Thoracic Surgery (MMCTS) founded by Marko Turina [3, 4]. the earlier content such as the first presidential address by MMCTS, which focuses on animated content, was from the be- Francis Fontan [1]. Obviously, the ability of one of the multiple ginning an online-only publication. EJCTS was initially a print- parties involved in web hosting to interfere with access rights is only publication with a subsequent online version. ICVTS began problematic. Furthermore, long-term secure storage of web-only with an online edition, in which the content was first open for publications and other data remains unsolved. discussion and then printed after 30 days. The print version in- One encounters various degrees of difficulty in deciphering cluded the comments from the virtual discussion [5, 6]. While the hieroglyphs from ancient times, but this problem can sometimes print and online versions of the EACTS flagship journal EJCTS will be solved, even for languages that have disappeared, by algo- continue in those formats under the leadership of Friedhelm rithms that track the most frequent characters and combinations Beyersdorf, Editor-in-Chief, the EACTS council decided to move thereof. Fortunately, there are also documents written in stone ICVTS to online-only publication. This decision is a cost-saving thousands of years ago like the Rosetta stone, which provide move in a modern world driven by the World Wide Web, an translations. However, for electronic media, much higher hurdles ever-growing behemoth, which is perceived to provide content exist for accessing content that is not even 25 years old, including for free but in reality does not. hardware that is no longer functional, software that is no longer ICVTS has performed extremely well with its dual online and supportable, stored data that are no longer readable and various print strategy. Although it struggled in the beginning to be recog- combinations of all of these. In addition, there is no way to deci- nized by the big databases such as PubMed or MEDLINE and to pher binary code, e.g. 001000111001100110011, without the get an impact factor, it finally succeeded. In 2017, its impact fac- specific key. Therefore, it is difficult to foresee how web-only tor was 1.857 (2017), which was higher than the impact factor of publications can thrive in the long term. Some may consider EJCTS (1.181 in 2000) when the decision was made to start ICVTS. autodestruction of content beyond a defined shelf life as advan- Table 1 lists the most frequently downloaded articles in 2017 that tageous because it may free storage capacity for new content. are published in ICVTS throughout 2016 and 2017. Twelve However, such new content is by definition soon no longer new articles deal with cardiac, 7 with thoracic and 3 with vascular and, therefore, not necessarily worthwhile storing. issues, including some with multiple allocations, and address Today, there is obviously a shift from the written word that comprehensively all 3 fields of activities mentioned in its title. stands the test of time towards short messages and tweets con- In addition, these contributions come from all over the world, structed to draw attention to themselves. Sex, crime and surgery which was the intention from the beginning for ICVTS. are key ingredients for the latter because sex sells, crime pays The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved. Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/icvts/article-abstract/26/6/894/5018700 by Ed 'DeepDyve' Gillespie user on 20 June 2018 L.K. von Segesser / Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery 895 Table 1: The most frequently downloaded articles in 2017 that are published in ICVTS throughout 2016 and 2017 References Title Author Year Volume Issue Downloads in 2017 [7] Cardiac protection with phosphocreatine: a Giovanni Landoni 2016 23 4 2102 meta-analysis [8] Comparison between Caprini and Padua risk Xiaohan Liu 2016 23 4 1480 assessment models for hospitalized medi- cal patients at risk for venous thromboem- bolism: a retrospective study [9] Functional and postoperative outcomes after Raquel Sebio Garcia 2016 23 3 1108 preoperative exercise training in patients with lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis [10] Incidence and causes of silent and symptom- Stephanie Grabert 2016 23 3 959 atic stroke following surgical and trans- catheter aortic valve replacement: a comprehensive review [11] Conventional versus rapid-deployment aor- Martin Andreas 2016 22 6 866 tic valve replacement: a single-centre comparison between the Edwards Magna valve and its rapid-deployment successor [12] A modified Cox-Maze IV procedure: a sim- Jun Shi 2016 23 6 714 pler technique for the surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation [13] Bileaflet mechanical valve replacement: an Satoshi Saito 2016 23 4 642 assessment of outcomes with 30 years of follow-up [14] A 20-year review of pectus surgery: an analy- Theofano Tikka 2016 23 6 638 sis of factors predictive of recurrence and outcomes [15] Cardiac surgery for infective endocarditis in Oda Bratland Østerdal 2016 22 5 628 patients with intravenous drug use [16] Quality of life and prosthetic aortic valve se- Nelleke M. Korteland 2016 22 6 593 lection in nonelderly adult patients [17] Sarcomatoid carcinoma of the lung: a rare Christian Roesel 2017 24 3 2677 histological subtype of non-small-cell lung cancer with a poor prognosis even at ear- lier tumour stages [18] Risk factors for hypoxemia following surgical Nan Liu 2017 24 2 1202 repair of acute type A aortic dissection [19] Postoperative pulmonary complications and Paula Agostini 2017 24 6 1035 rehabilitation requirements following lo- bectomy: a propensity score matched study of patients undergoing video-assis- ted thoracoscopic surgery versus thoracotomy [20] The totally thoracoscopic maze procedure Charlotte van Laar 2017 24 1 985 for the treatment of atrial fibrillation [21] Systematic review on the predictive ability of Yusuf S. Abdullahi 2017 24 4 965 frailty assessment measures in cardiac surgery [22] Classification and outcomes of extended Holly N. Smith 2017 24 3 943 arch repair for acute type A aortic dissec- tion: a systematic review and meta- analysis [23] Systematic short-term pulmonary rehabilita- Yutian Lai 2017 25 3 858 tion before lung cancer lobectomy: a ran- domized trial [24] Early and long-term cognitive outcome after Stephan C. Knipp 2017 24 4 811 conventional cardiac valve surgery [25] Current practices in the management of ma- Marco Scarci 2017 24 3 754 lignant pleural effusions: a survey among members of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/icvts/article-abstract/26/6/894/5018700 by Ed 'DeepDyve' Gillespie user on 20 June 2018 EDITORIAL 896 L.K. von Segesser / Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery 30 years of follow-up. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2016;23: and surgery fails. Matthias Siepe, Editor-in-Chief, and his team 599–607. will have to wisely manage the art of scandal to keep ICVTS on- [14] Tikka T, Kalkat MS, Bishay E, Steyn RS, Rajesh PB, Naidu BA. A 20-year line in the current world of fake news. review of pectus surgery: an analysis of factors predictive of recurrence Read on at www.ICVTS.org .. . and outcomes. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2016;23:908–13. [15] Østerdal OB, Salminen PR, Jordal S, Sjursen H, Wendelbo Ø, Haaverstad R. Cardiac surgery for infective endocarditis in patients with intravenous drug use. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2016;22:633–40. REFERENCES [16] Korteland NM, Top D, Borsboom GJ, Roos-Hesselink JW, Bogers AJ, Takkenberg JJ. Quality of life and prosthetic aortic valve selection in [1] Fontan F. The faith in the future. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1988;2:1–7. non-elderly adult patients. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2016;22: [2] Constitution of The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 723–8. 1986, www.eacts.org. [17] Roesel C, Terjung S, Weinreich G, Hager T, Chalvatzoulis E, [3] Turina M. European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery: carrying Metzenmacher M, Welter S. Sarcomatoid carcinoma of the lung: a rare the torch. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2002;22:857–63. histological subtype of non-small cell lung cancer with a poor prognosis [4] Beyersdorf F, Ludwig K. von Segesser: editor-in-chief of EJCTS and ICVTS even at earlier tumour stages. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2017;24: from 2000 to 2010. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2011;12:1–3. 407–13. [5] von Segesser LK. “Surgical technique versus technology for surgery”: a [18] Liu N, Zhang W, Ma W, Shang W, Zheng J, Sun L. Risk factors for hypox- plea for an open mind towards new technology. Interact CardioVasc emia following surgical repair of acute type A aortic dissection. Interact Thorac Surg 2002;1:1–3. CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2017;24:251–6. [6] von Segesser LK. Peer review versus public review—new possibilities of [19] Agostini P, Lugg ST, Adams K, Vartsaba N, Kalkat MS, Rajesh PB et al. on-line publishing. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2002;1:61–2. Postoperative pulmonary complications and rehabilitation requirements [7] Landoni G, Zangrillo A, Lomivorotov VV, Likhvantsev V, Ma J, De Simone following lobectomy: a propensity score matched study of patients un- F et al. Cardiac protection with phosphocreatine: a meta-analysis. dergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery versus thoracotomy. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2016;23:637–46. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2017;24:931–7. [8] Liu X, Liu C, Chen X, Wu W, Lu G. Comparison between Caprini and [20] van Laar C, Kelder J, van Putte BP. The totally thoracoscopic maze proce- Padua risk assessment models for hospitalized medical patients at risk dure for the treatment of atrial fibrillation. Interact CardioVasc Thorac for venous thromboembolism: a retrospective study. Interact Surg 2017;24:102–11. CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2016;23:538–43. [21] Abdullahi YS, Athanasopoulos LV, Casula RP, Moscarelli M, Bagnall M, [9] Sebio Garcia R, Ya ´ nez Brage MI, Gime ´ nez Moolhuyzen E, Granger CL, Ashrafian H et al. Systematic review on the predictive ability of frailty as- Denehy L. Functional and postoperative outcomes after preoperative ex- sessment measures in cardiac surgery. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg ercise training in patients with lung cancer: a systematic review and 2017;24:619–24. meta-analysis. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2016;23:486–97. [22] Smith HN, Boodhwani M, Ouzounian M, Saczkowski R, Gregory AJ et al. [10] Grabert S, Lange R, Bleiziffer S. Incidence and causes of silent and symp- Classification and outcomes of extended arch repair for acute Type A tomatic stroke following surgical and transcatheter aortic valve replace- aortic dissection: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Interact ment: a comprehensive review. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2016; CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2017;24:450–9. 23:469–76. [23] Lai Y, Su J, Qiu P, Wang M, Zhou K, Tang Y et al. Systematic short-term [11] Andreas M, Wallner S, Habertheuer A, Rath C, Schauperl M, Binder T pulmonary rehabilitation before lung cancer lobectomy: a randomized et al. Conventional versus rapid-deployment aortic valve replacement: a trial. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2017;25:476–83. single-centre comparison between the Edwards Magna valve and its [24] Knipp SC, Weimar C, Schlamann M, Schweter S, Wendt D, Thielmann M rapid-deployment successor. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2016;22: et al. Early and long-term cognitive outcome after conventional cardiac 799–805. valve surgery. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2017;24:534–40. [12] Shi J, Bai ZX, Zhang BG, Ren WJ, Guo YQ. A modified Cox maze IV pro- [25] Scarci M, Caruana E, Bertolaccini L, Bedetti B, Brunelli A, Varela G et al. cedure: a simpler technique for the surgical treatment of atrial fibrilla- tion. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2016;23:856–60. Current practices in the management of malignant pleural effusions: a [13] Saito S, Tsukui H, Iwasa S, Umehara N, Tomioka H, Aomi S et al. survey among members of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Bileaflet mechanical valve replacement: an assessment of outcomes with Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2017;24:414–7. 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Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery 26 (2018) 894–896 EDITORIAL doi:10.1093/icvts/ivy144 Cite this article as: von Segesser LK. Sex, crime and surgery: Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery in the age of fake news. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2018;26:894–6. Sex, crime and surgery: Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery in the age of fake news Ludwig K. von Segesser Department of Surgery and Anesthesiology, Cardio-Vascular Research, Lausanne, Switzerland * Corresponding author. Department of Surgery and Anesthesiology, Cardio-Vascular Research, CHUV, BH 05-105, Rue du Bugnon 46, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland. Tel: +41-21-3142279; fax: +41-21-3202442; e-mail: lk@segesser.com (L.K. von Segesser). Received 28 March 2018; accepted 1 April 2018 Keywords: Cardiac surgery � Vascular Surgery � Thoracic Surgery � History The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) The positive outcome of the dual strategy of having both print was founded in 1986 by a group of enthusiastic cardiothoracic sur- and online versions of ICVTS and EJCTS is that the articles are geons led by the late Francis Fontan in Bordeaux [1]. The mission readily available in the print issues and are easily accessible on- of this new association included from the beginning the publica- line for EACTS members, at least for recent publications. tion of a scientific journal [2]. In the ensuing years, the EACTS has Unfortunately, older MMCTS content can no longer be down- produced 3 scientific publications, namely the European Journal of loaded from the publication’s website (www.mmcts.org) and has Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EJCTS) founded by Hans Borst, the even disappeared from the publication’s index. EJCTS, which was Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery (ICVTS)founded by supposed to offer free access through the journal’s website Ludwig K. von Segesser and the MultiMedia Manual for Cardio- (www.ejcts.org) for content older than 1 year, no longer offers Thoracic Surgery (MMCTS) founded by Marko Turina [3, 4]. the earlier content such as the first presidential address by MMCTS, which focuses on animated content, was from the be- Francis Fontan [1]. Obviously, the ability of one of the multiple ginning an online-only publication. EJCTS was initially a print- parties involved in web hosting to interfere with access rights is only publication with a subsequent online version. ICVTS began problematic. Furthermore, long-term secure storage of web-only with an online edition, in which the content was first open for publications and other data remains unsolved. discussion and then printed after 30 days. The print version in- One encounters various degrees of difficulty in deciphering cluded the comments from the virtual discussion [5, 6]. While the hieroglyphs from ancient times, but this problem can sometimes print and online versions of the EACTS flagship journal EJCTS will be solved, even for languages that have disappeared, by algo- continue in those formats under the leadership of Friedhelm rithms that track the most frequent characters and combinations Beyersdorf, Editor-in-Chief, the EACTS council decided to move thereof. Fortunately, there are also documents written in stone ICVTS to online-only publication. This decision is a cost-saving thousands of years ago like the Rosetta stone, which provide move in a modern world driven by the World Wide Web, an translations. However, for electronic media, much higher hurdles ever-growing behemoth, which is perceived to provide content exist for accessing content that is not even 25 years old, including for free but in reality does not. hardware that is no longer functional, software that is no longer ICVTS has performed extremely well with its dual online and supportable, stored data that are no longer readable and various print strategy. Although it struggled in the beginning to be recog- combinations of all of these. In addition, there is no way to deci- nized by the big databases such as PubMed or MEDLINE and to pher binary code, e.g. 001000111001100110011, without the get an impact factor, it finally succeeded. In 2017, its impact fac- specific key. Therefore, it is difficult to foresee how web-only tor was 1.857 (2017), which was higher than the impact factor of publications can thrive in the long term. Some may consider EJCTS (1.181 in 2000) when the decision was made to start ICVTS. autodestruction of content beyond a defined shelf life as advan- Table 1 lists the most frequently downloaded articles in 2017 that tageous because it may free storage capacity for new content. are published in ICVTS throughout 2016 and 2017. Twelve However, such new content is by definition soon no longer new articles deal with cardiac, 7 with thoracic and 3 with vascular and, therefore, not necessarily worthwhile storing. issues, including some with multiple allocations, and address Today, there is obviously a shift from the written word that comprehensively all 3 fields of activities mentioned in its title. stands the test of time towards short messages and tweets con- In addition, these contributions come from all over the world, structed to draw attention to themselves. Sex, crime and surgery which was the intention from the beginning for ICVTS. are key ingredients for the latter because sex sells, crime pays The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved. Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/icvts/article-abstract/26/6/894/5018700 by Ed 'DeepDyve' Gillespie user on 20 June 2018 L.K. von Segesser / Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery 895 Table 1: The most frequently downloaded articles in 2017 that are published in ICVTS throughout 2016 and 2017 References Title Author Year Volume Issue Downloads in 2017 [7] Cardiac protection with phosphocreatine: a Giovanni Landoni 2016 23 4 2102 meta-analysis [8] Comparison between Caprini and Padua risk Xiaohan Liu 2016 23 4 1480 assessment models for hospitalized medi- cal patients at risk for venous thromboem- bolism: a retrospective study [9] Functional and postoperative outcomes after Raquel Sebio Garcia 2016 23 3 1108 preoperative exercise training in patients with lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis [10] Incidence and causes of silent and symptom- Stephanie Grabert 2016 23 3 959 atic stroke following surgical and trans- catheter aortic valve replacement: a comprehensive review [11] Conventional versus rapid-deployment aor- Martin Andreas 2016 22 6 866 tic valve replacement: a single-centre comparison between the Edwards Magna valve and its rapid-deployment successor [12] A modified Cox-Maze IV procedure: a sim- Jun Shi 2016 23 6 714 pler technique for the surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation [13] Bileaflet mechanical valve replacement: an Satoshi Saito 2016 23 4 642 assessment of outcomes with 30 years of follow-up [14] A 20-year review of pectus surgery: an analy- Theofano Tikka 2016 23 6 638 sis of factors predictive of recurrence and outcomes [15] Cardiac surgery for infective endocarditis in Oda Bratland Østerdal 2016 22 5 628 patients with intravenous drug use [16] Quality of life and prosthetic aortic valve se- Nelleke M. Korteland 2016 22 6 593 lection in nonelderly adult patients [17] Sarcomatoid carcinoma of the lung: a rare Christian Roesel 2017 24 3 2677 histological subtype of non-small-cell lung cancer with a poor prognosis even at ear- lier tumour stages [18] Risk factors for hypoxemia following surgical Nan Liu 2017 24 2 1202 repair of acute type A aortic dissection [19] Postoperative pulmonary complications and Paula Agostini 2017 24 6 1035 rehabilitation requirements following lo- bectomy: a propensity score matched study of patients undergoing video-assis- ted thoracoscopic surgery versus thoracotomy [20] The totally thoracoscopic maze procedure Charlotte van Laar 2017 24 1 985 for the treatment of atrial fibrillation [21] Systematic review on the predictive ability of Yusuf S. Abdullahi 2017 24 4 965 frailty assessment measures in cardiac surgery [22] Classification and outcomes of extended Holly N. Smith 2017 24 3 943 arch repair for acute type A aortic dissec- tion: a systematic review and meta- analysis [23] Systematic short-term pulmonary rehabilita- Yutian Lai 2017 25 3 858 tion before lung cancer lobectomy: a ran- domized trial [24] Early and long-term cognitive outcome after Stephan C. Knipp 2017 24 4 811 conventional cardiac valve surgery [25] Current practices in the management of ma- Marco Scarci 2017 24 3 754 lignant pleural effusions: a survey among members of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/icvts/article-abstract/26/6/894/5018700 by Ed 'DeepDyve' Gillespie user on 20 June 2018 EDITORIAL 896 L.K. von Segesser / Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery 30 years of follow-up. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2016;23: and surgery fails. Matthias Siepe, Editor-in-Chief, and his team 599–607. will have to wisely manage the art of scandal to keep ICVTS on- [14] Tikka T, Kalkat MS, Bishay E, Steyn RS, Rajesh PB, Naidu BA. A 20-year line in the current world of fake news. review of pectus surgery: an analysis of factors predictive of recurrence Read on at www.ICVTS.org .. . and outcomes. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2016;23:908–13. [15] Østerdal OB, Salminen PR, Jordal S, Sjursen H, Wendelbo Ø, Haaverstad R. Cardiac surgery for infective endocarditis in patients with intravenous drug use. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2016;22:633–40. REFERENCES [16] Korteland NM, Top D, Borsboom GJ, Roos-Hesselink JW, Bogers AJ, Takkenberg JJ. Quality of life and prosthetic aortic valve selection in [1] Fontan F. The faith in the future. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1988;2:1–7. non-elderly adult patients. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2016;22: [2] Constitution of The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 723–8. 1986, www.eacts.org. [17] Roesel C, Terjung S, Weinreich G, Hager T, Chalvatzoulis E, [3] Turina M. European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery: carrying Metzenmacher M, Welter S. Sarcomatoid carcinoma of the lung: a rare the torch. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2002;22:857–63. histological subtype of non-small cell lung cancer with a poor prognosis [4] Beyersdorf F, Ludwig K. von Segesser: editor-in-chief of EJCTS and ICVTS even at earlier tumour stages. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2017;24: from 2000 to 2010. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2011;12:1–3. 407–13. [5] von Segesser LK. “Surgical technique versus technology for surgery”: a [18] Liu N, Zhang W, Ma W, Shang W, Zheng J, Sun L. Risk factors for hypox- plea for an open mind towards new technology. Interact CardioVasc emia following surgical repair of acute type A aortic dissection. Interact Thorac Surg 2002;1:1–3. CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2017;24:251–6. [6] von Segesser LK. Peer review versus public review—new possibilities of [19] Agostini P, Lugg ST, Adams K, Vartsaba N, Kalkat MS, Rajesh PB et al. on-line publishing. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2002;1:61–2. Postoperative pulmonary complications and rehabilitation requirements [7] Landoni G, Zangrillo A, Lomivorotov VV, Likhvantsev V, Ma J, De Simone following lobectomy: a propensity score matched study of patients un- F et al. Cardiac protection with phosphocreatine: a meta-analysis. dergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery versus thoracotomy. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2016;23:637–46. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2017;24:931–7. [8] Liu X, Liu C, Chen X, Wu W, Lu G. Comparison between Caprini and [20] van Laar C, Kelder J, van Putte BP. The totally thoracoscopic maze proce- Padua risk assessment models for hospitalized medical patients at risk dure for the treatment of atrial fibrillation. Interact CardioVasc Thorac for venous thromboembolism: a retrospective study. Interact Surg 2017;24:102–11. CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2016;23:538–43. [21] Abdullahi YS, Athanasopoulos LV, Casula RP, Moscarelli M, Bagnall M, [9] Sebio Garcia R, Ya ´ nez Brage MI, Gime ´ nez Moolhuyzen E, Granger CL, Ashrafian H et al. Systematic review on the predictive ability of frailty as- Denehy L. Functional and postoperative outcomes after preoperative ex- sessment measures in cardiac surgery. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg ercise training in patients with lung cancer: a systematic review and 2017;24:619–24. meta-analysis. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2016;23:486–97. [22] Smith HN, Boodhwani M, Ouzounian M, Saczkowski R, Gregory AJ et al. [10] Grabert S, Lange R, Bleiziffer S. Incidence and causes of silent and symp- Classification and outcomes of extended arch repair for acute Type A tomatic stroke following surgical and transcatheter aortic valve replace- aortic dissection: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Interact ment: a comprehensive review. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2016; CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2017;24:450–9. 23:469–76. [23] Lai Y, Su J, Qiu P, Wang M, Zhou K, Tang Y et al. Systematic short-term [11] Andreas M, Wallner S, Habertheuer A, Rath C, Schauperl M, Binder T pulmonary rehabilitation before lung cancer lobectomy: a randomized et al. Conventional versus rapid-deployment aortic valve replacement: a trial. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2017;25:476–83. single-centre comparison between the Edwards Magna valve and its [24] Knipp SC, Weimar C, Schlamann M, Schweter S, Wendt D, Thielmann M rapid-deployment successor. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2016;22: et al. Early and long-term cognitive outcome after conventional cardiac 799–805. valve surgery. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2017;24:534–40. [12] Shi J, Bai ZX, Zhang BG, Ren WJ, Guo YQ. A modified Cox maze IV pro- [25] Scarci M, Caruana E, Bertolaccini L, Bedetti B, Brunelli A, Varela G et al. cedure: a simpler technique for the surgical treatment of atrial fibrilla- tion. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2016;23:856–60. Current practices in the management of malignant pleural effusions: a [13] Saito S, Tsukui H, Iwasa S, Umehara N, Tomioka H, Aomi S et al. survey among members of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Bileaflet mechanical valve replacement: an assessment of outcomes with Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2017;24:414–7. Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/icvts/article-abstract/26/6/894/5018700 by Ed 'DeepDyve' Gillespie user on 20 June 2018

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