Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

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Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

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Official Journal of the Polish Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons

4/2020
vol. 17

Original paper

Long-term results after the modified Ravitch procedure performed in children and adolescents – a one-time procedure without the need to use additional support of the sternum. A retrospective study

Joachim Buchwald, Dariusz Ligarski, Tomasz Polewczyk

Kardiochir Torakochir Pol 2020; 17 (4): 173-177

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2020.102336

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Valve-related factors and incidence of prosthetic valve endocarditis

Branislav Bezak, Panagiotis Artemiou, Michal Hulman

Kardiochir Torakochir Pol 2020; 17 (4): 178-182

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2020.102341

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Original paper

Use of the six-minute walk test in exercise prescription in male patients after coronary artery bypass surgery

Dorota Dolecińska, Izabela Przywarska, Tomasz Podgórski, Piotr Dylewicz, Jacek Lewandowski

Kardiochir Torakochir Pol 2020; 17 (4): 183-188

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2020.102340

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Determination of acute changes in new ECG parameters during veno-venous ECMO support

Hakan Göçer, Ahmet Baris Durukan, Erdinç Naseri, Mustafa Ünal

Kardiochir Torakochir Pol 2020; 17 (4): 189-192

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2020.102333

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Our experience of total pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis: a comprehensive analysis over a period of 5 years

Manish Jadhao, Kuntal Surana, Vijay Shewale, Chaitanya Hemant Raut, Vaibhav Shah, Prashant Mishra, Jayant Khandekar

Kardiochir Torakochir Pol 2020; 17 (4): 193-197

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2020.102337

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Original paper

General anaesthesia or sedation for percutaneous aortic valve implantation? The questionnaire results and authors’ experience

Ewa M. Kucewicz-Czech, Leszek Machej, Kazimierz Kiermasz, Andrzej Węglarzy, Maria Damps, Damian Hudziak, Radosław Gocol, Andrzej Ochała, Radosław Parma

Kardiochir Torakochir Pol 2020; 17 (4): 198-202

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2020.102398

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Letter to the Editor

The use of open window thoracostomy in the management of post-pneumonectomy pleural empyema after gun-shot

Piotr Ostrowski, Maria J. Strandberg Eriksson, Kajetan Kiełbowski, Nikola Ruszel, Jarosław Pieróg, Janusz Wójcik, Bartosz Kubisa

Kardiochir Torakochir Pol 2020; 17 (4): 203-204

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2020.102339

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Letter to the Editor

A rare case of congenital lobar emphysema diagnosed in a 13-year-old boy

Ewa Matuszczak, Wojciech Dębek

Kardiochir Torakochir Pol 2020; 17 (4): 205-207

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2020.102331

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Letter to the Editor

Bilobar congenital lobar emphysema in a child: how to approach it?

Krishna Kumar Govindarajan

Kardiochir Torakochir Pol 2020; 17 (4): 208-209

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2020.102332

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Letter to the Editor

Robotic-assisted thoracoscopic resection of an anterior mediastinal vascular malformation

Georgios Geropoulos, Konstantinos Kapriniotis, Sofoklis Mitsos, Emily Joslin, Michael Klimatsidas, Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos

Kardiochir Torakochir Pol 2020; 17 (4): 210-211

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2020.102338

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Letter to the Editor

Esophageal foreign body removal by thoracotomy in a patient with aberrant right subclavian artery

Chi Hoon Bae, Jun Woo Cho

Kardiochir Torakochir Pol 2020; 17 (4): 212-213

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2020.102334

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In memoriam

William Imon Norwood, 1941–2020

Janusz H. Skalski

Kardiochirur Torakochir Pol 2020; 17 (4): 214-216

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2020.102638

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