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• Annual Scientific Meeting; Sunday 9 – Wednesday 12 November 2014; Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre; Gold Coast Queensland, Australia

  • ·Australia and New Zealand Society of Cardio-thoracic Surgeons’ Annual Scientific Meeting Sunday 9 – Wednesday 12 November 2014 Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre Gold Coast Queensland Australia

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  • ·Outcomes following freestyle stentless aortic bioprosthesis implantation: The Australian experience up to 10 years

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    Andrew Sherrah, Paul Bannon, Richmond Jeremy, Rajesh Puranik, Peter Brady, David Marshman, Manu Mathur, John Brereton, James Edwards, Robert Stuklis, Paul Hendel, Matthew Bayfield, Michael Wilson, Michael Vallely

    
  • ·Trics-III prospective randomised controlled trial of a restrictive or liberal blood transfusion protocol

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    Alistair Royse, Colin Royse, David Scott, Nadine Shehata, David Mazer, TRICS-III investigators

    
  • ·Conventional total arch replacement in the endovascular era: 575 cases of single centre experience for six years

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    T. Fujikawa, S. Yamamoto, Y. Sekine, S. Oshima, S. Sasaguri

    
  • ·Lung volume reduction surgery- fruitful or foolish?

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    Matilda Anderson, Julian Gooi, Lynda Holsworth, Greg Snell, Helen Whitford, Glen Westall, David McGiffin

     
  • ·Treatment of octogenarians with lung cancer: A single centre audit of treatments and outcomes

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  • ·Sublobar resection versus lobectomy for non-small cell lung cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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    Christopher Cao, David Tian, Zakir Akhunji, Tristan D. Yan

    
  • ·Prospective angiographic data in asymptomatic patients with all three internal mammary, radial artery and saphenous vein grafts more than 10 years postoperative

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    Jitendra Jain, David Eccleston, Andrew Ajani, Colin Royse, Alistair Royse

    
  • ·Low serum albumin as a predictor of poor outcome in pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusion

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    Alexis Ford, Scott Jennings, John Tharion

    
  • ·Twenty-five years of arterial switch operations - A metaanalysis

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    Charles Jenkinson, Kelly Holmes, David Andrews

    
  • ·Early outcomes following pulmonary valve replacement with the medtronic freestyle stentless porcine root bioprosthesis

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    N.M. Keenan, M. Larobina, P. Skillington

    
  • ·Management of empyema with intrapleural dnase-b/tpa compared to surgical decortication in high risk and non surgical candidates

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    Charles Jenkinson, Ashleigh Punch, Ian Gilfillan, Deepak Mehrotra, Sanjay Sharma

    
  • ·Outcomes following repair of left partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection in children

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    Phillip S. Naimo, Tyson A. Fricke, Yves d’Udekem, Christian P. Brizard, Igor E. Konstantinov

     
  • ·Videoscopic hilar lymph node dissection: a new application of vat surgery used in two cases of malignant melanoma metastases to pulmonary hilar lymph nodes

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    Lucas H.A. Sanders, Brooke Murphy, Louis Okiwelu, Mitchell Gooch

    
  • ·Outcomes of surgery for anomalous origin of left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery

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    Tyson A. Fricke, Phillip S. Naimo, Andrew D. Cochrane, Christian P. Brizard, Igor E. Konstantinov

    
  • ·Redefining expectations of long-term survival after the Fontan procedure: 25 years of follow-up from the entire population of Australia and New Zealand

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    Ajay J. Iyengar, David S. Winlaw, Leeanne E. Grigg, David S. Celermajer, Yves d’Udekem

     
  • ·Functional outcomes ten years after lung volume reduction surgery

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    Andrew P. Maurice, Samuel Chan, Graham M. Pasternak, Marissa G. Daniels, Helen E. Seale, Kevin S. Matar, Robert K.W. Tam, Morgan N. Windsor, Peter M. Hopkins

    
  • ·The New Zealand Norwood procedure experience: 22-year cumulative review

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    Timothy Oh, John Artrip, Luciana Marcondes, Cliodhna Minogue, Kirsten Finucane, Thomas Gentles

    
  • ·New-onset atrial fibrillation following coronary bypass surgery predicts long-term mortality

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    Kevin Phan, Hakeem Ha, Stuart Thomas, Caroline Medi, Tristan D. Yan

    
  • ·Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for very high-risk transcatheter aortic valve implantation

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    Michael Seco, Paul Forrest, Simon A. Jackson, Gonzalo Martinez, Sarah Andvik, Paul G. Bannon, Martin Ng, John Fraser, Michael K. Wilson, Michael P. Vallely

    
  • ·Crossing the thresholds: Challenges in the commencement of consultant cardiothoracic surgical practice

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    Julian A. Smith, Simon Blackburn, Debra Nestel

    
  • ·The functional sizer: A new method for sizing mitral and tricuspid annuloplasty prostheses

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    Levi Bassin, Eva Bassin, Manu Mathur, David Marshman, John L. Brereton

     
  • ·Long term outcomes of an Australian TAVI program – better than PARTNER?

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    G. Crouch, A. Sinhal, G. Rice, R. Baker, J. Bennetts

    
  • ·Early and late outcomes following valve sparing aortic root reconstruction: The ANZSCTS database

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    Vikrant Dhurandhar, Roneil Parikh, Michael P. Vallely, Michael K. Wilson, Deborah Ann Black, Lavinia Tran, Christopher Reid, Paul G. Bannon

    
  • ·Prognostic implication of aortic regurgitation post transcatheter aortic valve implantation: A single centre experience

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    Adam El Gamel, Vijaya Pera, Rajesh Nair, Greg Gamble, Nand Kejriwal, Gerry Devlin, Sanjeevan Pasaputi

    
  • ·Comparison of new brain infarction associated with isolated aortic valve surgeries

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    Jonathon P. Fanning, Andrew J. Clarke, David G. Platts, Cliona O'Sullivan, Darren L. Walters, John F. Fraser

    
  • ·Christchurch experience with sutureless aortic valve replacement, midterm results

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    Alsir Ahmed, Graham McCrystal, Ma Fi, David Shaw, Harsh Singh

    
  • ·Transit-time flow measurement verifies patency of coronary artery grafts: An observational study

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    Mohammad R. Azari, Ajay Hirikannawar, Hugh Wolfenden, Bruce French, Manish Jain, Rebecca Dignan

    
  • ·Sternal micromotion following cardiac surgery via a median sternotomy: A 3-month prospective, observational study

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    Sulakshana Balachandran, Linda Denehy, Annemarie Lee, Alistair Royse, Doa El-Ansary

    
  • ·Aortic valve replacement in the elderly: Operative and long-term results

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    Louisa Zhang, Levi Bassin, Greg Cranney, Antony Lau, Zakir Akhunji, Hugh Wolfenden, Peter Grant

    
  • ·Long-term follow-up of off-pump total arterial revascularisation without aortic manipulation has not been published

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  • ·Aortic valve replacement after previous cardiac surgery

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    Louisa Zhang, Levi Bassin, Greg Cranney, Antony Lau, Zakir Akhunji, Hugh Wolfenden, Peter Grant

    
  • ·Mitral valve repair or bioprosthetic replacement: The conundrum in Indigenous rheumatic mitral disease

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    G. Crouch, A. Main, G. Rice, R. Baker, J. Bennetts

    
  • ·Percutaneous mitral valve repair in a high-risk Australian series

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    J.J. Edelman, P. Dias, E. Yamen, J. Passage

    
  • ·Percutaneous balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) as a bridge to surgical aortic valve (SAVR) replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis presenting with congestive heart failure

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    A. El-Gamel, N. Kejriwal, Rajesh Nair, S. Pasupati

    
  • ·Isolated tricuspid valve repair for severe tricuspid regurgitation: A patient tailored approach

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    Laura S. Fong, Richard B. Chard

    
  • ·Cardiac dysfunction is due to mitochondrial dysfunction; The role of mesenteric lymph in critical illness

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    S.T. Shanbhag, J.A. Windsor, A.J. Phillips, A. Hickey

    
  • ·Tricuspid valve replacement: 25-year-experience at the Royal Adelaide Hospital

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    S. Thakur, F.F. Viana, R.G. Stuklis, M.G. Worthington, J.R.M. Edwards

    
  • ·Operative risks and mid-term outcomes following offpump coronary artery bypass grafting at Christchurch Hospital

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    Siew S.C. Goh, A. Kho, G. Couch, D. Shaw, G. McCrystal, H. Singh

    
  • ·Radio frequency Cox Maze procedure: A retrospective analysis of the initial 50 consecutive cases at a single institution

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    Claire Pascoe, Jane Hallam, Jane Mack, Karen Duve, Andrew Newcomb, Philip Davis, Michael Yii

    
  • ·Right ventricular failure after implantation of continuous flow left ventricular assist device (lVAD): Validation of published risk models

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    Casey Lo, Deirdre Murphy, Michael Bailey, Silvana Marasco

    
  • ·Factors affecting neurological morbidity and early mortality in aortic surgery performed under circulatory arrest in Penang Hospital, Malaysia

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    M.N. Devkumar, M.K. Hamzah, A.K. Basheer, S. Ahmadi, L. Harold

    
  • ·Bilateral selective antegrade cerebral perfusion for aortic arch surgery: Safe and reproducible for low volume aortic surgeons – A single centre experience

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    Primero Ng, Louis Okiwelu, Tim Law, Balamurali Srinivasan Lucas Sanders, Jurgen Passage, Pragnesh Joshi

    
  • ·Surgical treatment of aortic prosthetic valve endocarditis: a twenty-year single centre experience

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    Sossio Perrotta, Anders Jeppsson, Gunnar Svensson

    
  • ·Bilateral internal mammary artery T-grafts: Long-term survival and results of serial angiography

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    Benjamin M. Robinson, Hugh S. Paterson, Deborah Black, Rishen Naidoo, A. Robert Denniss

    
  • ·How much of the stellate ganglion should be sacrificed in left cardiac sympathetic denervation for Long QT and other arrhythmogenic syndromes?

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    Krish Chaudhuri, Kathryn Waddell-Smith, Jon Skinner, James Hamill, Parma Nand, David Haydock

    
  • ·Towards the perfect anastomosis - quantitative assessment of simulated anastomoses

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    D.I Verrelli, J. Wood, K. Karunanthi, C. Savage, Y. Qian, M.K. Wilson

     
  • ·Replacement of the aortic root with a composite valve-graft conduit: risk factor analysis in 246 consecutive patients

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    Kei Woldendorp, Eric Starra, Michael Seco, P. Nicholas Hendel, Richmond W. Jeremy, Michael K. Wilson, Michael P. Vallely, Paul G. Bannon

    
  • ·Adherence to data definitions in the ANZSCTS Database: Differences in New Renal Failure Reporting

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    Lavinia Tran, Gil Shardey, Dhenisha Dahya, Nicole Carson, Julian Smith, Christopher Reid

     
  • ·Transapical off-pump implantation of artificial chordae: first choice option to treat degenerative mitral valve regurgitation

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    Andrea Colli, Erica Manzan, Fabio Zucchetta, Demetrio Pittarello, Gino Gerosa

    
  • ·Transcatheter approach for prosthetic valve dysfunction – focus on mitral valve pathology in a large volume TAVI centre

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    Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann, David Holzhey, Friedrich-Wilhelm Mohr

    
  • ·Predictors of mortality and stroke in patients undergoing aortic valve replacement using EuroSCORE II

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    Roneil N. Parikh, Vikrant Dhurandhar, Lionel C.K. Chan, Michael P. Vallely, Michael K. Wilson, Michael J. Byrom, Paul G. Bannon

    
  • ·Outcomes of repair of supravalvular aortic stenosis in children

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    Tyson A. Fricke, Phillip S. Naimo, Yves d’Udekem, Christian P. Brizard, Igor E. Konstantinov

    
  • ·Diagnostic utility of electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy: A pilot study

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    S. Ip, S. Barnett, J. Gooi, S. Seevanayagam, S. Knight

    
  • ·Moving from a culture of ‘tranfusion practice’ to one of’ patient blood management’ improves patient outcomes, reduces transfusion of allogeneic blood products and cost

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    Bronwyn L. Pearse, Douglas Wall, Ian Smith, Daniel Faulke, Yoke Lin Fung

    
  • ·National Heart Institute of Egypt program for thoracoscopic minimally invasive mitral and tricuspid valve surgery

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    Tamer El Banna, Mohammed Osama, Samar Samir

    
  • ·Ruptured post infarction left ventricular pseudo aneurysm

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    Claudia Villanueva, David Milder, Con Manganas

     
  • ·Massive tension pyothorax

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    Claudia Villanueva, David Milder, Sheen Peeceeyen

     
  • ·Acute total left atrial thrombosis after mitral bioprosthesis replacement during ECMO support

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    Pei-Fen Lin, Kuan-Ming Chiu, Jih-Hsin Huang, Jer-Shen Chen, Shu-Hsun Chu

    
  • ·Case report – minimally invasive tracheal resection – cervical approach plus video assisted thoracoscopic surgery

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    Sarah J. Lonie, Stephanie Ch’ng, Naveed Z. Alam, Gavin M. Wright

     
  • ·Dual side-graft cannulation of the axillary artery and femoral artery for cardiopulmonary bypass in acute type a dissection involving aortic arch

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    Adam EL-Gamel, Thodur Vasudevan, Grant Parkinson, Zaw Lin, Jon VanDenBerg

    
  • ·The impact of fluid balance on the detection, classification and outcome of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery

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    Elizabeth Moore, Antony Tobin, David Reid, John Santamaria, Eldho Paul, Rinaldo Bellomo

    
  • ·Surgical management of mitral valve infective endocarditis with annular abscess and calcification in the setting of a leaking mycotic intrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm: A case report

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    Jordan D.W. Ross, Masashi Ura, Allan Kruger, Jeremy Wright

    
  • ·Evidence of myocardial regeneration after endoventricular circular patch plasty with CorMatrix ECM

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    Frank N. Slachman

    
  • ·Fatal cerebral air embolism following central venous catheter removal

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    Claudia Villanueva, Con Manganas

    
  • ·Obstructive tracheal cylindroma resection using temporary local anaesthetic-instituted peripheral cardiopulmonary bypass

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    Claudia Villanueva, David Milder, Con Manganas

    
  • ·Early mentoring of medical students and junior doctors on a path to academic cardiothoracic surgery

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    Tyson A. Fricke, Yves d’Udekem, Christian P. Brizard, Igor E. Konstantinov

    
  • ·Neurological injury and protection in adult cardiac and aortic surgery

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    Michael Seco, J. James B. Edelman, Benjamin Van Boxtel, Paul Forrest, Michael J. Byrom, Michael K. Wilson, John Fraser, Paul G. Bannon, Michael P. Vallely

    
  • ·Combined total-arterial off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting and transaortic transcatheter aortic valve implantation

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    Michael Seco, Gonzalo Martinez, J. James B. Edelman, H.K. Bernard Ng, Michael P. Vallely, Michael K. Wilson, Martin K. Ng

    
  • ·Systematic review of robotic mitral valve surgery

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    Michael Seco, Christopher Cao, Paul Modi, Paul G. Bannon, Michael K. Wilson, Michael P. Vallely, Martin Misfeld, Friedrich Mohr, Tristan D. Yan

    
  • ·Near-infrared spectroscopy in adult cardiac surgery: An ongoing debate

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    Priscilla Bevan

    
  • ·Resection of a rare left ventricular lipoma utilising a video-assisted approach

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    L.S. Fong, G. Meredith, F. Ramponi, I. Nicholson

    
  • ·Large unruptured left sinus of valsalva aneurysm: A rare incidental finding

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    L.S. Fong, F. Ramponi, G. Meredith, R.J. Costa

    
  • ·Talc sclerosant for groin seroma after peripheral cannulation

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    Lachlan Marshall, Lucy Marney, Sumit Yadav

    
  • ·MRI in chronic aortic dissection: A systematic review and future directions

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    Andrew Sherrah, Stuart Grieve, Richmond Jeremy, Paul Bannon, Michael Vallely, Rajesh Puranik

    
  • ·Comparing energy sources for surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: A Bayesian analysis of randomised controlled trials

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    Kevin Phan, Ashleigh Xie, Yi-Chin Tsai, Sophia Wong, Caroline Medi, Mark La Meir, Tristan D. Yan

    
  • ·Sutureless aortic valve replacement: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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    Kevin Phan, Yi-Chin Tsai, Marco Di Eusanio, Tristan D. Yan

    
  • ·Ministernotomy or minithoracotomy for minimally invasive aortic valve replacement? A Bayesian network meta-analysis

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    Kevin Phan, Ashleigh Xie, Yi-Chin Tsai, Deborah Black, Marco Di Eusanio, Tristan D. Yan

    
  • ·Minimally invasive reoperative aortic valve replacement – A systematic review and meta-analysis

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    Kevin Phan, Jessie J. Zhou, Nithiya Niranjan, Yi-Chin Tsai, Marco Di Eusanio, Tristan D. Yan

    
  • ·Biatrial ablation versus left atrial concomintant surgical ablation for treatment of atrial fibrillation: A meta-analysis

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    Kevin Phan, Ashleigh Xie, Yi-Chin Tsai, Narendra Kumar, Mark La Meir, Tristan D. Yan

    
  • ·Nebivolol compared with metoprolol for erectile function in males undergoing coronary artery bypass graft

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    Mustafa Aldemirr

    
  • ·Single utility port or single port complete video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for pulmonary lobectomy

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    Qeng Qing, Fan Tao

    
  • ·Intra-cardiac extension of intravenous leiomyomatosis: A 2-stage resection

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    Mathew Doyle, Claudia Villanueva, Janet Berry, Michael Cooper, Sheen Peeceeyen

     
  • ·Preoperative central ecmo support prior to the arterial switch operation. Early outcomes

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    Jayapadman Bhaskar

    
  • ·Anomalous anterior mitral leaflet chordae – rare cause of mitral valve insufficiency

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    Claudia Villanueva, Matthew Doyle, Sheen Peeceeyen

    
  • ·Association between post-sternotomy tracheostomy and deep sternal wound infection

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    Yi-Chin Tsai, Kevin Phan, Andrie Stroebel, Livia Williams, Lisa Nicotra, Lesley Drake, Elizabeth Ryan, James McGree, Peter Tesar, Kiran Shekar

    
  • ·Robotic-assisted hybrid coronary revascularisation. A systematic review

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    Yi-Chin Tsai, Kevin Phan, Jessie J. Zhou, Steven Phan, Tristan D. Yan

    
  • ·Peripheral cannulation for cardiopulmonary bypass in resection of renal cell carcinomas with level 3 tumour thrombus

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    Robert B. Xu, Sameer Thakur, Kim Pese, James Edwards

    
  • ·Redo ‘beating heart’ minimally invasive mitral valve surgery – An Australian experience

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    Robert B. Xu, Justin Chan, Robert Stuklis, James Edwards

    
  • ·Pyopneumothorax secondary to misplaced stoma care swab in patient with speaking prosthesis

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    Robert B. Xu, Mart Nadal, Kate E. Drummond, Michael Worthington, Craig Jurisevic

    
  • ·Intrapericardial bronchogenic duplication cyst

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    Lawrence Nair, Yasangi Ranawaka, Rishendran Naidoo

    
  • ·Some patients truly are cold and dead. ECMO for hypothermic cardiac arrest

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    Ben Dunne, Mark Edwards, Robert Larbalestier, Christopher Merry

    
  • ·Sutureless aortic valve replacement

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    J. Lay, A. Cheng, C. Yap, B. Zhang

    
  • ·Early haemodynamic performance of the third generation St Jude Trifecta aortic prosthesis

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    Yi-Chin Tsai, Kevin Phan, Hakeem Ha, Marco Di Eusanio

    
  • ·Low serum albumin as a predictor of poor outcome in pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusion

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    Alexis Ford, Scott Jennings, John Tharion

    
  • ·Traditional de airing with dry CO2 flooding versus humidiified warm CO2 with no touch technique

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    Adam El-Gamel

    
  • ·Management of valvular heart disease: Does assessment of pulmonary hypertension reversibility help?

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    Kashif B. Khokhar, Gerard Devlin, Vijay Pera, Adam El-Gamel, Raewyn Fisher, Pranesh Jogia

    
  • ·Physiotherapy exercise prescription and precautions following cardiac surgery involving a median sternotomy: A web survey

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    Sulakshana Balachandran, Annemarie Lee, Alistair Royse, Linda Denehy, Doa El-Ansary

    
  • ·Construction of a cell model for dynamically detecting process of autophagy in alveolar macrophages

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    Qing Geng, Tao Fan

    
  • ·Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in post-cardiotomy cardiogenic shock (PCCS) in adults: a systematic review

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    Alireza Kashani, Con Manganas

    
  • ·A simple sternal closure technique to reduce the incidence of sternal complications in high risk patients

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    Sean D. Galvin, Adam El Gamel

    
  • ·Surgery for anomalous left main coronary artery from right coronary sinus in the asymptomatic adult

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    Mathew Doyle, Claudia Villanueva, Sheen Peeceeyen, Matthew Horton

     
  • ·CLIP (cryopreserved vs. liquid platelets for surgical bleeding): Protocol for a randomised controlled trial

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    Alistair Royse, Michael C. Reade, Lacey Johnson, Denese C. Marks, CLIP investigators

    
  • ·Ten-year follow up after prospectively randomised evaluation of stentless aortic valve versus stented aortic valve replacement

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    A. El-Gamel

    
  • ·Short- and medium-term outcomes of the frozen elephant trunk technique in aortic arch surgery: A systematic review

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    David H. Tian, Benjamin Wan, Marco Di Eusanio, Deborah Black, Tristan D. Yan

     
  • ·Open surgical repair for chronic type B aortic dissection: A systematic review

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    David H. Tian, Ramesh P. De Silva, Tom Wang, Tristan D. Yan

     
  • ·Pseudoxanthoma elasticum: CABG and bioprosthetic MVR complicated by early structural degeneration

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    Lucy Marney, Lachlan Marshall, Sumit Yadav

    
  • ·Impact of routine repeated transthoracic echocardiography and lung ultrasound monitoring after cardiac surgery (ITRACS) – a prospective observational study in 91 patients

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    Ahmed Alsaddique, David Canty, Mohammed Fouda, Colin Royse, Alistair Royse

    
  • ·Collaboration between cardiothoracic and trauma units: Reducing chest drain complication rates

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    Matilda Anderson, Mark Fitzgerald, Kate Martin, Mark Santamaria, Sean Arendse, Gerard O’Reilly, De Villiers Smit, Ulrich Orda, Silvana Marasco

     
  • ·Physical activity after cardiac surgery: The first five days

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    S.F. Mungovan, P. Singh, A.D. Hirschhorn, G.C. Gass, R. Chard

    
  • ·Mediastinal mass in a patient with Pemphigus Foliaceus

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    Ashleigh Xie, Wendy Cooper, Tristan D. Yan

    
  • ·Cardiac dysfunction in critical illness: The role of gut derived mesenteric lymph

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    S.T. Shanbhag, J.A. Windsor, A.J. Phillips

    
  • ·Bleeding, hypothermia, acidosis and the normal ROTEM®

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    Scott Jennings, Robert G. Stuklis, Michael Worthington, Justin Chan

    
  • ·Management and timing of aortic replacement for aneurysmal disease in a 25 year-old female with active Takayasu's Arteritis

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    T. Law, L. Okiwelu, A. McLean-Tooke, P. Joshi

    
  • ·Unusual presentation of small cell lung cancer as a pulmonary tumour diagnosed after VATS pneumonectomy

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    T. Law, L. Okiwelu, N.M. Ardakani, G. Hankey, R. Thomas, P. Joshi

    
  • ·The current status of lone left atrial appendage management: Is there hope for the cardiothoracic surgical involvement?

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    Lucas H.A. Sanders

    
  • ·Videoscopic lobectomy and dual antiplatelet therapy

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    Lucas H.A. Sanders, Ruben Rajan, Madeline McCreanor, Pragnesh Joshi, Christopher Guenoff

    
  • ·No benefit of warfarin over aspirin after the extracardiac Fontan in a propensity score analysis of 478 patients

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    Ajay J. Iyengar, David S. Winlaw, Leeanne E. Grigg, David S. Celermajer, Yves d’Udekem

    
  • ·Pulmonary valve papillary fibroelastoma: A case report and review of the literature of a rare cardiac tumour

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    S. Thakur, F.F. Viana

    
  • ·Reverse Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy after pulmonary resection

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    Claudia Villanueva, Chimezie Uchime, Rishendran Naidoo

    
  • ·Measuring frailty in elderly cardiac surgery patients: A pilot study

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    S. Fitzgerald, C.H. Yap, B. Zhang, L. Denehy, D. El-Ansary, R. Wynne

    
  • ·Results of a small centre arterial switch program - the perth experience

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    Charles Jenkinson, Kelly Holmes, David Andrews

    
  • ·Systematic review of percutaneous coronary intervention and transcatheter aortic valve implantation for concomitant aortic stenosis and coronary artery disease

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    Christopher Cao, Sohaib Virk, David Tian, Zakir Akhunji, Tristan D. Yan

    
  • ·Surgical management of malignant pleural mesothelioma

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    Christopher Cao, Paul Bannon, Brian McCaughan, Zakir Akhunji, Tristan D. Yan

    
  • ·A meta-analysis of robotic versus conventional mitral valve surgery

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    Christopher Cao, Sunil Gupta, David Chandrakumar, Praveen Indraratna, Tristan D. Yan

    
  • ·A brief history of cardiac surgery: A pictorial overview

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    Charles Jenkinson, Kelly Holmes, David Andrews

    
  • ·Tumour biomarkers & mutations in patients with squamous cell type non-small cell lung cancer

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    Robert Cerfolio, Bilal Zahoor, Benjamin Wei, Douglas Minnich

     
  • ·Penetrating cardiac injury as the result of pre-hospital needle decompression

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    B.A. Zahoor, T.M. Scalea, M.R. Noorbakhsh, B.R. Bruns

     
  • ·Type A dissection: Can we predict mortality?

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    Felicity Meikle, Barry Mahon

    
  • ·Accuracy of clinical examination and chest X-ray compared to lung ultrasound in postoperative cardiac surgery patients

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    Amalan Thuraisingam, Christopher Ku, Colin Royse, Alistair Royse

    
  • ·Mediastinal abscess following acupuncture: Case report and review of literature

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    J.M. Nadal, J. Varzaly, S. Jennings, A. Vadivelu, J. Chan, R. Xu, S. Thakur, A. Yoshimoto, F.F. Viana

    
  • ·Unique aortic root remodelling amongst Australian / New Zealand elite rugby players

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    David Marshman, Sharon Kay

    
  • ·Improved outcome for left main coronary surgery over stenting in meta-analysis of randomised trials

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    Maurizio Stefani, Jenny Han, Rebecca Dignan

    
  • ·Systematic review and meta-analysis of direct aortic versus trans-apical tavi

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