Mediastinal Masses have always posed as a nightmare even for the skilful anaesthesiologists. The compression effects, the proximity to major vascular and airway structures, the complex surgical approaches has altogether made both the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures a high risk event. The scenario is more troublesome if the patient is an infant or child. Here the anaesthesiologists has alm...

The landmark paper by Neuman, et al, based on case reports and logic (all that was available at the time), provided a management algorithm which has persisted for nearly 3 decades with little modification. This case conference shall strive to (1) concisely review the conventional teaching on this topic, (2) summarize the evidence basis, and (3) provoke a reevaluation of those recommendations, w...

Dear Colleagues and students As Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine, I would like to dedicate my especial respect and appreciation for your kind regards and consideration to our journal. Fortunately, it is our pleasure to announce that Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine is now indexed in DOAJ and Magiran. Additionally we are expecting to index Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medi...

Purpose: The aim of the study was to observe relationship between age, body mass index (BMI), physical activity, and kyphosis angle parameters with respiratory function capacity in community-dwelling older adults determine main predictor.
 Methods: A prospective cross-sectional carried out 70 adults. Physical activity level questioned Activity Scale for Elderly (PASE). Thoracic degrees wer...

The current standard-of-care treatment for patients with limited-stage small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) is concurrent chemoradiotherapy for local and systemic control. However, standard-of-care treatment strategies have not been established for those with limited-stage SCLC who have a history of thoracic radiotherapy due to concerns with complications associated with radiation overdose. A 37-year-...

A 62-year-old woman was admitted with syncope. A magnetic resonance imaging showed a 6-cm  3-cm mass on the pulmonary valve leaflet (Fig. 1). A 90 mmHg pressure gradient was found (Fig. 2). Angiogram revealed a severely calcified, mobile mass (Fig. 2, Videos 1 and 2), which was treated surgically. On histopathology analysis, a papillary fibro-elastoma diagnosis was confirmed. Fig. 1. Shows a 6...

Chest masses present a common problem in the perinatal period. Advances in prenatal ultrasound, supplemented by fetal magnetic resonance imaging, now allow early detection and detailed characterization of many thoracic lesions in utero. As such, in asymptomatic infants, assessment with postnatal computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging can often be delayed for several months until the ...

Thoracic duct cysts may occur either in the mediastinum or in the neck. The majority of such lesions occurring in the neck consist of chylous fistulae and are secondary to surgery on the neck. Fewer than five cases have been reported in the literature of primary thoracic duct cysts occurring in the neck (1).

An 85-year-old woman presented with weight loss and a change in bowel habit over the preceding 3 months. Colonoscopy showed several benignlooking polyps in the transverse colon, which were removed with electrocautery snare. We were alarmed to find a suspicious large right paracardiac mass on her chest radiograph (Fig. 1). The possibility of colonic malignancy with lung metastasis or a lung prim...