Abstract Traumatic descending thoracic aorta pseudo aneurysms have been treated traditionally with open surgery in the past, which have had noticeable rates of mortality and morbidity. A safer method of treatment for this disease is made possible with recent progress in endovascular treatment techniques. In this article, we present three cases of Traumatic descending thoracic aorta pseudo aneu...

Division of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Institute, Pascale Foundation, Naples, Italy (GR); Division of Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota (MSA); Division of Thoracic Surgery, New York Presbyterian–Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York (NKA); Division of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Institute, Tokyo, Japan (HA); General Thoracic Surgery,...

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...

to review our experience in treatment of patients with thoracic empyema at a teaching hospital chart of patients were retrospectively reviewed over a 72-month period. a total of 112 patients (94 men, 18 women, mean age: 39, range: 6-89 years) underwent therapeutic procedures for thoracic empyema between 2001-2006. the causes of empyema included parapneumonic empyema (60.7%), thoracic trauma (20...

Introduction:Surgical treatment of diseases in cervicothoracic, thoracic and thoracolumbar regions can be a challenging issue. Cooperation of the thoracic surgeons and spine surgeons can improve the outcomes and decrease the complications of patients who underwent these approaches.Materials & Methods: The participants of this study consisted of seventeenpatients suffering from different types o...