Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery
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Thoracic aortic injury caused by blunt chest trauma is often fatal. Although aortography had been inevitable for thoracic surgery until recently, image of computed tomography (CT) is often superior to aortogram nowadays. We present a case of 64-yaer-old man with blunt chest trauma by traffic accident, who was successfully diagnosed and operated without invasive aortography. ⋯ There found Y-shaped tear at the distal aortic arch, and was replaced with a prosthetic graft. Operation was performed under left heart bypass using heparin-coated circuit and centrifugal pump. We would stress that the enhanced chest CT is sufficiently diagnostic in thoracic aortic trauma like the present case.
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The evaluation of cerebral perfusion during off-pump coronary bypass grafting (OPCAB) has not been clarified. The aim of this study was to investigate the predictive value of neurobiochemical markers of brain damage and cerebral perfusion with respect to the neuropsychological outcomes after OPCAB. ⋯ Intraoperative continuous cerebral oxygen desaturation monitoring seems to be useful monitor for neuropsychological outcomes after OPCAB.
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This article deals with a 7-year endeavor to reform the board certification system of surgical specialty and subspecialty, outlining of 29 meetings of the surgical subspecialty board in Japan. The surgical societies are responsible to constantly improve the quality of the surgical training programs and qualification systems so that the board certified surgeons are accepted and treated as true surgical specialists in this country.