Keywords
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A
- Abdominal organs (includes liver, spleen)
- Ablative therapy (all modalities)
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
- Adjuvant/neoadjuvant therapy
- Adult
- Allograft, homograft
- Airway, intubation
- Anastomosis (indicate tissue or structure)
- Anatomy
- Anesthesia (includes agents, pharmacology, care and research)
- Aneurysm (aortic, myocardial, other)
- Angiogenesis
- Angiography
- Animal model
- Annuloplasty (indicate location)
- Antibiotics
- Antibody/antigen
- Aorta/aortic
- Aortic arch
- Aortic dissection (includes ulcers, hematomas)
- Aortic operation
- Aortic root
- Aortic valve, repair
- Aortic valve, replacement
- Apoptosis
- Arrhythmia
- Arrhythmia surgery (includes Maze)
- Arterery/arteries
- Atherosclerosis
- Atrial fibrillation, flutter
- Artificial organs
- Atrium
- Autograft
- Autonomic nervous system
B
- Biochemistry
- Bioengineering
- Biomaterials
- Biopsy (indicate tissue)
- Blood
- Blood, coagulation/anticoagulation
- Blood conservation
- Blood constituents
- Blood substitutes
- Blood transfusion
- Brain
- Bronchial arteries
- Bronchial disease
- Bronchial tumor
- Bronchiolitis obliterans
- Bronchoscopy/bronchus
C
- Calcification
- Cancer (indicate organ or tissue)
- Cardiac (use in combination)
- Cardiac anatomy/pathologic anatomy
- Cardiac catheterization/intervention
- Cardiac function
- Cardiac tumors (includes myxoma, primary, metastases)
- Cardiomyopathy
- Cardiomyoplasty
- Cardiology
- Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB)
- CPB, anticoagulation
- CPB, cell saver
- CPB, components, configurations
- CPB, equipment (includes surface coatings)
- CPB, inflammatory response, complications
- CPB, physiology/pathophysiology
- Carotid arteries
- Cell biology/culture
- Cell signaling, receptors
- Cell transplantation
- Cerebral circulation
- Cerebral complications
- Cerebral protection
- Chemotherapy
- Chest
- Chest wall
- Chyle (includes all diseases related to chyle)
- Circulatory assistance, destination
- Circulatory assistance, temporary
- Circulatory assist devices (LVAD, RVAD, BVAD, TAH)
- Circulatory hemodynamics
- Coarctation
- Collateral blood flow
- Co-morbidity
- Complement
- Computed tomography (CAT scan)
- Computer applications (includes simulation, artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, etc.)
- Congenital heart disease (CHD)
- CHD, arterial switch
- CHD, Fontan
- CHD, great vessel anomalies
- CHD, heterotaxy
- CHD, hypoplastic left heart syndrome
- CHD, miscellaneous (includes endomyocardial fibrosis)
- CHD, Norwood
- CHD, Rastelli
- CHD, septal defects
- CHD, tetralogy of Fallot
- CHD, truncus arteriosus
- CHD, univentricular heart
- CHD, valve lesions
- Coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG)
- CABG, arterial grafts
- CABG, new technology
- CABG, pathology/pharmacology/physiology
- CABG, surgery
- CABG, venous grafts
- Coronary artery imaging (all modalities)
- Coronary artery pathology/pharmacology/physiology
- Coronary sinus
- Cost analysis
- Cysts (indicate location)
D
- Database (all types)
- Defibrillation
- Device
- Diabetes mellitus
- Diaphragm
E
- Echocardiography
- ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation)
- Education, all levels
- Electrophysiology
- Embolism
- Embryology
- Emphysema/bullae
- Empyema
- Endarterectomy
- Endocarditis
- Endoscopy/Endoscopic procedures
- Endobronchial stents
- Endothelium (includes biochemistry/pharmacology)
- Endovascular procedures/stents
- Esophagus
- Esophagus, Barrett’s
- Esophagus, benign disease (includes diverticula)
- Esophageal cancer
- Esophageal congenital anomalies
- Esophageal injury/perforation
- Esophageal motility disorders
- Esophageal surgery
- Esophagoscopy/biopsy
- Ethics
F
- Fetal surgery/studies
- Fibrin
- Fistula
- Foreign body
G
- Gastroesophageal reflux (GERD)
- Gender
- Genes/polymorphisms
- Genetics, genomics
- Gene therapy
- Geriatric (includes elderly)
- Glue, tissue
H
- Health economics
- Health provider payments
- Health policy (includes government regulation)
- Heart failure
- Heart failure operations
- Heart valve
- Heart valve, allograft
- Heart valve, autograft
- Heart valve, bioprosthesis
- Heart valve, mechanical
- Heart valve, transapical, percutaneous
- Heart valve, stentless
- Heart valves, multiple
- Hematology
- Hemothorax
- Hernias (any location)
- Hiatal hernia
- Histology (designate tissue)
- History
- Hormones (systemic, tissue or cellular)
- Hydatid disease
- Hyperhidrosis
- Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
- Hypothermia/circulatory arrest
- Hypoxia/reoxygenation
I
- Imaging (all modalities)
- Immunochemistry
- Immunology
- Infant
- Infection
- Inflammation
- Inflammatory cells (neutrophils, monocytes, macrophages)
- Inflammatory mediators (eg, cytokines, cytotoxins, metalloproteinases)
- Intensive care
- Intralesional therapy (eg, cryo, radiofrequency, brachy, ultrasonic, etc.)
- In vitro studies, models
- Ischemia (indicate organ or tissue)
- Ischemia/reperfusion
- Ischemic heart disease, angina
K
- Kidney (includes disease, failure, renal function)
L
- Larynx
- Lasers
- Learning aids (all methods, including CME, GME)
- Leukocytes (all varieties)
- Lobectomy (lung)
- Lung
- Lung, benign or congenital lesions
- Lung cancer (includes clinical trials)
- Lung cancer, biology, antigens, markers
- Lung cancer, diagnosis and staging
- Lung cancer, neuroendocrine
- Lung cancer surgery
- Lung infection
- Lung pathology
- Lung physiology
- Lung volume reduction
- Lymph nodes
M
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Mediastinum
- Mediastinal infection
- Mediastinal lymph nodes
- Mediastinal tumor (includes thymus)
- Mediastinoscopy
- Mesothelioma
- Metabolism (includes cell, organ, or body)
- Metastasectomy
- Metastasis (combine with location)
- Minimally invasive surgery
- Mitral regurgitation (includes all etiologies)
- Mitral systolic anterior motion (SAM)
- Mitral valve
- Mitral valve repair
- Mitral valve replacement
- Modeling, computer/mathematical/statistical
- Molecular biology
- Myasthenia gravis
- Myocardial infarction
- Myocardial injury
- Myocardial mechanics
- Myocardial metabolism
- Myocardial morphology
- Myocardial protection/cardioplegia
- Myocardial remodeling/re-shaping/ventriculectomy
- Myocardium
- Myxoma
N
- Neonate
- Neurocognitive deficits
- Neuroendocrine tumor
- Neurogenic tumor
- Neurology/Neurologic injury
- Nerves, cranial or peripheral
- Nitric oxide
- Nursing
- Nutrition
O
- Obesity
- Off-pump surgery
- Organ donor management
- Organ preservation
- Outcomes (includes mortality, morbidity)
P
- Pacemaker
- Pacing complications
- Pacing, resynchronization/biventricular
- Pain
- Pathology (combine with organ or tissue)
- Pathophysiology (indicate organ or system)
- Patient safety
- Pectus excavatum, carinatum
- Pediatric
- Perfusion
- Pericardium (includes everything related)
- Perioperative care
- Peripheral vascular disease (outside the chest)
- Pharmacology (combine with target disease, organ or cell)
- Phrenic nerve
- Physiology (combine with organ or system)
- Platelets
- Pleura (includes fibrosis and decortication)
- Pleural effusion
- Pleural space
- Pneumonectomy
- Pneumothorax
- Positron emission tomography (PET)
- Postinfarction cardiac complications
- Postoperative care
- Practice guidelines
- Preconditioning
- Pregnancy
- Prematurity
- Preoperative care
- Professional affairs
- Prosthesis (indicate organ or tissue)
- Proteomics
- Pulmonary arteries
- Pulmonary embolism
- Pulmonary function (includes tests)
- Pulmonary valve
- Pulmonary vascular resistance/hypertension
Q
- Quality of life
R
- Radiation therapy
- Rehabilitation
- Rejection (immunologic)
- Reoperation
- Restenosis (indicate tissue)
- Resuscitation (includes out of hospital life saving)
- Revascularization (indicate organ or tissue)
- Rheumatic
- Robotics
- Ross operation
- Rupture (specify structure)
S
- Sarcoma (indicate tissue or organ)
- Shock (circulatory)
- Shunts (indicate location)
- Smoking
- Spinal cord
- Statistics
- Statistics, Bayesian
- Statistics, clinical trial
- Statistics, meta analysis
- Statistics, propensity matching
- Statistics, regression analysis
- Statistics, risk analysis/modeling
- Statistics, survival analysis
- Stem cells
- Stents (in any location)
- Sternum
- Stroke
- Surgery/incisions
- Surgery, complications
- Surgery, emergency
- Surgical instruments, sutures, etc
- Sympathectomy
T
- Thoracic duct
- Thoracic outlet
- Thoracoplasty
- Thoracoscopy/VATS
- Thoracotomy
- Thrombosis (indicate location)
- Thymectomy
- Thymoma
- Thymus
- Tissue engineering
- Trachea
- Tracheal injury
- Tracheal stenosis
- Tracheal surgery
- Tracheal tumor
- Tracheostomy
- Transplantation, heart
- Transplantation, heart-lung
- Transplantation, lung
- Trauma
- Trauma, blunt
- Trauma, penetrating
- Tricuspid valve
- Tuberculosis
- Tumor (combine with location, eg, cardiac)
- Tumor markers
U
- Ultrasound (all applications)
V
- Vascular disease
- Vascular biochemistry/pharmacology
- Vascular tone and reactivity
- Venous disease
- Ventilation
- Ventricle, left
- Ventricle, right
W
- Wound closure
- Wound dehiscence
- Wound healing
- Wound infection
X
- Xenograft
