Internet Discussion Forum

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Each month, we select an article from The Annals of Thoracic Surgery for discussion within the Surgeon’s Forum of the CTSNet Discussion Forum Section. The articles chosen rotate among the six dilemma topics covered under the Surgeon’s Forum, which include: General Thoracic Surgery, Adult Cardiac Surgery, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Cardiac Transplantation, Lung Transplantation, and Aortic and Vascular Surgery.Once the article selected for discussion is published in the online version of The Annals, we will post a notice on the CTSNet home page (http://www.ctsnet.org) with a FREE LINK to the full-text article. Readers wishing to comment can post their own commentary in the discussion forum for that article, which will be informally moderated by The Annals Internet Editor. We encourage all surgeons to participate in this interesting exchange and to avail themselves of the other valuable features of the CTSNet Discussion Forum and Web site.For November, the article chosen for discussion under the Adult Cardiac Surgery Dilemma Section of the Discussion Forum is:Prevention of Postoperative Paraplegia During Thoracoabdominal Aortic SurgeryYukio Kuniyoshi, MD, PhD, Kageharu Koja, MD, PhD, Kazufumi Miyagi, MD, Mituyoshi Shimoji, MD, Tooru Uezu, MD, Katuya Arakaki, MD, Satoshi Yamashiro, MD, PhD, Katuhito Mabuni, MD, Shigenobu Senaha, MD, and Yoshiyuki Nakasone, MD Each month, we select an article from The Annals of Thoracic Surgery for discussion within the Surgeon’s Forum of the CTSNet Discussion Forum Section. The articles chosen rotate among the six dilemma topics covered under the Surgeon’s Forum, which include: General Thoracic Surgery, Adult Cardiac Surgery, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Cardiac Transplantation, Lung Transplantation, and Aortic and Vascular Surgery. Once the article selected for discussion is published in the online version of The Annals, we will post a notice on the CTSNet home page (http://www.ctsnet.org) with a FREE LINK to the full-text article. Readers wishing to comment can post their own commentary in the discussion forum for that article, which will be informally moderated by The Annals Internet Editor. We encourage all surgeons to participate in this interesting exchange and to avail themselves of the other valuable features of the CTSNet Discussion Forum and Web site. For November, the article chosen for discussion under the Adult Cardiac Surgery Dilemma Section of the Discussion Forum is: Prevention of Postoperative Paraplegia During Thoracoabdominal Aortic Surgery Yukio Kuniyoshi, MD, PhD, Kageharu Koja, MD, PhD, Kazufumi Miyagi, MD, Mituyoshi Shimoji, MD, Tooru Uezu, MD, Katuya Arakaki, MD, Satoshi Yamashiro, MD, PhD, Katuhito Mabuni, MD, Shigenobu Senaha, MD, and Yoshiyuki Nakasone, MD