Here is the annual update of what was going on in the cardiac surgical departments in Germany in 2022. Lots of interesting and valuable data.

Cardiac Surgery 2022 Reviewed

Doenst et al.

This diligent literature analysis has proven to be very popular with our readers because it gives an overview over essential publications at a glance. Here is the annual update.

Surgical Treatment of Another Sequalae of COVID-19: Post-COVID CTEPH

Ermerak et al.

As if a Covid-19 infection wasn’t bad enough, more and more dangerous long-term sequelae keep emerging. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension must now be included in the differential diagnosis.

Unilateral Thoracoscopic Thymectomy for Thymoma: Does Side Matter? A Single Institutional Experience

Tamburini et al.

To answer the question asked in the title: no, it does not. Unilateral VATS thymectomy in patients with thymoma can be safely performed in either side of the thorax with equivalent oncological outcomes.