TUESDAY MORNING, January 26, 1999

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6:45 a.m.-8:00 a.m.
SYMPOSIUM:
PUBLIC AFFAIRS UPDATE
Must preregister - no charge.

7:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m.
BREAKFAST SESSIONS
No advance registration. Attendance by ticket only and limited to 40 per seminar. Tickets can be purchased at registration desk beginning Saturday, January 23, at 1:30 p.m. Price of ticket covers attendance at seminar and continental breakfast. These sessions run concurrently.

Clinical Workshops

8:15 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Moderated Poster Session A: General Thoracic

8:15 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Moderated Poster Session B: Adult and Congenital Cardiac Potpourri

8:15 a.m.-12:00 Noon
SCIENTIFIC SESSION
Moderators: Richard P. Anderson, Seattle, WA
Peter C. Pairolero, Rochester, MN

23. Multicenter Review of Preoperative Risk Factors for Stroke After CABG
Ranjit John, Asim F. Choudhri, Alan D. Weinberg, Windsor Ting, Eric A. Rose, Craig R. Smith, and Mehmet C. Oz, New York, NY

24. Reoperative Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy
Surindra Mitruka, David Kapelanski, Makoto Mo, William Auger, Peter Fedullo, Richard Channick, Kim Kerr, and Stuart Jamieson, San Diego, CA

25. Ministernotomy Versus Median Sternotomy for Aortic Valve Replacement: A Prospective, Randomized Study
Alejandro Aris, Maria L. Cámara, José Montiel, Luis J. Delgado, Josefina Galán, and Héctor Litvan, Barcelona, Spain

26. The Cox-Maze III Procedure for Atrial Filbrillation Associated With Rheumatic Mitral Valve Disease
Ki-Bong Kim, Jae-Hak Huh, Dae Won Sohn, and Hyuk Ahn, Seoul Korea

10:15 a.m.- 12:00 Noon
SCIENTIFIC SESSION

27. Normalization of Left Ventricular Dimensions Following Ross Operation With Concomitant Aortic Annular Reduction
Kazuo Niwaya, Ronald C. Elkins, Christopher J. Knott-Craig, KathyLee Santangelo and Mary M. Lane, Oklahoma City, OK

28. Anterior Leaflet Repair of the Mitral Valve: Chordal Replacement Versus Chordal Shortening
Michael R. Phillips, Richard C. Daly, Thomas A. Orszulak, Joseph A. Dearani, Charles J. Mullany, and Hartzell V. Schaff, Rochester, MN

11:15 a.m.-12:00 Noon
THE RALPH ALLEY LECTURE
Medical Leadership and the Future of Health Care
Miles F. Shore, Boston, MA
Funded by an educational grant from the Cardiothoracic Research and Education Foundation of Spartanburg, SC

TUESDAY AFTERNOON, January 26, 1999

1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
PARALLEL SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS
SESSION I: CARDIAC SURGERY I AND CARDIAC SURGERY II

1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
SESSION I: CARDIAC SURGERY I
Moderators: Robert A. Guyton, Atlanta, GA and
George C.Kaiser, St. Louis, MO

29. Is Distal Anastomomosis Only to the True Lumen in Chronic Type B Aortic Dissection Justified?
Yutaka Okita, Motomi Ando, Kenji Minatoya, Soichiro Kitamura, Nobuyuki Nakajima and Shinichi Takamoto, Osaka, Japan

30. Up-Regulation of VEGF mRNA and Angiogenesis After Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization
Keith A. Horvath, Elaine Chiu, John W. Lomasney, Rodney Greene, William H. Pearce, and David A. Fullerton, Chicago, IL

31. The Effect of Public Reporting of Surgical Mortality on the Practice of Cardiothoracic Surgery: A Survey of Surgeon's Attitudes in New York State
Joshua H. Burack, Paul Impellizzeri, Peter Homel, and Joseph N. Cunningham Jr., Brooklyn, NY

32. Brain SPECT Imaging Predicts Neuropsychological Test Decline After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
R. Alan Hall, David Fordyce, Marie Lee, Richard P. Anderson, William Campbell and Richard Lee, Seattle, WA

33. Delta Opioid Receptors and Low Temperature Myocardial Protection
Anthony Georges, Charles F. Schwartz, Marsha Gallagher, Ken S. Kilgore and Steven F. Bolling, Ann Arbor, MI

3:30 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
SESSION I (cont'd): CARDIAC SURGERY II
Moderators: Hartzell V. Schaff, Rochester, MN, and Marko I. Turina, Zurich, Switzerland

34. Postoperative Oral Amiodarone Reduces the Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Bypass, a Preliminary Report
Kushagra Katariya, Eddie deMarchena, and Hooshang Bolooki, Miami, FL

35. Is Anterior Leaflet Repair Necessary in Repair of Bileaflet Mitral Valve Prolapse?
A. Marc Gillinov, Delos M. Cosgrove, Sudhir Wahi, William J. Stewart, Bruce W. Lytle, Nicholas G. Smedira, Patrick M. McCarthy, Per N. Wierup, Joseph A. Sabik and Eugene H. Blackstone, Cleveland, OH

36. The NF k B Inhibitory Peptide, I k B a , Prevents Human Vascular Smooth Muscle Proliferation
Craig H. Selzman, Brian D. Shames, Anirban Banerjee and Alden H. Harken, Denver, CO

37.Initial Experience With the Radial Incision Approach for Atrial Fibrillation
Takashi Nitta, Shunichiro Sakamoto, Yasuo Miyagi, Hidetsugu Ogasawara, Yosuke Ishii, Kenichi Yamada, Shigeto Kanno and Shigeo Tanaka, Tokyo, Japan

1:30p.m.-5:00 p.m.
SESSION II: ACQUIRED AND CONGENITAL CARDIAC, AND CONGENITAL CARDIAC

1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
SESSION II: ACQUIRED AND CONGENITAL CARDIAC
Moderators: Jaroslav Stark, London, United Kingdom, and Mark W. Turrentine, Indianapolis, IN

38. Direct Intramyocardial Gene Therapy With phVEGF165 for Inoperable Coronary Artery Disease: Preliminary Clinical Results
James F. Symes, Douglas W. Losordo, Peter Vale, Kishor Lathi, Cheryl Dunnington, Orit Manor and Jeffrey M. Isner, Boston, MA

39. Left Ventricular Assist Device Bridge-to-Transplantation Network Improves Survival After Failed Cardiotomy
Mehmet C. Oz, Joseph J. DeRose, Jonathan M. Chen, David N. Helman, Niloo M. Edwards, Margaret A. Flannery, Katharine A. Catanese, and Eric A. Rose, New York, NY

40. Primary Total Correction of Transposition of the Great Arteries With Ventricular Septal Defect and Aortic Arch Obstruction
Michael J. Tolan, Joseph V deGiovanni, Eric O. Silove, Oliver Stumper, John D. Wright, William J. Brawn, and Babulal Sethia, Birmingham, United Kingdom

41. Evolution of the Fontan Procedure in a Single Center
Ko Bando, Mark W. Turrentine, Hyung Joo Park, Thomas G. Sharp, Vincent Scavo and John W. Brown, Indianapolis, IN

42. Importance of Acquired Systemic-to-Pulmonary Collaterals in the Fontan Operation
Kirk R. Kanter, Robert N. Vincent, and Anthony A. Raviele, Atlanta, GA

43. Staged Surgical Approach to Neonates With Aortic Obstruction and Single Ventricle Physiology
Jonah Odim, James Yun, Barbara George, and Hillel Laks, Los Angeles, CA

44. Long-Term Results of Surgical Valvuloplasty for Congenital Valvar Aortic Stenosis in Children
Claude Chartrand, Enrique Saro-Servando, and J. Suzanne Vobecky, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
SESSION II (cont'd.): CONGENITAL CARDIAC
Moderators: Benson R. Wilcox, Chapel Hill, NC and Glen Van Arsdel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

45. Significant Intraoperative Right Ventricular Outflow Gradients After Repair for Tetralogy of Fallot - To Revise or Not to Revise Is the Question?
S. K Kaushal, K. S. Dagar, S. Radhakrishnan, S. Girotra, P.U. Iyer, S. Shrivastava, and K.S. Iyer, New Delhi, India

46. Surgical Treatment of Aortic Arch Hypoplasia in Children With Biventricular Hearts
Nancy C. Poirier, Glen S. Van Arsdell, John G. Coles, Michael D. Black, and William G. Williams, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

47. Pediatric Coronary Artery Bypass for Kawasaki's Disease, Congenital Lesions, Post-Arterial Switch, and Other Latrogenic Obstructions
Constantine Mavroudis, Carl L. Backer, C. Elise Duffy, David Wax, and Elfriede S. Pahl, Chicago, IL

48. Pulsatile Versus Non-Pulsatile Cardiopulmonary Bypass With Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest and Regional Organ Blood Flow in a Neonatal Piglet Model
Akif Undar, Takafumi Masai, Rex Inman, Shuang Qiang, Maryann Mueller, Mary C. McGarry, Janette Goddard-Finegold, O.H. Frazier, and Charles D. Fraser Jr., Houston, TX

49. Perventricular Closure of Ventricular Septal Defects Without Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Zahid Amin, James M. Berry, Xiaoping Gu, Samuel S. Gidding, and Albert P. Rocchini, Minneapolis MN

50. Infant Cardiopulmonary Bypass: A Pro-coagulant State
James Jaggers, Peter K. Smith, Meg Neal, Ross M. Ungerleider, and Jeffrey H. Lawson, Durham, NC

1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
SESSION III: GENERAL THORACIC AND THORACIC RESEARCH

1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
SESSION III: GENERAL THORACIC
Moderators: Nasser K. Altorki, New York, NY, and Rodney J. Landreneau, Pittsburgh, PA

51. A New Telemetric System for Daily Pulmonary Function Surveillance of Lung Transplant Recipients
Florian M. Wagner, Steffen Schiemanck, Sems M. Tugtekin, Jai-Wun Park, and Stephan Schueler, Dresden, Germany

52. Long-Term Survival Following Thoracoscopic Lung Volume Reduction: A Multi-Institutional Review
Keith S. Naunheim, Larry R. Kaiser, Joseph E. Bavaria, Stephen R. Hazelrigg, Mitchell Magee, Rodney J. Landreneau, Joan Osterloh, and Cesar A. Keller, St. Louis, MO, Philadelphia, PA, Springfield, IL and Pittsburgh, PA

53. Preoperative Chemotherapy and Concurrent Chemo-Radiotherapy With Hyperfractionated Accelerated Radiation Followed by Surgery in Selected Subgroups of NSCLC Stage IIIB - Results of an Extended Phase II Trial
Georgios Stamatis, Wilfried Eberhardt, Christian Pottgen, Oliver Dahler, and Mark Rolland Muller, Essen, Germany

54. Effect of Ischemic Time on Survival in Clinical Lung Transplantation
James S. Gammie, David R. Stukus, Si M. Pham, Brack G. Hattler, Michael F. McGrath, Kenneth R. McCurry, Bartley P. Griffith, and Robert J. Keenan, Pittsburgh, PA

55. P53 Gene Expression Before and After Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation Therapy in Patients With Esophageal Cancer
Mark J. Krasna, You-Sheng Mao, Joshua Sonett, Ziv Gamliel, Charles White, Bruce Greenwald, Mohan Suntharalingam, Austin Doyle, and Joseph McLaughlin, Baltimore, MD

3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
SESSION III (cont'd.): THORACIC RESEARCH
Moderators: Carolyn E. Reed, Charlotte, SC, and David S. Schrump, Bethesda, MD

56. Endobronchial Gene Transfer of Naked DNA of Transforming Growth Factor - b1 is Effective in Acute Lung Rejection
Frank D'Ovidio, Motoki Yano, Nelsen Yew, Ronald K. Scheule, Jon H. Ritter, Thalachallour Mohanakumar, and G. Alexander Patterson, St. Louis, MO and Framingham, MA

57. Hemodynamic Effects of a Low Resistance Artificial Lung in Series With Native Lungs of Sheep in a 24-Hour Study
William Lynch, Patrick Montoya, Robert Schreiner, Mark Iannettoni, and Robert Bartlett, Ann Arbor, MI

58. Role of the Immune System in Oncolytic Therapy Using an ICP 34.5 Mutant Type-1 Herpes Simplex Virus
David J. Caparrelli, Abbas E. Abbas, George Coukos, Takane Toyoizumi, David S. Wernsing, Eric S. Lambright, Steven M. Albelda, Kathy Molnar-Kimber, and Larry R. Kaiser, Philadelphia, PA

59. Optimization of Photodynamic Therapy for Esophageal Lesions
J. van den Boogert, R.W.F. de Bruin, H.J. van Staveren, P.D. Siersema, and R. van Hillegersberg, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

60. Lowering the Pressure of the Initial Reperfusate Reduces the Reperfusion Injury After Pulmonary Ischemia
Ari O. Halldorsson, Michael T. Kronon, Bradley S. Allen, Shaikh Rahman, and Tingrong Wang, Chicago, IL

61. 8-Br-cGMP as Additive to the Flush Solution Reduces Post-transplant Lung Ischemia/ Reperfusion Injury in Swine
Sven Hillinger, Ralph A. Schmid, Peter Sandera, Uz Stammberger, Dieter Schneiter, Gabriele Schoedon, and Walter Weder, Zurich, Switzerland