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WEDNESDAY MORNING, January 27, 1999

6:45 a.m.- 8:00 a.m.
SYMPOSIUM: CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY FOR OLDER PATIENTS-MEETING THE NEEDS OF A RAPIDLY AGING POPULATION
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 workshop. Tickets can be purchased at registration desk beginning Saturday, January 23, at 1:30 PM. Price of ticket covers attendance at seminar and continental breakfast. These workshops run concurrently.

Meet the Experts Session

Technical Sessions - How I Do It

8:15 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Moderated Poster Session C: Adult Cardiac

8:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
SCIENTIFIC SESSION
Moderators: Nicholas T. Kouchoukos, St. Louis, MO, and Peter C. Pairolero, Rochester, MN

STS National Database: Where We Are and Where We Are Going
Frederick L. Grover, Denver, CO, Chair, Committee
for a National Database for Thoracic Surgeons

62. Pulmonary Artery Sling: Results With Median Sternotomy, Cardiopulmonary Bypass, and Reimplantation
Carl L. Backer, Constantine Mavroudis, Lauren D. Holinger, and Michael E. Dunham, Chicago, IL

63. Long-Term Survival and Functional Follow-up in Patients With Simple TGA, TGA and VSD, and Taussig-Bing Anomaly After Arterial Switch Operation
Felix Haas, Michael Wottke, Holger Poppert, and Hans Meisner, Munich, Germany

64. Risk Factors for Failure of Aortic Valvuloplasty in Aortic Regurgitation Associated With Ventricular Septal Defect
Mohamed-Adel Elgamal, Mehdi Hakimi, Juanita Lyons, Henry Walters III, Detroit, MI

65. Effect of Pre-Treatment With Steroids on Organ Function After Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Infants
Deborah K. Rasch, John H. Calhoon, Amy C. Benedikt, Debra S. Tyler, Richard Rasch, and Chere Benson, San Antonio, TX

66. Aortic and Mitral Valve Replacement in Pediatric Patients Under 10 Years of Age
James E. Harrell, Jr., Miguel G. Aguinaga, Elizabeth A. Frazier, William R. Morrow, Carl W. Chipman, and Stephen H. Van Devanter, Little Rock, AR

67. Surgical Management of Tetralogy of Fallot in the First Year of Life
Joseph Caspi, Eli Zalstein, Nili Zucker, Azi Applebaum, Lynn H. Harrison, Nabil Mumfakh, Herman Heck, Jr., Aluizio Stopa, Michael White, and Eudice Fontenot, Beer Sheba, Israel, and New Orleans, LA

68. Staple Versus Combined Staple/Free-Beam Holmium Laser Lung Reduction Surgery in a Rabbit Emphysema Model
Dan L. Serna, Ledford L. Powell, Matt Brenner, Arthur Gelb, Robert McKenna, Jill Monti, Tanya Burney, Mark Gaon, Rayhan Jalal, and John C. Chen, Orange, CA

69. Improved Survival Following Intensive Chemotherapy and Radical Resections in Patients With Primary Non-Seminomatous Germ Cell Tumors of the Mediastinum
Garrett L. Walsh, Grant Taylor, Jonathan C. Nesbitt, and Robert J. Amato, Houston, TX

70. A Prospective Trial of Nitric Oxide in Clinical Lung Tranplantation
Abbas Ardehali, Howard Chait, Michael Levine, Robert Shpiner, Hillel Laks, Larry Watson, Oleg Shvartz, Susheela Sangwan, and Paul F. Walters, Los Angeles, CA

71. Cognitive Decline After Noncardiac Major Surgery: A Preliminary Prospective Study
Alexander J. Ijsselmuiden, Katherine P. Grichnik, Thomas A D'Amico, David H. Harpole, William D. White, and Mark F. Newman, Durham, NC

72. Five Year Experience on Combined Donor Bone Marrow Infusion and Lung Transplantation
Si M. Pham, Adul Rao, Adriana Zeevi, Paulo Fontes, Kenneth R. McCurry, Robert J. Keenan, Robert L. Kormos, Brack G. Hattler, John J. Fung, Thomas E. Starzl, and Bartley P. Griffith, Pittsburgh, PA

12:15 p.m.
ADJOURN

TUESDAY MORNING, January 26, 1999

8:15 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
MODERATED POSTER SESSIONS A AND B
General Thoracic, and Adult and Congenital Cardiac Potpourri

8:15 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
POSTER SESSION A: GENERAL THORACIC
Moderators: Keith S. Naunheim, St. Louis, MO, and Joseph B. Zwischenberger, Galveston, TX

A1. Videothoracoscopic Treatment of Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax: A Six-year Experience
Giuseppe Cardillo, Francesco Facciolo, Roberto Giunti, Roberto Gasparri, Michele Lopergolo, Stefano Treggiari, Remo Orsetti, and Massimo Martelli, Rome, Italy

A2. Prospects for Photodynamic Therapy in an Animal Model for Barrett's Esophagus
J. van den Boogert, R.W.F. de Bruin, F.W.M. de Rooij, A.B. Houtsmuller, P.D. Siersema, and R. van Hillegersberg, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

A3. FDG-Positron Emission Tomography, Computed Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Combidex to Stage the Mediastinum in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Kemp Kernstine, John Trapp, Donita Croft, Peter Kirchner, William Stanford, Jeff Galvin, Brian Mullin, Nicholas Rossi, Kelly McLaughlin, and Jeffrey Kern, Iowa City, IA

A4. Delayed Management of Traumatic Thoracic Aortic Disruption
David F. Torchiana, Robert D. Shin, Cary W. Akins, Alan D. Hilgenberg, Mortiner J. Buckley, Willard M. Daggett, Gus J. Vlahakes, Joren C. Madsen, and Thomas E. MacGillivray, Boston, MA

A5. The Influence of Pulmonary Staple Line Reinforcement on the Development of Air Leaks
Kevin D. Murray, Paul F. Waters, Jiun-Yi James Hsia, and Alex G. Little, Las Vegas, NV and Los Angeles, CA

A6. What is the Optimal Distal Resection Margin for Esophagael Carcinoma?
Sujata Subramanian, S. Jane Darnton, Louise Hiller, and Alan G. Casson, Birmingham, United Kingdom

A7. Is There a Role for Pneumonectomy in Pulmonary Metastasis?
H. N. Koong, U Pastorino, and R. J. Ginsberg, for the International Registry of Lung Metastases, New York, NY

A8. Induced Heat Shock Protein Suppresses the Senescent Lung Inflammatory Cytokine Response to Acute Endotoxemia
Xiangjun Xu, Joseph LoCicero III, and Lihua Zhang, Boston, MA and New York, NY

A9. Photodynamic Therapy of the Normal Canine Airway With a New Photosensitizing Agent, SnET2
Robert B. Cameron, Michael Fishbein, David Crean, Tyron Wong, Jeffrey Walker, and E. Carmack Holmes, Los Angeles, CA

A10. Important Prognostic Factors in Patients With Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
Valerie Rusch and Ennapadam Venkatraman, New York, NY

8:15 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
POSTER SESSION B: ADULT AND CONGENITAL CARDIAC POTPOURRI
Moderators: Kirk R. Kanter, Atlanta, GA and Gus J. Vlahakes, Boston, MA

B1. Total Arterial Coronary Revascularization: Techniques and Results in 3220 Patients
James Tatoulis, Brian F. Buxton, John A. Fuller, and Allistairi G. Royse, Melbourne, Australia

B2. Deep Hypothermia and Distal Exsanguination Improve the Early Outcome After Surgery of Descending and Thoraco-Abdominal Aorta
Thierry Carrel, Pascal Berdat, Beat Kipfer, and Ulrich Althaus, Berne, Switzerland

B3. Coronary Bypass and Carotid Endarterectomy: Increased Risk of Combined Surgery by Meta-Analysis
Michael A. Borger, Richard D. Weisel, Gideon Cohen, Vivek Rao, Thomas F. Lindsay, and Steven E. Fremes, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

B4. Incidence and Predictors of the Need for a Permanent Pacemaker After Cardiac Surgery
Michael Argenziano, Jose M. Dizon, Stanley J. Schneller, and Henry M. Spotnitz, New York, NY

B5. Right Ventricular Dysfunction Following Cardiac Transplantation is Primarily Related to the Status of the Donor Heart
Hartmuth B. Bittner, Edward P. Chen, Peter Van Trigt, and Robert D. Davis, Durham, NC

B6. Effect of Modified Ultrafiltration on Plasma Thromboxane, Leukotriene, and Endothelin-1 in Infants Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Jeffrey M. Pearl, Don W. Thomas, Jerri L. McNamara, Connie J. Wagner, Michelle Saucier, and Peter B. Manning, Cincinnati, OH

B7. Outcome of Pediatric Patients Requiring Extracorporeal Life Support as a Bridge to Cardiac Transplantation
Ralph S. Mosca, Caren Goldberg, Edward L. Bove, Dennis C. Crowley, Francis Pagani, and Thomas J. Kulik, Ann Arbor, MI

B8. Preservation of the Pulmonary Valve During Repair of Tetralogy of Fallot
Vivek Rao, Lisa Homberger, Robert M. Freedom, and Michael D. Black, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

B9. In-Parallel Bidirectional Glenn Shunt in Association With Cogenital Heart Repairs: The One and One-Half Ventricular Repair
Constantine Mavroudis, Carl L. Backer, Alexander Muster, Lisa M. Kohr, Anthony Makarewicz, Barbara Deal, and David Wax, Chicago, IL

B10. Bilateral Superior Vena Cava and Single Ventricle Palliation: Is it a Risk Factor?
Ganeshakrishnan K. Thyagarajan, Glen S. Van Arsdell, Frank Dicke, David Nykanen, John G. Coles, Michael D. Black, and William G. Williams, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

WEDNESDAY MORNING, January 27, 1999

8:15 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
MODERATED POSTER SESSION C: ADULT CARDIAC
Moderators: Gabriel S. Aldea, Boston, MA, and Steven F. Bolling, Ann Arbor, MI

C1. Successful Robotically-Assisted Endoscopic CABG in a Chronic Animal Model
Edward R. Stephenson, Jr., Christopher T. Ducko, Sachin A. Sankholkar, and Ralph J. Damiano, Jr., Hershey, PA

C2. Alabama CABG Cooperative Project: Baseline Data
William L. Holman, Constantine L. Athanasuleas, Richard M. Allman, and Robert G. Sherrill, Jr. for the Alabama Quality Assurance Foundation CABG Cooperative Project, Birmingham, AL

C3. Tissue Engineering of Autologous Aorta Using a New Biodegradable Polymer
Dominique Shum-Tim, Urlick Stock, Jeff Hrkach, Toshiharu Shinoka, Jamie Lien, Marsha Moses, Andrea Stamp, George Taylor, Adrian Moran, William Landes, Robert Langer, Joseph Vacanti, and John E. Mayer, Boston, MA

C4. Ring Annuloplasty "Freezes" the Posterior Mitral Leaflet
G. Randall Green, Paul Dagum, Julie R. Glasson, George T. Daughters, Ann F. Bolger, Linda E. Foppiano, Neil B. Ingels, Jr., and D. Craig Miller, Stanford, CA

C5. Nitric Oxide Generating Beta Adrenergic Blocker Nipradilol Preserves Post Ischemic Cardiac Function
Hitoshi Horimoto, Glenn R. Gaudette, and Irvin B. Krukenkamp, Stony Brook, NY

C6. Surgical Angiogenesis Induced By Autologous Cell Transplantation
Eung-Joong Kim, Ren-Ke Li, Richard D. Weisel, Donald A.G. Mickle, Shinji Tomita, Tetsuro Sakai, and Zhi-Qiang Jia, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

C7. Early Failure of Cryopreserved Pulmonary Valve Homografts in Aortic Position
Dieter Hammel, Rene Tandler, Barbara Lamp, Boulos Asfour, Christoph Schmid, and Hans H. Scheld, Muenster, Germany

C8. Hypoxemic Reperfusion Assists During Emergency Coronary Bypass in Advanced Myocardial Infarction
Neil J. Thomas, Eric Grassman, Robert M. Siegel, Michael Wallock, and Nicholas King, Phoenix, AZ

C9. Hirudin for Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Patients With Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia: Importance of Preoperative Renal Function
Andreas Koster, Hermann Kuppe, Miralem Pasic, and Roland Hetzer, Berlin, Germany

C10. Mitral Valve Reconstruction: Is Ring Annuloplasty a Prerequisite for Reliable
Long-Term Results?
Urs Niederhauser, Sheela Mukherjee, Gregor Zünd, Jürg Schmidli, Paul Vogt, and Marko I. Turina, Zurich, Switzerland

[STS 1999 Annual Meeting]