The Jounral of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

CARDIAC AND PULMONARY REPLACEMENT

Efficiency of a high-titer retroviral vector for gene transfer into skeletal myoblasts
Reida M. El Oakley, FRCS, MD, Nigel J. Brand, PhD, Paul B. J. Burton, BSc, MBBS, Madeleine C. McMullen, Gregor B. Adams, BSc(Hons), Mark C. Poznansky, MRCP, PhD, Paul J. R. Barton, PhD, and Magdi H. Yacoub, FRCS, DSc, London, United Kingdom, and Boston, Mass.

Effect of volume reduction on lung transplant timing and selection for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Joseph E. Bavaria, MD, Alberto Pochettino, MD, Robert M. Kotloff, MD, Bruce R. Rosengard, MD, Peter M. Wahl, BA, J. R. Roberts, MD, Harold I. Palevsky, MD, and Larry R. Kaiser, MD, Philadelphia, Pa.

Total respiratory support from swine lungs in primate recipients
J. C. William Daggett, MD, Mark Yeatman, FRCS, Andrew J. Lodge, MD, Edward P. Chen, MD, Shu S. Linn, MD, Carmelo Gullotto, BBA, Michael M. Frank, MD, Jeffrey L. Platt, MD, and R. Duane Davis, MD, Durham, N.C.

Aerosol cyclosporine prevents acute allograft rejection in experimental lung transplantation
Surindra N. Mitruka, MD, Si M. Pham, MD, Adriana Zeevi, PhD, Sen Li, MD, Jane Cai, MD, Gilbert J. Burckart, PharmD, Samuel A. Yousem, MD, Robert J. Keenan, MD, and Bartley P. Griffith, MD, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Ex vivo liposome-mediated gene transfer to lung isografts
Carlos H. R. Boasquevisque, MD, Bassem N. Mora, MD, Matthew Bernstein, BS, William O. Osburn, BA, Jennifer Nietupski, BSc, Ronald K. Scheule, PhD, Joel D. Cooper, MD, Mitchell Botney, MD, and G. Alexander Patterson, MD, St. Louis, Mo., and Framingham, Mass.

GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY

Postoperative portable chest radiographs: Optimum use in thoracic surgery
Ruffin J. Graham, MD, Moulay A. Meziane, MD, Thomas W. Rice, MD, Thirugnanam Agasthian, MD, Neil Christie, MD, Kathleen Gaebelein, MBA, MSN, and Nancy A. Obuchowski, PhD, Cleveland, Ohio

Massive hiatus hernia: Evaluation and surgical management
Donna E. Maziak, MDCM, Thomas R. J. Todd, MD, and F. Griffith Pearson, MD, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Aggressive surgical management in localized pulmonary mycotic and nonmycotic infections for neutropenic patients with acute leukemia: Report of eighteen cases
O. Baron, MD, B. Guillaume, MD, P. Moreau, MD, P. Germaud, MD, P. Despins, MD, A. Y. De Lajartre, MD, and J. L. Michaud, MD, Nantes, France

Thirty-day operative mortality for thoracotomy in lung cancer
Hiomi Wada, MD, Takayuki Nakamura, MD, Kenbu Nakamoto, MD, Masazumi Maeda, MD, and Yoh Watanabe, MD, Kyoto, Japan

SURGERY FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

Editorial: Left ventricular dysfunction after open repair of simple congenital heart defecs in infants and children
Steven D. Colan, MD, and Pedro J. del Nido, MD, Boston, Mass

Left ventricular dysfunction after open repair of simple congenital heart defects in infants and children: Quantitation with the use of a conductance catheter immediately after bypass
Rajiv R. Chaturvedi, MRCP, Christopher Lincoln, FRCS, John W. W. Gothard, FRCA, Michael H. Scallan, FRCA, Paul A. Qhite, MSc, Andrew N. Redington, MD, FRCP, and Darryl F. Shore, FRCS, London, United Kingdom

Reconstructive surgery in congenital mitral valve insufficiency (Carpentier's techniques): Long-term results
Sylvain Chauvaud, MD, Jean Francois Fuzellier, MD, Remi Houel, MD, Alain Berrebi, MD, Serban Mihaileanu, MD, and Alain Carpentier, MD, PhD, Paris, Franch

Measurement of cerebral blood flow during cardiopulmonary bypass with near-infrared spectroscopy
Idris G. Roberts, BSc, Penny Fallon, MRCP, Fenella J. Kirkham, FRCP, Paul M. Kirshbom, MD, Christopher E. Cooper, PhD, Martin J. Elliott, FRCS, and A David Edwards, FRCP, London, United Kingdom, and Durham, N.C.

Resting coronary flow and coronary flow reserve in human infants after repair or palliation of congenital heart defects as measured by positron emission tomography
Jon P. Donnelly, MD, David M. Raffel, PhD, Barry L. Shulkin, MD, James R. Corbett, MD, Edward L. Bove, MD, Ralph S. Mosca, MD, and Thomas J. Kulik, MD, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Evidence for rejection of homograft cardiac valves in infants
Bijal Rajani, MB, BS, Roger B. Mee, MB, ChB, FRCS, and Norman B. Ratliff, MD, Cleveland, Ohio

Pathology of explanted cryopreserved allograft heart valves: Comparison with aortic valves from orthotopic heart transplants
Richard N. Mitchell, MD, PhD, Richard A. Jonas, MD, and Frederick J. Schoen, MD, PhD, Boston, Mass.

Commentary: The fate of allografts and semilunar valves
Jack L. Titus, MD, PhD, St. Paul, Minn., and Houston, Tex.

SURGERY FOR ACQUIRED HEART DISEASE

Mortality and cerebral outcome in patients who underwent aortic arch operations using deep hypothermic circulatory arrest with retrograde cerebral perfusion: No relation of early death, stroke, and delirium to the duration of circulatory arrest
Yutaka Okita, MD, Shinichi Takamoto, MD, Motomi Ando, MD, Tetsuro Morota, MD, Ritsu Matsukawa, MD, and Yasunaru Kawashima, MD, Osaka, Japan

Effect of the Cox maze procedure on the secretion of atrial natriuretic peptide
Ki-Bong Kim, MD, Chang-Ha Lee, MD, Cheol-Ha Kim, MD, and Young-Joo Cha, MD, Seoul, Korea

The "H" graft: An alternative approach for performing minimally invasive direct coronary aartery bypass
William E. Cohn, MD, Hon Chi Suen, MD, Ronald M. Weintraub, MD, and Robert G. Johnson, MD, Boston, Mass.

Saphenous vein graft protection: Effects of c-myc antisense
John D. Mannion, MD, Michael, L. Ormont, MD, Yi Shi, MD, PhD, James E. O'Brien, Jr., MD, Wooksung Chung, MD, Fernando Roque, MD, and Andrew Zalewski, MD, Philadelphia, Pa., and Buenos Aires, Argentina

Proximal aortic perfusion for complex arch and descending aortic disease
Stephen Westaby, MS, FRCS, and Takahiro Katsumata, MD, Oxford, United Kingdom

CARDIOPULMONARY SUPPORT AND PHYSIOLOGY

Biologic bypass with the use of adenovirus-mediated gene transfer of the complementary deoxyribonucleic acid for vascular endothelial growth factor 121 improves myocardial perfusion and function in the ischemic porcine heart
Charles A. Mack, MD, Shailen R. Patel, MD, Eric A. Schwarz, MD, Pat Zanzonico, PhD, Rebecca T. Hahn, MD, Arzu Ilercil, MD, Richard B. Devereux, MD, Stanley J. Goldsmith, MD, Timothy F. Christian, MD, Timothy A. Sanborn, MD, Imre Kovesdi, PhD, Neil Hackett, PhD, O. Wayne Isom, MD, Ronald G. Crystal, MD, and Todd K. Rosengart, MD, New York, N.Y., and Rockville, Md.

Cardiopulmonary effects of 7.2% saline solution compared with gelatin infusion in the early postoperative period after coronary artery bypass grafting
Rashid Mazhar, FCPS, FRCS, Adrian Samenesco, MBBS, David Royston, FRCA, and Alun Rees, FRCS, Harefield, Middlesex, London, United Kingdom

Downstream defects in - adrenergic signaling and relation to myocyte contractility after cardioplegic arrest
Ward V. Houck, MD, Chadwick V. Thomas, BS, Melissa A. Doscher, BS, Ying Hua Wang, VS, Latha Hebbar, MD, Jignesh D. Joshi, BS, Rupak Mukherjee, PhD, Fred A. Crawford, Jr., MD, and Francis G. Spinale, MD, PhD, Charleston, S.C.

Relative induction of heat shock protein in coronary endothelial cells and cardiomyocytes: Implications for myocardial protection
M. Amrani, MD, N. Latif, PhD, K. Morrison, PhD, C. C. Gray, MSc, J. Jayakumar, MD, J. Corbett, PhD, A. T. Goodwin, MD, M. J. Dunn, PhD, and M. H. Yacoub, FRCS, Harefield, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Preconditioning human cardiomyocytes and endothelial cells
Toshizumi Shirai, MD, PhD, Vivek Rao, MD, Richard D. Weisel, MD, John S. Ikonomidis, MD, PhD, Ren-Ke Li, MD, PhD, Laura C. Tumiati, BSc, Frank Merante, PhD, and Donald A. G. Micle, MD, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Operations on the thoracic aorta and hypothermic circulatory arrest: Is aprotinin safe?
Marek Ehrlich, MD, Martin Grabenwoger, MD, Fabiola Cartes-Zumelzu, MD, Doris Luckner, MD, Josef Kovarik, MD, Gunther Laufer, MD, Alfred Kocher, MD, Ricarda Konetschny, MD, Ernst Wolner, MD, and Michael Havel, MD, Vienna, Austria

Optimal flow rates for integrated cardioplegia
Vivek Rao, MD, Gideon Cohen, MD, Richard D. Weisel, MD, Noritsugu Shiomo, MD, PhD, Yoshiki Nonami, MD, PhD, Susan M. Carson, AHT, Joan Ivanov, RN, MSc, Michael A. Borger, MD, Robert J. Cusimano, MD, and Donald A. G. Mickle, MD, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS

Lung volume reduction surgery for a patient receiving mechanical ventilation after a complex cardia operation
R. A. Schmid, MD, P. Vogt, MD, R. Stocker, MD, M. Zalunardo, MD, E. W. Russi, MD, and W. Weder, MD, Zurich, Switzerland

Increased calcium 45 fluxes in histologically abnormal human ascending aorta
J. H. Kennedy, MD, D. Henrion, PhD, M. Wassef, MD, A. Piwnica, MD, G. Bloch, MD, and A. Tedgui, PhD, Paris, France, and Cambridge, United Kingdom

Multiple plexiform schwannomas in a patient with neurofibromatosis
Salwa Sheikh, MD, Mario Gomes, MD, and Elizabeth Montgomery, MD, Washington, D.C.

Axillary artery-coronary artery bypass grafting
Eduardo A. Tovar, MD, Nathan Blau, MD, and Alan Borsari, MD, Fullerton and Orange, Calif.

Aortic coarctation, multiple ventricular septal defects, and anomalous coronary artery arising from the right pulmonary artery
Eduardo da Cruz, MD, Daniel Carbognani, MD, Francois Laborde, MD, Joelle Bougaran, MD, Alain Dibie, MD, Jerome Le Bidois, MD, Alain Batisse, MD, and Laurent Fermont, MD, Paris, France

Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery
Robert K. W. Tam, FRACS, Chris Ho, MBBS, and Aubrey A. Almedia, MBBS, Brisbane, Australia

Thrombolysis of thrombosed St. Jude Medical prosthetic valves: Rethrombosis-A sign of tissue ingrowth
M. J. Munclinger, MD, J. J. Patel, FCP, and A. S. Mitha, FRCP, KwaZulu/Natal, South Africa

Double valve repair in a transplanted heart
E. R. Wijurg, MD, A. H. M. Balk, MD, PhD, and L. A. van Herwerden, MD, PhD, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Video-assisted completion thymectomy in refractory myasthenia gravis
Tommaso Claudio Mineo, MD, Eugenio Pompeo, MD, Vincenzo Ambrogi, MD, Giorgio Bernardi, MD, Cesare Iani, MD, and Alessandro Fabrizio Sabato, MD, Rome, Italy

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Minimally invasive aortic valve surgery: Pocket AVR
Kiew-Kong Pau, MD, FRCS, Azhari Yakub, MD, FRCS, and Yahya Awang, MD, FRCS, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Minimally invasive coronary bypass grafting
Federico Benetti, MD, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Partial sternotomy for cardiac operations
Prof.Dr.Med. G. Walterbusch, Dortmund, Germany

Reply:
Ricardo J. Moreno-Cabral, MD, San Diego, Calif.

Minimal-access or minimally invasive surgery?
Mohammad Bashar Izzat, MD, and Anthony P. C. Yim, MD, Hong Kong

Reply:
Federico Benetti, MD, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Reply:
Ricardo J. Moreno-Cabral, MD, San Diego, Calif.

Role of lipid in calcification of porcine pulmonary and aortic valves
Jyotirmay Chanda, MD, Ryosei Kuribayashi, MD, and Tadaaki Abe, MD, Akita, Japan

Reply:
J. Dunmore-Buyze, I. Vesely, PhD, and D. R. Boughner, MD, FRCP, London, Ontario, Canada

Batista operation for dilated cardiomyopathy: A physiologic concept
Jyotirmay Chanda, MD, Ryosei Kuribayashi, MD, and Tadaaki Abe, MD, Akita, Japan

Reply:
Marc L. Dickstein, MD, Henry M. Spotnitz, MD, Eric A. Rose, MD, and Daniel Burkhoff, MD, PhD, New York, N.Y.

Role of lung resection for hydatid cysts
Mark De Groot, MD, FRCS(C), Cape Town, South Africa

Reply:
Semih Halezeroglu, MD, Istanbul, Turkey

The choice of fundoplication for mixed hiatal hernia and associated anemia
Lajos Kotsis, MD, PhD, Budapest, Hungary

Reply:
Victor F. Trastek, MD, Rochester, Minn.

Enhanced air removal from coronary circulation during cardiac operations
Massimo Massetti, MD, Gerard Babatosi, MD, and Andre Khayat, MD, Caen, France

Video-assisted thymectomy in patients with myasthenia gravis: Lateral versus surpine position
Jacob W. T. Ng, MBBS, FRCSE, FRACS, FCSHK, FHKAM, Gustus H. C. Yeung, MBBS, FRCSE, FCSHK, FHKAM, and David P. W. Cheng, MBBS, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong

Reply:
Michael J. Mack, MD, Dallas, Tex.

Pulmonary autograft after repair of interrupted aortic arch, ventricular septal defect, and subaortic stenosis
Giovanni Battista Luciani, MD, and Vaughn A. Starnes, MD, Verona, Italy, and Los Angeles, Calif.

Can you top this?
James D. Wisheart, MCh, FRCS, Bristol, United Kingdom

EVENTS OF INTEREST

Events

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

270Announcement of 1998 Annual Meeting

The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

271Announcement of 1998 Annual Meeting

The American Board of Thoracic Surgery

272Notices