Cricopharyngeal myotomy for neurogenic oropharyngeal dysphagia
Nancy Claire Poirier, MD, Luigi Bonavina, MD, Raymond Taillefer, MD, Attilio Nosadini, MD, Alberto Peracchia, MD, and André Duranceau, MD

Aggressive surgical management of sternoclavicular joint infections
Glenn N. Carlos, MD, Kenneth A. Kesler, MD, John J. Coleman, MD, Lynn Broderick, MD, Mark W. Turrentine, MD, and John W. Brown, MD

Mediastinal lymph node metastasis in patients with clinical stage I peripheral non-small-cell lung cancer
Tsuneyo Takizawa, MD, Masanori Terashima, MD, Teruaki Koike, MD, Hideki Akamatsu, MD, Yuzo Kurita, MD, and Akira Yokoyama, MD

Anatomic correction of the syndrome of prolapsing right coronary aortic cusp, dilatation of the sinus of Valsalva, and ventricular septal defect
Magdi H. Yacoub, FRCS, Hasnat Khan, FRCS, George Stavri, FRCS, Elliott Shinebourne, FRCP, and Rosemary Radley-Smith, FRCP

Modified Fontan procedure in ninety-nine cases of atrioventricular valve regurgitation
Yasuharu Imai, MD, Yoshinori Takanashi, MD, Shuuichi Hoshino, MD, Masatsugu Terada, MD, Mitsuru Aoki, MD, and Jun Ohta, MD

Maturation alters the pulmonary arterial response to hypoxia and inhaled nitric oxide in the presence of endothelial dysfunction
Jeff L. Myers, MD, PhD, Joseph J. Wizorek, BS, Adam K. Myers, PhD, Michael O

Plasma neuropeptide Y and catecholamines in pediatric patients undergoing cardiac operations
Lena S. Sun, MD, Fang Du, MPH, William S. Schechter, MD, Jan M. Quaegebeur, MD, PhD, and Yvonne Vulliemoz, PhD

Results of allograft aortic valve replacement for complex endocarditis
Joseph A. Dearani, MD, Thomas A. Orszulak, MD, Hartzell V. Schaff, MD, Richard C. Daly, MD, Betty J. Anderson, RN, and Gordon K. Danielson, MD

Papillary muscle
Masashi Komeda, MD, PhD, Julie R. Glasson, MD, Ann F. Bolger, MD, George T. Daughters II, MS, Neil B. Ingels, Jr., PhD, and D. Craig Miller, MD

Viscoelasticity of dynamically fixed bioprosthetic valves. II. Effect of glutaraldehyde concentration
Anthony C. Duncan, PhD, Derek Boughner, PhD, MD, and Ivan Vesely, PhD

An analysis of valve re-replacement after aortic valve replacement with biologic devices
David C. McGiffin, MB, BS, FRACS, Andrew J. Galbraith, MB, BS, FRACP, Mark F. O

Effect of aprotinin on vascular reactivity of coronary bypass grafts
Sean Allen, PhD, Nikos Anastasiou, MD, David Royston, MD, Rodolfo Paniagua, MD, and Magdi Yacoub, MD

Attenuation of lung graft reperfusion injury by a nitric oxide donor
Moninder S. Bhabra, FRCS, David N. Hopkinson, FRCS, MD, Trudi E. Shaw, BTec, and Timothy L. Hooper, FRCS, MD

Treatment of refractory acute allograft rejection with aerosolized cyclosporine in lung transplant recipients
Robert J. Keenan, MD, Aldo Iacono, MD, James H. Dauber, MD, Adriana Zeevi, PhD, Samuel A. Yousem, MD, N. Paul Ohori, MD, Gilbert J. Burckart, DPharm, Akihiko Kawai, MD, Gerald C. Smaldone, MD, and Bartley P. Griffith, MD

Mitigation of injury in canine lung grafts by exogenous surfactant therapy
Richard J. Novick, MD, Andrea A. Gilpin, MSc, Kenneth E. Gehman, MD, Imtiaz S. Ali, MD, Ruud A. W. Veldhuizen, PhD, Jenifer Duplan, AHT, Lynn Denning, AHT, Fred Possmayer, PhD, David Bjarneson, PhD, and James F. Lewis, MD

Glucose-insulin-potassium solutions enhance recovery after urgent coronary artery bypass grafting
Harold L. Lazar, MD, George Philippides, MD, Carmel Fitzgerald, RN, Diane Lancaster, PhD, Richard J. Shemin, MD, and Carl Apstein, MD

Effective control of refractory pulmonary hypertension after cardiac operations
David A. Fullerton, MD, James Jaggers, MD, Fran Piedalue, RRT, Frederick L. Grover, MD, and Robert C. McIntyre, Jr., MD

Correlation of functional recovery with myocardial blood flow, glucose uptake, and morphologic features in patients with chronic left ventricular ischemic dysfunction undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting
Christophe Depré, MD, PhD, Jean-Louis J. Vanoverschelde, MD, PhD, Bernhard Gerber, MD, Marcel Borgers, PhD, Jacques A. Melin, MD, PhD, and Robert Dion, MD

Endothelial stunning and myocyte recovery after reperfusion of jeopardized muscle: A role of l -arginine blood cardioplegia
Asatoshi Mizuno, MD, Rufus Baretti, MD, Gerald D. Buckberg, MD, Helen H. Young, PhD, Jakob Vinten-Johansen, PhD, Xin-Liang Ma, MD, PhD, and Louis J. Ignarro, MD

Swine lungs expressing human complement
C. William Daggett, MD, Mark Yeatman, FRCS, Andrew J. Lodge, MD, Edward P. Chen, MD, Peter Van Trigt, MD, Guerard W. Byrne, PhD, John S. Logan, PhD, Jeffery H. Lawson, MD, Jeffrey L. Platt, MD, and R. Duane Davis, MD

Basal nitric oxide expresses endogenous cardioprotection during reperfusion by inhibition of neutrophil-mediated damage after surgical revascularization
Hiroki Sato, MD, Zhi-Qing Zhao, MD, PhD, James E. Jordan, BS, James C. Todd, MD, Robert D. Riley, MD, C. Spencer Taft, BS, John W. Hammon, Jr., MD, Ping Li, MD, PhD, Xin-liang Ma, MD, PhD, and J. Vinten-Johansen, PhD

Successful repair of thoracic aortic aneurysm in a child with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
Stefano Conte, MD, Alain Serraf, MD, François Lacour-Gayet, MD, Jacqueline Bruniaux, MD, and Claude Planché, MD

Video-assisted minimally invasive mitral valve surgery: The
W. Randolph Chitwood, Jr., MD, Joseph R. Elbeery, MD, William H. H. Chapman, MD, Jon M. Moran, MD, Robert L. Lust, PhD, William A. Wooden, MD, and David H. Deaton, MD

Primary repair of rupture of a main and lobar bronchus
Filip E. Muysoms, MD, and Henry A. Van Swieten, MD, PhD

HLA antibodies specific for cryopreserved heart valve
Inez den Hamer, MD, Bouke Hepkema, PhD, Jochum Prop, MD, Nynke Elzenga, MD, and Tjark Ebels, MD

Reply: Pat O. Daily, MD

Reply: Friedhelm Beyersdorf, MD

Reply: Probal K. Ghosh, MCh, FRCSE, Surendra K. Agarwal, MCh, and Pramod K. Mittal, MCh

Purulent pericarditis
W.-B. Winkler, MD, R. Karnik, MD, and J. Slany, MD

Reply: Daniel D. M. Mann-Segal, MBBS, E. Anne Shanahan, BSc, MBBS, FRACS, LLB, Bruce Jones, MBBS, FRACS, and Day Ramasamy, MRCP, DA, DCH

431 Announcement of 1997 Annual Meeting

432 Annual meeting notes

433 Announcement of 1997 Annual Meeting

434 Notices