The Jounral of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Myocardial Management, And Support Techniques

SURGERY FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

Inhaled nitric oxide in patients with critical pulmonary perfusion after Fontan-type procedures and bidirectional Glenn anastomosis
Andreas Gamillscheg, MD, Gerfried Zobel, MD, Bernd Urlesberger, MD, Jutta Berger, MD, Drago Dacar, MD, J

The clamshell incision for bilateral pulmonary artery reconstruction in tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia
Giovanni Battista Luciani, MD, Winfield J. Wells, MD, Apichai Khong, MD, and Vaughn A. Starnes, MD

Morphology of the pulmonary and aortic roots with regard to the pulmonary autograft procedure
Raymond B. Hokken, MD, Margot M. Bartelings, MD, PhD, Ad J. J. C. Bogers, MD, PhD, and Adriana C. Gittenberger-de Groot, PhD

Effect of glutamate-aspartate reperfusion on postischemic neonatal myocardium
S. S. Sett, MD, FRCS(C), H. Tearle, RLAT, and J. G. LeBlanc, MD, FRCS(C)

SURGERY FOR ACQUIRED HEART DISEASE

Reoperation for failure of mitral valve repair
A. Marc Gillinov, MD, Delos M. Cosgrove, MD, Bruce W. Lytle, MD, Paul C. Taylor, MD, Robert W. Stewart, MD, Patrick M. McCarthy, MD, Nicholas G. Smedira, MD, Derek D. Muehrcke, MD, Carolyn Apperson-Hansen, MStat, and Floyd D. Loop, MD

What is the appropriate size criterion for resection of thoracic aortic aneurysms?
Michael A. Coady, MD, John A. Rizzo, PhD, Graeme L. Hammond, MD, Divakar Mandapati, MD, Umer Darr, MD, Gary S. Kopf, MD, and John A. Elefteriades, MD

Carpentier-Edwards pericardial valves in the mitral position: Ten-year follow-up
M. R. Aupart, MD, P. H. Neville, MD, S. Hammami, MD, A. L. Sirinelli, MD, Y. A. Meurisse, MD, and M. A. Marchand, MD

St. Jude Medical cardiac valves in small aortic roots: Follow-up to sixteen years
Dilip Sawant, MD, FRCS(I), Arun K. Singh, MD, FRCS(C), William C. Feng, MD, DSc, Arthur A. Bert, MD, and Fred Rotenberg, MD

CARDIAC AND PULMONARY REPLACEMENT

Editorial: Genes play a part in protecting the heart
Andrew S. Wechsler, MD

Efficient gene transfer method into the whole heart through the coronary artery with hemagglutinating virus of Japan liposome
Yoshiki Sawa, MD, Keishi Kadoba, MD, Ken Suzuki, MD, Hong-Zhi Bai, MD, Yasufumi Kaneda, MD, Ryota Shirakura, MD, and Hikaru Matsuda, MD

Bilateral versus single lung transplantation for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Joseph E. Bavaria, MD, Robert Kotloff, MD, Harold Palevsky, MD, Bruce Rosengard, MD, John R. Roberts, MD, Peter M. Wahl, BA, Nancy Blumenthal, RN, Christine Archer, RN, and Larry R. Kaiser, MD

Pulmonary bipartitioning and lobar transplantation: A new approach to donor organ shortage
Jean-Paul A. Couetil, MD, Michael J. Tolan, FRCSI, Didier F. Loulmet, MD, Alain Guinvarch, MD, Patrick G. Chevalier, MD, Antoine Achkar, MD, Peter Birmbaum, MD, and Alain F. Carpentier, MD, PhD

GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY

Editorial on
Mark B. Orringer, MD

Occult cervical nodal metastasis in esophageal cancer: Preliminary results of three-field lymphadenectomy
Nasser K. Altorki, MD, and David B. Skinner, MD

Long-term results after reoperation for failed antireflux procedures
Claude Deschamps, MD, Victor F. Trastek, MD, Mark S. Allen, MD, Peter C. Pairolero, MD, Julie O. Johnson, RN, and Dirk R. Larson, MS

The effect of incentive spirometry and inspiratory muscle training on pulmonary function after lung resection
Paltiel Weiner, MD, Abraham Man, MD, Margalit Weiner, PhD, Marinella Rabner, MD, Joseph Waizman, MD, Rasmi Magadle, MD, Doron Zamir, MD, and Yoel Greiff, MD

Tracheal growth after slide tracheoplasty
Paolo Macchiarini, MD, Elisabeth Dulmet, MD, Vincent de Montpreville, MD, Guy-Michel Mazmanian, MD, Alain Chapelier, MD, and Philippe Dartevelle, MD

CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS, MYOCARDIAL MANAGEMENT, AND SUPPORT TECHNIQUES

Myocardial protection in the acutely injured heart: Hyperpolarizing versus depolarizing hypothermic cardioplegia
Jennifer S. Lawton, MD, Peng-Wie Hsia, PhD, Cynthia T. Allen, BA, and Ralph J. Damiano, Jr., MD

Monocyte tissue factor expression, cell activation, and thrombin formation during cardiopulmonary bypass: A clinical study
Mats Ernofsson, BM, PhD, Stefan Thelin, MD, PhD, and Agneta Siegbahn, MD, PhD

Collateral flow prevents unintentional myocardial ischemia during antegrade cardioplegia in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting
Quintilio Caretta, MD, Paolo Voci, MD, PhD, Maria Cristina Acconcia, MD, and Flavia Chiarotti, BS

Insulin and amino acid infusion after cardiac operations: Effects on systemic and renal perfusion
Anders Jeppsson, MD, Rolf Ekroth, MD, PhD, Klaus Kirn

BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS

Circadian rhythmicity in the occurrence of spontaneous acute dissection and rupture of thoracic aorta
Massimo Gallerani, MD, Francesco Portaluppi, MD, Enrico Grandi, MD, and Roberto Manfredini

Intraoperative real-time visualization of coronary arteries by means of power Doppler echocardiography: Preliminary experience
Tetsuo Sakakibara, MD, Ryousuke Matsuwaka, MD, Fuminobu Ishikura, MD, Masataka Mitsuno, MD, Akihiko Yagura, MD, and Kazuhisa Kodama, MD

Takedown of Glenn shunts in adults with congenital heart disease with polytetrafluoroethylene grafts: Technique and long-term follow-up
Elchanan Bruckheimer, MB, BS, Ziad R. Bulbul, MD, William E. Hellenbrand, MD, Charles S. Kleinman, MD, and Gary S. Kopf, MD

Superior approach to the left main coronary artery for surgical angioplasty
Kiyoyuki Eishi, MD, Hiroaki Sasaki, MD, Kiyoharu Nakano, MD, Yoshio Kosakai, MD, Fumitaka Isobe, MD, Yoshikado Sasako, MD, and Junjiro Kobayashi, MD

Whole blood heparin concentration measurements by automated protamine titration agree with plasma anti-Xa measurements
G. J. Despotis, MD, J. H. Joist, MD, PhD, L. T. Goodnough, MD, S. A. Santoro, MD, PhD, and E. Spitznagel, PhD

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Predicting survivorship after coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with low ejection fraction
Shigeki Morita, MD, Guo-Wen Sun, PhD, and Gregory Louis Kay, MD

Reply: Andrew S. Wechsler, MD

Atrioventricular septal defect with subaortic stenosis: Extended valvular detachment and leaflet augmentation
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Reply: Glen Van Arsdell, MD, William G. Williams, MD, FRCSC, and Robert M. Freedom, MD, FRCPC

Relation of cyclic guanosine monophosphate and cyclic adenosine monophosphate in reducing the toxic effects of protamine administration
S. Fehmi Katircioglu, MD, Oguz Tasdemir, MD, and Kemal Bayazit, MD

Reply: Goya V. Raikar, MD, and Hartzell V. Schaff, MD

Is left ventricular outflow tract obstruction really relieved on long-term follow-up?
Kouichi Hisatomi, MD

Reply: Vaughn A. Starnes, MD

Alpha-stat acid-base regulation during cardiopulmonary bypass
John M. Murkin, MD, FRCPC

Reply: D. J. Chambers, PhD

Median sternotomy for prolonged resuscitation in neonatal tetralogy of Fallot with absent pulmonary valve
Margit Kadletz, MD, Robert M. Freedom, MD, FRCPC, and Michael D. Black, MD, FRCSC

Carbodissection of the internal thoracic artery pedicle
Myles Edwin Lee, MD

EVENTS OF INTEREST

Events

ANNOUNCEMENTS

625 Program of 1997 Annual Meeting

638 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Graham Traveling Fellowship, 1998-1999

640 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Dwight Harken Research Scholarship, 1998-2000

641 Announcing The American Association for Thoracic Surgery International Traveling Fellowship

641 Announcement of 1997 Annual Meeting

642 Announcement of 1997 Annual Meeting

643 Notices

644 Announcement

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