The Jounral of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Myocardial Management, And Support Techniques

Historical Perspectives Of The American Association For Thoracic Surgery

Author and Subject Indexes for Volume 113

GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY

Pharyngoesophageal reconstruction with the use of vascular anastomoses: Operative modifications and long-term prognosis
Hiroshi Urayama, MD, Hiroshi Ohtake, MD, Kenji Ohmura, MD, and Yoh Watanabe, MD

Diagnostic and therapeutic thoracic surgery in leukemia and severe aplastic anemia
James M. Habicht, MD, Alois Gratwohl, Michael Tamm, MD, Jürgen Drewe, MD, PhD, Michael Proske, MD, and Peter Stulz

SURGERY FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

Coagulation factor abnormalities after the Fontan procedure and its modifications
Marjan Jahangiri, FRCS, Darryl Shore, FRCS, Vijay Kakkar, FRCS, Christopher Lincoln, FRCS, and Elliot Shinebourne, FRCP

Myocardial protection in normal and hypoxically stressed neonatal hearts: The superiority of blood versus crystalloid cardioplegia
Kirk Bolling, MD, MPH, Michael Kronon, MD, Bradley S. Allen, MD, Tingrong Wang, MD, Shaik Ramon, MS, and Harold Feinberg, PhD

Inhaled nitric oxide, right ventricular efficiency, and pulmonary vascular mechanics: Selective vasodilation of small pulmonary vessels during hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction
Neal D. Hillman, MD, Ira M. Cheifetz, MD, Damian M. Craig, MS, Peter K. Smith, MD, Ross M. Ungerleider, MD, and Jon M. Meliones, MD, FCCM

SURGERY FOR ACQUIRED HEART DISEASE

Mechanisms underlying degeneration of cryopreserved vascular homografts
José P. Neves, MD, Sérgio Gulbenkian, BSc, PhD, Teresa Ramos, MD, PhD, Ana P. Martins, MD, Margarida C. Caldas, BSc, Ramiro Mascarenhas, VetD, PhD, Mar

Minimally invasive mitral valve replacement: Port-access technique, feasibility, and myocardial functional preservation
Daniel S. Schwartz, MD, Greg H. Ribakove, MD, Eugene A. Grossi, MD, Patricia M. Buttenheim, MA, Jess D. Schwartz, MD, Robert M. Applebaum, MD, Itzhak Kronzon, MD, F. Gregory Baumann, PhD, Stephen B. Colvin, MD, and Aubrey C. Galloway, MD

Heart reduction surgery: An analysis of the impact on cardiac function
Marc L. Dickstein, MD, Henry M. Spotnitz, MD, Eric A. Rose, MD, and Daniel Burkhoff, MD, PhD
Commentary
Donald D. Glower, MD

CARDIAC AND PULMONARY REPLACEMENT

Editorial: Cardiac transplantation for auxiliary circulatory support
Keith Reemtsma, MD

Heterotopic cardiac transplantation in infants and children
Asghar Khaghani, FRCS, Francesco Santini, MD, Cornelius M. Dyke, MD, Obed Onuzu, MRCP, Rosemary Radley-Smith, FRCP, and Magdi H. Yacoub, FRCS

Exogenous surfactant treatment before and after sixteen hours of ischemia in experimental lung transplantation
Bernard Hausen, MD, Roland Rohde, MD, Charles W. Hewitt, PhD, Frank Schroeder, Maike Beuke, Raj Ramsamooj, MD, and Hans-Joachim Sch

Intracoronary gene transfer of immunosuppressive cytokines to cardiac allografts: Method and efficacy of adenovirus-mediated transduction
Ron Brauner, MD, Lily Wu, MD, PhD, Hillel Laks, MD, Masaki Nonoyama, MD, Frank Scholl, MD, Oleg Shvarts, MS, Arnold Berk, MD, Davis C. Drinkwater, Jr., MD, and Jing-Liang Wang, PhD

CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS, MYOCARDIAL MANAGEMENT, AND SUPPORT TECHNIQUES

Aspartate/glutamate-enriched blood does not improve myocardial energy metabolism during ischemia-reperfusion: A 31 P magnetic resonance spectroscopic study in isolated pig hearts
Hooman R. Ghomeshi, BSc, Ganghong Tian, MD, PhD, Jian Ye, MD, Jiankang Sun, MSc, Edward F. Hoffenberg, MSc, Tom

Prevention of the hypoxic reoxygenation injury with the use of a leukocyte-depleting filter
Kirk S. Bolling, MD, MPH, Ari Halldorsson, MD, Bradley S. Allen, MD, Shaikh Rahman, MS, Tingrong Wang, MD, Michael Kronon, MD, and Harold Feinberg, PhD

Systolic ventricular interaction in normal and diseased explanted human hearts
James P. Slater, MD, Evan C. Lipsitz, MD, Jonathan M. Chen, MD, Howard R. Levin, MD, Mehmet C. Oz, MD, Daniel J. Goldstein, MD, Robert C. Ashton, MD, and Daniel Burkhoff, MD

Deoxygenated blood minimizes adherence of sonicated albumin microbubbles during cardioplegic arrest and after blood reperfusion: Experimental and clinical observations with myocardial contrast echocardiography
Matthew S. Bayfield, MD, Jonathan R. Lindner, MD, Sanjiv Kaul, MD, Suad Ismail, MD, Meredith L. K. Sheil, MD, N. Craig Goodman, BS, Richard Zacour, CCP, and William D. Spotnitz, MD

BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS

Early failure of freehand aortic stentless xenograft valves
Giovanni Battista Luciani, MD, Paolo Bertolini, MD, and Alessandro Mazzucco, MD

Immunolocalization of basic fibroblast growth factor receptors in internal thoracic artery and saphenous vein grafts
Kyriakos St. Rammos, MD, and George J. Koullias, MD

Transapical aortic cannulation for hypothermic aortic operation through a left thoracotomy: An alternative to avoid retrograde arterial perfusion
Norihiko Shiiya, MD, Keishu Yasuda, MD, Toshifumi Murashita, MD, Yukio Suto, MD, Tsuyoshi Kanaoka, MD, Yoshiro Matsui, MD, and Shigeyuki Sasaki, MD

Heparin-associated intrathoracic pseudotumor
L. C. H. John, MS, FRCS, and O. J. Lau, FRCS

Single leukocyte filter (Pall BC1B) fails in multidose cold blood cardioplegia
Matthias Roth, MD, Erwin P. Bauer, MD, Oliver Reuthebuch, MD, and Wolf Peter Kl

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Improvement of outcomes after coronary artery bypass
J. G. Reves, MD, W. D. White, MPH, and D. W. Amory, MD, PhD

Reply: M. E. Charlson, MD, G. S. Hartman, MD, J. C. Peterson, RN, T. P. Szatrowski, MD, P. Williams-Russo, MD, O. W. Isom, MD, and J. P. Gold, MD

Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
Nicholas J. Demos, MD

Subxiphoid tube drainage in bullectomy and lung volume reduction: A word of caution
Giorgio M. Aru, MD, Bobby J. Heath, MD, and Jesse L. Wofford, MD

Assessment of the hemodynamic performance of small size aortic valve prostheses
M. Bashar Izzat, MD, MCh, FRCS(CTh), and Anthony P. C. Yim, MD

Reply: Jos

Myocardial protection of the hypoxic heart
John E. Baker, PhD, and Gordon N. Olinger, MD

Reply: Bradley S. Allen, MD

Aortic implantation of anomalous left coronary artery
Hugh O

Use of epsilon-aminocaproic acid to reduce bleeding
John H. Lemmer, Jr., MD

Reply: Thomas J. Vander Salm, MD

Twenty-three
Dilip Oswal, MD, Catherine D. Sudarshan, MD, and Philip H. Kay, MD

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THORACIC SURGERY

Nathan Green (1871-1955)
J. Gordon Scannell, MD

EVENTS OF INTEREST

Events

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The American Association for Thoracic Surgery
1132 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Graham Traveling Fellowship, 1998-1999

1133 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Dwight Harken Research Scholarship, 1998-2000

1133 Announcing The American Association for Thoracic Surgery International Traveling Fellowship

1134 Announcement of 1998 Annual Meeting

The Western Thoracic Surgical Association
1135 Announcement of 1997 Annual Meeting

The American Board of Thoracic Surgery
1136 Notices

Notice of correction
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