The Jounral of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

  • General Thoracic Surgery
  • Surgery For Congenital Heart Disease
  • Surgery For Acquired Heart Disease
  • Cardiac And Pulmonary Replacement
  • Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Myocardial Management, And Support Techniques
  • Brief Communications
  • Letters To The Editor
  • Storical Perspectives Of The American Association
  • For Thoracic Surgery
  • Announcements


    • EDITORIAL



    Managed care and medical ethics
    Frank C. Spencer, MD

    GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY



    Clinical and laboratory evaluation of a new thin-walled self-expanding tracheobronchial silicone stent: Progress and pitfalls
    Klaus Wassermann, MD, Andrea Koch, MD, Jochen Müller-Ehmsen, MD, Martin Reuter, MD, Olaf Michel, MD, and Hans-Edmund Eckel, MD

    Relationship between early recurrence and micrometastases in the lymph nodes of patients with stage I non-small-cell lung cancer
    Riichiroh Maruyama, MD, Kenji Sugio, MD, Tetsuya Mitsudomi, MD, Genkichi Saitoh, MD, Teruyoshi Ishida, MD, and Keizo Sugimachi, MD

    Clinical experience in radical lymphadenectomy for adenocarcinoma of the gastric cardia
    Chung-Ping Hsu, MD, Cheng-Chung Wu, MD, Chih-Yi Chen, MD, Nan-Yung Hsu, MD, Jiun-Yi-Hsia, MD, and Pei-Yen Wang, MD

    SURGERY FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE



    The optimal Fontan connection: A growing extracardiac lateral tunnel with pedicled pericardium
    Steven R. Gundry, MD, Anees J. Razzouk, MD, Michael J. del Rio, MD, Girish Shirali, MD, and Leonard L. Bailey, MD

    Acute elevation of coronary venous pressure does not affect left ventricular contractility in the normal and stressed swine heart: Implications for the Fontan operation
    Robert J. M. Klautz, MD, PhD, Gerda L. van Rijk-Zwikker, MD, PhD, Paul Steendijk, PhD, Jim Wilde, MD, David F. Teitel, MD, and Jan Baan, PhD

    The relation between pump flow rate and pulsatility on cerebral hemodynamics during pediatric cardiopulmonary bypass
    Gabriel Chow, MRCPI, Idris G. Roberts, BSc, A. David Edwards, FRCP, Adrian Lloyd-Thomas, FRCA, Angie Wade, MSc, Martin J. Elliott, FRCS, and Fenella J. Kirkham, FRCP

    Cognitive and motor development in preschool and school-aged children after neonatal arterial switch operation
    Hedwig H. H, MD, Marie-Christine Seghaye, MD, Sabine Däbritz, MD, Bruno J. Messmer, MD, and Götz von Bernuth, MD

    The left ventricular outflow tract in atrioventricularptal defect revisited: Surgical considerations regarding preservation of aortic valve integrity in the perspective of anatomic observations
    Yuichi Shiokawa, MD, and Anton E. Becker, MD, PhD

    The limits of detectable cerebral perfusion by transcranial Doppler sonography in neonates undergoing deep hypothermic low-flow cardiopulmonary bypass
    A. Andrew Zimmerman, MD, Frederick A. Burrows, MD, Richard A. Jonas, MD, and Paul R. Hickey, MD

    Influence of the pH of cardioplegic solutions on cellular energy metabol ism and hydrogen ion flux duringneonatal hypothermic circulatory arrest and reperfusion: A dynamic 31P nuclear magnetic resonance study in a pig model
    Michael A. Portman, MD, Anthony L. Panos, MD, Yun Xiao, MD, David L. Anderson, CCP, George M. Alfieris, MD, Xue-Han Ning, MD, and Flavian M. Lupinetti, MD

    SURGERY FOR ACQUIRED HEART DISEASE



    Protection of rat spinal cord from ischemia with dextrorphan and cycloheximide: Effects on necrosis and apoptosis
    Hiroyuki Kato, MD, PhD, Georgios K. Kanellopoulos, MD, Saburou Matsuo, PhD, Ying J. Wu, PhD, Mark F. Jacquin, PhD, Chung Y. Hsu, MD, PhD, Dennis W. Choi, MD, PhD, and Nicholas T. Kouchoukos, MD

    Transesophageal echocardiographic and clinical features of aortic intramural hematoma
    Kevin M. Harris, MD, Alan C. Braverman, MD, Fernando R. Gutierrez, MD, Benico Barzilai, MD, and Victor G. Dávila-Román, MD

    CARDIAC AND PULMONARY REPLACEMENT



    Reevaluating the significance of pulmonary hypertension before cardiac transplantation: Determination of optimal thresholds and quantification of the effect of reversibility on perioperative mortality
    Jonathan M. Chen, MD, Howard R. Levin, MD, Robert E. Michler, MD, Chad J. Prusmack, MD, Eric A. Rose, MD, and Keith D. Aaronson, MD

    Dibutyryl cyclic adenosine monophosphate attenuates lung injury caused by cold preservation and ischemia-reperfusion
    Takayuki Nakamura, MD, Toshiki Hirata, MD, Tatsuo Fukuse, MD, Mitsuhiro Ueda, MD, Shigeki Hitomi, MD, and Hiromi Wada, MD

    CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS, MYOCARDIAL MANAGEMENT, AND SUPPORT TECHNIQUES



    Superiority of hyperpolarizing to depolarizing cardioplegia in protection of coronary endothelial function
    Guo-Wei He, MD, PhD, and Cheng-Qin Yang, MD

    Protein kinase C activation before cardioplegic arrest: Beneficial effects on myocyte contractility
    Seung-Jun O, MD, Monty H. Cox, BS, Fred A. Crawford, Jr., MD, and Francis G. Spinale, MD, PhD

    Retrograde cerebral perfusion provides limited distribution of blood to the brain: A study in pigs
    Jian Ye, MD, Luojia Yang, MD, Marc R. Del Bigio, MD, PhD, Randy Summers, MSc, Dick Jackson, MSc, Rajmund L. Somorjai, PhD, Tomas A. Salerno, MD, and Roxanne Deslauriers, PhD

    Natriuresis after cardiopulmonary bypass: Relationship to urodilatin, atrial natriuretic factor, antidiuretic hormone, and aldosterone
    Jens Sehested, MD, PhD, Beate Wacker, MD, Wolf-Georg Forssmann, MD, PhD, and Erni Schmitzer

    BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS


    Extracardiac myxoma: An unusual right ventricular epicardial location
    Rita Spirito, MD, Luca Dainese, MD, GianLuca Polvani, MD, Marco Zanobini, MD, Massimo Porqueddu, MD, Chiara Varesi, MD, and Paolo Biglioli, MD

    Cardiac tamponade caused by penetration of an acupuncture needle into the right ventricle
    Hajime Kataoka, MD

    Long-term follow-up of aprotinin-specific immunoglobulin G antibodies after cardiac operations
    J. Weipert, MD, H. Meisner, MD, M. Jochum, PhD, and W. Dietrich, MD

    Primary tracheal synovial cell sarcoma: A first case report
    Anne T. Sykes, MD, Chris K. Rokkas, MD, Andre Kajdacsy-Balla, MD, and George B. Haasler, MD

    Immobilized instrument for minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass: MIDCAB doughnut
    Masao Takahashi, MD, Shinichiro Yamamoto, MD, and Shigeki Tabata, MD

    Minimally invasive redo aortic valve replacement
    Robert K. W. Tam, FRACS, R. Bruce Garlick, FRACS, and Aubrey A. Almeida, MBBS

    Primary immunoblastic B-cell lymphoma of the sternum
    Peter L. Faries, MD, Marcus D, Santos, MD

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR


    Partial sternotomy: A mini approach for maxi exposure
    Hans Zwart, MD

    The right internal thoracic artery for myocardial revascularization
    Luiz B. Puig, MD
    Reply: Koji Ueyama, MD, and Ryuzo Sakata, MD

    Early tracheal extubation after coronary artery bypass grafting
    Regis Juc , MD, FACS, and Leny Monte
    Reply: Davy Cheng, MD

    The safety of peritoneal drainage and dialysis after car diopulmonary bypass in children
    Paul Swan, MB, BS, FFICANZCA, Amin Darwish, MB, ChB, FFARCS, Mahmoud Elbarbary, MD, and Zohair Al Halees, MD, FRCSC, FACS

    HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THORACIC SURGERY


    Franz J. A. Torek (1861-1938)
    J. Gordon Scannell, MD

    EVENTS OF INTEREST


    Events

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

    694Annual meeting notes. Announcement of 1998 Annual Meeting

    The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

    695Announcement of 1998 Annual Meeting

    The American Board of Thoracic Surgery

    697Notices