Cardiac Portal

• Acquired Left Ventricle to Right Atrial Shunt (Gerbode Defect) and Massive Pulmonary Embolus by Hideki Tatewaki, MD, Joseph P. Alesnik, MD and David L. S. Morales, MD
  18-September-2006
• Use of Intravascular Ultrasound in Endovascular Stenting of Traumatic Rupture of the Descending Thoracic Aorta by Ali Khoynezhad, MD, Carlos E. Donayre, MD, George Kopchok, BS, et al
  25-May-2006
• Spiral Vein Graft for SVC Stenosis by Andrew B. Adams, MD, PhD, Vinod H. Thourani, MD, Stewart Long, MD, et al
  11-January-2005

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• Impact of Endoscopic Versus Open Saphenous Vein Harvest Techniques on Outcomes After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
• Destination therapy with a rotary blood pump and novel power delivery
• Comparable patencies of the radial artery and right internal thoracic artery or saphenous vein beyond 5 years: Results from the Radial Artery Patency and Clinical Outcomes trial   [Recently added CME from January 2010 issue of JTCS]
• Long-term survival in asymptomatic patients with severe degenerative mitral regurgitation: A propensity score–based comparison between an early surgical strategy and a conservative treatment approach   [Recently added CME from December 2009 issue of JTCS]

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• Annals of Thoracic Surgery
• Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals
• European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
• Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery
• Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
• Multimedia Manual of Cardiothoracic Surgery

• Dilemmas in Adult Cardiac Surgery
• In My Opinion Discussions
• Beating Heart Surgery
• Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
• Cardiac Transplantation

• Ascending-To-Descending Aortic Bypass For Coarctation of the Aorta by John S. Thurber, MD, Subrato J. Deb, MD and Lucas R. Collazo, MD
  12-May-2008
• Off-Pump Insertion of the Jarvik 2000 Left Ventricular Assist Device by Craig H. Selzman, MD
  21-February-2008
• Technique for Percutaneous Transfemoral Stent Graft Repair of Traumatic Aortic Transection by Howard K. Song, MD, PhD, Matt S. Slater, MD and John Kaufman, MD
  06-August-2007

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• Reoperative Bentall Procedure and Aortic Arch Replacement by George Tolis, Jr, MD
  26-October-2009
• Artificial Chordal Replacement in Complex Mitral Valve Repair by J. Scott Rankin, MD   Presented at the Society for Heart Valve Disease Meeting in Berlin, June 2009
  23-July-2009
• The Use of Nitinol Clips in Cardiac Surgery: A New Method of Sternal Closure by Nicolas Nikolaidis, MD, MRCSEd, Geoffrey Tsang, MD FRCS(CTh) and Sunil K. Ohri, MD, FRCS
  25-June-2009

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• 45th Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (January 2009) Webcast
• 2008 Brussels Valve Symposium (June 2008) Webcast
• 88th Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (May 2008) Webcast

• Federal Funding of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Revisited: Does the nobility of hoped-for ends absolve us? by Fritz J. Baumgartner, MD
  19-March-2009
• Process Improvement: The Sorcerer and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Vincent A. Gaudiani, MD
  20-February-2009
• A Contrarian View of Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation by Vincent A. Gaudiani, MD
  15-July-2008

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• Adult Cardiac Literature Watch - Second Quarter 2009
• Adult Cardiac Literature Watch - First Quarter 2009
• Adult Cardiac Literature Watch - Fourth Quarter 2008

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