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| The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery |
| Volume 129, Issue 2, Pages 243-482 (February 2005) |
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Cardiopulmonary support and physiology
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NS-7, a novel Na+/Ca2+ channel blocker, prevents neurologic injury after spinal cord ischemia in rabbits
Enyi Shi, Teruhisa Kazui, Xiaojing Jiang, Naoki Washiyama, Kazuchika Suzuki, Katsushi Yamashita, Hitoshi Terada
pages 364-371
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Supine position with alternating inflation pneumatic cuffs in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for bilateral pneumothorax
Pei-Ming Huang, Yih-Leong Chang, Hsao-Hsun Hsu, Jin-Shing Chen, Jang-Ming Lee, Yung-Chie Lee
pages 437-439
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Cardiothoracic transplantation
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Effects of postmortem heparinization in canine lung transplantation with non–heart-beating donors
Hidetoshi Inokawa, Hiroshi Date, Mikio Okazaki, Daisuke Okutani, Keiju Aokage, Itaru Nagahiro, Motoi Aoe, Yoshifumi Sano, Nobuyoshi Shimizu
pages 429-434
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Left ventricular infarct plication restores mitral function in chronic ischemic mitral regurgitation
Ramzi Ramadan, Nawwar Al-Attar, Siamak Mohammadi, Said Ghostine, Alexandre Azmoun, Alexis Therasse, Chokri Kortas, Christophe Caussin, Rémi Nottin
pages 440-442
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Cardiopulmonary support and physiology
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Intraoperative regional myocardial acidosis and reduction in long-term survival after cardiac surgery
Shukri F. Khuri, Nancy A. Healey, Monir Hossain, Vladimir Birjiniuk, Michael D. Crittenden, Miguel Josa, Patrick R. Treanor, Samer F. Najjar, Dharam J. Kumbhani, William G. Henderson
pages 372-381
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Surgery for acquired cardiovascular disease
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Increased creatine kinase MB level predicts postoperative mortality after cardiac surgery independent of new Q waves
James Ramsay, Stanton Shernan, Jane Fitch, Paul Finnegan, Thomas Todaro, Thomas Filloon, Nancy A. Nussmeier
pages 300-306
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Septum transversum diaphragmatic hernia in an adult
Massimiliano Paci, Salvatore de Franco, Edoardo Della Valle, Guglielmo Ferrari, Valerio Annessi, Tommaso Ricchetti, Giorgio Sgarbi
pages 444-445
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Varicose pericardial vein: An unusual cause of right paracardiac opacity
Daniel Pop, Nicolas Venissac, Francesco Leo, Dorothé Ducreux, Bernard Padovani, Jérôme Mouroux
pages 448-449
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Surgery for acquired cardiovascular disease
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Preoperative prediction of long-term survival after coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with low left ventricular ejection fraction
Joseph J. DeRose, Ioannis K. Toumpoulis, Sandhya K. Balaram, John P. Ioannidis, Scott Belsley, Robert C. Ashton, Daniel G. Swistel, Constantine E. Anagnostopoulos
pages 314-321
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Robotically assisted repair of sinus venosus defect
Emile A. Bacha, Gil Bolotin, Karen Consilio, Jai Raman, David G. Ruschhaupt
pages 442-443
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Polymorphic ventricular tachycardia after radiofrequency maze procedure: Report of two cases
Santosh Kumar Dora, Praveen Kerala Varma, Chandrabhanu Parija, Krishnakumar Nair, Rupa Sreedhar, Kurur Sankaran Neelakandhan, Jaganmohan Tharakan
pages 446-447
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Foreign-body excretion through the bronchial stump after extrapleural pneumonectomy
Kenichi Okubo, Yasunori Kurahashi
pages 449-450
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Surgery for acquired cardiovascular disease
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No-touch aorta off-pump coronary surgery: The effect on stroke
Oren Lev-Ran, Rony Braunstein, Ram Sharony, Amir Kramer, Yosef Paz, Rephael Mohr, Gideon Uretzky
pages 307-313
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Helical myofiber orientation after myocardial infarction and left ventricular surgical restoration in sheep
Joseph C. Walker, Julius M. Guccione, Yi Jiang, Peng Zhang, Arthur W. Wallace, Edward W. Hsu, Mark B. Ratcliffe
pages 382-390
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Modified fenestration technique for the Kawashima operation in a young infant
Dante Picarelli, José Luis Montenegro, Serrana Antunez, Walter Perez, Daniel Borbonet
pages 451-452
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Thymoma with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura: Report of a case
Jianjun Qin, Lunxu Liu
page 453
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Traumatic rupture of retrosternal goiter: A rare case of acute superior mediastinal syndrome
Daniel Pop, Nicolas Venissac, Francesco Leo, Babou Soilihi Karimdjee, Fabrice Tiger, Jérôme Mouroux
pages 460-461
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A novel technique for semiselective in situ bronchial artery perfusion in human lung retrieval
Bernhard Gohrbandt, Gregor Warnecke, Stefan Fischer, Axel Haverich, Martin Strueber
pages 456-457
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Left tracheal sleeve pneumonectomy: A combined approach
David G. Tse, Nippon Vadehra, Luiza Iancu
pages 454-455
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Cardiopulmonary support and physiology
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Hemodilution during cardiopulmonary bypass is an independent risk factor for acute renal failure in adult cardiac surgery
K. Karkouti, W.S. Beattie, D.N. Wijeysundera, V. Rao, C. Chan, K.M. Dattilo, G. Djaiani, J. Ivanov, J. Karski
, T.E. David
pages 391-400
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When should we discontinue antiarrhythmic therapy for atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass grafting? A prospective randomized study
Uzi Izhar, Niv Ad, Ehud Rudis, Eli Milgalter, Amit Korach, Nicola Viola, Eli Levi, Galit Asraff, Gideon Merin, Amir Elami
pages 401-406
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Aortoesophageal fistula as a late complication of aortic transection
Heyman Luckraz, Saif Kitchlu, Aprim Youhana
pages 458-459
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Coexistent aortic dissection and hepatocellular carcinoma with elevated plasma transforming growth factor β level: Possible roles of fibrillin 1 and transforming growth factor β
Hisato Takagi, Hideaki Manabe, Seishiro Sekino, Takayoshi Kato, Yukihiro Matsuno, Takuya Umemoto
pages 462-463
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Surgery for congenital heart disease
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A novel adhesion barrier facilitates reoperations in complex congenital cardiac surgery
Thomas Walther, Ardawan Rastan, Ingo Dähnert, Volkmar Falk, Stefan Jacobs, Friedrich W. Mohr, Martin Kostelka
pages 359-363
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Vasopressin to attenuate pulmonary hypertension and improve systemic blood pressure after correction of obstructed total anomalous pulmonary venous return
Mark A. Scheurer, Scott M. Bradley, Andrew M. Atz
pages 464-466
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Cardiothoracic transplantation
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Rescue cardiac transplantation for early failure of the Fontan-type circulation in children
Milind Chaudhari, Jon Sturman, John O'Sullivan, Jon Smith, Neil Wrightson, Gareth Parry, David Bolton, Simon Haynes, Leslie Hamilton, Asif Hasan
pages 416-422
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Surgery for acquired cardiovascular disease
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Intermediate results of isolated mitral valve replacement with a Biocor porcine valve
Giulio Rizzoli, Tomaso Bottio, Vladimiro Vida, Georgios Nesseris, Luca Caprili, Gaetano Thiene, Gino Gerosa
pages 322-329
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Mild preoperative renal dysfunction as a predictor of long-term clinical outcome after coronary bypass surgery
Ruud M.A. van de Wal, Ben L. van Brussel, Adriaan A. Voors, Tom D.J. Smilde, Johannes C. Kelder, Henry A. van Swieten, Wiek H. van Gilst, Dirk Jan van Veldhuisen, H.W. Thijs Plokker
pages 330-335
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Late aneurysm formation with destruction of the left lung after subclavian flap angioplasty for coarctation of aorta
Sanjay Theodore, Praveen Kerala Varma, Praveen Kumar Neema, Kurur Sankaran Neelakandhan
pages 468-469
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Extended pericardiotomy avoids cardiopulmonary bypass during bilateral sequential lung transplantation
Takahiro Oto, Marc Rabinov, Franklin Rosenfeldt, Donald S. Esmore
pages 466-467
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Cardiothoracic transplantation
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A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of complement inhibition in ischemia-reperfusion injury after lung transplantation in human beings
S. Keshavjee, R.D. Davis, M.R. Zamora, M. de Perrot, G.A. Patterson
pages 423-428
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Editorials
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Radial artery conduits for coronary artery bypass grafting: Current perspective
Shafi Mussa, Bikram P. Choudhary, David P. Taggart
pages 250-253
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Advances in tissue engineering: Cell printing
David Varghese, Malay Deshpande, Tao Xu, Priya Kesari, Sunil Ohri, Thomas Boland
pages 470-472
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Selective reduction of the septolateral dimensions in functional mitral regurgitation by modified-shape ring annuloplasty
Francesco Maisano, Zvi Ziskind, Antonio Grimaldi, Andrea Blasio, Alessandro Caldarola, Michele De Bonis, Giovanni La Canna, Ottavio Alfieri
pages 472-474
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To STICH or not to STICH: We know the answer, but do we understand the question?
Torsten Doenst, Eric J. Velazquez, Friedhelm Beyersdorf, Robert Michler, Lorenzo Menicanti, Marisa Di Donato, Sinisa Gradinac, Benjamin Sun, Vivek Rao, STICH Investigators
pages 246-249
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Surgery for acquired cardiovascular disease
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Map-guided surgery for atrial fibrillation, 31 December 2004
Takashi Nitta, Hiroya Ohmori, Shun-ichiro Sakamoto, Yasuo Miyagi, Shigeto Kanno, Kazuo Shimizu
pages 291-299
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General thoracic surgery
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Gene transfer of a TIE2 receptor antagonist prevents pulmonary hypertension in rodents, 31 December 2004
Masakuni Kido, Lingling Du, Christopher C. Sullivan, Reena Deutsch, Stuart W. Jamieson, Patricia A. Thistlethwaite
pages 268-276
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Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy: Comparison of outcomes after myectomy or alcohol ablation adjusted by propensity score, 31 December 2004
Anthony Ralph-Edwards, Anna Woo, Brian W. McCrindle, Jonathan L. Shapero, Leonard Schwartz, Harry Rakowski, E. Douglas Wigle, William G. Williams
pages 351-358
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General thoracic surgery
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Lobar and sublobar resection with and without brachytherapy for small stage IA non–small cell lung cancer, 31 December 2004
Hiran C. Fernando, Ricardo S. Santos, John R. Benfield, Frederic W. Grannis, Robert J. Keenan, James D. Luketich, John M. Close, Rodney J. Landreneau
pages 261-267
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Imaging, models, and reality: A basis for anatomic-physiologic planning
Gerald D. Buckberg
pages 243-245
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Historical perspectives
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Historical perspectives of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery: John Alexander (1891-1954)
Herbert Sloan
pages 435-436
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Letters to the Editor
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Reasons for inability of clopidogrel to inhibit platelet aggregation early after coronary artery bypass surgery
Shahzad G. Raja
page 475
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Reply to the Editor:
Eric Lim
pages 475-476
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Surgery for congenital heart disease
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Risk factors associated with mortality and interventions in 472 neonates with interrupted aortic arch: A Congenital Heart Surgeons Society study, 31 December 2004
Brian W. McCrindle, Christo I. Tchervenkov, Igor E. Konstantinov, William G. Williams, Rodolfo A. Neirotti, Marshall L. Jacobs, Eugene H. Blackstone, For the members of the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society
pages 343-350
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Midterm results of mitral valve repair with artificial chordae in children, 31 December 2004
Kazu Minami, Hideaki Kado, Sadahiro Sai, Hideki Tatewaki, Yuichi Shiokawa, Atsuhiro Nakashima, Koji Fukae, Hitoshi Hirose
pages 336-342
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Cardiothoracic transplantation
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Combined endothelial and myocardial protection by endothelin antagonism enhances transplant allograft preservation, 31 December 2004
Paul W.M. Fedak, Vivek Rao, Subodh Verma, Danny Ramzy, Laura Tumiati, Santiago Miriuka, Patty Boylen, Richard D. Weisel, Christopher M. Feindel
pages 407-415
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Clinical efficacy of retrograde coronary sinus perfusion in off-pump surgery
Harinder Singh Bedi
pages 476-477
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What is the true (unbiased) percentage freedom from atrial fibrillation at 6 months after the modified Cox maze procedure using bipolar radiofrequency energy?
Eric Lim, Stephen Large
page 477
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Surgery for acquired cardiovascular disease
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Cerebral monitoring with transcranial Doppler ultrasonography improves neurologic outcome during repairs of acute type A aortic dissection, 31 December 2004
Anthony L. Estrera, Zsolt Garami, Charles C. Miller, Roy Sheinbaum, Tam T.T. Huynh, Eyal E. Porat, Bradley S. Allen, Hazim J. Safi
pages 277-285
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Aortic and mitral valve replacement with reconstruction of the intervalvular fibrous body: An analysis of clinical outcomes, 31 December 2004
Nilto C. De Oliveira, Tirone E. David, Susan Armstrong, Joan Ivanov
pages 286-290
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Selective management of intrathoracic anastomotic leak after esophagectomy, 31 December 2004
Juan A. Crestanello, Claude Deschamps, Stephen D. Cassivi, Francis C. Nichols, Mark S. Allen, Cathy Schleck, Peter C. Pairolero
pages 254-260
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On the move
page 285
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Events of interest
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Events of interest
pages 478-479
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Announcements
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Announcements
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Frontmatter
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