EDITORIAL:

John A. Waldhausen and James L. Cox

A letter from the Editors
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 977. [Full Text]  

CARDIAC AND PULMONARY REPLACEMENT:

A. K. Qayumi, M. Nikbakht-Sangari, D. V. Godin, J. C. English, K. J. Horley, P. A. Keown, S. P. Lim, D. M. Ansley, and M. S. Koehle

The relationship of ischemia-reperfusion injury of transplanted lung and the up-regulation of major histocompatibility complex II on host peripheral
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 978-982. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

James S. Gammie, Jung Cheul Lee, Si M. Pham, Robert J. Keenan, Robert J. Weyant, Brack G. Hattler, and Bartley P. Griffith

Cardiopulmonary bypass is associated with early allograft dysfunction but not death after double-lung transplantation
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 990-994. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Oktavijan P. Minanov, John H. Artrip, Matthias Szabolcs, Pawel A. Kwiatkowski, Uri Galili, Silviu Itescu, and Robert E. Michler

Triple immunosuppression reduces mononuclear cell infiltration andprolongs graft life in pig–to–newborn baboon cardiacxenotransplantation
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 998-1002. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY:

Hideyuki Imoto, Toshihiro Osaki, Satoshi Taga, Akira Ohgami, Yuji Ichiyoshi, and Kosei Yasumoto

Vascular endothelial growth factor expression in non-small-cell lungcancer: Prognostic significance in squamous cell carcinoma
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1007-1011. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Teruaki Koike, Masanori Terashima, Tsuneyo Takizawa, Takehiro Watanabe, Yuzo Kurita, and Akira Yokoyama

Clinical analysis of small-sized peripheral lung cancer
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1015-1019. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

SURGERY FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE:

Renato S. Assad and Frank L. Hanley

Editorial: Artificial placenta—a need for fetal surgery?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1021-1025. [Full Text]  

Masahiro Sakata, Katsuya Hisano, Masayoshi Okada, and Masao Yasufuku

A New Artificial Placenta with a Centrifugal Pump: Long-Term Total Extrauterine Support of Goat Fetuses
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1023-1027. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

V. Mohan Reddy, Doff B. McElhinney, Michael M. Brook, Andrew J. Parry, and Frank L. Hanley

Atrioventricular valve function after single patch repair of complete atrioventricular septal defect in infancy: How early should repair be attempted?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1032-1036. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Winfield J. Wells, Robertson Parkman, Elizabeth Smogorzewska, and Mark Barr

Neonatal thymectomy: Does it affect immune function?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1041-1045. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

L. Craig Wagerle, Pierantonio Russo, Nagib S. Dahdah, Nandkashore Kapadia, and Deborah A. Davis

Endothelial dysfunction in cerebral microcirculation duringhypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass in newborn lambs
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1047-1051. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Caroline Ovaert, Shakeel A. Qureshi, Eric Rosenthal, Edward J. Baker, and Michael Tynan

Growth of the right ventricle after successful transcatheterpulmonary valvotomy in neonates and infants with pulmonary atresia and intactventricular septum
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1055-1059. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Luc Mertens, Donald J. Hagler, Ursula Sauer, Jane Somerville, and Marc Gewillig

Protein-losing enteropathy after the Fontan operation: An international multicenter study
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1063-1073. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Luca Rosti, Bruno Murzi, Anna Maria Colli, Pierluigi Festa, Sofia Redaelli, Lubitza Havelova, Lorenzo Menicanti, and Alessandro Frigiola

Mechanical valves in the pulmonary position: A reappraisal
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1074-1078. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

SURGERY FOR ACQUIRED HEART DISEASE:

Magdi H. Yacoub, Petra Gehle, V. Chandrasekaran, Emma J. Birks, Anne Child, and Rosemary Radley-Smith

Late results of a valve-preserving operation in patients with aneurysms of the ascending aorta and root
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1080-1084. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Paul Stelzer, Susanne Weinrauch, and Robert F. Tranbaugh

Ten years of experience with the modified Ross procedure
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1091-1095. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Greg H. Ribakove, Jeffrey S. Miller, Richard V. Anderson, Eugene A. Grossi, Robert M. Applebaum, Wayne M. Cutler, Patricia M. Buttenheim, F. Gregory Baumann, Aubrey C. Galloway, and Stephen B. Colvin

Minimally invasive port-access coronary artery bypass grafting with early angiographic follow-up: Initial clinical experience
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1101-1110. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Jen-Her Lu, Yen Chang, Hsing-Wen Sung, Yung-Tang Chiu, Ping-Cheng Yang, and Betau Hwang

Heparinization on pericardial substitutes can reduce adhesion and epicardial inflammation in the dog
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1111-1115. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Bruno K. Podesser, Gudrun Khuenl-Brady, Ernst Eigenbauer, Suzanne Roedler, Arno Schmiedberger, Ernst Wolner, and Anton Moritz

Long-term results of heart valve replacement with the Edwards Duromedics bileaflet prosthesis: A prospective ten-year clinical follow-up
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1121-1129. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

José M. Bernal, Mónica Fernández-Vals, José M. Rabasa, Francisco Gutiérrez-García, Carlos Morales, and José M. Revuelta

Repair of nonsevere rheumatic aortic valve disease during other valvular procedures: Is it safe?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1130-1135. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Guo-Wei He and Cheng-Qin Yang

Characteristics of adrenoceptors in the human radial artery: Clinical implications
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1136-1140. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

CARDIOPULMONARY SUPPORT AND PHYSIOLOGY:

Tatu Juvonen, Donald J. Weisz, David Wolfe, Ning Zhang, Carol A. Bodian, Jock N. McCullough, Craig K. Mezrow, and Randall B. Griepp

Can retrograde perfusion mitigate cerebal injury after particulate embolization? A study in a chronic porcine model
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1142-1159. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Kyra N. Maquelin, René J. Berckmans, Rienk Nieuwland, Marianne C. L. Schaap, Klaas ten Have, León Eijsman, and Augueste Sturk

Disappearance of glycoprotein Ib from the platelet surface in pericardial blood during cardiopulmonary bypass
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1160-1165. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Jack S. Shanewise, Andrzej S. Kosinski, Jorge A. Coto, and Ellis L. Jones

Prospective, randomized trial comparing blood and oxygenated crystalloid cardioplegia in reoperative coronary artery bypass grafting
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1166-1171. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

G. Fingerle-Rowson, J. Auers, E. Kreuzer, M. Labeta, B. Schmidt, W. Samtleben, H. W. L. Ziegler-Heitbrock, and M. Blumenstein

Down-regulation of surface monocyte lipopolysaccharide-receptor cd14in patients on cardiopulmonary bypass undergoing aorta-coronary bypass operation
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1172-1178. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Talia B. Spanier, Mehmet C. Oz, Oktavijan P. Minanov, Ronit Simantov, Walter Kisiel, David M. Stern, Eric A. Rose, and Ann Marie Schmidt

Heparinless cardiopulmonary bypass with active-site blocked factorIXa: A preliminary study on the dog
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1179-1188. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Robert F. Shaffer, Clive M. Baumgarten, and Ralph J. Damiano, Jr.

Prevention of cellular edema directly caused by hypothermic cardioplegia: Studies in isolated human and rabbit atrial myocytes
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1189-1193. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

A. Mark Jayawant, Edward R. Stephenson, Jr., Clive M. Baumgarten, and Ralph J. Damiano, Jr.

Prevention of cell swelling with low chloride St. Thomas'Hospital solution improves postischemic myocardial recovery
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1196-1202. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Beng-Ling Liam, Walter Plöchl, David J. Cook, Thomas A. Orszulak, and Richard C. Daly

Hemodilution and whole body oxygen balance during normothermiccardiopulmonary bypass in dogs
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1203-1208. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

David A. Dean, Mehrdad M. Amirhamzeh, Chao-Xiang Jia, Santos E. Cabreriza, David G. Rabkin, Robert Sciacca, Marc L. Dickstein, and Henry M. Spotnitz

REVERSAL OF IATROGENIC MYOCARDIAL EDEMA AND RELATED ABNORMALITIES OFDIASTOLIC PROPERTIES IN THE PIG LEFT VENTRICLE
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1209-1214. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS:

F. Ida Hsu, Deborah Keefe, Dawn Desiderio, and Robert J. Downey

Echocardiographic and surgical correlation of pericardial effusions in patients with malignant disease
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1215-1216. [Full Text]  

Henri Porte, Mathieu Langlois, Charles H. Maquette, Jacques Dupont, Jean M. Anselin, and Alain Wurtz

SUCCESSFUL ESOPHAGEAL TRACHEOBRONCHOPLASTY FOR COMBINED TRACHEAL ANDBRONCHIAL TRAUMATIC RUPTURE
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1216-1218. [Full Text]  

Iwao Takanami, Masao Naruke, and Susumu Kodaira

LONG-TERM SURVIVAL AFTER RESECTION OF A MEDIASTINAL METASTASIS FROM A RENAL CELL CARCINOMA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1218-1219. [Full Text]  

Richard A. Jonas, John F. Keane, and James E. Lock

AORTIC VALVE–PRESERVING PROCEDURE FOR ENLARGEMENT OF THE LEFTVENTRICULAR OUTFLOW TRACT AND MITRAL ANULUS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1219-1222. [Full Text]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Antonio F. Corno

Inverted left atrial appendage
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1223-1224. [Full Text]  

Bradley S. Allen and Michel Ibawi

Inverted left atrial appendage
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1224. [Full Text]  

Toshiki Matsubara

Is cervical involvement a sign of incurable disease in cancer of the thoracic esophagus?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1224-1225. [Full Text]  

Nasser K. Altorki and David B. Skinner

Is cervical involvement a sign of incurable disease in cancer of the thoracic esophagus?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1225. [Full Text]  

Mark B. Orringer

Is cervical involvement a sign of incurable disease in cancer of the thoracic esophagus?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1225-1226. [Full Text]  

John A. Rousou, Richard M. Engelman, Joseph E. Flack, III, David W. Deaton, Robert Rifkin, and A. Elmansoury

Interruption of normothermic cardioplegia and its effects on myocardial preservation
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1226-1227. [Full Text]  

Federico Bizzarri, Enrico Carone, Gianni Capannini, Giuseppe Davoli, Gianfranco Lisi, Massimo Maccherini, Guido Sani, and Michele Toscano

Bleeding reduction in cardiac surgery: A combined approach
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998 115: 1227. [Full Text]  

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