CARDIOTHORACIC TRANSPLANTATION:

Stephen D. Cassivi, Mingyao Liu, Annette Boehler, A. Keith Tanswell, Arthur S. Slutsky, and Shaf Keshavjee

TRANSGENE EXPRESSION AFTER ADENOVIRUS-MEDIATED RETRANSFECTION OF RAT LUNGS IS INCREASED AND PROLONGED BY TRANSPLANT IMMUNOSUPPRESSION
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 1-8. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Carlos H. R. Boasquevisque, Bassem N. Mora, Mariano Boglione, Jon K. Ritter, Ronald K. Scheule, Nelson Yew, Lisa Debruyne, Lihui Qin, Jonathan S. Bromberg, and G. Alexander Patterson

LIPOSOME-MEDIATED GENE TRANSFER IN RAT LUNG TRANSPLANTATION: A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE IN VIVO AND EX VIVO APPROACHES
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 8-15. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY:

John J. Nigro, Jeffrey A. Hagen, Tom R. DeMeester, Steven R. DeMeester, Jeffrey H. Peters, Stefan Öberg, Jörg Theisen, Milton Kiyabu, Peter F. Crookes, and Cedric G. Bremner

PREVALENCE AND LOCATION OF NODAL METASTASES IN DISTAL ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA CONFINED TO THE WALL: IMPLICATIONS FOR THERAPY
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 16-25. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Thomas W. Rice

COMMENTARY: ESOPHAGEAL CARCINOMA CONFINED TO THE WALL—THE NEED FOR IMMEDIATE DEFINITIVE THERAPY
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 26-27. [Full Text]  

Gaetano Rocco, Claude Deschamps, Elyse Martel, Andre Duranceau, Victor F. Trastek, Mark S. Allen, Daniel L. Miller, and Peter C. Pairolero

RESULTS OF REOPERATION ON THE UPPER ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 28-31. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Nael Martini, Valerie W. Rusch, Manjit S. Bains, Mark G. Kris, Robert J. Downey, Betty J. Flehinger, and Robert J. Ginsberg

FACTORS INFLUENCING TEN-YEAR SURVIVAL IN RESECTED STAGES I TO IIIA NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 32-38. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

John D. Mitchell, Douglas J. Mathisen, Cameron D. Wright, John C. Wain, Dean M. Donahue, Ashby C. Moncure, and Hermes C. Grillo

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE WITH CARINAL RESECTION
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 39-53. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

David J. Sugarbaker, Raja M. Flores, Michael T. Jaklitsch, William G. Richards, Gary M. Strauss, Joseph M. Corson, Malcolm M. DeCamp, Jr, Scott J. Swanson, Raphael Bueno, Jeanne M. Lukanich, Elizabeth Healey Baldini, and Steven J. Mentzer

RESECTION MARGINS, EXTRAPLEURAL NODAL STATUS, AND CELL TYPE DETERMINE POSTOPERATIVE LONG-TERM SURVIVAL IN TRIMODALITY THERAPY OF MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA: RESULTS IN 183 PATIENTS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 54-65. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Brigitta J. Robinson, Thomas W. Rice, Scott A. Strong, Lisa A. Rybicki, and Eugene H. Blackstone

IS RESECTION OF PULMONARY AND HEPATIC METASTASES WARRANTED IN PATIENTS WITH COLORECTAL CANCER?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 66-76. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

SURGERY FOR ADULT CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE:

Ole Lund, V. Chandrasekaran, Richard Grocott-Mason, Hassan Elwidaa, Rashid Mazhar, Asghar Khaghani, Andrew Mitchell, Charles Ilsley, and Magdi H. Yacoub

PRIMARY AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT WITH ALLOGRAFTS OVER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS: VALVE-RELATED AND PROCEDURE-RELATED DETERMINANTS OF OUTCOME
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 77-91. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Zsolt L. Nagy, John Fisher, Peter G. Walker, and Kevin G. Watterson

THE EFFECT OF SIZING ON THE IN VITRO HYDRODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS AND LEAFLET MOTION OF THE TORONTO SPV* STENTLESS VALVE
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 92-98. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Chris K. Rokkas and Nicholas T. Kouchoukos

SINGLE-STAGE EXTENSIVE REPLACEMENT OF THE THORACIC AORTA: THE ARCH-FIRST TECHNIQUE
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 99-105. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Jean-Michel Grinda, Jean Paul Couetil, Sylvain Chauvaud, Nicola D'Attellis, Alain Berrebi, Jean-Noel Fabiani, Alain Deloche, and Alain Carpentier

CARDIAC VALVE PAPILLARY FIBROELASTOMA: SURGICAL EXCISION FOR REVEALED OR POTENTIAL EMBOLIZATION
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 106-110. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Víctor G. Dávila-Román, Nicholas T. Kouchoukos, Kenneth B. Schechtman, and Benico Barzilai

ATHEROSCLEROSIS OF THE ASCENDING AORTA IS A PREDICTOR OF RENAL DYSFUNCTION AFTER CARDIAC OPERATIONS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 111-116. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Robin H. Heijmen, Peter Hinchliffe, Cornelius Borst, Cees W. J. Verlaan, Chantal M. Mouës, Yvonne J. M. van der Helm, Scott Manzo, Erik W.L. Jansen, and Paul F. Gründeman

A NOVEL ONE-SHOT ANASTOMOTIC STAPLER PROTOTYPE FOR CORONARY BYPASS GRAFTING ON THE BEATING HEART: FEASIBILITY IN THE PIG
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 117-125. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

SURGERY FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE:

Magdi Yacoub, Obed Onuzo, Bernhard Riedel, and Rosemary Radley-Smith

MOBILIZATION OF THE LEFT AND RIGHT FIBROUS TRIGONES FOR RELIEF OF SEVERE LEFT VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 126-133. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Francesco Seddio, V. Mohan Reddy, Doff B. McElhinney, Wayne Tworetzky, Norman H. Silverman, and Frank L. Hanley

MULTIPLE VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECTS: HOW AND WHEN SHOULD THEY BE REPAIRED?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 134-140. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Kazuo Niwaya, Christopher J. Knott-Craig, Mary M. Lane, K. Chandrasekaren, Edward D. Overholt, and Ronald C. Elkins

CRYOPRESERVED HOMOGRAFT VALVES IN THE PULMONARY POSITION: RISK ANALYSIS FOR INTERMEDIATE-TERM FAILURE
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 141-147. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Christian Schreiber, Andrew Cook, Siew Yen Ho, Norbert Augustin, and Robert H. Anderson

MORPHOLOGIC SPECTRUM OF EBSTEIN'S MALFORMATION: REVISITATION RELATIVE TO SURGICAL REPAIR
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 148-155. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

CARDIOPULMONARY SUPPORT AND PHYSIOLOGY:

David L. Reich, Suzan Uysal, Martin Sliwinski, M. Arisan Ergin, Ronald A. Kahn, Steven N. Konstadt, Jock McCullough, Mary R. Hibbard, Wayne A. Gordon, and Randall B. Griepp

NEUROPSYCHOLOGIC OUTCOME AFTER DEEP HYPOTHERMIC CIRCULATORY ARREST IN ADULTS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 156-163. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Osamu Kawaguchi, Walter E. Pae, Bill B. Daily, and William S. Pierce

VENTRICULOARTERIAL COUPLING WITH INTRA-AORTIC BALLOON PUMP IN ACUTE ISCHEMIC HEART FAILURE
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 164-171. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Shukri F. Khuri, Nancy Healey, Hollace MacGregor, Marc R. Barnard, Irma O. Szymanski, Vladimir Birjiniuk, Alan D. Michelson, David R. Gagnon, and C. Robert Valeri

COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTS OF TRANSFUSIONS OF CRYOPRESERVED AND LIQUID-PRESERVED PLATELETS ON HEMOSTASIS AND BLOOD LOSS AFTER CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 172-185. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS:

Santiago Flórez, Angel L. Fernández, and Jesús M. Herreros

TOLERANCE OF A RESORBABLE COLLAGEN-ELASTIN MEMBRANE AS A PERICARDIAL SUBSTITUTE IN ADULT CARDIAC OPERATIONS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 185. [Full Text]  

Shiro Sasaguri, Tomonobu Fukuda, Taira Yamamoto, Kinya Nishimura, Kazunori Kudo, Masahiro Goto, and Yasuyuki Hosoda

TRANSAPICAL AORTIC OCCLUSION FOR CARDIOPLEGIC DELIVERY DURING RECONSTRUCTION OF THORACOABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM WITH DEEP HYPOTHERMIC CIRCULATORY ARREST
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 186-188. [Full Text]  

Franz-Xaver Schmid, Friedrich Wippermann, Christoph Kampmann, Michael Hilker, and Hellmut Oelert

MODIFIED HEMI-FONTAN PROCEDURE ON THE BEATING HEART
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 188-190. [Full Text]  

Amir Elami, Arthur Pollak, and Gideon Merin

In situ implantation of a prosthetic systemic atrioventricular valve in corrected transposition
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 190-191. [Full Text]  

Christian Kreutzer, Andres Schlichter, and Guillermo Kreutzer

TETRALOGY OF FALLOT WITH ABSENT PULMONARY VALVE: A SURGICAL TECHNIQUE FOR COMPLETE REPAIR
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 192-194. [Full Text]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Bernard G. Krohn

Effect of inhaled nitric oxide on left ventricular and pulmonary vascular function
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 195. [Full Text]  

Michael Argenziano and Marc L. Dickstein

Effect of inhaled nitric oxide on left ventricular and pulmonary vascular function
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 195-196. [Full Text]  

Richard A. Jonas

Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest and retrograde cerebral perfusion
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 196. [Full Text]  

Yutaka Okita, Shinichi Takamoto, Motomi Ando, and Yasunara Kawashima

Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest and retrograde cerebral perfusion
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 196-197. [Full Text]  

Vahe C Gasparyan

Reconstruction of the aortic valve with autologous pericardium: An experimental study
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 197-198. [Full Text]  

Valeri S Chekanov

A stable model of chronic bilateral ventricular insufficiency (dilated cardiomyopathy) induced by arteriovenous anastomosis and doxorubicin administration in sheep
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 198-199. [Full Text]  

Tsung O. Cheng

High hematocrit value is a risk factor for myocardial infarction
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 199-200. [Full Text]  

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EVENTS OF INTEREST
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