PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:

Winfield J. Wells

AND JUSTICE FOR WHOM?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 211-219. [Full Text]  

GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY:

Alex G. Little, Alberto DeHoyos, Daniel M. Kirgan, Todd R. Arcomano, and Kevin D. Murray

INTRAOPERATIVE LYMPHATIC MAPPING FOR NON–SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER: THE SENTINEL NODE TECHNIQUE
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 220-224. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Erino A. Rendina, Federico Venuta, Tiziano De Giacomo, Anna Maria Ciccone, Giovanni Ruvolo, G. Furio Coloni, Costante Ricci, and Sponsor: G. Alexander Patterson

INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY FOR T4 CENTRALLY LOCATED NON–SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 225-233. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Paolo Claudio Cassina, Markus Hauser, Ludger Hillejan, Dieter Greschuchna, and Georgios Stamatis

VIDEO-ASSISTED THORACOSCOPY IN THE TREATMENT OF PLEURAL EMPYEMA: STAGE-BASED MANAGEMENT AND OUTCOME
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 234-238. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Yoichi Tabira, Toshitada Okuma, Keiichiro Kondo, and Nobuo Kitamura

INDICATIONS FOR THREE-FIELD DISSECTION FOLLOWED BY ESOPHAGECTOMY FOR ADVANCED CARCINOMA OF THE THORACIC ESOPHAGUS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 239-245. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

K. John M. Chan, MB, Ugo Pastorino, MD, and Peter Goldstraw, FRCS

SYSTEMATIC NODAL DISSECTION IN THE INTRATHORACIC STAGING OF PATIENTS WITH NON–SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 246-251. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

SURGERY FOR ADULT CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE:

A. Marc Gillinov, Bruce W. Lytle, Richard J. Kaplon, Filip P. Casselman, Eugene H. Blackstone, and Delos M. Cosgrove

DISSECTION OF THE ASCENDING AORTA AFTER PREVIOUS CARDIAC SURGERY: DIFFERENCES IN PRESENTATION AND MANAGEMENT
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 252-260. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Sandra L. Starnes, Seth W. Wolk, Richard M. Lampman, Charles J. Shanley, Richard L. Prager, Bobby K. Kong, Jennifer J. Fowler, Jeanne M. Page, Shelly L. Babcock, Leslie A. Lange, Errol E. Erlandson, and Walter M. Whitehouse, Jr

Noninvasive Evaluation Of Hand Circulation Before Radial Artery Harvest For Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 261-266. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Ulrik Hvass, George M. Palatianos, Romeo Frassani, Cesare Puricelli, and Mark O'Brien

MULTICENTER STUDY OF STENTLESS VALVE REPLACEMENT IN THE SMALL AORTIC ROOT
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 267-272. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Gideon Cohen, Tirone E. David, Joan Ivanov, Sue Armstrong, and Christopher M. Feindel

THE IMPACT OF AGE, CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE, AND CARDIAC COMORBIDITY ON LATE SURVIVAL AFTER BIOPROSTHETIC AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 273-284. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Marek Ehrlich, Erich Knolle, Ruxandra Ciovica, Peter Böck, Edvin Turkof, Martin Grabenwöger, Fabiola Cartes-Zumelzu, Alfred Kocher, Helmut Pockberger, W. Christopher Fang, Ernst Wolner, and Michael Havel

MEMANTINE FOR PREVENTION OF SPINAL CORD INJURY IN A RABBIT MODEL
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 285-291. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Nancy C. Poirier, Michel Carrier, Jacques Lespérance, Gilles Côté, Michel Pellerin, Louis P. Perrault, and L. Conrad Pelletier

QUANTITATIVE ANGIOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF CORONARY ANASTOMOSES PERFORMED WITHOUT CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 292-297. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

William E. Cohn, Cheryl A. Sirois, and Robert G. Johnson

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AFTER MINIMALLY INVASIVE CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING: A RETROSPECTIVE, MATCHED STUDY
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 298-301. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Julie R. Glasson, G. Randall Green, J. Francisco Nistal, Paul Dagum, Masashi Komeda, George T. Daughters, Ann F. Bolger, Linda E. Foppiano, Neil B. Ingels, Jr, and D. Craig Miller

MITRAL ANNULAR SIZE AND SHAPE IN SHEEP WITH ANNULOPLASTY RINGS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 302-309. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Hani Shennib, Amr Bastawisy, Joan McLoughlin, and Frederic Moll

ROBOTIC COMPUTER-ASSISTED TELEMANIPULATION ENHANCES CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 310-313. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

SURGERY FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE:

Ed Petrossian, Andrew J. Parry, V. Mohan Reddy, George P. Akkersdijk, D. Michael McMullan, LeNardo Thompson, Karen D. Hendricks-Munoz, Hussein Hallak, Frank L. Hanley, and Jeffrey R. Fineman

ENDOTHELIN RECEPTOR BLOCKADE PREVENTS THE RISE IN PULMONARY VASCULAR RESISTANCE AFTER CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS IN LAMBS WITH INCREASED PULMONARY BLOOD FLOW
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 314-323. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

V. Mohan Reddy, Doff B. McElhinney, Theresa Sagrado, Andrew J. Parry, David F. Teitel, and Frank L. Hanley

RESULTS OF 102 CASES OF COMPLETE REPAIR OF CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS IN PATIENTS WEIGHING 700 TO 2500 GRAMS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 324-331. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Andrew D. Cochrane, David M. Coleman, Andrew M. Davis, Christian P. Brizard, MD, Rory Wolfe, PhD, and Tom R. Karl

EXCELLENT LONG-TERM FUNCTIONAL OUTCOME AFTER AN OPERATION FOR ANOMALOUS LEFT CORONARY ARTERY FROM THE PULMONARY ARTERY
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 332-342. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

V. Mohan Reddy, Doff B. McElhinney, Hiranya A. Rajasinghe, John R. Liddicoat, Karen Hendricks-Munoz, Jeffrey R. Fineman, and Frank L. Hanley

ROLE OF THE ENDOTHELIUM IN PLACENTAL DYSFUNCTION AFTER FETAL CARDIAC BYPASS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 343-351. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Damien Bonnet, Philipp Bonhoeffer, Daniel Sidi, Jean Kachaner, Philippe Acar, Elizabeth Villain, and Pascal R. Vouhé

SURGICAL ANGIOPLASTY OF THE MAIN CORONARY ARTERIES IN CHILDREN
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 352-357. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

CARDIOTHORACIC TRANSPLANTATION:

Bryan F. Meyers, R. Sudhir Sundaresan, Tracey Guthrie, Joel D. Cooper, and G. Alexander Patterson

BILATERAL SEQUENTIAL LUNG TRANSPLANTATION WITHOUT STERNAL DIVISION ELIMINATES POSTTRANSPLANTATION STERNAL COMPLICATIONS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 358-364. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Thomas Yeh, Jr, Andrew S. Wechsler, Laura J. Graham, Kathryn E. Loesser, Domenic A. Sica, Luke Wolfe, and Emma R. Jakoi

Acute Brain Death Alters Left Ventricular Myocardial Gene Expression
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 365-374. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

CARDIOPULMONARY SUPPORT AND PHYSIOLOGY:

Koh Takeuchi, Pedro J. del Nido, Andra E. Ibrahim, Hung Cao-Danh, Ingeborg Friehs, Paul Glynn, Dimitrios Poutias, Douglas B. Cowan, and Francis X. McGowan, Jr

VESNARINONE AND AMRINONE REDUCE THE SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 375-382. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Vinod H. Thourani, Masanori Nakamura, Ignacio G. Duarte, Bradley L. Bufkin, Zhi-Qing Zhao, James E. Jordan, Steven T. Shearer, Robert A. Guyton, and Jakob Vinten-Johansen

ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING ATTENUATES POSTISCHEMIC CORONARY ARTERY ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION IN A MODEL OF MINIMALLY INVASIVE DIRECT CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 383-389. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS:

Michael J. Reardon, George V. Letsou, James E. Anderson, Hazim J. Safi, Rafael Espada, and John C. Baldwin

ORTHOTOPIC CARDIAC TRANSPLANTATION AFTER MINIMALLY INVASIVE DIRECT CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 390-391. [Full Text]  

Bernard Geny, Hélène Hardy, Eliane Lampert, Anne Charloux, Arnaud Charpentier, Jean Lonsdorfer, Pascal Haberey, and François Piquard

SHORT-TERM EFFECT OF CYCLOSPORINE ON CIRCULATING ADRENOMEDULLIN AFTER HEART TRANSPLANTATION
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 391-392. [Full Text]  

Hideto Shimpo, Kazuhiro Tani, Iwao Hioki, Yoichiro Miyake, Koji Onoda, Hidetoshi Hayakawa, and Isao Yada

ISOLATED ATRIOVENTRICULAR DISCORDANCE WITH SOLITUS VISCERA, INVERTED ATRIA, D-LOOP VENTRICLES, AND SOLITUS NORMALLY RELATED GREAT ARTERIES: REPORT OF A RARE CASE WITH SUCCESSFUL SURGICAL MANAGEMENT
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 393-394. [Full Text]  

Reida El Oakley, Abdulraoof Al Saeedi, Yahya Al Faraidi, Youssef Abou Zanouna, Jassim Abdullhamid, and Khalid Jubair

REIMPLANTATION OF ANOMALOUS LEFT CORONARY ARTERY ON A BEATING HEART
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 395-396. [Full Text]  

Peter H. Hollaus, Franz Lax, Peter N. Wurnig, and Nestor S. Pridun

VIDEOTHORACOSCOPIC TREATMENT OF POSTPNEUMONECTOMY EMPYEMA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 397-398. [Full Text]  

Charles Hugo Marquette, Nicolas Bocquillon, Didier Roumilhac, Rémi Nevière, Daniel Mathieu, and Philippe Ramon

CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT OF TRACHEAL RUPTURE
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 399-400. [Full Text]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Technique to repair multiple muscular ventricular septal defects
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 402-403. [Full Text]  

Technique to repair multiple muscular ventricular septal defects
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 403-404. [Full Text]  

Single or double lung transplantation for pulmonary hypertension
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 404. [Full Text]  

Multiple primary lung carcinomas
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 405. [Full Text]  

Profound systemic hypothermia and release of neurotransmitter amino acids
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 406. [Full Text]  

Profound systemic hypothermia and release of neurotransmitter amino acids
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 408-409. [Full Text]  

Cytokines and myocardial injury: Is there a scope for magic bullets?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 409. [Full Text]  

The "sternum calvary"
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 410-411. [Full Text]  

COMMENTS FROM THE EDITOR:

DEPARTURE OF ASSOCIATE EDITOR
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 412. [Full Text]  

EVENTS OF INTEREST:

EVENTS OF INTEREST
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 413. [Full Text]  

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