EDITORIALS:

Michael K. Pasque and Joseph G. Rogers

Adverse events in the use of HeartMate vented electric and Novacor left ventricular assist devices: Comparing apples and oranges
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1063-1067. [Full Text]  

Lars G. Svensson

Antegrade perfusion during suspended animation?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1068-1070. [Full Text]  

Song Wan and Anthony P. C. Yim

Tai Ji: The law of inflammatory response
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1071-1073. [Full Text]  

Harvey I. Pass

Pleural mesothelioma in 2002: Going somewhere very slowly
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1074-1077. [Full Text]  

Patrick M. McCarthy

Does the intertrigonal distance dilate? Never say never
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1078-1079. [Full Text]  

CARDIOPULMONARY SUPPORT AND PHYSIOLOGY (CSP):

Marco Di Eusanio, Marc A. A. M. Schepens, Wim J. Morshuis, Roberto Di Bartolomeo, Angelo Pierangeli, and Karl M. Dossche

Antegrade selective cerebral perfusion during operations on the thoracic aorta: Factors influencing survival and neurologic outcome in 413 patients
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1080-1086. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

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

Central sympathetic blockade ameliorates brain death-induced cardiotoxicity and associated changes in myocardial gene expression
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1087-1098. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Toshihiro Funatsu, Yoshiki Sawa, Shigeaki Ohtake, Toshiki Takahashi, Goro Matsumiya, Nariaki Matsuura, Toshikazu Nakamura, and Hikaru Matsuda

Therapeutic angiogenesis in the ischemic canine heart induced by myocardial injection of naked complementary DNA plasmid encoding hepatocyte growth factor
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1099-1105. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Hung-I Yeh, Shou-Hsien Hou, Hsiang-Rui Hu, Yi-Nan Lee, Jiun-Yi Li, Emmanuel Dupont, Steven R. Coppen, Yu-Shien Ko, Nicholas J. Severs, and Cheng-Ho Tsai

Alteration of gap junctions and connexins in the right atrial appendage during cardiopulmonary bypass
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1106-1112. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Manuel Castellá, Gerald D. Buckberg, Zhongtuo Tan, and Louis J. Ignarro

Myocyte and endothelial effects of preconditioning the jeopardized heart by inhibiting Na⁺/H⁺ exchange
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1113-1121. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Lukás Kubala, Milan Cíz, Jan Vondrácek, Jan Cerny, Petr Nemec, Pavel Studeník, Hana Cizová, and Antonín Lojek

Perioperative and postoperative course of cytokines and the metabolic activity of neutrophils in human cardiac operations and heart transplantation
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1122-1129. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

CARDIOTHORACIC TRANSPLANTATION (TX):

Samer A. Kanaan, Benjamin D. Kozower, Takashi Suda, Niccolò Daddi, Tsutomu Tagawa, Jon H. Ritter, T. Mohanakumar, and G. Alexander Patterson

Intratracheal adenovirus-mediated gene transfer is optimal in experimental lung transplantation
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1130-1136. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Marc de Perrot, Yumiko Imai, George A. Volgyesi, Thomas K. Waddell, Mingyao Liu, J. Brendan Mullen, Karen McRae, Haibo Zhang, Arthur S. Slutsky, V. Marco Ranieri, and Shaf Keshavjee

Effect of ventilator-induced lung injury on the development of reperfusion injury in a rat lung transplant model
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1137-1144. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Susan M. Talbot, Robert N. Taub, Mary Lou Keohan, Niloo Edwards, Mark E. Galantowicz, and Larry L. Schulman

Combined heart and lung transplantation for unresectable primary cardiac sarcoma
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1145-1148. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Hendrik T. Tevaearai, G. Brant Walton, Andrea D. Eckhart, Janelle R. Keys, and Walter J. Koch

Heterotopic transplantation as a model to study functional recovery of unloaded failing hearts
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1149-1156. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

SURGERY FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE (CHD):

Tsukasa Ozawa, Donald A. G. Mickle, Richard D. Weisel, Nobuya Koyama, Harvey Wong, Sumiko Ozawa, and Ren-Ke Li

Histologic changes of nonbiodegradable and biodegradable biomaterials used to repair right ventricular heart defects in rats
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1157-1164. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Om P. Tucker, Thomas Syburra, Monique Augstburger, Guy van Melle, Sandra Gebhard, Fred Bosman, and Ludwig K. von Segesser

Small intestine without mucosa as a growing vascular conduit: A porcine experimental study
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1165-1175. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Guy R. Randolph, Donald J. Hagler, Heidi M. Connolly, Joseph A. Dearani, Francisco J. Puga, Gordon K. Danielson, Martin D. Abel, V. Shane Pankratz, and Patrick W. O'Leary

Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography during surgery for congenital heart defects
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1176-1182. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY (GTS):

Terry T. Lee, Darcie L. Everett, Hui-Kuo G. Shu, Thierry M. Jahan, Mack Roach, III, Joycelyn L. Speight, Robert B. Cameron, Theodore L. Phillips, Albert Chan, and David M. Jablons

Radical pleurectomy/decortication and intraoperative radiotherapy followed by conformal radiation with or without chemotherapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1183-1189. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

A. C. Anyanwu, E. R. Townsend, N. R. Banner, M. Burke, A. Khaghani, and M. H. Yacoub

Primary lung carcinoma after heart or lung transplantation: Management and outcome
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1190-1197. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Hajime Saito, Yoshihiro Minamiya, Ikuo Matsuzaki, Kasumi Tozawa, Kousei Taguchi, Taku Nakagawa, Manabu Hashimoto, Yoshinori Hirano, and Jun-ichi Ogawa

Indication for preoperative localization of small peripheral pulmonary nodules in thoracoscopic surgery
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1198-1202. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Patricia A. Thistlethwaite, Makato Mo, Michael M. Madani, Reena Deutsch, Daniel Blanchard, David P. Kapelanski, and Stuart W. Jamieson

Operative classification of thromboembolic disease determines outcome after pulmonary endarterectomy
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1203-1211. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Ismail Cüneyt Kurul, Salih Topcu, Tamer Altinok, Ulkü Yazici, Irfan Tastepe, Sadi Kaya, and Güven Cetin

One-stage operation for hydatid disease of lung and liver: Principles of treatment
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1212-1215. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

SURGERY FOR ACQUIRED CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (ACD):

Alexandre Ciappina Hueb, Fabio Biscegli Jatene, Luiz Felipe Pinho Moreira, Pablo Maria Pomerantzeff, Elias Kallás, and Sérgio Almeida de Oliveira

Ventricular remodeling and mitral valve modifications in dilated cardiomyopathy: New insights from anatomic study
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1216-1224. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Nancy A. Nussmeier, Maria Rosa Marino, and William K. Vaughn

Hormone replacement therapy is associated with improved survival in women undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1225-1229. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS:

J. Dominguez, C. Sancho, E. Escalante, J. R. Morera, J. A. Moya, and R. Bernat

Percutaneous treatment of a ruptured intercostal aneurysm presenting as massive hemothorax in a patient with type I neurofibromatosis
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1230-1232. [Full Text]  

Pier Luigi Filosso, Anna Arslanian, Enrico Ruffini, and Maurizio Mancuso

Bilateral pneumothorax, pneumonia, and pneumomediastinum after injection of a hard drug into the neck
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1233-1234. [Full Text]  

Edmund C. K. Chan, Tak Wai Lee, Calvin S. H. Ng, Innes Y. P. Wan, Alan D. L. Sihoe, and Anthony P. C. Yim

Closure of postpneumonectomy bronchopleural fistula by means of single, perforator-based, latissimus dorsi muscle flap
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1235-1236. [Full Text]  

Takafumi Sugawara, Masami Sato, Keiichi Itoi, Akira Sugawara, Yasushi Matsuda, Kazuyoshi Shimada, Tetsu Sado, Shulin Wu, and Takashi Kondo

Successful localization and treatment for ectopic adrenocorticotrophic hormone secretion in a rare case of possible Tx N2 M0 carcinoid tumor with Cushing syndrome
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1237-1238. [Full Text]  

Sidney Chocron, Lucian Stoica, Stephane Koch, Jean-François Bonneville, Djamel Kaili, Bruno Heyd, and Joseph-Philippe Etievent

Is endovascular stent grafting for descending thoracic aortic disease recommendable in patients with dysphagia?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1239-1241. [Full Text]  

Jerome Sepic, Sari F. Aranki, and Lawrence H. Cohn

Minimally invasive Port-Access repair of a left ventricular pseudoaneurysm
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1242-1243. [Full Text]  

Michael Toumbouras, K. Rammos, and P. Spanos

Posteroinferior giant true aneurysm of the left ventricle presenting as pseudoaneurysm
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1244-1245. [Full Text]  

Yoshifumi Saijo, Hiroji Akimoto, Yoshikatsu Saiki, Koichi Tabayashi, Takashi Horinouchi, Takafumi Kobayashi, and Shin-ichi Nitta

Proximal (entry) tear of dissecting aortic aneurysm visualized by three-dimensional echocardiography
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1245-1246. [Full Text]  

Miralem Pasic and Roland Hetzer

Fibrin glue instillation for profuse sternal bleeding
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1247. [Full Text]  

Filip Casselman and Hugo Vanermen

Idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis can be treated endoscopically
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1248-1249. [Full Text]  

Richard Lee, Bryan F. Meyers, Thoralf M. Sundt, Elbert P. Trulock, and G. Alexander Patterson

Concomitant coronary artery revascularization to allow successful lung transplantation in selected patients with coronary artery disease
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1250-1251. [Full Text]  

Jen-Ping Chang, Hung-I Lu, Chiung-Lun Kao, Ming-Shian Lu, and Ming-Jang Hsieh

Combination of the Ross II operation with stentless bioprosthesis and radiofrequency maze IV operation
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1252-1253. [Full Text]  

Masato Nakajima, Kouji Tsuchiya, Yuji Naito, Narutoshi Hibino, and Hidenori Inoue

How to establish myocardial protection during aortic arch operation in patients with patent left internal thoracic artery graft: Careful dissection or no touch technique?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1254-1255. [Full Text]  

Pascal A. Berdat, Beat Kipfer, Franz F. Immer, Jean-Pierre Pfammatter, and Thierry Carrel

Facilitated vascular interrupted anastomosis in cardiovascular surgery with a new clip device
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1256-1258. [Full Text]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Peter J. Oberwalder, Kurt Tiesenhausen, Klaus Hausegger, and Bruno Rigler

Successful reversal of delayed paraplegia after endovascular stent grafting
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1259-1260. [Full Text]  

Tatjana Fleck and Martin Grabenwöger

Reply
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1260. [Full Text]  

Tadaomi-Alfonso Miyamoto and Koho-Julio Miyamoto

Alpha-stat strategy: Cause of ischemia in brains with old cerebral infarction despite selective cerebral hypothermic antegrade perfusion
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1260-1261. [Full Text]  

Naoki Washiyama, Teruhisa Kazui, and Abul Hasan Muhammad Bashar

Reply
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1261. [Full Text]  

Uday Trivedi and Andrew Forsyth

Effects of storage solutions on in vitro vasoreactivity of radial artery conduits
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1261. [Full Text]  

Dov Weissberg

Index of suspicion or clinical awareness?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1262. [Full Text]  

EVENTS OF INTEREST:

Events of interest
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 124: 1263. [Full Text]  

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