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Editorials:

Andrew S. Wechsler and Pamela W. Fried: Peer review
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1681-1682. [Extract] [Full Text]

Frank W. Sellke: The peer-review process in medical publishing: a reviewer's perspective
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1683-1685. [Extract] [Full Text]

James L. Cox: Atrial fibrillation I: a new classification system
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1686-1692. [Extract] [Full Text]

James L. Cox: Atrial fibrillation II: rationale for surgical treatment
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1693-1699. [Extract] [Full Text]

Kemp H. Kernstine: Positron emission tomography with 2-[¹⁸F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose: can it be used to accurately stage the mediastinum in non–small cell lung cancer as an alternative to mediastinoscopy?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1700-1703. [Extract] [Full Text]

Suzanne Oparil: Improving outcomes for women after coronary artery bypass grafting: A case for prevention
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1704-1706. [Extract] [Full Text]

Viola Vaccarino and Colleen Gorman Koch: Long-term benefits of coronary bypass surgery: Are the gains for women less than for men?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1707-1711. [Extract] [Full Text]

Surgery for congenital heart disease:

Dean B. Andropoulos, Stephen A. Stayer, E. Dean McKenzie, and Charles D. Fraser, Jr: Regional low-flow perfusion provides comparable blood flow and oxygenation to both cerebral hemispheres during neonatal aortic arch reconstruction
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1712-1717. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Emile A. Bacha, Qi-Ling Cao, Joanne P. Starr, David Waight, Makram R. Ebeid, and Ziyad M. Hijazi: Perventricular device closure of muscular ventricular septal defects on the beating heart: technique and results
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1718-1723. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Sohrab Fratz, Ralf Geiger, Hans Kresse, Gabriele Roemer, Michael Hennig, Walter Sebening, and John Hess: Pulmonary blood pressure, not flow, is associated with net endothelin-1 production in the lungs of patients with congenital heart disease and normal pulmonary vascular resistance
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1724-1729. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Karim S. Bandali, Michael P. Belanger, and Carin Wittnich: Does hyperoxia affect glucose regulation and transport in the newborn?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1730-1735. [Abstract] [Full Text]

J. William Gaynor, Marsha Gerdes, Elaine H. Zackai, Judy Bernbaum, Gil Wernovsky, Robert R. Clancy, Mark F. Newman, Ann M. Saunders, Patrick J. Heagerty, Jo Ann D'Agostino, Donna McDonald-McGinn, Susan C. Nicolson, Thomas L. Spray, and Gail P. Jarvik: Apolipoprotein E genotype and neurodevelopmental sequelae of infant cardiac surgery
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1736-1745. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Anuja Gupta, Jonah Odim, Daniel Levi, Ruey-Kang Chang, and Hillel Laks: Staged repair of pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries: Experience with 104 patients
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1746-1752. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Roberto Formigari, Alessandra Toscano, Alessandro Giardini, Gaetano Gargiulo, Roberto Di Donato, Fernando M. Picchio, and Luciano Pasquini: Prevalence and predictors of neoaortic regurgitation after arterial switch operation for transposition of the great arteries
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1753-1759. [Abstract] [Full Text]

William L. Border, Aitizaz U. Syed, Erik C. Michelfelder, Philip Khoury, Karen C. Uzark, Peter B. Manning, and Jeffrey M. Pearl: Impaired systemic ventricular relaxation affects postoperative short-term outcome in Fontan patients
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2004 126: 1760-1764. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Richard A. Jonas, David Wypij, Stephen J. Roth, David C. Bellinger, Karen J. Visconti, Adre J. du Plessis, Howard Goodkin, Peter C. Laussen, David M. Farrell, Jodi Bartlett, Ellen McGrath, Leonard J. Rappaport, Emile A. Bacha, Joseph M. Forbess, Pedro J. del Nido, John E. Mayer, Jr, and Jane W. Newburger: The influence of hemodilution on outcome after hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass: results of a randomized trial in infants
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1765-1774. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Antonio F. Corno, Damien Bonnet, Nicole Sekarski, Daniel Sidi, Pascal Vouhé, and Ludwig K. von Segesser: Remote control of pulmonary blood flow: initial clinical experience
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1775-1780. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Anne-Marie McMahon, Carin van Doorn, Michael Burch, Pauline Whitmore, Sophie Neligan, Philip Rees, Rosemary Radley-Smith, Allan Goldman, Katherine Brown, Gordon Cohen, Victor Tsang, Martin Elliott, and Marc R. de Leval: Improved early outcome for end-stage dilated cardiomyopathy in children
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2004 126: 1781-1787. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Cardiopulmonary support and physiology:

Bruno Chiappini, Sofia Martìn-Suàrez, Antonino LoForte, Roberto Di Bartolomeo, and Giuseppe Marinelli: Surgery for atrial fibrillation using radiofrequency catheter ablation
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1788-1791. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Mathias Waldmann, Robert P-C. Chen, and J. Andrew Armour: Surgery modifies cardiac sensory transduction
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1792-1797. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Shafi Mussa, Tomasz J. Guzik, Edward Black, Michelle A. Dipp, Keith M. Channon, and David P. Taggart: Comparative efficacies and durations of action of phenoxybenzamine, verapamil/nitroglycerin solution, and papaverine as topical antispasmodics for radial artery coronary bypass grafting
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1798-1805. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Ulrich Fischer-Rasokat and Torsten Doenst: Insulin-induced improvement of postischemic recovery is abolished by inhibition of protein kinase C in rat heart
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1806-1812. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Yoshitaka Hayashi, Yoshiki Sawa, Naoto Fukuyama, Yuji Miyamoto, Toshiki Takahashi, Hiroe Nakazawa, and Hikaru Matsuda: Leukocyte-depleted terminal blood cardioplegia provides superior myocardial protective effects in association with myocardium-derived nitric oxide and peroxynitrite production for patients undergoing prolonged aortic crossclamping for more than 120 minutes
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1813-1821. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Sunil M. Prasad, Hersh S. Maniar, Cindy J. Camillo, Richard B. Schuessler, John P. Boineau, Thoralf M. Sundt, III, James L. Cox, and Ralph J. Damiano, Jr: The Cox maze III procedure for atrial fibrillation: long-term efficacy in patients undergoing lone versus concomitant procedures
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1822-1827. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Christoph Schmitz, Susanne Weinreich, Jennifer White, Irena Oengoeren, Rebecca Schneider, Deborah Schneider, Inga Speth, Christoph Pohl, and Armin Welz: Can particulate extraction from the ascending aorta reduce neurologic injury in cardiac surgery?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1829-1836. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Adriano Carotti, Francesco Emma, Stefano Picca, Enrico Iannace, Sonia B. Albanese, Mauro Grigioni, Francesco Meo, Mario Sciarra, and Roberto M. Di Donato: Inflammatory response to cardiac bypass in ewe fetuses: effects of steroid administration or continuous hemodiafiltration
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1839-1848. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Bradley S. Allen, Manuel Castellá, Gerald D. Buckberg, and Zhongtou Tan: Conditioned blood reperfusion markedly enhances neurologic recovery after prolonged cerebral ischemia
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1851-1858. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Gianluca Bonanomi, David Schwartzman, David Francischelli, Kim Hebsgaard, and Marco A. Zenati: A new device for beating heart bipolar radiofrequency atrial ablation
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1859-1866. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Rachid Zegdi, Olivier Fabre, Nermine Lila, Paul Fornès, Michèle Cambillau, Ming Shen, Philippe Hervé, Alain Carpentier, and Jean-Noël Fabiani: Exhaled carbon monoxide and inducible heme oxygenase expression in a rat model of postperfusion acute lung injury
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1867-1874. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Benjamin Medalion, George Frenkel, Paulina Patachenko, Eli Hauptman, Lior Sasson, and Arie Schachner: Preoperative use of enoxaparin is not a risk factor for postoperative bleeding after coronary artery bypass surgery
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1875-1879. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Zivojin S. Jonjev, Dorie W. Schwertz, Jennifer M. Beck, James D. Ross, and William R. Law: Subcellular distribution of protein kinase C isozymes during cardioplegic arrest
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1880-1885. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Subodh Verma, Mitesh V. Badiwala, Richard D. Weisel, Shu-Hong Li, Chao-Hung Wang, Paul W. M. Fedak, Ren-Ke Li, and Donald A. G. Mickle: C-reactive protein activates the nuclear factor- ${kappa}$ B signal transduction pathway in saphenous vein endothelial cells: implications for atherosclerosis and restenosis
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1886-1891. [Abstract] [Full Text]

William M. Yarbrough, Rupak Mukherjee, G. Patricia Escobar, Jeffrey A. Sample, Julie E. McLean, Kathryn B. Dowdy, Jennifer W. Hendrick, William C. Gibson, Amy E. Hardin, Joseph T. Mingoia, Patrick C. White, Ann Stiko, Robert C. Armstrong, Fred A. Crawford, and Francis G. Spinale: Pharmacologic inhibition of intracellular caspases after myocardial infarction attenuates left ventricular remodeling: a potentially novel pathway
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1892-1899. [Abstract] [Full Text]

General thoracic surgery:

Gonzalo V. Gonzalez-Stawinski, Anthony Lemaire, Faisal Merchant, Elizabeth O'Halloran, R. Edward Coleman, David H. Harpole, and Thomas A. D'Amico: A comparative analysis of positron emission tomography and mediastinoscopy in staging non–small cell lung cancer
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1900-1904. [Abstract] [Full Text]

U. Pastorino, G. Veronesi, C. Landoni, M. Leon, M. Picchio, P. G. Solli, F. Leo, L. Spaggiari, G. Pelosi, M. Bellomi, and F. Fazio: Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography improves preoperative staging of resectable lung metastasis
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1906-1910. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Morihito Okada, Toshihiko Sakamoto, Wataru Nishio, Kazuya Uchino, Kenji Tsuboshima, and Noriaki Tsubota: Pleural lavage cytology in non–small cell lung cancer: lessons from 1000 consecutive resections
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1911-1915. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Masashi Gotoh, Taku Okamoto, Yasumichi Yamamoto, Dage Liu, Kotaro Kameyama, Eiichi Hayashi, Cheng-Long Huang, and Hiroyasu Yokomise: Development of a canine model of pulmonary emphysema and imaging of the emphysematous lung with infrared thoracoscopy
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1916-1921. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Meinoshin Okumura, Mitsunori Ohta, Yukiyasu Takeuchi, Hiroyuki Shiono, Masayoshi Inoue, Kenjiro Fukuhara, Yoshihisa Kadota, Shinichiro Miyoshi, Yoshitaka Fujii, and Hikaru Matsuda: The immunologic role of thymectomy in the treatment of myasthenia gravis: implication of thymus-associated B-lymphocyte subset in reduction of the anti-acetylcholine receptor antibody titer
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1922-1928. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Abbas Ardehali, Hillel Laks, Hyde Russell, Michael Levine, Robert Shpiner, Stephanie Lackey, and David Ross: Modified reperfusion and ischemia-reperfusion injury in human lung transplantation
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1929-1934. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Mark K. Ferguson: Optimal management when unsuspected N2 nodal disease is identified during thoracotomy for lung cancer: cost-effectiveness analysis
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1935-1942. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Carolyn E. Reed, David H. Harpole, Katherine E. Posther, Sandra L. Woolson, Robert J. Downey, Bryan F. Meyers, Robert T. Heelan, Homer A. MacApinlac, Sin-Ho Jung, Gerard A. Silvestri, Barry A. Siegel, and Valerie W. Rusch: Results of the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group Z0050 trial: the utility of positron emission tomography in staging potentially operable non–small cell lung cancer
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1943-1951. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Eero I. T. Sihvo, Terhi Ruohtula, Merja I. Auvinen, Aki Koivistoinen, Ari L. Harjula, and Jarmo A. Salo: Simultaneous progression of oxidative stress and angiogenesis in malignant transformation of Barrett esophagus
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2004 126: 1952-1957. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Evolving technology:

Yukihisa Isomatsu, Toshiharu Shin'oka, Goki Matsumura, Narutoshi Hibino, Takeshi Konuma, Masayoshi Nagatsu, and Hiromi Kurosawa: Extracardiac total cavopulmonary connection using a tissue-engineered graft
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1958-1962. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Joseph S. Friedberg, Cynthia Skema, Jeffrey Burdick, Arjun G. Yodh, Shamus R. Carr, and Joseph P. Culver: A novel technique for light delivery through branched or bent anatomic structures
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1963-1967. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Surgery for acquired cardiovascular disease:

Mario Gaudino, Paolo Tondi, Michele Serricchio, Paola Spatuzza, Angelo Santoliquido, Roberto Flora, Fabiana Girola, Giuseppe Nasso, Paolo Pola, and Gianfederico Possati: Atherosclerotic involvement of the radial artery in patients with coronary artery disease and its relation with midterm radial artery graft patency and endothelial function
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1968-1971. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Pallav J. Shah, Ian Gordon, John Fuller, Siven Seevanayagam, Alex Rosalion, James Tatoulis, Jai S. Raman, and Brian F. Buxton: Factors affecting saphenous vein graft patency: clinical and angiographic study in 1402 symptomatic patients operated on between 1977 and 1999
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1972-1977. [Abstract] [Full Text]

David T. Lai, D. Craig Miller, R. Scott Mitchell, Philip E. Oyer, Kathleen A. Moore, Robert C. Robbins, Norman E. Shumway, and Bruce A. Reitz: Acute type a aortic dissection complicated by aortic regurgitation: composite valve graft versus separate valve graft versus conservative valve repair
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1978-1985. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Francesco Maisano, Alessandro Caldarola, Andrea Blasio, Michele De Bonis, Giovanni La Canna, and Ottavio Alfieri: Midterm results of edge-to-edge mitral valve repair without annuloplasty
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1987-1997. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Francesco Puma, Costanzo Fedeli, Paolo Ottavi, Giuseppina Porcaro, Giovanni Battista Fonsi, Alessandro Pardini, and Giuliano Daddi: Laparoscopic omental flap for the treatment of major sternal wound infection after cardiac surgery
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1998-2002. [Abstract] [Full Text]

R. W. Grauss, M. G. Hazekamp, S. van Vliet, A. C. Gittenberger-de Groot, and M. C. DeRuiter: Decellularization of rat aortic valve allografts reduces leaflet destruction and extracellular matrix remodeling
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2003-2010. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Tzu-Yu Lin, Kuan-Ming Chiu, Ming-Jiuh Wang, and Shu-Hsun Chu: Carbon dioxide embolism during endoscopic saphenous vein harvesting in coronary artery bypass surgery
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2011-2015. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Ralph J. Damiano, Jr, Sydney L. Gaynor, Marci Bailey, Sunil Prasad, James L. Cox, John P. Boineau, and Richard P. Schuessler: The long-term outcome of patients with coronary disease and atrial fibrillation undergoing the cox maze procedure
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2016-2021. [Abstract] [Full Text]

John S. Ikonomidis, John M. Kratz, Arthur J. Crumbley, III, Martha R. Stroud, Scott M. Bradley, Robert M. Sade, and Fred A. Crawford, Jr: Twenty-year experience with the St Jude Medical mechanical valve prosthesis
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2022-2031. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Colleen Gorman Koch, Farah Khandwala, Nancy Nussmeier, and Eugene H. Blackstone: Gender and outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting: a propensity-matched comparison
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2032-2043. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Colleen Gorman Koch, Farah Khandwala, Nancy Nussmeier, and Eugene H. Blackstone: Gender profiling in coronary artery bypass grafting
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2044-2051. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Cardiothoracic transplantation:

Stephen C. Clark, Jagan N. Rao, Paul A. Flecknell, and John H. Dark: Pentoxifylline is as effective as leukocyte depletion for modulating pulmonary reperfusion injury
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2052-2057. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Gavin J. Murphy and Michael L. Nicholson: Rapamycin has no effect on fibrosis-associated gene expression or extracellular matrix accumulation when administered to animals with established or early allograft vasculopathy
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2058-2064. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Gregory D. Trachiotis, J. David Vega, Thomas S. Johnston, Alex Berg, John Whelchel, Andrew L. Smith, Jerry Lutz, and Kirk R. Kanter: Ten-year follow-up in patients with combined heart and kidney transplantation
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2065-2071. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Brief communications:

S. C. Stoica, M. Goddard, S. Tsui, J. Dunning, K. McNeil, J. Parameshwar, and Stephen R. Large: Ventricular assist surprise: giant cell myocarditis or sarcoidosis?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2072-2074. [Extract] [Full Text]

Niyazi Cebi, Frömke Johannes, Spiridon Botsios, and Gerd Walterbusch: Intraparenchymal replacement of the left pulmonary artery with implantation of segmental arteries in a 26-year-old patient
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2074-2077. [Extract] [Full Text]

Mary Maish and Ara A. Vaporciyan: Chondrosarcoma arising in the trachea: a case report and review of the literature
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2077-2080. [Extract] [Full Text]

Helena Hernández, Andres Varela, Mar Cordoba, Luis Madrigal, and Mariano Artes: Videothoracoscopic extrapleural insertion of walter lorenz surgical bar for pectus excavatum
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2081-2082. [Extract] [Full Text]

A. Alan Conlan and Andras Sandor: Total thoracoscopic pneumonectomy: indications and technical considerations
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2083-2085. [Extract] [Full Text]

Gerard Petersen, Ubaldo Martin, Arun Singhal, and Gerard J. Criner: Intralobar sequestration in the middle-aged and elderly adult: recognition and radiographic evaluation
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2086-2090. [Extract] [Full Text]

Pei-Ming Huang, Jin-Shing Chen, Hsao-Hsun Hsu, Yih-Leong Chang, Chung-Wei Chen, Nai-Chuan Chien, and Yung-Chie Lee: Staged dilation and stenting for long segmental tracheobronchial stenosis caused by tuberculosis
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2090-2092. [Extract] [Full Text]

Thomas Stephen, Roy Thankachen, Bhawna Parihar, Sheila Nair, and Vinayak Shukla: Multilocular tuberculous cyst of thymus gland
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2093-2094. [Extract] [Full Text]

Ralph E. Delius, Celia Buckley, and Henry L. Walters, III: Cervical cannulation for resternotomy in pediatric patients
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2004 126: 2095-2096. [Extract] [Full Text]

Nader Moazami, Marc R. Moon, Jennifer S. Lawton, Marci Bailey, and Ralph Damiano, Jr: Axillary artery cannulation for extracorporeal membrane oxygenator support in adults: An approach to minimize complications
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2097-2098. [Extract] [Full Text]

Kazuhiko Higuchi, Kenzi Koseni, and Shinichi Takamoto: Left-sided cervical aortic arch aneurysm: case report
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2098-2100. [Extract] [Full Text]

Louis E. Samuels, John C. Entwistle, III, Elena C. Holmes, Ted Parris, and Andrew S. Wechsler: Mechanical support of the unrepaired postinfarction ventricular septal defect with the abiomed BVS 5000 ventricular assist device
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2100-2101. [Extract] [Full Text]

B-Khanh Lam, Gosta B. Pettersson, and David P. Vogt: Urgent inferior vena cava replacement with an autologous pericardium tube graft
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2004 126: 2101-2103. [Extract] [Full Text]

Letters to the editor:

Raymond A. Dieter, Jr: Foreign bodies expectorated through the pneumonectomy stump
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2104. [Extract] [Full Text]

H. H. Sievers: Chronic and adjustable pulmonary artery banding: reflections on old knowledge
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2104-2105. [Extract] [Full Text]

Boudewijn P. J. Leeuwenburgh, Paul H. Schoof, Paul Steendijk, Jan Baan, Wolter J. Mooi, and Willem A. Helbing: Reply to the editor
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2105-2106. [Extract] [Full Text]

Steven Haddy and Vaughn A. Starnes: Lobar transplantation
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2106. [Extract] [Full Text]

Benjamin Kozower and Bryan Meyers: Reply to the editor
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2106. [Extract] [Full Text]

Seref A. Kucuker and Oguz Tasdemir: Brachial artery cannulation
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2106-2107. [Extract] [Full Text]

Zoltán Galajda, István Szentkirályi, and Árpád Péterffy: Reply to the editor
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2107. [Extract] [Full Text]

A. Sampath Kumar: Medical resources and capital punishment
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2107-2108. [Extract] [Full Text]

Martin McKneally: Reply to the Editor
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2108. [Extract] [Full Text]

Frank A. Baciewicz, Jr: Bivalirudin as alternative to both danaparoid and heparin in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2108-2109. [Extract] [Full Text]

Michel Carrier: Reply to the Editor:
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2109. [Extract] [Full Text]

P. P. Lunkenheimer and R. H. Anderson: Apical versus basal partial ventriculectomy
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2109-2110. [Extract] [Full Text]

Tadaaki Koyama, Kazunobu Nishimura, Yoshiharu Soga, Oriyanhan Unimonh, and Masashi Komeda: Reply to the Editor
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2110-2111. [Extract] [Full Text]

Edward B. Savage: Study of warm perfusion rather than cardioplegia
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2111. [Extract] [Full Text]

Hari R. Mallidi and Stephen E. Fremes: Reply to the Editor
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2111-2112. [Extract] [Full Text]

Uday K. Dasika, Kirk R. Kanter, and Robert Vincent: Nickel allergy to the percutaneous patent foramen ovale occluder and subsequent systemic nickel allergy
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2112. [Extract] [Full Text]

Louis M. Aledort: Activated prothrombin complex concentrates and recombinant factor VIIa in the bleeding patient: are they appropriate and safe?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2112-2113. [Extract] [Full Text]

Theo Kofidis, Leora B. Balsam, and Robert C. Robbins: A few critical aspects—and Achilles heels—of tissue engineering approaches to restore injured myocardium
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2113-2114. [Extract] [Full Text]

Shafie Fazel, Richard D. Weisel, and Ren-Ke Li: Reply to the Editor
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2114-2115. [Extract] [Full Text]

Christophe Baufreton and Jean Louis de Brux: Coagulation, fibrinolysis, and cell activation in patients and in shed mediastinal blood during coronary artery bypass grafting with a new heparin-coated surface
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2116. [Extract] [Full Text]

Syde Taheri: Myogenesis after myocardial stem cell transplantation
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2116-2117. [Extract] [Full Text]

Ray C.-J. Chiu: Reply to the Editor
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2117. [Extract] [Full Text]

Jeffrey H. Shuhaiber: Asymptomatic mitral valve incompetence: is there evidence for surgery?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2117-2118. [Extract] [Full Text]

Tirone E. David, Joan Ivanov, Susan Armstrong, and Harry Rakowski: Reply to the Editor
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2118-2119. [Extract] [Full Text]

Axel Laczkovics, Krishna Khargi, and Thomas Deneke: Esophageal perforation during left atrial radiofrequency ablation
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2119-2120. [Extract] [Full Text]

N. Doll, F. W. Mohr, and M. A. Borger: Reply to the Editor
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2120. [Extract] [Full Text]

Events of interest:

: Events of interest
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 2124-2125. [Extract] [Full Text]