GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY:

Hisao Asamura, Haruhiko Nakayama, Haruhiko Kondo, Ryosuke Tsuchiya, Yukio Shimosato, and Tsuguo Naruke

LYMPH NODE INVOLVEMENT, RECURRENCE, AND PROGNOSIS IN RESECTED SMALL, PERIPHERAL, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG CARCINOMAS: ARE THESE CARCINOMAS CANDIDATES FOR VIDEO-ASSISTED LOBECTOMY?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1125-1134. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Monica L. McDonald, Victor F. Trastek, Mark S. Allen, Claude Deschamps, and Peter C. Pairolero

BARRETT'S ESOPHAGUS: DOES AN ANTIREFLUX PROCEDURE REDUCE THE NEED FOR ENDOSCOPIC SURVEILLANCE?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1135-1140. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

P. Honkoop, P. D. Siersema, H. W. Tilanus, L. P. S. Stassen, W. C. J. Hop, and M. van Blankenstein

BENIGN ANASTOMOTIC STRICTURES AFTER TRANSHIATAL ESOPHAGECTOMY AND CERVICAL ESOPHAGOGASTROSTOMY: RISK FACTORS AND MANAGEMENT
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1141-1148. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

SURGERY FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE:

Jacques A. M. van Son, V. Mohan Reddy, Michael D. Black, Hiranya Rajasinghe, Gary S. Haas, and Frank L. Hanley

MORPHOLOGIC DETERMINANTS FAVORING SURGICAL AORTIC VALVULOPLASTY VERSUS PULMONARY AUTOGRAFT AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT IN CHILDREN
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1149-1157. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Folkert Meijboom, Andras Szatmari, Jaap W. Deckers, Elizabeth M. W. J. Utens, Jos R. T. C. Roelandt, Egbert Bos, and John Hess

LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP (10 TO 17 YEARS) AFTER MUSTARD REPAIR FOR TRANSPOSITION OF THE GREAT ARTERIES
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1158-1168. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Jacqueline Kreutzer, John F. Keane, James E. Lock, Edward P. Walsh, Richard A. Jonas, Aldo R. Castañeda, and John E. Mayer, Jr.

CONVERSION OF MODIFIED FONTAN PROCEDURE TO LATERAL ATRIAL TUNNEL CAVOPULMONARY ANASTOMOSIS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1169-1176. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

SURGERY FOR ACQUIRED HEART DISEASE:

Robert J. Cerfolio, Thomas A. Orszulak, James R. Pluth, William S. Harmsen, and Hartzell V. Schaff

REOPERATION AFTER VALVE REPAIR FOR MITRAL REGURGITATION: EARLY AND INTERMEDIATE RESULTS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1177-1184. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Pat O. Daily, Richard K. Freeman, Walter P. Dembitsky, Robert M. Adamson, Ricardo J. Moreno-Cabral, Stephen Marcus, and Jeffrey A. Lamphere

COST REDUCTION BY COMBINED CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY AND CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1185-1193. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

K. L. Blake, P. A. C. Watt, J. M. T. Smith, A. C. De Souza, T. J. Spyt, and H. Thurston

RANDOMIZED COMPARISON OF ULTRASONIC ASPIRATION VERSUS CONVENTIONAL ELECTROCAUTERY FOR DISSECTION OF THE HUMAN INTERNAL THORACIC ARTERY
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1194-1199. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

The Parisian Mediastinitis Study Group

RISK FACTORS FOR DEEP STERNAL WOUND INFECTION AFTER STERNOTOMY: A PROSPECTIVE, MULTICENTER STUDY
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1200-1207. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Alan H. Chen, Tatsuya Nakao, Richard F. Brodman, Mark Greenberg, Richard Charney, Mark Menegus, Michael Johnson, Richard Grose, Rosemary Frame, Eric C. Hu, Hong-Keun Choi, and Steven Safyer

EARLY POSTOPERATIVE ANGIOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF RADIAL ARTERY GRAFTS USED FOR CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1208-1212. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

B. Zickmann, A. Sablotzki, R. Füssle, G. Görlach, and G. Hempelmann

PERIOPERATIVE MICROBIOLOGIC MONITORING OF TRACHEAL ASPIRATES AS A PREDICTOR OF PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS AFTER CARDIAC OPERATIONS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1213-1218. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

CARDIAC AND PULMONARY REPLACEMENT:

Pertti Aarnio, Henrik Schérsten, Henry D. Tazelaar, Virginia M. Miller, and Christopher G. A. McGregor

EFFECTS OF ACUTE REJECTION AND ANTIREJECTION THERAPY ON ARTERIES AND VEINS FROM CANINE SINGLE LUNG ALLOGRAFTS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1219-1229. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Joren C. Madsen, David H. Sachs, John T. Fallon, and Neil J. Weissman

CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY IN PARTIALLY INBRED MINIATURE SWINE. I. TIME COURSE, PATHOLOGY, AND DEPENDENCE ON IMMUNE MECHANISMS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1230-1239. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS, MYOCARDIAL MANAGEMENT, AND SUPPORT TECHNIQUES:

Goya V. Raikar, Kunikazu Hisamochi, Bao-Lan N. Raikar, and Hartzell V. Schaff

NITRIC OXIDE INHIBITION ATTENUATES SYSTEMIC HYPOTENSION PRODUCED BY PROTAMINE
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1240-1247. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Paul M. Kirshbom, Michael T. Jacobs, Steven S. L. Tsui, Louis R. DiBernardo, Debra A. Schwinn, Ross M. Ungerleider, and J. William Gaynor

EFFECTS OF CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS AND CIRCULATORY ARREST ON ENDOTHELIUM-DEPENDENT VASODILATATION IN THE LUNG
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1248-1256. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

William S. McMahon, Paul C. Gillette, Robert B. Hinton, Jennifer R. Stratton, Fred A. Crawford, and Francis G. Spinale

DEVELOPMENTAL DIFFERENCES IN MYOCYTE CONTRACTILE RESPONSE AFTER CARDIOPLEGIC ARREST
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1257-1266. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

R. L. Patel, M. R. Turtle, D. J. Chambers, D. N. James, S. Newman, and G. E. Venn

ALPHA-STAT ACID-BASE REGULATION DURING CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS IMPROVES NEUROPSYCHOLOGIC OUTCOME IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1267-1279. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS:

Hugh S. Paterson and David F. Blyth

THORACOSCOPIC EVACUATION OF DEAD HYDATID CYST
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1280-1281. [Full Text]  

Koji Chihara, Takao Ueno, Shinichi Itoi, Masanao Nakai, Hisashi Sahara, Susumu Oguri, Yoshihiro Ozawa, Shigeru Tanaka, and Takeo Hirata

VENTILATORY SUPPORT WITH A CUIRASS RESPIRATOR AFTER RESECTION OF BULLOUS EMPHYSEMA: REPORT OF A CASE
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1281-1283. [Full Text]  

Margarita T. Camacho, Morris Edelman, Alla Rozenblit, John C. McKitrick, Kenneth Pinsker, and Stanley C. Fell

MEDIASTINAL HISTOPLASMOSIS CAUSING MASSIVE HEMATEMESIS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1283-1286. [Full Text]  

David E. Clarke, Ronald J. Green, James B. D. Mark, Robert C. Robbins, and Thomas A. Raffin

UPPER AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION CAUSED BY LOW-GRADE TRACHEAL PAPILLARY ADENOCARCINOMA: AN UNUSUAL FLOW-VOLUME LOOP PATTERN
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1286-1288. [Full Text]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Eduardo Otero-Coto

Transposition of the great arteries
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1289. [Full Text]  

Lucile Houyel, Richard Van Praagh, Francois Lacour-Gayet, Alain Serraf, Jerome Petit, Jacqueline Bruniaux, and Claude Planché,

Transposition of the great arteries
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1289-1290. [Full Text]  

Robert H. Anderson

Location of the conduction tissue in double-inlet left ventricle with leftward rudimentary right ventricle
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1290-1291. [Full Text]  

Jacques A. van Son and Frank L. Hanley

Location of the conduction tissue in double-inlet left ventricle with leftward rudimentary right ventricle
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1291. [Full Text]  

Sanjiv K. Gandhi, Burt I. Bromberg, and Charles B. Huddleston

Surgical technique and atrial arrhythmias after total cavopulmonary connection
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1291-1292. [Full Text]  

Kazuhiro Hashimoto and Hiromi Kurosawa

Surgical technique and atrial arrhythmias after total cavopulmonary connection
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1292. [Full Text]  

Alessandro Brunelli, Armando Sabbatini, Giovanbattista Catalini, and Aroldo Fianchini

Intrapulmonary benign fibrous tumor of the pleura
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1292-1293. [Full Text]  

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES:

J. Gordon Scannell

RUDOLPH MATAS (1860-1957)
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996 111: 1294. [Full Text]  

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