SURGERY FOR ADULT CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE:

Josephine A. Sollano, Annetine C. Gelijns, Alan J. Moskowitz, Daniel F. Heitjan, Suzanne Cullinane, Ted Saha, Jonathan M. Chen, Patrick J. Roohan, Keith Reemtsma, and Eileen P. Shields

Volume-Outcome Relationships In Cardiovascular Operations: New York State, 1990-1995
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 419-430. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Vivek Rao, George T. Christakis, Jeri Sever, Stephen E. Fremes, Gopal Bhatnagar, Gideon Cohen, Michael A. Borger, Labib Abouzahr, and Bernard S. Goldman

A NOVEL COMPARISON OF STENTLESS VERSUS STENTED VALVES IN THE SMALL AORTIC ROOT
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 431-438. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Marco Zenati, Howard A. Cohen, and Bartley P. Griffith

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO MULTIVESSEL CORONARY DISEASE WITH INTEGRATED CORONARY REVASCULARIZATION
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 439-446. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Göran Källner, Anders Öwall, and Anders Franco-Cereceda

MYOCARDIAL OUTFLOW OF CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE IN RELATION TO METABOLIC STRESS DURING CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING WITHOUT CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 447-453. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Stephen L. Hilbert, Rafael E. Luna, Jun Zhang, Yining Wang, Richard A. Hopkins, Zu-Xi Yu, and Victor J. Ferrans

ALLOGRAFT HEART VALVES: THE ROLE OF APOPTOSIS-MEDIATED CELL LOSS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 454-462. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Takaki Sugimoto, Masayoshi Okada, Nobuchika Ozaki, Tadashi Hatakeyama, and Toshihiro Kawahira

LONG-TERM EVALUATION OF TREATMENT FOR FUNCTIONAL TRICUSPID REGURGITATION WITH REGURGITANT VOLUME: CHARACTERISTIC DIFFERENCES BASED ON PRIMARY CARDIAC LESION
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 463-471. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

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

POTENTIAL MECHANISM OF LEFT VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION AFTER MITRAL RING ANNULOPLASTY
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 472-480. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

S. M. Browne, P. W. Halligan, D. T. Wade, and D. P. Taggart

COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE AFTER CARDIAC OPERATION: IMPLICATIONS OF REGRESSION TOWARD THE MEAN
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 481-485. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

SURGERY FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE:

John E. Deanfield

EDITORIAL: INTRA-ATRIAL REPAIR OF TRANSPOSITION—LATE RESULTS AND MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 486-487. [Full Text]  

Mikko Kirjavainen, Juha-Matti Happonen, and Ilmo Louhimo

LATE RESULTS OF SENNING OPERATION
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 488-495. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Hani A. Hennein, Ugursay Kiziltepe, Samuel Barst, Karl A. Bocchieri, Azhar Hossain, Douglas R. Call, Daniel G. Remick, and Jeffrey P. Gold

VENOVENOUS MODIFIED ULTRAFILTRATION AFTER CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS IN CHILDREN: A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED STUDY
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 496-505. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

J. William Gaynor, Margaret H. Collins, Jack Rychik, John P. Gaughan, and Thomas L. Spray

LONG-TERM OUTCOME OF INFANTS WITH SINGLE VENTRICLE AND TOTAL ANOMALOUS PULMONARY VENOUS CONNECTION
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 506-514. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Andrew J. Lodge, Paul J. Chai, C. William Daggett, Ross M. Ungerleider, and James Jaggers

METHYLPREDNISOLONE REDUCES THE INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE TO CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS IN NEONATAL PIGLETS: TIMING OF DOSE IS IMPORTANT
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 515-522. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Gertie C. M. Beaufort-Krol, Henk Mulder, Dick Nagelkerke, Tjalling W. Waterbolk, and Margreet Th. E. Bink-Boelkens

COMPARISON OF LONGEVITY, PACING, AND SENSING CHARACTERISTICS OF STEROID-ELUTING EPICARDIAL VERSUS CONVENTIONAL ENDOCARDIAL PACING LEADS IN CHILDREN
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 523-528. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Brian W. Duncan, Viktor Hraska, Richard A. Jonas, David L. Wessel, Pedro J. Del Nido, Peter C. Laussen, John E. Mayer, Robert A. Lapierre, and Jay M. Wilson

MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT IN CHILDREN WITH CARDIAC DISEASE
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 529-542. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Tom R. Karl

Commentary
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 541-542. [Full Text]  

CARDIOTHORACIC TRANSPLANTATION:

Ranjit John, Jonathan M. Chen, Alan Weinberg, Mehmet C. Oz, Donna Mancini, Silviu Itescu, Mark E. Galantowicz, Craig R. Smith, Eric A. Rose, and Niloo M. Edwards

Long-Term Survival After Cardiac Retransplantation: A Twenty-Year Single-Center Experience
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 543-555. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Stephen C. Clark, Catherine Sudarshan, Jonathan Roughan, Paul A. Flecknell, and John H. Dark

MODULATION OF REPERFUSION INJURY AFTER SINGLE LUNG TRANSPLANTATION BY PENTOXIFYLLINE, INOSITOL POLYANIONS, AND SIN-1
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 556-564. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Jun Nakajima, Nancy J. Poindexter, Peter B. Hillemeyer, Elbert P. Trulock, Joel D. Cooper, G. Alexander Patterson, T. Mohanakumar, and R. Sudhir Sundaresan

Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes Directed Against Donor HLA Class I Antigens On Airway Epithelial Cells Are Present In Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid From Lung Transplant Recipients During Acute Rejection
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 565-571. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY:

Stefan Öberg, Tom R. DeMeester, Jeffrey H. Peters, Jeffrey A. Hagen, John J. Nigro, Steven R. DeMeester, Jörg Theisen, Guilherme M. R. Campos, and Peter F. Crookes

THE EXTENT OF BARRETT'S ESOPHAGUS DEPENDS ON THE STATUS OF THE LOWER ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER AND THE DEGREE OF ESOPHAGEAL ACID EXPOSURE
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 572-580. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Jun Wang, Jemi Olak, and Mark K. Ferguson

DIFFUSING CAPACITY PREDICTS OPERATIVE MORTALITY BUT NOT LONG-TERM SURVIVAL AFTER RESECTION FOR LUNG CANCER
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 581-587. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Claude Deschamps, Bulent Mehmit Tirnaksiz, Ramin Darbandi, Victor F. Trastek, Mark S. Allen, Daniel L. Miller, Phillip G. Arnold, and Peter C. Pairolero

Early And Long-Term Results Of Prosthetic Chest Wall Reconstruction
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 588-592. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Kenji Suzuki, Kanji Nagai, Junji Yoshida, Mitsuyo Nishimura, Kenro Takahashi, and Yutaka Nishiwaki

CLINICAL PREDICTORS OF N2 DISEASE IN THE SETTING OF A NEGATIVE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC SCAN IN PATIENTS WITH LUNG CANCER
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 593-598. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Robert J. Downey, Shoji Asakura, Claude Deschamps, and Thomas V. Colby

LARGE CELL CARCINOMA OF THE LUNG: RESULTS OF RESECTION FOR A CURE
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 599-604. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Meinoshin Okumura, Shinichiro Miyoshi, Yukiyasu Takeuchi, Hyung-Eng Yoon, Masato Minami, Shin-Ichi Takeda, Yoshitaka Fujii, Kazuya Nakahara, and Hikaru Matsuda

Results Of Surgical Treatment Of Thymomas With Special Reference To The Involved Organs
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 605-611. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Paul A. Kirschner

Commentary
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 612-613. [Full Text]  

BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS:

Zohair Al Halees, Mahmoud M. Awad, Frans Pieters, Maie S. Shahid, and Mohamed A. Al Amri

SIX-YEAR FOLLOW-UP OF A PULMONARY AUTOGRAFT IN THE MITRAL POSITION: THE ROSS II PROCEDURE
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 614-616. [Full Text]  

Shinpei Yoshii, Shigeru Hosaka, Wataru Takahashi, Hiroshi Amano, Samuel J. K. Abraham, Shigeaki Kaga, Yusuke Tada, Hisashi Sugiyama, and Jun Yanai

PARTIAL LEFT VENTRICULECTOMY IN AN INFANT WITH DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 616-618. [Full Text]  

Noriyoshi Sawabata, Takashi Mori, Keiji Iuchi, Hajime Maeda, Mitsunori Ohta, and Osamu Kuwahara

CYTOLOGIC EXAMINATION OF SURGICAL MARGIN OF EXCISED MALIGNANT PULMONARY TUMOR: METHODS AND EARLY RESULTS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 618-619. [Full Text]  

George Asimakopoulos, Kenneth M. Taylor, Peter L. Smith, and Chandana P. Ratnatunga

PREVALENCE OF ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME AFTER CARDIAC SURGERY
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 620-621. [Full Text]  

Yukihiro Kaneko, Arata Murakami, Kazuhito Imanaka, Hideo Okabe, and Shinichi Takamoto

TRANSANNULAR PATCH REPAIR OF DOUBLE-OUTLET RIGHT VENTRICLE, {S,D,L}, AND SINGLE RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 622-623. [Full Text]  

Hitoshi Suhara, Shigeaki Ohtake, Norihide Fukushima, Hajime Ichikawa, Hideki Ueda, Takayoshi Ueno, and Hikaru Matsuda

DAMUS-KAYE-STANSEL PROCEDURE FOR LEFT VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION LATE AFTER MODIFIED FONTAN OPERATION IN PATIENTS WITH DOUBLE-INLET LEFT VENTRICLE: REPORT OF TWO CASES
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 624-626. [Full Text]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Robert J. Korst

Subclavian artery involvement by apical chest tumors: A specific indication for the transmanubrial approach
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 626. [Full Text]  

Akira Masaoka, Yosuke Yamakawa, and Yoshitaka Fujii

Well-differentiated thymic carcinoma: Is it thymic carcinoma or not?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 628-630. [Full Text]  

Robert J. Ginsberg, MD

Well-differentiated thymic carcinoma: Is it thymic carcinoma or not?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 630-631. [Full Text]  

Henry F. Tripp and James A. Obney

Consideration of anatomic defects in the etiology of catamenial pneumothorax
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 632-633. [Full Text]  

Francis Robicsek and Joseph W. Cook

Patient recovery after intermittent disc escape and spontaneous recession of a mechanical heart valve
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 633-634. [Full Text]  

CORRECTIONS:

Notice of correction
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 635. [Full Text]  

COMMENTS FROM THE PRESIDENT:

Lawrence H. Cohn

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 636-637. [Full Text]  

EVENTS OF INTEREST:

EVENTS OF INTEREST
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999 117: 638. [Full Text]  

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