SURGERY FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE:

William L. Holman, Jonathan L. Skinner, Cheryl R. Killingsworth, Jack M. Rogers, Sharon Melnick, Raymond E. Ideker, and Stanley B. Digerness

CONTROLLED POSTCARDIOPLEGIA REPERFUSION: MECHANISM FOR ATTENUATION OF REPERFUSION INJURY
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1093-1101. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Godwin Oriaku, Bo Xiang, Guangping Dai, Jie Shen, Jiankang Sun, William G. Lindsay, Roxanne Deslauriers, and Ganghong Tian

EFFECTS OF RETROGRADE CARDIOPLEGIA ON MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION AND ENERGY METABOLISM IN IMMATURE PORCINE MYOCARDIUM
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1102-1109. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Ralph S. Mosca, Thomas J. Kulik, Caren S. Goldberg, Roger P. Vermilion, John R. Charpie, Dennis C. Crowley, and Edward L. Bove

EARLY RESULTS OF THE FONTAN PROCEDURE IN ONE HUNDRED CONSECUTIVE PATIENTS WITH HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1110-1118. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY:

R. Cantero, A. J. Torres, M. L. Maestro, F. Hernando, M. T. Sanz, V. del Barco, A. Gómez, C. Fernández, and J. L. Balibrea

PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF THE QUANTIFIED EXPRESSION OF P185^c-erbB2 IN NON–SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1119-1125. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Stephen G. Swisher, Linda DeFord, Kelly Willis Merriman, Garrett L. Walsh, Roy Smythe, Ara Vaporicyan, Jaffer A. Ajani, Thomas Brown, Ritsuko Komaki, Jack A. Roth, and J. B. Putnam

EFFECT OF OPERATIVE VOLUME ON MORBIDITY, MORTALITY, AND HOSPITAL USE AFTER ESOPHAGECTOMY FOR CANCER
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1126-1134. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Kazuya Takamochi, Kanji Nagai, Junji Yoshida, Kenji Suzuki, Yasuhisa Ohde, Mituyo Nishimura, Kenro Takahashi, and Yutaka Nishiwaki

THE ROLE OF COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC SCANNING IN DIAGNOSING MEDIASTINAL NODE INVOLVEMENT IN NON–SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1135-1140. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Jacek Jassem, Jan Skokowski, Rafal Dziadziuszko, Ewa Jassem, Amelia Szymanowska, Witold Rzyman, and Andrzej Roszkiewicz

RESULTS OF SURGICAL TREATMENT OF NON–SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER: VALIDATION OF THE NEW POSTOPERATIVE PATHOLOGIC TNM CLASSIFICATION
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1141-1146. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Valerie W. Rusch, Kalpaj R. Parekh, Larry Leon, Ennapadam Venkatraman, Manjit S. Bains, Robert J. Downey, Patrick Boland, Mark Bilsky, and Robert J. Ginsberg

FACTORS DETERMINING OUTCOME AFTER SURGICAL RESECTION OF T3 AND T4 LUNG CANCERS OF THE SUPERIOR SULCUS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1147-1153. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Robert C. Shamberger, Michael P. LaQuaglia, Mark D. Krailo, James S. Miser, Douglas J. Pritchard, Mark C. Gebhardt, John H. Healey, Nancy J. Tarbell, Christopher J.H. Fryer, Paul A. Meyers, and Holcombe E. Grier

EWING SARCOMA OF THE RIB: RESULTS OF AN INTERGROUP STUDY WITH ANALYSIS OF OUTCOME BY TIMING OF RESECTION
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1154-1161. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Takashi Sekine, Tatsuo Nakamura, Kazuya Matsumoto, Yu Liu, Hiroki Ueda, Nobuyuki Tamura, and Yasuhiko Shimizu

CARINAL RECONSTRUCTION WITH A Y-SHAPED COLLAGEN-CONJUGATED PROSTHESIS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1162-1168. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

SURGERY FOR ACQUIRED CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE:

Marcio Scorsin, Albert Hagège, Jean-Thomas Vilquin, Marc Fiszman, Françoise Marotte, Jane-Lise Samuel, Lydie Rappaport, Ketty Schwartz, and Philippe Menasché

COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTS OF FETAL CARDIOMYOCYTE AND SKELETAL MYOBLAST TRANSPLANTATION ON POSTINFARCTION LEFT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1169-1175. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Vivek Rao, Michael A. Borger, Richard D. Weisel, Joan Ivanov, George T. Christakis, Gideon Cohen, and Terrence M. Yau

INSULIN CARDIOPLEGIA FOR ELECTIVE CORONARY BYPASS SURGERY
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1176-1184. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Donald D. Glower

Commentary
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1184. [Full Text]  

Afksendiyos Kalangos, Pedro Trigo-Trindade, Dominique Vala, Aristotelis Panos, and Bernard Faidutti

AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT WITH THE FREESTYLE STENTLESS BIOPROSTHESIS WITH RESPECT TO SPACIAL ORIENTATION OF PATIENT CORONARY OSTIA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1185-1192. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Stephen Westaby

Commentary
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1192-1193. [Full Text]  

Mark B. Ratcliffe, Arthur W. Wallace, John R. Teerlink, James Hong, Ali Salahieh, Sang-Hyun Sung, Edmund C. Keung, and Randall J. Lee

RADIO FREQUENCY HEATING OF CHRONIC OVINE INFARCT LEADS TO SUSTAINED INFARCT AREA AND VENTRICULAR VOLUME REDUCTION
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1194-1204. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Monica L. McDonald, Nicholas G. Smedira, Eugene H. Blackstone, Richard A. Grimm, Bruce W. Lytle, and Delos M. Cosgrove

REDUCED SURVIVAL IN WOMEN AFTER VALVE SURGERY FOR AORTIC REGURGITATION: EFFECT OF AORTIC ENLARGEMENT AND LATE AORTIC RUPTURE
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1205-1215. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Raymond H. Chen, Alexander Kadner, Richard N. Mitchell, and David H. Adams

FRESH PORCINE CARDIAC VALVES ARE NOT REJECTED IN PRIMATES
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1216-1220. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Eugene H. Blackstone and Bruce W. Lytle

COMPETING RISKS AFTER CORONARY BYPASS SURGERY: THE INFLUENCE OF DEATH ON REINTERVENTION
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1221-1232. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Hisayoshi Suma, Tadashi Isomura, Taiko Horii, Toru Sato, Norio Kikuchi, Ken Iwahashi, and Joji Hosokawa

NONTRANSPLANT CARDIAC SURGERY FOR END-STAGE CARDIOMYOPATHY
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1233-1245. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

CARDIOPULMONARY SUPPORT AND PHYSIOLOGY:

B. Zane Atkins, Scott C. Silvestry, Ravi N. Samy, Ashish S. Shah, David C. Sabiston, Jr, and Donald D. Glower

CALCITONIN GENE–RELATED PEPTIDE ENHANCES THE RECOVERY OF CONTRACTILE FUNCTION IN STUNNED MYOCARDIUM
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1246-1254. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Charles S. Cox, Jr, Steven J. Allen, Henning Sauer, and John Frederick

EFFECTS OF SELECTIN–SIALYL LEWIS^X BLOCKADE ON MESENTERIC MICROVASCULAR PERMEABILITY ASSOCIATED WITH CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1255-1261. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Stephen M. Langley, Paul J. Chai, Steven S. Tsui, James J. Jaggers, and Ross M. Ungerleider

THE EFFECTS OF A LEUKOCYTE-DEPLETING FILTER ON CEREBRAL AND RENAL RECOVERY AFTER DEEP HYPOTHERMIC CIRCULATORY ARREST
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1262-1269. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Ryszard Kalawski, Ewa Deskur, Pawel Bugajski, Henryk Wysocki, and Tomasz Siminiak

STIMULATION OF NEUTROPHIL INTEGRIN EXPRESSION DURING CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING: COMPARISON OF CRYSTALLOID AND BLOOD CARDIOPLEGIC SOLUTIONS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1270-1277. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Andreas Koster, Matthias Loebe, Roland Hansen, Mathias Bauer, Fritz Mertzlufft, Hermann Kuppe, and Roland Hetzer

A QUICK ASSAY FOR MONITORING RECOMBINANT HIRUDIN DURING CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS IN PATIENTS WITH HEPARIN-INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA TYPE II: ADAPTATION OF THE ECARIN CLOTTING TIME TO THE ACT II DEVICE
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1278-1283. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS:

Doff B. McElhinney, Stephen Paridon, and Thomas L. Spray

AORTOPULMONARY WINDOW ASSOCIATED WITH COMPLETE ATRIOVENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1284-1285. [Full Text]  

James M. Habicht, Jakob Passweg, Thomas Kuhne, Kurt Leibundgut, and Hans-Reinhard Zerkowski

SUCCESSFUL LOCAL EXCISION AND LONG-TERM SURVIVAL FOR INVASIVE PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS DURING NEUTROPENIA AFTER BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1286-1287. [Full Text]  

Yannis Raftopoulos, Warren W. Furey, Daniel J. Kacey, and Francis J. Podbielski

TUMOR IMPLANTATION AFTER COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY–GUIDED BIOPSY OF LUNG CANCER
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1288-1289. [Full Text]  

Karsten Kuhn, Stefan Pasch, Wlodzimierz Wojciechowski, and Paolo Macchiarini

COMBINED SLEEVE LOBECTOMY AND IVOR LEWIS ESOPHAGECTOMY FOR SYNCHRONOUS PRIMARY CARCINOMA OF THE LUNG AND BARRETT ESOPHAGUS
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1289-1290. [Full Text]  

Masami Sato, Teruaki Koike, Kohei Yokoi, Hirohito Tada, Motoyasu Sagawa, Akira Sakurada, Tatsuo Tanita, Takashi Kondo, Shigefumi Fujimura, and Ryosuke Tsuchiya

SECOND OPERATION FOR UPPER MEDIASTINAL LYMPHADENOPATHY AFTER COMPLETE RESECTION FOR CANCER OF THE LEFT LUNG
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1291-1292. [Full Text]  

James C. Stringham, David A. Bull, and S. V. Karwande

PATCH CLOSURE OF THE AORTIC ANULUS IN A RECIPIENT OF A VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1293-1294. [Full Text]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Carl Wong

Paraplegia after coronary artery bypass operations: Relationship to severe hypertension and vascular disease
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1295-1296. [Full Text]  

Neil J. Thomas

Reply to the Editor:
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1296. [Full Text]  

Sebastian Pagni and Erle H. Austin

Use of intravenous methylene blue for the treatment of refractory hypotension after cardiopulmonary bypass
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1297-1298. [Full Text]  

Eugenio Neri, Carlo Sassi, and Viale M. Bracci

Notes about axillary cannulation
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1298. [Full Text]  

R. Thomas Temes, Thomas W. Rice, Malcolm DeCamp, and Sudish Murthy

Is neck or chest anastomosis preferable during esophageal resection?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1298-1299. [Full Text]  

Jan Johansson and Bruno Walther

Reply to the Editor:
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1299-1300. [Full Text]  

EVENTS OF INTEREST:

EVENTS OF INTEREST
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000 119: 1301. [Full Text]  

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