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 Volume 132, Issue 2, August 2006
  [Index by Author] 
      Down Editorials
      Down Statistics for the Rest of Us
      Down Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease
      Down Cardiopulmonary Support and Physiology
      Down General Thoracic Surgery
      Down Evolving Technology
      Down Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease
      Down Cardiothoracic Transplantation
      Down Brief Communication
      Down Letters to the Editor
      Down Events of Interest
      Down Announcement
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Editorials:Back

Andrew S. Wechsler
 Editor's Note: Consensus statements as a variant of classical statistical methods
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:223. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Adam E. Saltman
 Must we cross the wall to get to the other side?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:224-225. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Shaf Keshavjee
 Retransplantation of the lung comes of age
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:226-228. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Statistics for the Rest of Us:Back

Eugene H. Blackstone
 CONSORT and beyond
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:229-232. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Ravindranath Tiruvoipati, Sabapathy P. Balasubramanian, Gnaneswar Atturu, Giles J. Peek, and Diana Elbourne
 Improving the quality of reporting randomized controlled trials in cardiothoracic surgery: The way forward
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:233-240. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Charles M. Balch
 Randomized clinical trials in surgery: Why do we need them?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:241-242. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Neal F. Kassell and Aaron S. Dumont
 Randomized controlled trials in surgery: Comic opera no more?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:243-244. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Robert M. Sade
 Reports of clinical trials: Ethical aspects
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:245-246. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Steven Piantadosi
 Improving the quality of clinical trials in surgery
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:247-248. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Michael S. Lauer
 Believability of clinical trials: A diagnostic testing perspective
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:249-251. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease:Back

Marco Ricci, Pierluca Lombardi, Alvaro Galindo, Steven Schultz, Amelia Vasquez, and Eliot Rosenkranz
 Effects of single-ventricle physiology with aortopulmonary shunt on regional myocardial blood flow in a piglet model
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:252-259. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Peter J. Gruber, Stephanie Fuller, Kathryn M. Cleaver, Ibrahim Abdullah, Stephen B. Gruber, Susan C. Nicolson, J. William Gaynor, Gil Wernovsky, and Thomas L. Spray
   Early results of single-stage biventricular repair of severe aortic hypoplasia or atresia with ventricular septal defect and normal left ventricle
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:260-263. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [CME]  
Elizabeth M. Ngan, Ivan M. Rebeyka, David B. Ross, Mohamed Hirji, Johan F. Wolfaardt, Rosemary Seelaus, Andrew Grosvenor, and Michelle L. Noga
 The rapid prototyping of anatomic models in pulmonary atresia
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:264-269. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Ujjwal K. Chowdhury, Siddharth Sathia, Ruma Ray, Rajvir Singh, Kizakke K. Pradeep, and Panangipalli Venugopal
 Histopathology of the right ventricular outflow tract and its relationship to clinical outcomes and arrhythmias in patients with tetralogy of Fallot
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:270-277. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Hirohisa Murakami, Naoki Yoshimura, Hiroaki Takahashi, Hironori Matsuhisa, Masahiro Yoshida, Yoshihiro Oshima, Takuro Misaki, and Masahiro Yamaguchi
 Closure of multiple ventricular septal defects by the felt sandwich technique: Further analysis of 36 patients
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:278-282. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cardiopulmonary Support and Physiology:Back

Kenneth G. Shann, Donald S. Likosky, John M. Murkin, Robert A. Baker, Yvon R. Baribeau, Gordon R. DeFoe, Timothy A. Dickinson, Timothy J. Gardner, Hilary P. Grocott, Gerald T. O'Connor, David J. Rosinski, Frank W. Sellke, and Timothy W. Willcox
   An evidence-based review of the practice of cardiopulmonary bypass in adults: A focus on neurologic injury, glycemic control, hemodilution, and the inflammatory response
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:283-290. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [CME]  
Christian A. Skrabal, Yeong H. Choi, Alexander Kaminski, Michael Steiner, Guenther Kundt, Gustav Steinhoff, and Andreas Liebold
 Circulating endothelial cells demonstrate an attenuation of endothelial damage by minimizing the extracorporeal circulation
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:291-296. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

General Thoracic Surgery:Back

Leah M. Backhus, Eric Sievers, Gloria Y. Lin, Roberto Castanos, Robert D. Bart, Vaughn A. Starnes, and Ross M. Bremner
 Perioperative cyclooxygenase 2 inhibition to reduce tumor cell adhesion and metastatic potential of circulating tumor cells in non–small cell lung cancer
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:297-303. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Thorsten Krueger, Andrea Kuemmerle, Marek Kosinski, Alban Denys, Lennard Magnusson, Roger Stupp, Angelika Bischof Delaloye, Walter Klepetko, Laurent Decosterd, Hans-Beat Ris, and Michael Dusmet
 Cytostatic lung perfusion results in heterogeneous spatial regional blood flow and drug distribution: Evaluation of different cytostatic lung perfusion techniques in a porcine model
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:304-311. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Akira Iyoda, Kenzo Hiroshima, Yasumitsu Moriya, Yasuo Sekine, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Toshihiko Iizasa, Yukio Nakatani, and Takehiko Fujisawa
 Prognostic impact of large cell neuroendocrine histology in patients with pathologic stage Ia pulmonary non–small cell carcinoma
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:312-315. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Hisao Asamura, Tomoyuki Goya, Yoshihiko Koshiishi, Yasunori Sohara, Ryosuke Tsuchiya, Etsuo Miyaoka The Japanese Joint Committee of Lung Cancer Registry
 How should the TNM staging system for lung cancer be revised? A simulation based on the Japanese Lung Cancer Registry populations
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:316-319. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Ken-ichi Watanabe, Hiroaki Nomori, Takashi Ohtsuka, Masahiro Kaji, Tsuguo Naruke, and Keiichi Suemasu
 Usefulness and complications of computed tomography-guided lipiodol marking for fluoroscopy-assisted thoracoscopic resection of small pulmonary nodules: Experience with 174 nodules
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:320-324. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Evolving Technology:Back

Jens Wippermann, Christo Konstas, Martin Breuer, Hartwig Kosmehl, Thorsten Wahlers, and Johannes M. Albes
 Long-term effects in distal coronary anastomoses using different adhesives in a porcine off-pump model
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:325-331. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Rossella Fattori, Christoph A. Nienaber, Hervé Rousseau, Jean-Paul Beregi, Robin Heijmen, Martin Grabenwöger, Philippe Piquet, Luigi Lovato, Chaouki Dabbech, Stephan Kische, Virginia Gaxotte, Marc Schepens, Marek Ehrlich, and Jean-Michelle Bartoli
 Results of endovascular repair of the thoracic aorta with the Talent Thoracic stent graft: The Talent Thoracic Retrospective Registry
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:332-339. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Keiji Kamohara, Kiyotaka Fukamachi, Yoshio Ootaki, Masatoshi Akiyama, Faruk Cingoz, Chiyo Ootaki, D. Geoffrey Vince, Zoran B. Popovic, Michael W. Kopcak, Jr, Raymond Dessoffy, Jenny Liu, and A. Marc Gillinov
 Evaluation of a novel device for left atrial appendage exclusion: The second-generation atrial exclusion device
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:340-346. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease:Back

Tirone E. David, Christopher M. Feindel, Gary D. Webb, Jack M. Colman, Susan Armstrong, and Manjula Maganti
 Long-term results of aortic valve-sparing operations for aortic root aneurysm
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:347-354. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Spencer J. Melby, Andreas Zierer, Scott P. Kaiser, Richard B. Schuessler, and Ralph J. Damiano, Jr
 Epicardial microwave ablation on the beating heart for atrial fibrillation: The dependency of lesion depth on cardiac output
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:355-360. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Dittmar Böckler, Hardy Schumacher, Marika Ganten, Hendrik von Tengg-Kobligk, Matthias Schwarzbach, Christian Fink, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Hubert Bardenheuer, and Jens-Rainer Allenberg
 Complications after endovascular repair of acute symptomatic and chronic expanding Stanford type B aortic dissections
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:361-368. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Shinichi Wada, Shin Yamamoto, Jiro Honda, Akinori Hiramoto, Hideichi Wada, and Yasuyuki Hosoda
 Transapical aortic cannulation for cardiopulmonary bypass in type A aortic dissection operations
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:369-372. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Domingos S.R. Souza, Benny Johansson, Leif Bojö, Roland Karlsson, Håkan Geijer, Derek Filbey, Lennart Bodin, Mikael Arbeus, and Michael R. Dashwood
 Harvesting the saphenous vein with surrounding tissue for CABG provides long-term graft patency comparable to the left internal thoracic artery: Results of a randomized longitudinal trial
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:373-378. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Fernando A. Atik, Jose L. Navia, Lars G. Svensson, Pablo Ruda Vega, Jingyuan Feng, Mariano E. Brizzio, A. Marc Gillinov, B. Gosta Pettersson, Eugene H. Blackstone, and Bruce W. Lytle
 Surgical treatment of pseudoaneurysm of the thoracic aorta
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:379-385. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Richard J. Novick, Stephanie A. Fox, Larry W. Stitt, Thomas L. Forbes, and Stefan Steiner
 Direct comparison of risk-adjusted and non–risk-adjusted CUSUM analyses of coronary artery bypass surgery outcomes
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:386-391. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Charles D. Collard, Simon C. Body, Stanton K. Shernan, Shirley Wang, Dennis T. Mangano Multicenter Study of Perioperative Ischemia (MCSPI) Research Group, Inc, and the Ischemia Research and Education Foundation (IREF) Investigators
 Preoperative statin therapy is associated with reduced cardiac mortality after coronary artery bypass graft surgery
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:392-400. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Siamak Mohammadi, Richard Baillot, Pierre Voisine, Patrick Mathieu, and François Dagenais
 Structural deterioration of the Freestyle aortic valve: Mode of presentation and mechanisms
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:401-406. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cardiothoracic Transplantation:Back

Martin Strueber, Stefan Fischer, Jens Gottlieb, Andre R. Simon, Heidi Goerler, Bernhard Gohrbandt, Tobias Welte, and Axel Haverich
   Long-term outcome after pulmonary retransplantation
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:407-412. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [CME]  
Takahiro Oto, Alicia Calderone, Salvatore Pepe, Gregory Snell, and Franklin Rosenfeldt
 High-flow endobronchial cooled humidified air protects non–heart-beating donor rat lungs against warm ischemia
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:413-419. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Brief Communication:Back

Lars Husmann, Sebastian Leschka, Sacha P. Salzberg, Mario Lachat, Michele Genoni, Borut Marincek, and Hatem Alkadhi
   Sixty-four–slice computed tomographic coronary angiography in pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta: A useful modality to supplement the diagnosis
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:e17-e19. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Simon Maltais, Ismail El-Hamamsy, Anique Ducharme, Michel Carrier, Michel Pellerin, and Louis P. Perrault
 Late iatrogenic coronary stenosis after selective intraoperative antegrade myocardial protection for stentless aortic valve replacement
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:420-421. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Federico Venuta, Daniele Diso, Tiziano De Giacomo, Marco Anile, Erino A. Rendina, and Giorgio F. Coloni
 Use of a polymeric sealant to reduce air leaks after lobectomy
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:422-423. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
El Hassane Kabiri, Adil Arsalane, Abdelfettah Zidane, and Fouad Atoini
 Extrapleural hematoma as a complication of spontaneous pneumothorax
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:423-424. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Demet Karnak, Sonia S. Shah, Maria Solovera Rozas, Sudish Murthy, Atul C. Mehta, and David P. Mason
 Repair of sternal dehiscence after bilateral lung transplantation
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:425-426. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Charles A. Yankah, Yuguo Weng, Rudolf Meyer, Henryk Siniawski, and Roland Hetzer
 Twenty-two–year durability of Ionescu-Shiley pericardial aortic bioprosthesis implanted in a 49-year-old woman: A valuable insight into the performance of current pericardial bioprostheses
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:427-428. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Marcin Fijalkowski, Andrzej Koprowski, Rafal Pawlaczyk, Piotr Siondalski, Rafal Galaska, Jan Rogowski, and Andrzej Rynkiewicz
 The disk of bileaflet mechanical mitral valve prosthesis jammed by ruptured papillary muscle
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:428-430. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Eiryu Takao, Hideo Morioka, Hiroo Yabe, Ukei Anazawa, Takeshi Morii, Hirohisa Horinouchi, Junichi Shiraishi, Makio Mukai, Eiichi Sato, Yoshiki Hamada, and Yoshiaki Toyama
 Chondromyxoid fibroma of the sternum
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:430-431. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Toshifumi Murashita, Takashi Sugiki, Tsuyoshi Tachibana, Takashi Kunihara, and Hiroshi Sugiki
 A case of giant cell myocarditis: Bridge to recovery by long-term mechanical circulatory support without immunosuppressive therapy
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:432-433. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Alejandro Aris, Javier Cobiella, Maria Luz Maestre, and Maria Teresa Subirana
 Ascending–descending aortic bypass with the aid of a heart-lifting device
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:433-434. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Kalliopi Athanassiadi, Christina Grothusen, Michael Mengel, and Axel Haverich
 Primary leiomyosarcoma of the pulmonary artery: Is aggressive treatment justified for a long survival?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:435-436. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Hans-Joachim Schäfers, Benjamin Bierbach, and Diana Aicher
 A new approach to the assessment of aortic cusp geometry
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:436-438. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Ihsan Bakir, Ivan Degrieck, Patrick Lecomte, Jose Coddens, Luc Foubert, Alex Heyse, and Hugo Vanermen
 Endovascular treatment of concomitant patent ductus arteriosus and type B aortic dissection in a patient with pulmonary artery dissection
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:438-440. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters to the Editor:Back

Syed Faisal Hashmi, Muhammad Hanif, and Kathleen O'Reilly
 Electrographic seizure after neonatal and infant cardiac surgery
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:441. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
J. William Gaynor, Gil Wernovsky, and Robert R. Clancy
 Reply to the Editor
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:441-442. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Byalal Raghavender Rao Jaganath, Sanjay Theodore, and Kottrethu Mammen Cherian
 Internal thoracic artery grafts to right coronary system
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:442. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Christophe Acar
 Monobloc or separate aortic and mitral homografts?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:442-443. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Jean-François Obadia
 Reply to the Editor
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:443. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Paolo Biglioli, Fabio Barili, and Gianluca Polvani
 What patients want: A new biological era in valvular prostheses
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:443-444. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Gianfranco Butera
 Is there any difference between surgical outflow reconstruction and transcatheter valvotomy in patients with pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum?
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:444. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
Piers Daubeney and Steven Webber
 Reply to the Editor
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:444. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Events of Interest:Back

 Events of Interest
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:445-446. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Announcement:Back

 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:447. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
 Applications for Membership
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:447. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
 Evarts A. Graham Memorial Traveling Fellowship, 2007-2008
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:447-448. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
 Resident Traveling Fellowship, 2006-2007
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:448. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
 Second Dwight Harken Research Scholarship, 2007-2009
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:448. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
 The Western Thoracic Surgical Association
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:448-449. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
 Samson Resident Prize Essay
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:449. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
 Applications for Membership
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:449. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
 The American Board of Thoracic Surgery
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:449. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  
 Requirements for Recertification/Maintenance of Certification
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:449. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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