Vol. 6 No. 5 (2003)

Published: 2003-10-01

Article

  • Myocardial Revascularization Using the Arterial T Graft: Which Conduit Should Be Chosen for the Free Graft?
    Calin Vicol, Stephan Raab, Michael Beyer, Bruno Reichart
    353-357
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.553
  • Experience with an Albumin-Glutaraldehyde Tissue Adhesive in Sealing Air Leaks after Bullectomy
    Konstantinos Potaris, Peter Mihos, Ioannis Gakidis
    429-433
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.556
  • Totally Minimized Extracorporeal Circulation: An Important Benefit for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Jehovah's Witnesses
    Claude Vaislic, Olivier Bical, Claude Farge, Didier Gaillard, Olivier Ponzio, Yves Ollivier, Youcef Abdelmoumen, Bruno Robine, Gérard Souffrant, Touami Bouharaoua
    307-310
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.557
  • Surgical Treatment of Heart Failure in Patients with Primary and Ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy
    Ninoslav D. Radovanovic, Ljuborad V. Petrovic, Bogoljub B. Mihajlovic, Marko A. Kovac, Zoran R. Potic, Marijeta R. Zorc, Marijeta R. Zorc
    320-327
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.598
  • A New Technique for the Treatment of Delayed Sternotomy Healing: The Vacuum Therapy
    Roland G. Demaria, Uberto Giovannini, Luc Téot, Jean-Marc Frapier, Bernard Albat
    434-437
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.599
  • An Automatic Sutureless Coronary Anastomotic Device: Initial Results of an Animal Study
    Yaron Bar-El, Fermin O. Tio, Rona Shofti
    369-374
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.605
  • Early Postoperative Acute Aortic Dissection, the Leading Cause of Sudden Death after Cardiac Surgery? Critical Role of the Computed Tomography Scan
    Imad Tabry, Eugene Costantini, Elmore Reyes, Wael Tamim, Salem Habal, Linda Hughes
    382-386
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.641
  • A Feasibility Study of the Safety and Efficacy of a Combined Clopidogrel and Aspirin Regimen following Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
    Hani Shennib, Munemoto Endo, Osama Benhameid
    288-291
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.642
  • A Radiofrequency Modified Maze and Valve Procedure through a Port-Access Approach
    Mustafa Güden, Belhhan Akpinar, Ertan Sagbas, Ilhan Sanisoglu, Mehmet U. Ergenoglu, Ugur Ozbek, Ugur Ozbek
    292-296
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.643
  • Off Pump Long-Onlay-Patch Angioplasty to the LAD Using the Left Internal Mammary Artery
    Shuichiro Takanashi, Toshihiro Fukui, Shin Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Hosoda
    380-381
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.662
  • Epicardial Lead Implantation Techniques for Biventricular Pacing via Left Lateral Mini-Thoracotomy, Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy, and Robotic Approach
    Helmut Mair, Jean-Luc Jansens, Omar M. Lattouf, Bruno Reichart, Sabine Däbritz
    412-417
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.663
  • New Xenograft Valved Conduit (Contegra) for Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Reconstruction
    Andrew C. Chatzis, Nicolas M. Giannopoulos, Demetrios Bobos, George B. Kirvassilis, Spyros Rammos, George E. Sarris
    396-398
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.670
  • U-Clip Anastomoses in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Initial Clinical Experience
    Richard J. Shemin, Oz M. Shapira, Rahul V. Pawar, Yusheng Bao, Umer Sayeed-Shah, Harold L. Lazar
    362-365
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.691
  • Improved Survival with Ventricular Assist Device Support in Cardiogenic Shock after Myocardial Infarction
    John W. C. Entwistle, III, Paul B. Bolno, Elena Holmes, Louis E. Samuels
    316-319
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.701
  • Platelet Function after Off Pump Coronary Surgery
    Benjamin P. Bidstrup, Helen Scarrott, Monica Luque
    286-287
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.706
  • PRECiSe (Priming Reduced Extracorporeal Circulation Setup): Results of a Safety Study
    Sven Beholz, Michael Kessler, Wolfgang F. Konertz
    311-315
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.729
  • Irrigated Bipolar Radiofrequency Ablation with Transmurality Feedback for the Surgical Cox-Maze Procedure
    Chad E. Hamner, Alison Lutterman, D. Dean Potter, Thoralf M. Sundt III, Hartzell V Schaff, David Francischelli
    418-423
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.733
  • A Single Bicaval Venous Cannula Used for Optimization of Endoscopic Robotically Assisted Procedures of the Heart
    Jürg Grünenfelder, Achim Häussler, Andre Plass, Oliver Reuthebuch, Hitendu Dave, Boris Leskosek, Marko Turina, Gregor Zünd
    393-395
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.785
  • Hemodilution during Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Can We Improve Flow and Reduce Hypercoagulability?
    Mustafa Güden, Ilhan Sanisoglu, Ertan Sagbas, Mehmet U. Ergenoglu, Ugur Ozbek, Belhhan Akpinar
    399-402
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.815
  • Technical Aspects of Harvesting the Radial Artery with the Harmonic Scalpel
    C. Locker, Y. Ben-Gal, Y. Paz, O. Lev-Ran, N. Nesher, G. Uretzky, R. Mohr, I. Shapira
    345-347
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.826
  • INTRODUCTION : Specialty under Attack: Where is Cardiac Surgery Heading?
    Hani Shennib
    277-281
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.830
  • A New Clip Device for the Construction of Vascular Interrupted Anastomoses in Congenital Cardiac Surgery
    Pascal A. Berdat, Jean-Pierre Pfammatter, Mladen Pavlovic, Thierry Carrel
    358-361
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.834
  • Midterm Results of Routine Bilateral Internal Thoracic Artery Grafting
    A. Kramer, R. Mohr, O. Lev-Ran, R. Braunstein, D. Pevni, C. Locker, G. Uretzky, I. Shapira
    348-352
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.868
  • Combined Treatment of Aortic Type A Dissection: Ascending Aorta Repair and Placement of a Stent in the Descending Aorta
    Saed Jazayeri, Etienne Tatou, Marie Carmen Gomez, Olivier Bouchot, Montajab Saleh, Roger Brenot, Michel David
    387-389
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.873
  • The 9th Annual CTT Meeting 2003 Miami Beach, Florida, USA March 19-22, 2003 Abstracts
    438-476
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.924
  • Intraoperative Microwave Ablation in Patients Undergoing Valvular Surgery: Midterm Results
    Andrea Venturini, Elvio Polesel, Valeria Cutaia, Angiolino Asta, Domenico Mangino, Roberto Moretti, Alberto Terrini, Claudio Zussa
    409-411
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.953
  • Early Results of Using the Bovine Jugular Vein for Right Ventricular Outflow Reconstruction during the Ross Procedure
    Hitendu Dave, Alexander Kadner, Urs Bauersfeld, Felix Berger, Marko Turina, René Prêtre
    390-392
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.957
  • Midterm Results of Beating Heart Surgery in 1-Vessel Disease: Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass versus Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass with Full Sternotomy
    Calin Vicol, Georg Nollert, Helmut Mair, Vicky Samuel, Che Lim, Michael Tiftikidis, Sandra Eifert, Bruno Reichart
    341-344
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.958
  • Intraoperative Color Doppler Ultrasound Assessment of Anastomoses of the Left Internal Mammary Artery to the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery during Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Correlates with Angiographic Evaluation at the 8-Mont
    Ole Tjomsland, Rune Wiseth, Alexander Wahba, Arve Tromsdal, Stein O. Samstad, Rune Haaverstad
    375-379
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.959
  • Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Attenuates Postoperative Bleeding Associated with Preoperative Clopidogrel Administration
    Y. Joseph Woo, Todd Grand, Nicholas Valettas
    282-285
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.970
  • A Miniature Right Heart Support System Improves Cardiac Output and Stroke Volume during Beating Heart Posterior/Lateral Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
    Dwight C. Lundell, John D. Crouch
    302-306
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.971
  • Beating Heart Revascularization Using Only Bilateral Internal Thoracic Arteries for Triple-Vessel Disease: Early Angiographic Findings
    Kiick Sung, Young Tak Lee, Kay-Hyun Park, Tae-Gook Jun, Pyo Won Park, Ji-Hyuk Yang
    336-340
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.1017
  • Primary OPCAB as a Strategy for Acute Coronary Syndrome and Acute Myocardial Infarction
    Marek J. Jasinski, Stanislaw Wos, Piotr Olszówka, Ryszard Bachowski, Wojciech Ceglarek, Kazimierz Widenka, Marek Gemel, Wojciech Domaradzki, Marek Deja, Adam Szafranek, Krzysztof Golba, Dariusz Szurlej
    331-335
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.1053
  • Early and Late Outcome after Microwave Ablation for Chronic Valvular Atrial Fibrillation
    Marian Zembala, Radosl/aw Lenarczyk, Zbigniew Kalarus, Dariusz Puszczewicz, Roman Przybylski, Jerzy Pacholewicz
    403-408
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.1064
  • Cardiac Autotransplantation for Mitral Valve Replacement
    Dimitri Novitzky, Richard Perry, David Ndaba, Thomas Bowen
    424-428
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.1070
  • Improved Patient Outcomes When Transmyocardial Revascularization Is Used as Adjunctive Revascularization
    Kurt E. Wehberg, J. Stephens Julian, James C. Todd III, Nicholas Ogburn, Edward Klopp, Michael Buchness
    328-330
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.1135
  • Vettath's Anastomotic Obturator: A Simple Proximal Anastomotic Device
    Murali P. Vettath
    366-368
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.1138
  • Coronary Artery Bypass Graft with Minimal Extracorporeal Circulation
    Thierry A. Folliguet, Emmanuel Villa, Fréréric Vandeneyden, François Laborde
    297-301
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.1155