Vol. 6 No. 5 (2003)

Articles

• 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

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• Experience with an Albumin-Glutaraldehyde Tissue Adhesive in Sealing Air Leaks after Bullectomy

  Konstantinos Potaris, Peter Mihos, Ioannis Gakidis

  429-433

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• An Automatic Sutureless Coronary Anastomotic Device: Initial Results of an Animal Study

  Yaron Bar-El, Fermin O. Tio, Rona Shofti

  369-374

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Platelet Function after Off Pump Coronary Surgery

  Benjamin P. Bidstrup, Helen Scarrott, Monica Luque

  286-287

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• PRECiSe (Priming Reduced Extracorporeal Circulation Setup): Results of a Safety Study

  Sven Beholz, Michael Kessler, Wolfgang F. Konertz

  311-315

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• INTRODUCTION : Specialty under Attack: Where is Cardiac Surgery Heading?

  Hani Shennib

  277-281

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• The 9th Annual CTT Meeting 2003 Miami Beach, Florida, USA March 19-22, 2003 Abstracts

  438-476

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Attenuates Postoperative Bleeding Associated with Preoperative Clopidogrel Administration

  Y. Joseph Woo, Todd Grand, Nicholas Valettas

  282-285

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Cardiac Autotransplantation for Mitral Valve Replacement

  Dimitri Novitzky, Richard Perry, David Ndaba, Thomas Bowen

  424-428

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• 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

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• Vettath's Anastomotic Obturator: A Simple Proximal Anastomotic Device

  Murali P. Vettath

  366-368

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• Coronary Artery Bypass Graft with Minimal Extracorporeal Circulation

  Thierry A. Folliguet, Emmanuel Villa, Fréréric Vandeneyden, François Laborde

  297-301

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