Vol. 7 No. 6 (2004)

Articles

• Guidant Heartstring: Initial Experience in OPCAB Surgery

  Alberto Weber, Oliver Reuthebuch, Marko Turina

  E590-E594

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• Collective Review: Perioperative Uses of Inhaled Nitric Oxide in Adults

  Mehmet C. Oz, Abbas Ardehali

  E584-E589

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• Robotic Aortic Valve Replacement: Case Report

  Thierry A. Folliguet, Fabrice Vanhuyse, Diego Magnano, François Laborde

  E551-E553

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• Prototype Epicardial Crawling Device for Intrapericardial Intervention on the Beating Heart

  Cameron N. Riviere, Nicholas A. Patronik, Marco A. Zenati

  E639-E643

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• Bipolar Irrigated Radiofrequency Ablation of the Posterior-Inferior Left Atrium and Coronary Sinus is Feasible and Safe

  Calin Vicol, Felix Kur, Sandra Eifert, Martin Oberhoffer, Georg Nollert, Bernd Wintersperger, Bruno Reichart

  E535-E538

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• A Method for Identifying Mechanisms of Neurologic Injury from Cardiac Surgery

  Donald S. Likosky, Robert C. Groom, Cantwell Clark, Richard J. Forest, Robert S. Kramer, Jeremy R. Morton, Cathy S. Ross, Kathryn A. Sabadosa, Gerald T. O'Connor, for the Northern, for the Northern, for the Northern, Jeremy R. Morton, Cathy S. Ross

  348-352

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• Robot-Assisted Off-Pump Minimally Invasive Reoperative Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Case Report

  Timothy P. Martens, Marco M. Hefti, Robert Kalimi, Craig R. Smith, Michael Argenziano

  E533-E534

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• Coronary Artery Bypass with the Use of a Magnetic Distal Anastomotic Device: Surgical Technique and Preliminary Experience

  Thanos Athanasiou, Hutan Ashrafian, Brian Glenville, Roberto Casula

  356-359

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• Early and Midterm Outcome after Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction

  Ioannis K. Toumpoulis, Constantine E. Anagnostopoulos, Joseph J. DeRose, Daniel G. Swistel

  E539-E545

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• In Vivo and In Vitro Evaluation of the Heparin Management Test versus the Activated Coagulation Time for Monitoring Anticoagulation Level in Aprotinin-Treated Patients during Cardiac Surgery

  Y. S. Kim, J. M. Murkin, S. J. Adams

  E599-E604

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• Neurologic Injury Associated with CABG Surgery: Outcomes, Mechanisms, and Opportunities for Improvement

  Donald S. Likosky, Robert M. Roth, Andrew J. Saykin, Clifford J. Eskey, Cathy S. Ross, Gerald T. O'Connor

  E650-E662

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• Pulmonary Vein Isolation by Robotic-Enhanced Thoracoscopy for Symptomatic Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

  Jean Luc Jansens, Anne Ducart, Nicolas Preumont, Maurice Jottrand, Maurice Jottrand, Eric Stoupel, Didier de Cannière

  E595-E598

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• The Completely Endoscopic Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation: Report on the First 14 Patients with Early Results

  Rawn Salenger, Stephen J. Lahey, Adam E Saltman

  E555-E558

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• Reexamining Contraindications for Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery

  Clifton C. Reade, Curtis E. Bower, Alan P. Kypson, L. Wiley Nifong, William A. Wooden, W. Randolph Chitwood, Jr

  E571-E573

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• The Use of 3D Epiaortic Scanning to Enhance Evaluation of Atherosclerotic Plaque in the Ascending Aorta: A Case Series

  Daniel T Bainbridge, John M. Murkin, Alan Menkis, Bob Kiaii

  E636-E638

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• Surgical Management of Infants with Congenital Lobar Emphysema and Concomitant Congenital Heart Disease

  Riza Dogan, Omer Faruk Dogan, Mustafa Yilmaz, Metin Demircin, Ilhan Pasaoglu, Nural Kiper, Ugur Ozcelik, Erkmen Boke

  E644-E649

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• The Four Seasons of Ruptured Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysms: Case Presentations and Review

  Mana Golzari, Jerome B. Riebman

  E577-E583

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• Port-Access Aortic Valve Surgery: A Technique in Evolution

  Grayson H. Wheatley, III, Syma L. Prince, Morley A. Herbert, William H. Ryan

  E628-E631

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• A New Needle Driver for Minientry Coronary Artery Bypass

  Toshiya Ohtsuka, Mikio Ninomiya, Takahiro Nonaka, Taisei Maemura

  E559-E561

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• A Steel Band in Addition to 8 Wire Cerclages Reduces the Risk of Sternal Dehiscence after Median Sternotomy

  Friedrich-Christian Riess, Nizar Awwad, Bettina Hoffmann, Ralf Bader, Hanns-York Helmold, Andreas G. Riess, Andreas G. Riess, Niels Bleese

  387-392

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• Minimally Invasive Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Combined with a New Technique for Thoracoscopic Stapling of the Left Atrial Appendage: Case Report

  Husam H. Balkhy, Peter D Chapman, Susan E Arnsdorf

  353-355

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• Extracorporeal Circulation without External Clamping and Cannulation of the Aorta: Transventricular Placement of a New Multifunctional Aortic Cannula

  Albertus M. Scheule, Wolfram Beierlein, Andreas Straub, Gerhard Ziemer

  E569-E570

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• Improved Recovery after the Endoscopic Atraumatic Coronary Artery Bypass Procedure Compared with Sternotomy for Off-Pump Bypass of the Left Internal Thoracic Artery to the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery: A Case-Matched Study

  Douglas West, Marcus Flather, John Pepper, Richard Trimlett, John Yap, Anthony De Souza

  E546-E550

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• Selective Use of Off-Pump Coronary Bypass Surgery Reduces Mortality and Neurologic Morbidity Associated with High-Risk Coronary Bypass Surgery: A 400-Case Comparative Experience

  Jeffrey P. Gold, John Wasnick, William Maldarelli, Ilya Zhuraavlev, Kaila Enitt Torres, Douglas Condit

  E562-E568

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• The ESTECH Remote Access Perfusion Cannula in Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery

  Thomas Schachner, Nikolaos Bonaros, Günther Laufer, Johannes Bonatti

  E632-E635

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• Composite Graft Replacement in Acute Aortic Dissection: Technique for Anastomosing the Right Coronary Artery without an Aortic Button

  Riza Turkoz, Oner Gulcan

  E574-E576

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