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1.) [Editorials] Update on the cardiovascular and thoracic service-line concept

2.) [Editorials] Recognition of greatness: "The Jatene operation"

3.) [Expert Commentary] The post-myocardial infarction scarred ventricle and congestive heart failure: The preeminence of magnetic resonance imaging for preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative assessment

4.) [Congenital Heart Disease] Five-year neurocognitive and health outcomes after the neonatal arterial switch operation

5.) [Congenital Heart Disease] A prospective observational study of human factors, adverse events, and patient outcomes in surgery for pediatric cardiac disease

6.) [Congenital Heart Disease] Borderline hypoplasia of the left ventricle in neonates: Insights for decision-making from functional assessment with magnetic resonance imaging

7.) [Congenital Heart Disease] Coronary blood supply of the inferior wall of the right ventricle in hearts with Ebstein malformation: relevance to vertical plication

8.) [Congenital Heart Disease] Reconstituted fresh whole blood improves clinical outcomes compared with stored component blood therapy for neonates undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass for cardiac surgery: A randomized controlled trial

9.) [Cardiopulmonary Support and Physiology] The myocardial protective effects of a moderate-potassium adenosine-lidocaine cardioplegia in pediatric cardiac surgery

10.) [Cardiopulmonary Support and Physiology] Formation of anti-platelet factor 4/heparin antibodies after cardiac surgery: Influence of perioperative platelet activation, the inflammatory response, and histocompatibility leukocyte antigen status

11.) [General Thoracic Surgery] Randomized controlled trial of a special acupuncture technique for pain after thoracotomy

12.) [General Thoracic Surgery] Acupuncture to relieve the pain of thoracotomy: Commentary on randomized, controlled trial

13.) [General Thoracic Surgery] Primary chest wall lymphoma with no history of tuberculous pyothorax: Diagnosis and treatment

14.) [General Thoracic Surgery] Transverse sternal plating in secondary sternal reconstruction

15.) [General Thoracic Surgery] Stage III thymoma: Relationship of local invasion to recurrence

16.) [Evolving Technology] Improvement in coronary anastomosis with cardiac surgery simulation

17.) [Evolving Technology] Evaluation of a novel atrial retractor for exposure of the mitral valve in a porcine model

18.) [Evolving Technology] Feasibility of a three-axis epicardial accelerometer in detecting myocardial ischemia in cardiac surgical patients

19.) [Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Mitral valve repair for advanced myxomatous degeneration with posterior displacement of the mitral annulus

20.) [Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Effect of preoperative statins in patients without coronary artery disease who undergo cardiac surgery

21.) [Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Use of quantitative analysis of remote myocardial fibrosis with delayed-enhancement magnetic resonance imaging to predict outcomes after surgical ventricular restoration for ischemic cardiomyopathy

22.) [Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Comparative study of single-dose and 24-hour multiple-dose antibiotic prophylaxis for cardiac surgery

23.) [Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] The sinus of Valsalva relieves abnormal stress on aortic valve leaflets by facilitating smooth closure

24.) [Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Does aortic crossclamping during the cooling phase affect the early clinical outcome of acute type A aortic dissection?

25.) [Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Effect of rosuvastatin pretreatment on myocardial damage after coronary surgery: A randomized trial

26.) [Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Congestive heart failure complicating aortic regurgitation with medical and surgical management: A prospective study of traditional and quantitative echocardiographic markers

27.) [Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Endovascular treatment for acute traumatic transection of the descending aorta: Focus on operative timing and left subclavian artery management

28.) [Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Reoperative minimal access aortic valve surgery: Minimal mediastinal dissection and minimal injury risk

29.) [Cardiothoracic Transplantation] Airway stenoses after lung transplantation: Incidence, management, and outcome

30.) [Cardiothoracic Transplantation] Blockade of receptor for advanced glycation end product attenuates pulmonary reperfusion injury in mice

31.) [Cardiothoracic Transplantation] A Rho-kinase inhibitor improves cardiac function after 24-hour heart preservation

32.) [Brief Communications] The unmasking of a Brugada phenotype after pulmonary resection: A case report and implications for postoperative management

33.) [Brief Communications] A word of caution regarding patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and a diminutive aorta

34.) [Brief Communications] Artificial chordae: A simple clip and tie technique

35.) [Brief Communications] Reversed L-shaped deformity of the anterior mitral leaflet and its reparative technique

36.) [Brief Communications] Noninvasive assessment of cardiac function during ventricular assist system support using 64-row multidetector computed tomographic angiography

37.) [Letters to the Editor] Bicuspid aortopathy or bicuspid aortopathies? The risk in generalizing

38.) [Letters to the Editor] Reply to the Editor

39.) [Letters to the Editor] Computed tomography and endoscopic ultrasound in detection and characterization of mediastinal masses

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41.) [Letters to the Editor] Surgeons' informed consent

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43.) [Erratum] Notice of Correction

44.) [Meetings and Courses] Meetings and Courses

45.) [Announcements] Announcement of 2009 Annual Meeting

46.) [Announcements] Preliminary Agenda

47.) [Announcements] Summer Internship Applications Now Available

48.) [Announcements] Announcement of 2009 Annual Meeting

49.) [Announcements] Application for Membership

50.) [Announcements] Notices

51.) [Announcements] Requirements for Maintenance of Certification

52.) [Announcements] 57th Graham Fellow Named

53.) [Announcements] Third Edward D. Churchill Research Scholars Announced

54.) [Announcements] 2008-2009 Resident Fellowship Recipients Announced

55.) [Announcements] The Foundation for Accelerated Vascular Research Annual Wylie Scholar Award, Application Deadline March 16, 2009

56.) [Editorial] Fifty years of cardiothoracic surgery through the looking glass and what the future holds

57.) [Expert Commentary] Regional heterogeneity within the aorta: Relevance to aneurysm disease

58.) [Expert Commentary] The legacy of coronary sinus interventions: Endogenous cardioprotection and regeneration beyond stem cell research

59.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Impact of left ventricular function on immediate and long-term outcomes after pericardiectomy in constrictive pericarditis

60.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Bovine pericardial versus porcine stented replacement aortic valves: Early results of a randomized comparison of the Perimount and the Mosaic valves

61.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Influence of preoperative renal dysfunction on one-year bypass graft patency and two-year outcomes in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery

62.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Long-term results after ablation for long-standing atrial fibrillation concomitant to surgery for organic heart disease: Is microwave energy reliable?

63.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Influence of patent false lumen on long-term outcome after surgery for acute type A aortic dissection

64.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Conduit choice for coronary artery bypass grafting after mediastinal radiation

65.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Type A aortic dissection: Has surgical outcome improved with time?

66.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Transgenic model of cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma formation

67.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Impact of the Maze operation on the progression of mild functional tricuspid regurgitation

68.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Treatment of type II endoleaks associated with left subclavian artery coverage during thoracic aortic stent grafting

69.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] How does the use of polytetrafluoroethylene neochordae for posterior mitral valve prolapse (loop technique) compare with leaflet resection? A prospective randomized trial

70.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Discussion

71.) [Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease] Carbon dioxide--a complex gas in a complex circulation: Its effects on systemic hemodynamics and oxygen transport, cerebral, and splanchnic circulation in neonates after the Norwood procedure

72.) [Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease] Impact of early and standardized treatment with amiodarone on therapeutic success and outcome in pediatric patients with postoperative tachyarrhythmia

73.) [Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease] Complete heart block associated with device closure of perimembranous ventricular septal defects

74.) [Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease] Perioperative course in 118 infants and children undergoing coarctation repair via a thoracotomy: A prospective, multicenter experience

75.) [Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease] The bidirectional Glenn operation: A risk factor analysis for morbidity and mortality

76.) [Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease] Cleft closure and undersizing annuloplasty improve mitral repair in atrioventricular canal defects

77.) [Cardiopulmonary Support and Physiology] Novel approach with intratracheal administration of microgelatin hydrogel microspheres incorporating basic fibroblast growth factor for rescue of rats with monocrotaline-induced pulmonary hypertension

78.) [Cardiopulmonary Support and Physiology] The effects of the Cox maze procedure on atrial function

79.) [Cardiopulmonary Support and Physiology] Myocardial ischemia is more important than the effects of cardiopulmonary bypass on myocardial water handling and postoperative dysfunction: A pediatric animal model

80.) [Cardiopulmonary Support and Physiology] Inhibitory kappa B kinase-{beta} is a target for specific nuclear factor kappa B-mediated delayed cardioprotection

81.) [Cardiopulmonary Support and Physiology] Discussion

82.) [Cardiopulmonary Support and Physiology] Inflammatory lung injury after cardiopulmonary bypass is attenuated by adenosine A2A receptor activation

83.) [Cardiopulmonary Support and Physiology] Discussion

84.) [Evolving Technology] Secondary surgical procedures after endovascular stent grafting of the thoracic aorta: Successful approaches to a challenging clinical problem

85.) [Evolving Technology] Surgical ablation for atrial fibrillation: The efficacy of a novel bipolar pen device in the cardioplegically arrested and beating heart

86.) [Evolving Technology] Harmonic scalpel versus electrocautery for harvest of radial artery conduits: Reduced risk of spasm and intimal injury on optical coherence tomography

87.) [Evolving Technology] A fusion protein of hepatocyte growth factor enhances reconstruction of myocardium in a cardiac patch derived from porcine urinary bladder matrix

88.) [Evolving Technology] Low thromboembolic risk for patients with the Heartmate II left ventricular assist device

89.) [Evolving Technology] Multidetector computed tomographic characteristics of nonabsorbable polymer versus titanium ligature clips in a vascular model

90.) [General Thoracic Surgery] Factors leading to tracheobronchial self-expandable metallic stent fracture

91.) [General Thoracic Surgery] Prevention of stricture development after corrosive esophageal burn with a modified esophageal stent in dogs

92.) [General Thoracic Surgery] Prognostic evaluation based on a new TNM staging system proposed by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer for resected non-small cell lung cancers

93.) [General Thoracic Surgery] Sleeve lung resection for lung cancer: Analysis according to the type of procedure

94.) [General Thoracic Surgery] Is lung cancer resection indicated in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?

95.) [Brief Communications] Ascending aortic dissection after proximal bypass anastomotic device

96.) [Brief Communications] Sclerosing hemangioma with an air halo

97.) [Brief Communications] Long-term remission of hepatic hydrothorax after OK-432 pleurodesis

98.) [Brief Communications] Perioperative nesiritide and possible renal protection in patients with moderate to severe kidney dysfunction

99.) [Brief Communications] Repair of a traumatic sternal deformity

100.) [Brief Communications] Pumpless extracorporeal gas exchange aiding central airway surgery

101.) [Brief Communications] Giant left atrial thrombus with mechanical compromise of the mitral valve

102.) [Brief Communications] Patients with truncus arteriosus do not have a patent arterial duct: True or false?

103.) [Brief Communications] Solitary metastasis of urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder to the heart: An unusual clinical manifestation

104.) [Brief Communications] Infiltration of saline solution around the saphenous vein facilitates stripping for coronary bypass surgery

105.) [Brief Communications] Electromagnetic interaction between an axial left ventricular assist device and an implantable cardioverter defibrillator

106.) [Brief Communications] Surgical ventricular restoration by means of a new technique to preserve left ventricular compliance: The horseshoe repair

107.) [Brief Communications] Lecompte operation: Is it still a viable option for truncus arteriosus?

108.) [Brief Communications] Pediatric Application of the Thoratec CentriMag BiVAD as a Bridge to Heart Transplantation

109.) [Brief Communications] Mesenchymal stem cells engineered to overexpress stem cell factor improve cardiac function but have malignant potential

110.) [Letters to the Editor] Coronary sinus reducer stent

111.) [Letters to the Editor] Single-stage versus 2-stage repair of coarctation of the aorta with ventricular septal defect

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113.) [Letters to the Editor] Solid and gaseous cerebral microembolization after biologic and mechanical aortic valve replacement: Investigation with multirange and multifrequency transcranial Doppler ultrasound

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115.) [Letters to the Editor] Contegra and extracardiac Fontan

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117.) [Letters to the Editor] Challenges of small cardiac units

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119.) [Meetings and Courses] Meetings and Courses

120.) [Announcements] The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Volunteer Leadership and Senior Staff Disclosure Statement

121.) [Announcements] Announcement of 2009 Annual Meeting

122.) [Announcements] Preliminary Agenda

123.) [Announcements] Applications for Membership

124.) [Announcements] Announcement of 2009 Annual Meeting

125.) [Announcements] Application for Membership

126.) [Announcements] Notices

127.) [Announcements] Requirements for Maintenance of Certification

128.) [Obituary] Michael E. DeBakey, 1908 to 2008

129.) [Editorials] Mission Critical: Thoracic Surgery Education Reform

130.) [Editorials] You Never Know Unless You Try

131.) [Expert Commentary] Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me! A perspective on the emerging world of percutaneous heart valve therapy

132.) [Expert Commentary] Energy loss for evaluating heart valve performance

133.) [General Thoracic Surgery] The short esophagus: Intraoperative assessment of esophageal length

134.) [General Thoracic Surgery] Expert commentary: A multicenter study to define the incidence of short esophagus in surgical patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease

135.) [General Thoracic Surgery] Autologous fibrin sealant reduces the incidence of prolonged air leak and duration of chest tube drainage after lung volume reduction surgery: A prospective randomized blinded study

136.) [General Thoracic Surgery] Intrathoracic esophageal replacement by in situ tissue-engineered esophagus

137.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Reoperative aortic root and transverse arch procedures: A comparison with contemporaneous primary operations

138.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Chordal translocation for ischemic mitral regurgitation may ameliorate tethering of the posterior and anterior mitral leaflets

139.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Vascular adaptation of the internal thoracic artery graft early and late after bypass surgery

140.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Pexelizumab in ischemic heart disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis on 15,196 patients

141.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] The influence of seasonal variation on cardiac surgery: A time-related clinical outcome predictor

142.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] In situ tissue regeneration using a novel tissue-engineered, small-caliber vascular graft without cell seeding

143.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Short- and long-term efficacy of aspirin and clopidogrel for thromboprophylaxis for mechanical heart valves: An in vivo study in swine

144.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] The role of temporary biventricular pacing in the cardiac surgical patient with severely reduced left ventricular systolic function

145.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Characterization of the inflammatory cells in ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms in patients with Marfan syndrome, familial thoracic aortic aneurysms, and sporadic aneurysms

146.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Interaction between two predictors of functional outcome after revascularization in ischemic cardiomyopathy: Left ventricular volume and amount of viable myocardium

147.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Is aortic wall degeneration related to bicuspid aortic valve anatomy in patients with valvular disease?

148.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] Stentless valves versus stented bioprostheses at the aortic position: Midterm results

149.) [Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease] The transapical approach for aortic valve implantation

150.) [Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease] Mitral valve replacement in infants and children 5 years of age or younger: Evolution in practice and outcome over three decades with a focus on supra-annular prosthesis implantation

151.) [Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease] Regional differences in tissue oxygenation during cardiopulmonary bypass for correction of congenital heart disease in neonates and small infants: Relevance of near-infrared spectroscopy

152.) [Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease] Design and rationale of a randomized trial comparing the Blalock-Taussig and right ventricle-pulmonary artery shunts in the Norwood procedure

153.) [Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease] Two-year survival, mental, and motor outcomes after cardiac extracorporeal life support at less than five years of age

154.) [Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease] Survival after extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in infants and children with heart disease

155.) [Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease] Measurement of technical performance in surgery for congenital heart disease: The stage I Norwood procedure

156.) [Evolving Technology] Intraoperative verification of conduction block in atrial fibrillation surgery

157.) [Evolving Technology] Persistent atrial fibrillation in a goat model of chronic left atrial overload

158.) [Evolving Technology] Evaluation of a new disease-specific endovascular device for type B aortic dissection

159.) [Evolving Technology] A novel device for left atrial appendage exclusion: The third-generation atrial exclusion device

160.) [Cardiopulmonary Support and Physiology] Multimodal evaluation of in vivo magnetic resonance imaging of myocardial restoration by mouse embryonic stem cells

161.) [Cardiopulmonary Support and Physiology] Effects of carbamazepine on spinal cord ischemia

162.) [Cardiopulmonary Support and Physiology] CCR3- and CXCR4-mediated interactions regulate migration of CD34+ human bone marrow progenitors to ischemic myocardium and subsequent tissue repair

163.) [Cardiopulmonary Support and Physiology] Platelet activity and aspirin efficacy after off-pump compared with on-pump coronary artery bypass surgery: Results from the prospective randomized trial PRAGUE 11-Coronary Artery Bypass and REactivity of Thrombocytes (CABARET)

164.) [Cardiothoracic Transplantation] Should lung transplantation be performed using donation after cardiac death? The United States experience

165.) [Cardiothoracic Transplantation] Carbon monoxide-saturated preservation solution protects lung grafts from ischemia-reperfusion injury

166.) [Brief Communications] Pitfalls in catheter-based interventions to treat paravalvular leaks

167.) [Brief Communications] Resection of a giant thoracic solitary fibrous tumor through two separate thoracotomies

168.) [Brief Communications] Partial resection of persistent left superior vena cava for a T4 lung cancer

169.) [Brief Communications] Hypoxemia after an axial flow pump Jarvik-2000 implantation: Catheter induced

170.) [Brief Communications] Aortic root aneurysm in Takayasu arteritis syndrome: Exploration in active phase and repair in inactive phase

171.) [Brief Communications] Partial left pulmonary artery sling associated with multiple ventricular septal defects: A rare congenital anomaly

172.) [Brief Communications] Cardiac tamponade secondary to traumatic intrapericardial diaphragmatic hernia

173.) [Brief Communications] Identification by transesophageal echocardiography of intramural hematoma and the site of aortic rupture

174.) [Brief Communications] Aortoesophageal fistula associated with a Kommerell diverticulum and right-sided aortic arch

175.) [Brief Communications] Recurrent sarcoma originating from the pulmonary artery 6 years after extensive thoracic resection

176.) [Brief Communications] Mitral annuloplasty in an infant with Barth syndrome and severe mitral insufficiency: First case report and determination of annular diameter

177.) [Brief Communications] Pediatric cardiac transplantation: Three-dimensional printing of anatomic models for surgical planning of heart transplantation in patients with univentricular heart

178.) [Letters to the Editor] Statins with equivalent lipid-lowering capacity exhibit differential effects on atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery

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180.) [Letters to the Editor] Box lesion or not--Still unsettled question

181.) [Letters to the Editor] Aortic valve replacement dilemma: mechanical or biological prosthesis?

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183.) [Letters to the Editor] Importance of stabilization of the mitral annulus in mitral valve repair

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185.) [Letters to the Editor] Questions on the angular (Gothic) arch configuration and its applicability after type I aortic dissection repair

186.) [Letters to the Editor] Aprotinin and renal dysfunction: The role of exposure to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors

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188.) [Letters to the Editor] Prosthetic valve thrombosis: A regimen of treatment with low-dose and longer-course using recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator is a promising protocol

189.) [Letters to the Editor] Optimizing selective cerebral perfusion in adult aortic arch repair: Clinical relevance of the laboratory model

190.) [Meeting Proceedings] Highlights from the 11th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery