Wolfgang Bothe, Christian Schlensak, Andreas van de Loo, and Friedhelm Beyersdorf

A fistula between the circumflex artery and the coronary sinus mimicks coronary artery disease in a 63-year-old woman (Case report - Cardiac general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2005;4:81-82. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Roger W. Irvine, Paul S. Ramphal, Collette Hall, and Gurendra Char

Struma cordis in a Jamaican woman (Case report - Cardiac general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2005;4:83-84. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kazuhiro Ueda, Yoshikazu Kaneda, Manabu Sudou, Mitsutaka Jinbo, Tao-Sheng Li, Kazuyoshi Suga, Nobuyuki Tanaka, and Kimikazu Hamano

Prediction of hypoxemia after lung resection surgery (Institutional report - Pulmonary)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2005;4:85-89. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Victor Aboyans, Philippe Lacroix, Jérôme Guilloux, Florence Rollé, Alexandre Le Guyader, Michel Cautrès, Elisabeth Cornu, and Marc Laskar

A predictive model for screening cerebrovascular disease in patient undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (ESCVS article - Vascular)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2005;4:90-95. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Judith M.D. van den Brule, Luc Noyez, and Freek W.A. Verheugt

Risk of coronary surgery for hospital and early morbidity and mortality after initially successful percutaneous intervention (Institutional report - Coronary)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2005;4:96-100. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yoshiharu Nishimura, Yasuaki Naito, Takehiko Nishioka, and Yoshitaka Okamura

The effects of cardiac cooling under surface-induced hypothermia on the cardiac function in the in situ heart (Institutional report - Experimental)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2005;4:101-105. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shun-ichi Watanabe, Hisao Asamura, Kenji Suzuki, and Ryosuke Tsuchiya

The new strategy of selective nodal dissection for lung cancer based on segment-specific patterns of nodal spread (Institutional report - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2005;4:106-109. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rahul Gujadhur, Bruce W. Helme, Aliu Sanni, and Joel Dunning

Continuous subglottic suction is effective for prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia (Best evidence topic - Cardiac general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2005;4:110-115. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hiroshi Tanaka, Teruo Yamashita, Kenji Okada, and Yutaka Okita

Successful surgery in a patient with a rupture of descending aorta complicated by acute type A aortic dissection through left-sided thoracotomy (Case report - Vascular thoracic)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2005;4:116-117. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mitsuaki Sakai, Shigemi Ishikawa, Tatsuo Yamamoto, Masataka Onizuka, Yuzuru Sakakibara, Tatsuo Iijima, and Masayuki Noguchi

Preoperative TNM evaluation of peripheral clinical stage I small cell lung cancer treated by initial lobectomy with adjuvant chemotherapy (Institutional report - Thoracic general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2005;4:118-122. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Manfred Junemann-Ramirez, Gemma Conn, Andrew Marshall, and Adrian Marchbank

Video-assisted cardioscopy in a patient with left ventricular tumor of unknown etiology (Case report - Cardiac general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2005;4:123-125. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Akinori Iwasaki, Takayuki Shirakusa, Sotarou Enatsu, Shinichi Maekawa, Yasuteru Yoshinaga, Satoshi Yoneda, and Seiichiro Hoshino

Is T2 non-small cell lung cancer located in left lower lobe appropriate to upstage? (Institutional report - Pulmonary)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2005;4:126-129. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Man-Jong Baek, Sam-Sae Oh, Chang-Ha Lee, and Chan-Young Na

Outcome of the modified maze procedure for atrial fibrillation combined with rheumatic mitral valve disease using cryoablation (Work in progress report - Arrhythmia)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2005;4:130-134. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lindsay John

How to prevent foreign body embolism with adjustable ‘position stop’ aortic cannulae (Proposal for bail-out procedure - Cardiopulmonary bypass)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2005;4:135-136. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fabrizio Settepani, Diego Ornaghi, Alessandro Barbone, Enrico Citterio, Alessandro Eusebio, Eric Manasse, Giuseppe Silvaggio, and Roberto Gallotti

Aortic valve-sparing operations in patients with aneurysms of the aortic root or ascending aorta: preliminary results (ESCVS article - Vascular thoracic)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2005;4:137-139. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ahmet Feridun Isik, Gurkan Ozturk, Serdar Ugras, and Muammer Karaayvaz

Enzymatic dissection for palliative treatment of esophageal carcinoma: an experimental study (Institutional report - Esophagus)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2005;4:140-142. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark Wheatcroft, Vivek Shrivastava, Brian Nyawo, Anthony Rostron, and Joel Dunning

Does pleurotomy during internal mammary artery harvest increase post-operative pulmonary complications? (Best evidence topic - Coronary)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2005;4:143-146. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anish Patel and Joel Dunning

Is Sotalol more effective than standard beta-blockers for the prophylaxis of atrial fibrillation during cardiac surgery (Best evidence topic - Arrhythmia)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2005;4:147-150. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mohamed N. Bittar, James B. Barnard, Noman Khasati, and Steven Richardson

Should the pericardium be closed in patients undergoing cardiac surgery? (Best evidence topic - Cardiac general)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2005;4:151-155. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Doosang Kim, Wonhee Ryu, Seong Jin Cho, Jungrye Kim, and Sunghyuk Park

Erratum to ‘Touch print cytology shows higher sensitivity than pleural lavage cytology for pleural micro-metastasis in lung cancer’: [Interactive CardioVasc Thorac Surg 4 (2005) 70–74] (Erratum)
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2005;4:156. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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