Current Issue June 2012, Vol. 143, No. 6

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Cardiothoracic Surgical Education and Training

Training residents in off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery: A 14-year experience
June 2012(Vol. 143 | No. 6 | Pages 1247-1253.e1)
Michele Murzi, Massimo Caputo, Giuseppe Aresu, Simon Duggan, Gianni D. Angelini

Clinical Guidelines

Multisociety (AATS, ACCF, SCAI, and STS) expert consensus statement: Operator and institutional requirements for transcatheter valve repair and replacement, part 1: Transcatheter aortic valve replacement
June 2012(Vol. 143 | No. 6 | Pages 1254-1263.e9)
Carl L. Tommaso, R. Morton Bolman, Ted Feldman, Joseph Bavaria, Michael A. Acker, Gabriel Aldea, Duke E. Cameron, Larry S. Dean, Dave Fullerton, Ziyad M. Hijazi, Eric Horlick, D. Craig Miller, Marc R. Moon, Richard Ringel, Carlos E. Ruiz, Alfredo Trento, Bonnie H. Weiner, Evan M. Zahn
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Congenital Heart Disease

Regional alterations in cerebral growth exist preoperatively in infants with congenital heart disease
June 2012(Vol. 143 | No. 6 | Pages 1264-1270.e2)
Cynthia Ortinau, John Beca, Jennifer Lambeth, Barbara Ferdman, Dimitrios Alexopoulos, Joshua S. Shimony, Michael Wallendorf, Jeffrey Neil, Terrie Inder

Historical perspectives of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery: W. Gerald Austen
24 May 2012
Cameron D. Wright
William Gerald Austen, “Jerry” or “WGA,” the 69th president of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS), was born on January 20, 1930, in Akron, Ohio. When he graduated from high school at...
Understanding right ventricular dysfunction and functional tricuspid regurgitation accompanying mitral valve disease
24 May 2012
Lina Maria Vargas Abello, Allan L. Klein, Thomas H. Marwick, Edward R. Nowicki, Jeevanantham Rajeswaran, Sarinya Puwanant, Eugene H. Blackstone, Gösta B. Pettersson
Objectives: The study objective was to correlate the degree of tricuspid regurgitation with clinical indicators of right-sided heart failure and both qualitative and quantitative measures of right-sid...
Inhibiting CXCL12 blocks fibrocyte migration and differentiation and attenuates bronchiolitis obliterans in a murine heterotopic tracheal transplant model
24 May 2012
David A. Harris, Yunge Zhao, Damien J. LaPar, Abbas Emaminia, John F. Steidle, Mark Stoler, Joel Linden, Irving L. Kron, Christine L. Lau
Objectives: Fibrocytes are integral in the development of fibroproliferative disease after lung transplantation. Undifferentiated fibrocytes (CD45+anti-collagen 1+CXCR4+) preferentially traffic by way...
When the timing is right: Antibiotic timing and infection after cardiac surgery
18 May 2012
Colleen G. Koch, Edward R. Nowicki, Jeevanantham Rajeswaran, Steven M. Gordon, Joseph F. Sabik, Eugene H. Blackstone
Objectives: Guidelines recommend antibiotic prophylaxis 60 minutes before skin incision; however, it is unclear whether more precise timing would further reduce sternal wound infection. Our objectives...
Redo laparoscopic repair of benign esophageal disease
18 May 2012
Jon O. Wee
Laparoscopic fundoplication for gastroesophageal reflux disease has been associated with excellent symptom control. Compared with medical treatment, laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication has shown favora...

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2011 ACCF/AHA guideline for coronary artery bypass graft surgery: Executive summary: A report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines
January 2012 (Vol. 143 | No. 1 | Pages 4-34)
Writing Committee Members, L. David Hillis, Peter K. Smith, Jeffrey L. Anderson, John A. Bittl, Charles R. Bridges, John G. Byrne, Joaquin E. Cigarroa, Verdi J. DiSesa, Loren F. Hiratzka, Adolph M. Hutter, Michael E. Jessen, Ellen C. Keeley, Stephen J. Lahey, Richard A. Lange, Martin J. London, Michael J. Mack, Manesh R. Patel, John D. Puskas, Joseph F. Sabik, Ola Selnes, David M. Shahian, Jeffrey C. Trost, Michael D. Winniford, ACCF/AHA Task Force Members, Alice K. Jacobs, Jeffrey L. Anderson, Nancy Albert, Mark A. Creager, Steven M. Ettinger, Robert A. Guyton, Jonathan L. Halperin, Judith S. Hochman, Frederick G. Kushner, E. Magnus Ohman, William Stevenson, Clyde W. Yancy
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The rationale and design of the Surgical Treatment for Ischemic Heart Failure (STICH) trial
December 2007 (Vol. 134 | No. 6 | Pages 1540-1547.e4)
Eric J. Velazquez, Kerry L. Lee, Christopher M. O’Connor, Jae K. Oh, Robert O. Bonow, Gerald M. Pohost, Arthur M. Feldman, Daniel B. Mark, Julio A. Panza, George Sopko, Jean L. Rouleau, Robert H. Jones, STICH Investigators
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation versus surgical aortic valve replacement: A propensity score analysis in patients at high surgical risk
January 2012 (Vol. 143 | No. 1 | Pages 64-71)
Lenard Conradi, Moritz Seiffert, Hendrik Treede, Miriam Silaschi, Stephan Baldus, Johannes Schirmer, Jan-Felix Kersten, Thomas Meinertz, Hermann Reichenspurner
The effect of incentive spirometry and inspiratory muscle training on pulmonary function after lung resection
March 1997 (Vol. 113 | No. 3 | Pages 552-557)
Paltiel Weiner, Abraham Man, Margalit Weiner, Marinella Rabner, Joseph Waizman, Rasmi Magadle, Doron Zamir, Yoel Greiff
A multicenter trial of an intrabronchial valve for treatment of severe emphysema
January 2007 (Vol. 133 | No. 1 | Pages 65-73.e2)
Douglas E. Wood, Robert J. McKenna, Roger D. Yusen, Daniel H. Sterman, David E. Ost, Steven C. Springmeyer, H. Xavier Gonzalez, Michael S. Mulligan, Thomas Gildea, Ward V. Houck, Michael Machuzak, Atul C. Mehta

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Current Issue June 2012, Vol. 143, No. 6

Issue Highlights

Cardiothoracic Surgical Education and Training

Clinical Guidelines

Congenital Heart Disease

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