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EDITORIAL

1999-8352 – Twenty-two Years and It Just Keeps Going, Going, Going: The Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study of Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery for Stable Angina
Lawrence I. Bonchek

 

ARTICLES

1999-32610 – Comparison of MIDCAB Versus Conventional CABG Surgery Regarding Pain and Quality of Life
Anno Diegeler, Thomas Walther, Sebastian Metz, Volkmar Falk, Ralf Krakor, Rüdiger Autschbach, Friedrich Wilhelm Mohr

   

1999-9908 – Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Using the Rama Technique, A Method of Coronary Stabilization: Short-Term Results
F. Jault, E. Coignard, A. Rama, E. Vaissier, N. Bonnet, A. Pavie, I. Gandjbakhch

 

1999-8488 – Use of a Pulsatile Beating Heart Model for Training Surgeons in Beating Heart Surgery
Rex De L. Stanbridge, David O'Regan, Ashok Cherian, R. Ramanan

   

1999-964 – Multivessel Minimally Invasive Coronary Surgery With Endoscopic Support
G.P. Vlassov, A.S. Ermolov, K.S. Deyneka, N.O. Travine, M.B. Belinskiy, S.D. Klimovskiy, I.V. Zhuravlev

   

1999-0552 – Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (ECABG) Procedure with Robotic Assistance
Harold A. Tabaie, Jeffrey A. Reinbolt, W. Peter Graper, Thomas F. Kelly, Michael A. Connor

   

1999-9522 – 3D-Visualization Improves the Dry-Lab Coronary Anastomoses Using the Zeus™ Robotic System
Helmut Gulbins, Dieter H. Boehm, Hermann Reichenspurner, Martin Arnold, Reinhard Ellgass, Bruno Reichart

 

1999-0903 – Minimally-Invasive Aortic Root Replacement
John G. Byrne, David H. Adams, Gregory S. Couper, Robert J. Rizzo, Lawrence H. Cohn, Sary F. Aranki

   

1999-61391 – Surgical Treatment of Patients with Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: The Significance of Right Ventricular Function
S. V. Gureev, E. N. Kasakov, A. Y. Kormer, E. N. Ostroumov, V. I. Shumakov

   

1999-64958 – Symptomatic Aneurysm of a Saphenous Vein Graft with Compression of the Right Atrium
Matthias Roth, Udo Sprengel, Bernd Kraus, Wolf P. Klövekorn, Erwin P. Bauer

   

1999-74549 – Two New Drainage Tubes for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Masahiro Endo, Hiroshi Nishida, Yasuko Tomizawa, Shinichiro Kihara, Toru Ishida, and Hitoshi Koyanagi