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EDITORIAL

2000-1898 – Intraoperative Graft Patency Verification: Should You Trust Your Fingertips?
Giuseppe D'Ancona, Hratch L. Karamanoukian, Marco Ricci, Susan Schmid, Ileana Spanu, Lisa Apfel, Jacob Bergsland, Tomas A. Salerno

 

ARTICLES

1999-1502 – Arterial Wall Damage Caused by Snaring of the Coronary Arteries During Off-Pump Revascularization
Luis Roberto Gerola, L. A. R. Moura, Luiz Eduardo Villaca Leão, H. C. Soares, João Nelson R. Branco, Enio Buffolo

   

2000-4276 – Retaining the Aortic Fat Pad During Cardiac Surgery Decreases Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation
Zev Davis, H. Kurt Jacobs, Juan Bonilla, Richard R. Anderson, Celia Thomas, William Forst

   

2000-7611 – Xpose™: A New Device that Provides Reproducible and Easy Access for Multivessel Beating Heart Bypass Grafting
Mercedes K. C. Dullum, Fernando G. Resano

   

2000-94037 – Hybrid Cardiac Revascularization Using a Totally Closed-Chest Robotic Technology and a Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Dilatation
Fadi Farhat, Frank Depuydt, Frank Van Praet, José Coddens, Hugo Vanermen

 

2000-91911 – A New Technique for Intraoperative Graft Angiography Utilizing the Radial Artery Stump
Robert R. Lazzara, Francis E. Kidwell, Raymond Griffith

   

2000-23418 – Extra-Anatomic Redo of MIDCAB and OPCAB: An Early Experience
Michael C. Sinclair, Martin LeBoutillier III, William Gee, Theodore Phillips, Raymond L. Singer

   

2000-2298 – A Method to Ease Removal of Surgically Introduced Intra-Aortic Balloon Counterpulsation Catheters
Prasanna Simha, Seetharama Bhat, Ashok Kumar K, N Prabhudev