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NEW TECHNOLOGY REPORT

2001-20012 – A Long-Term Ventricular Assist Device Utilizing a Magnetic Bearing System and Implantable Physiologic Controller
Steven M. Fiser, Houston E. Wood, Paul E. Allaire, Stewart M. Long, Aditya K. Kaza, Irving L. Kron, John A Kern, Curtis G. Tribble

 

ARTICLES

2000-41254 – Minimally Invasive Subclavian/Axillary Artery to Coronary Artery Bypass (SAXCAB): Review and Classification
Alan S. Coulson, Eric F. Glasgow, Johannes Bonatti

   

2000-45956 – Comparison of Minithoracotomy With Conventional Sternotomy Methods in Valve Surgery
Tufan Sener, Hakan Gerçekoglu, Serdar Evrenkaya, Bige Aydin, Serdar Çimen, Murat Demirtas, Remzi Tosun, Ergin Eren, Azmi Özler

   

2000-93990 – Redo Mitral Surgery Using the Estech Endoclamp
Guido Van Nooten, Yves Van Belleghem, Hans Van Overbeke, Frank Caes, Katrien François, Michel De Pauw, Frederick De Rijcke, Jan Poelaert

   

2000-01909 – Correction of Congenital Heart Defects and Mitral Valve Operations Using Limited Anterolateral Thoracotomy
Friedrich-Christian Riess, Sina Moshar, Ralf Bader, Bettina Hoffmann, Christine Löwer, Niels Bleese

   

2000-43030 – Predictors of Operative Time in Multicenter Port-Access Valve Registry: Institutional Differences in Learning
Donald D. Glower, Lawrence C. Siegel, Aubrey C. Galloway, Greg Ribakove, Eugene Grossi, Newell Robinson, William H. Ryan, Stephen Colvin, Richard Shemin

   

2000-9495 – Interleukin-1, Interleukin-2 and Interleukin-10 Expression in Different Techniques of Saphenous Vein Harvesting
Sadir J. Alrawi, Ramanathan Raju, Radhakrishnan Satheesan, Joseph N. Cunningham, Anthony J. Acinapaura

   

2000-78999 – Should We Use Video-Assisted Endoscopic Vein Harvesting as a Standard Technique?
Inez E. Rodrigus, Bernard Stockman, Bram J. Amsel, Adriaan C. Moulijn

   

SPECIAL SECTION. BEATING HEART SURGERY

2000-09789 – Intrathecal Morphine for Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Patients
Fernando M. Jara, Jean Kalush, Venkat Kilaru

   

2000-1282 – A Multicenter Initial Clinical Experience with Right Heart Support and Beating Heart Coronary Surgery
L. E. Lima, F. Jatene, E. Buffolo, F. Vanky, E. Casimir-Ahn, U. Lohn, P. Leprince, A. Pavie, Laczkovics, H. Reichenspurner, MD, A. Calafiore, P. Nataf, M. Mack

   

2000-3759 – Active Perfusion of Coronary Grafts Facilitates Complex Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
John D. Puskas, Vinod H. Thourani, Jakob Vinten-Johansen, and Robert A. Guyton

   

2000-4214 – Late Outcome of Reoperative Coronary Revascularization on the Beating Heart
Sotiris C. Stamou, Albert J. Pfister, Mercedes K.C. Dullum, Steven W. Boyce, Ammar S. Bafi, Tracie Lomax, Jorge M. Garcia, Paul J. Corso

   

2000-4513 – Myocardial Revascularization on the Beating Heart After Recent Onset of Acute Myocardial Infarction
Giuseppe D'Ancona, Hratch Karamanoukian, Marco Ricci, Ahira Kawaguchi, Jacob Bergsland, Tomas Salerno

   

2000-7753 – Optimizing Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Graft: Technical and Metabolic Aspects
David J. Perkowski, Alan O. Marcus, Susan Littlefield Wagner, Lisa Marie Gorman

   

2000-0380 – Closed Chest Coronary Artery Bypass on the Beating Heart
Utz Kappert, Romuald Cichon, Vassilios Gulielmos, Jens Schneider, Ina Schramm, Joachim Nicolai, Sems-Malte Tugtekin, Stephan Schueler