The Heart Surgery Forum
Volume 5, Issue 2

Articles

Feasibility of Off-Pump ASD Closure Using Real-Time 3-D Echocardiography
Stephen W. Downing, William R. Herzog, Jr., Michael C. McElroy, Timothy B. Gilbert

Epicardial Ablation on the Beating Heart: Progress Towards an Off-Pump Maze Procedure
Sunil M. Prasad, Hersh S. Maniar, Pavlos Moustakidis, Richard B. Schuessler, Ralph J. Damiano Jr.

Thoracic Epidural Anesthesia for Cardiac Surgery via Left Anterior Thoracotomy in the Conscious Patient
Mark B. Anderson, King F. Kwong, Alex J. Furst, Tomas A. Salerno

Clinical Outcomes in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: Comparison of Off-Pump and On-Pump Techniques
Vipin Y. Zamvar, Nouman U. Khan, Anil Madhavan, Nihal Kulatilake, Eric G. Butchart

Multiple Off-Pump Coronary Revascularization with "Aorta No-Touch" Technique Using Composite and Sequential Methods
Junjiro Kobayashi, Yoshikado Sasako, Ko Bando, Kazuo Niwaya, Osamu Tagusari, Hiroyuki Nakajima, Yoshitsugu Nakamura, Michiko Ishida, Soichiro Kitamura

Technical Aids to Performing Thoracoscopic Robotically-Assisted Internal Mammary Artery Harvesting
Thomas A. Vassiliades, Jr.

Totally Endoscopic Atrial Septal Defect Closure with a Robotic System: Experience with Seven Cases
Lucia Torracca, Gennaro Ismeno, Andrea Quarti, Ottavio Aleri

Evaluation of Acute Traumatic Changes of the Coronary Artery Wall After Robotically Assisted Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
Martin Arnold, Dieter H. Boehm, Ulrich Welsch, Christian Detter, Bruno Reichart, Hermann Reichenspurner

Five Years of Less Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery: From Experimental to Routine Approach
Joerg-Friedrich Onnasch, Felix Schneider, Volkmar Falk, Marco Mierzwa, Jan Bucerius, Friedrich Wilhelm Mohr

Comparison of Port Access to Sternotomy in Tricuspid or Mitral/Tricuspid Operations
Henry F. Tripp, Donald D. Glower, James E. Lowe, Walter G. Wolfe

A New and Simplified Method for Coronary and Graft Imaging During CABG
Fraser D. Rubens, Marc Ruel, Stephen E. Fremes

Port-Access™ Cardiac Surgery: From a Learning Process to the Standard
Ernesto Greco, Clemente Barriuso, Miguel Ángel Castro, Guillermina Fita, José L. Pomar

A New Live Animal Training Model for Off-Pump Coronary Bypass Surgery
Marco A. Zenati, Gianluca Bonanomi, Dean Kostov, Oleg Svanidze

International Symposiums on Beating Heart Surgery 1999 - 2001

Beating Heart Surgery From Aortocoronary Bypass Surgery to Procedures on Valves
Borut Gersak

Why Is "Off-Pump" Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Better?
Enio Buffolo

Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (MIDCAB) and Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (OPCAB): Two Techniques for Beating Heart Surgery
Christian Detter, Hermann Reichenspurner, Dieter H. Boehm, Michael Thalhammer, Panajotis Raptis, Albert Schütz, Bruno Reichart

How Much Myocardial Revascularization Can We Do Without Extracorporeal Circulation?
Ricardo de Carvalho Lima, Mozart Augusto Soares de Escobar, Roberto Diniz, Nadja Arraes de Alencar Franca, Eugênia Cabral, Jose da Luz

Ministernotomy in Myocardial Revascularization Without Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Technical Aspects and Early Results
Giovanni Troise, Federico Brunelli, Marco Cirillo, Zen Mhagna, Giordano Tasca, Bruno Amari, Gian Battista Danzi, Eugenio Quaini

Total Myocardial Revascularization Without Cardiopulmonary Bypass: A Reality
José Glauco Lobo Filho, MD, Maria Cláudia Leitao, MD, Francisco Martins de Oliveira, MD, Rafael de Siqueira, Ricardo Régis de Oliveira, Rodrigo Landim, Eduardo Furlani, Heraldo Guedis Lobo Filho

Early- and Long-Term Comparison of the On- and Off-Pump Bypass Surgery in Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction
Kaan Kirali, Murat Bülent Rabus, Necmettin Yakut, Mehmet Erdem Toker, Hasan Basri Erdogan, Mehmet Balkanay, Mete Alp, Cevat Yakut

Aortic and Mitral Valve Surgery on the Beating Heart is Lowering Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Aortic Cross Clamp Time
Borut Gersak, Zeljko Sutlic

Body Surface Mapping After Partial Left Ventriculotomy
Roman Trobec, Borut Gersak, Rok Hren

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Off-Pump Innominate-Coronary Artery Bypass in Patients with Severely Atherosclerotic Ascending Aorta
Wilson Ko

Adenosine in Port-Access Surgery: A Means for Stabilizing the Endoaortic Clamp
Fadi Farhat, José Coddens, Hugo Vanermen, Philippe Mikaeloff, Olivier Jegaden

Modified Pectoralis Major Flap Repair of Sternal Necrosis after Median Sternotomy
Sukumaran K. Nair, Ian Hunt, David P. Jenkins, Jonathan R. Anderson

Editorials

Is the Internet a Useful Tool to Educate Cardiac Surgery Patients?
Giuseppe DAncona, Monica Murero, Jacob Bergsland, Hratch Karamanoukian

What is the "Tipping Point" for the Acceptance of New Technologies in Cardiac Surgery?
Hratch L Karamanoukian, Giuseppe D'Ancona