Volume 5, Supplement 3

ARTICLES

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

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

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

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.

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

Ventricle to Coronary Artery Bypass (VCAB™) - A New Minimally Invasive Technique for Myocardial Revascularisation
Dieter H. Boehm, Hermann Reichenspurner, Bruno Reichart, Franz Meisner2 MD, Reinhard Wichels3 MD, Peter Boekstegers

Multidetector CT Scan Facilitates Complex Totally Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (TECAB)
Selami Dogan, Gerhard Wimmer-Greinecker, Tayfun Aybek, Omer Dzemali, Christopher Herzog, Thomas J Vogl, Anton Moritz

Time Flow Measurements (TTFM) Differ Between Grafts: Do Transit Performed On and Off-Pump CABG? A Comparitive Study
Mustafa Güden, Belhhan Akpnar, Ertan Sagbas, Ilhan Sanisoglu, Osman Bayndr

Lower Sternotomy Access for Congenital Heart Surgery
Jeong Ryul Lee, MD, Ji Min Chang, MD, Cheong Lim, MD, Cheul Lee, MD, Yong Jin Kim, MD, Joon Ryang Rho, MD

Autonomy and Haptic Feedback in Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery
T. Ortmaier, M. Groeger, U. Seibold, U. Hagn, D. Boehm, H. Reichenspurner, and G. Hirzinger

Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass Versus Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Via Median Sternotomy: Is Postoperative Pain Treatment in the Intensive Care Unit Different?
T. Theodor Tirilomis, Oliver Rode, Dieter Zenker, Ivan Aleksic, Mersa M. Baryalei, and Harald Dalichau