The Heart Surgery Forum
Volume 5, Issue 4

Editorials

Cell Transplantation - A Potential Therapy for Cardiac Repair in the Future?
Helmut Gulbins, B.M. Meiser, H. Reichenspurner, B. Reichart

What Will Be the Impact of Drug-Eluting Stents on Hybrid Coronary Revascularization?
Hratch L. Karamanoukian, Pierre S. Aoukar

Articles

Direct Aortic Cannulation in Minimally Invasive Mitral-Valve Operations
Schmitz C, Ashraf O, Bimmel D, Welz A

Angiosarcoma of the Right Ventricle: A Rare Encounter
Ali M. Alizzi, Raad U. Almehdi, Santiago A. Endara, Alex Roati, Benjamin P. Bidstrup

An Incidental Finding of Thymic Carcinoid during Urgent CABG Operation
Fikri Abdullah, Loo Geng Loon

A Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Technique to Encircle the Four Pulmonary Veins
Eric Manasse, Maurizio Infante, Simone Ghiselli, Umberto Cariboni, Marco Alloisio, Alessandro Barbone, Alessandro Addis, Roberto Gallotti

Accelerated Recovery after Cardiac Operations
Mehmet Kaplan, Mustafa Sinan Kut, Nurgul Yurtseven, Serdar Cimen, Mahmut Murat Demirtas

HIV-Related Aneurysm of the Aortic Root in a Patient Outside Africa: A Case Report
Aristotle D. Protopapas, Wilfred B. Pugsley

Ascending Aortic Dissection without Intimal Tear: A Case Report
Mehmet Kaplan, Fikri Yapici, Murat Erkan, Murat Sargin, Mahmut Murat Demirtas

Midterm Angiographic Results of Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
Bora Farsak, Serdar Günaydin, Özer Kandemir, Hilmi Tokmakoglu, Hakan Aydin, Cem Yorgancioglu, Kaya Süzer, Yaman Zorlutuna

Cardiac Surgery in Patients with Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia
Theofani Antoniou, Emmanouil I. Kapetanakis, Kassiani Theodoraki, Panagiota Rellia, Apostolos Thanopoulos, Maria Kotiou, Dimitrios Zarkalis, Peter Alivizatos

Is Hybrid Coronary Revascularization Favored by Cardiologists or Cardiac Surgeons?
Hratch Karamanoukian, Thomas A. Vassiliades, Harry W. Donias, W. Douglas Boyd, Kenneth D. Stahl, Giuseppe D'Ancona

Graft Repair of a Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm
Adam H. Hamawy, Richard G. Cartledge, Leonard N. Girardi

Near-Infrared Fluorescence Coronary Angiography
Christian Detter, Detlef Russ, Andre Iffland, Sabine Wipper, Marc O. Schurr, Herman Reichenspurner, PhD, Gerd Buess, Bruno Reichart

Myoblasts Survive Intracardiac Transfer and Divide Further after Transplantation
Helmut Gulbins, Sonja Schrepfer, Antje Uhlig, Angelika Goldemund, Martin Oberhoffer, Hermann Reichenspurner, Bruno Meiser, Bruno Reichart

Clinical Investigation: Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting with Robotic Assistance
Harold A. Tabaie, W. Peter Graper, Jeffrey A. Reinbolt

Key References: MIDCAB, Endo ACAB, and Hybrid Coronary Revascularization
Hratch L. Karamanoukian, Harry W. Donias

Effects of Seasonal Variations on Coronary Artery Surgery
Cüneyt Konuralp, Bülend Ketenci, Batuhan Özay, Mustafa Idiz, Hüseyin Saskin, Mine Tavli, Ibrahim Seki, Atilla Kanca

A New Thermoregulation System for Maintaining Perioperative Normothermia and Attenuating Myocardial Injury in Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
Nahum Nesher, Steven R. Insler, Nehama Sheinberg, Gil Bolotin, Amir Kramer, Ram Sharony, Yosef Paz, Dimitri Pevni, Dan Loberman, Gideon Uretzky

Clinical Experience with the CorLink Device for Proximal Anastomosis of the Saphenous Vein to the Aorta: A Clinical, Prospective, and Randomized Study
Friedrich-Christian Riess, Hanns Helmold, Irene Hilfer, Ralf Bader, Jan Stripling, Christine Loewer, Frank Wesner, Niels Bleese

Six-Month Angiographic Evaluation of Beating-Heart Coronary Arterial Graft Interrupted Anastomoses Using the Coalescent U-CLIP Anastomotic Device: A Prospective Clinical Study
Michael P. Caskey, Merick S. Kirshner, Edwin L. Alderman, Sonna Lea Hunsley, Michael A. Daniel