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Contents Number 1 January 1992 Editorial Board, 1992 Guest Reviewers for The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Editorials Metaanalysis in Wound Healing Joseph LoCicero III, MD Harvesting of the Internal Mammary Artery and the Healing Median Sternotomy Geoffrey M. Graeber, MD Thoracic Surgery Participation in Cooperative Group Studies of Cancer Therapy Richard H. Feins, MD Original Articles Long-Term Experience With Descending Aortic Dissection: The Complication-Specific Approach John A. Elefteriades, MD, J. Hartleroad, BS, R. J. Gusberg, MD, A. M. Salazar, MD, H. R. Black, MD, G. S. Kopf, MD, John C. Baldwin, MD, and Graeme L. Hammond, MD Operative Risks and Long-Term Results of Operation for Left Ventricular Aneurysm Masashi Komeda, MD, Tirone E. David, MD, Azhar Malik, MD, Joan Ivanov, RN, and Zhao Sun, MSc Evaluation of an Extraaortic Counterpulsation Device in Severe Cardiac Failure John A. Zelano, PhD, Wilson Ko, MD, Richard Lazzaro, MD, W. Douglas Lazenby, MD, Stephen Topaz, MS, Willem J. Kolff, MD, O. Wayne Isom, MD, and Karl H. Krieger, MD Surgical Repair of Aortic Root Aneurysms in 280 Patients Clifton T. P. Lewis, MD, Denton A. Cooley, MD, Michael C. Murphy, MD, Oscar Talledo, MD, and David Vega, MD Retrograde Cerebral Perfusion Through a Superior Vena Caval Cannula Protects the Brain Akihiko Usui, MD, Toshiro Hotta, MD, Mamabu Hiroura, Mitsuya Murase, MD, Masanobu Maeda, MD, Tomio Koyama, Minoru Tanaka, MD, Eiji Takeuchi, MD, Kenzo Yasuura, MD, Takashi Watanabe, MD, and Toshio Abe, MD Laryngotracheal Resection and Reconstruction for Subglottic Stenosis Hermes C. Grillo, MD, Douglas J. Mathisen, MD, and John C. Wain, MD Neutrophils Are Not Necessary for Ischemia-Reperfusion Lung Injury Cynthia N. Steimle, MD, Todd P. Guynn, MD, Melvin L. Morganroth, MD, Steven F. Bolling, MD, Kyle Carr, MD, and G. Michael Deeb, MD University of Wisconsin Versus Modified Euro-Collins Solution for Lung Preservation Stephan W. Hirt, MD, Thorsten Wahlers, MD, Michael J. Jurmann, MD, Lutz Dammenhayn, MD, Josef Kemnitz, MD, PhD, Roland Rohde, PhD, and Axel Haverich, MD Normal Bronchial Healing Without Bronchial Wrapping in Canine Lung Transplantation Joseph S. Auteri, MD, Valluvan Jeevanandam, MD, Juan A. Sanchez, MD, Charles C. Marboe, MD, Thomas J. Kirby, MD, and Craig R. Smith, MD Pleuroperitoneal Shunts for Refractory Chylothorax After Operation for Congenital Heart Disease Karen S. Rheuban, MD, Irving L. Kron, MD, Martha A. Carpenter, MD, Howard P. Gutgesell, MD, and Bradley M. Rodgers, MD Bronchial Revascularization in Double-Lung Transplantation: A Series of 8 Patients Louis Couraud, MD, Eugéne Baudet, MD, Christian Martigne, MD, Xavier Roques, MD, Jean-Francois Velly, MD, Nadine Laborde, MD, Jean Dubrez, MD, Frédéric Clerc, MD, Claire Dromer, MD, Eric Vallieres, MD, and the Bordeaux Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Group Comparison Between Resected and Irradiated Small Cell Lung Cancer in Patients in Stages I Through IIIa Yukito Ichinose, MD, Nobuyuki Hara, MD, Mitsuo Ohta, MD, Shinzo Takamori, MD, Masayuki Kawasaki, MD, and Kazuo Hata, MD A Study on Optimal Temperature for Isolated Lung Preservation Kembu Nakamoto, MD, Masazumi Maeda, MD, Kiyohide Taniguchi, MD, Noriyuki Tsubota, MD, and Yasunaru Kawashima, MD Selective Cerebral Perfusion During Operation for Aneurysms of the Aortic Arch: A Reassessment Teruhisa Kazui, MD, Norio Inoue, MD, Osamu Yamada, MD, and Sakuzo Komatsu, MD Effect of Internal Mammary Artery Dissection on Sternal Vascularization Michel Carrier, MD, Jean Grégoire, MD, Francois Tronc, MD, Raymond Cartier, MD, Yves Leclerc, MD, and Louis-Conrad Pelletier, MD Repeat Mediastinoscopy in the Assessment of New and Recurrent Lung Neoplasm Dirk Meersschaut, MD, Frank Vermassen, MD, Aart Brutel de la Riviére, MD, FCCP, Paul J. Knaepen, MD, Jules M. Van Den Bosch, MD, and Roland Vanderschueren, MD, FCCP Variation in Cryolesion Penetration Due to Probe Size and Tissue Thermal Conductivity William L. Holman, MD, James K. Kirklin, MD, Peter G. Anderson, DVM, PhD, and Albert D. Pacifico, MD Surgically Resected Lung Cancer in Young Adults Kenji Sugio, MD, Teruyoshi Ishida, MD, Satoshi Kaneko, MD, Hideki Yokoyama, MD, and Keizo Sugimachi, MD Left Ventricular Assistance Without Thoracotomy: Mediastinal and Transseptal 132 Approaches to the Left Heart Stephen W. Downing, MD, Mario Llaneras, MD, Don Georgi, PE, Dennis C. Wood, Edward B. Savage, MD, and L. Henry Edmunds, Jr, MD Case Reports Recurrent Intravenous Leiomyomatosis With Cardiac Extension Matthew M. Cooper, MD, Jose Guillem, MD, Joseph Dalton, MD, Charles C. Marboe, MD, Steven Corwin, MD, George J. Todd, MD, and Eric A. Rose, MD Esophagobronchial Fistula Associated With Corrosive Stricture of the Esophagus Srdjan Raki¢, MD, PhD, and Zoran Gerzi¢é, MD, PhD Unsuspected Metastatic Choriocarcinoma Presenting as Unilateral Spontaneous Pneumothorax Denise Ouellette, FRCSC, and Richard Inculet, FRCSC Complete Thoracic Ectopia Cordis With Double-Outlet Right Ventricle: Neonatal Repair Kevin G. Watterson, FRACS, J. L. Wilkinson, FRCP, L. Kliman, FRACOG, and Roger B. B. Mee, FRACS Successful Treatment of Acute Postoperative Pulmonary Hypertension With Nifedipine Deborah A. Davis, MD, and Pierantonio Russo, MD Primary Lung Cancer Producing a-Fetoprotein Tetsuya Okunaka, MD, Harubumi Kato, MD, Chimori Konaka, MD, Hideki Yamamoto, MD, and Kinya Furukawa, MD Prognostic Significance of Massive Bronchogenic Tumor Embolus Richard F. Heitmiller, MD Angiographic Demonstration of No-Flow Anatomical Patency of Internal Thoracic—Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts Soichiro Kitamura, MD, Kanji Kawachi, MD, Toshio Seki, MD, Noriyoshi Sawabata, MD, Ryuichi Morita, MD, and Tetsuji Kawata, MD How to Do It New Needle for Catheter Introduction in Left Atrium Guaracy F. Teixeira Filho, MD, Paulo R. Prates, MD, Renato A. Kalil, MD, Fernando A. Lucchese, MD, Hermes C. Aquino, MD, and Ivo A. Nesralla, MD Sheathless Insertion of the Percutaneous Intraaortic Balloon Pump: An Alternate Method Steven J. Phillips, MD, Mark Tannenbaum, MD, Robert H. Zeff, MD, L. A. Iannone, MD, Magdi Ghali, MD, and Chamnahn Kongtahworn, MD Methylene Blue Guidance for Simplified Resection of a Lung Lesion David C. Kerrigan, MD, Paul A. Spence, MD, Michael D. Crittenden, MD, and Michael D. Tripp, MD Improved Technique for Hilar Vascular Stapling David J. Sugarbaker, MD, and Steven J. Mentzer, MD Classics in Thoracic Surgery Arthur Vineberg and the Internal Mammary Artery Implantation Procedure Anthony R. C. Dobell, MD Current Review Staging: The Key to Rational Management of Lung Cancer John D. Miller, MD, Lyall A. Gorenstein, MD, and G. Alexander Patterson, MD Key References Benign Tumors of the Lung Joseph I. Miller, Jr, MD Correspondence Nonhemic Prime in Cardiopulmonary Bypass D. K. C. Cooper, MD, PhD Reply Alexander S. Geha, MD, and Lawrence Tim Goodnough, MD Combined Superior-Transseptal Approach to the Mitral Valve Saify Arsiwala, MCh, Prashant Parikh, MS, Snehal Dixit, MS, Manoj Agney, MS, Shrikant Kole, MCh, and Devendra Saksena, MD Bronchoscopic Appearance After Single-Lung Transplantation Jibah Eng, FRCS, Sabaratnam Sabanathan, DM, FRCS, and Duncan A. G. Newton, MRCP Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy Rodman E. Taber, MD Reply Donald L. Morton, MD, Steven D. Colquhoun, MD, and Dorothy L. Rosenthal, MD Announcements Forthcoming Articles A-22 Information for Authors A-23, 24 Guidelines for the Submission of Electronic Manuscripts A-25 Notice From the American Board of Thoracic Surgery 73, 87 Events of Interest A-33, 34 Classified Advertisements A-35, 36, 37 Index to Advertisers A-38 Number 2 February 1992 Presidential Address The Different Drummer, the Double Agent, and Future Dilemmas in Bioethics Robert M. Sade, MD Honored Guest Address The Changing Unnatural History of Valvular Regurgitation Blase A. Carabello, MD Original Articles Selective Surgical Approach for Atrioventricular Reentrant Tachycardia Alexander S. Geha, MD, Lee A. Biblo, MD, Mark D. Carlson, MD, and Albert L. Waldo, MD Calcification of Porcine Valves: A Successful New Method of Antimineralization John Parker Gott, MD, Pan-Chih, MD, Lynne M. A. Dorsey, MBA, John L. Jay, MD, G. Kimble Jett, MD, Frederick J. Schoen, MD, PhD, Jean-Marie Girardot, PhD, and Robert A. Guyton, MD Granulocyte Sequestration and Early Failure in the Autoperfused Heart-Lung Preparation Christopher M. Genco, MD, Raymond J. Connolly, PhD, Myron B. Peterson, MD, PhD, Eugene A. Bernstein, PhD, Karen Ramberg, MS, Xi Zhang, MD, Richard J. Cleveland, MD, and James T. Diehl, MD Advances in Aortic Arch Surgery Joachim Laas, MD, Michael J. Jurmann, MD, Markus Heinemann, MD, and Hans Georg Borst, MD Blunt Injuries of the Thoracic Aorta Alan D. Hilgenberg, MD, Diana L. Logan, RN, Cary W. Akins, MD, Mortimer J. Buckley, MD, Willard M. Daggett, MD, Gus J. Viahakes, MD, and David F. Torchiana, MD University of Wisconsin Solution for Pulmonary Preservation in a Rat Transplant Model Ryo Aeba, MD, Robert J. Keenan, MD, Robert L. Hardesty, MD, Samuel A. Yousem, MD, Isao Hamamoto, MD, and Bartley P. Griffith, MD Activated Neutrophils Impair Rabbit Heart Recovery After Hypothermic Global Ischemia Mary Lee Myers, MD, Christopher Webb, BSc, Margaret Moffat, PhD, Donald McIver, MD, PhD, and Rolando Del Maestro, MD, PhD Methods of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator-Pacemaker Insertion to Avoid Interactions Henry M. Spotnitz, MD, Gary Y. Ott, MD, J. Thomas Bigger, Jr, MD, Jonathan S. Steinberg, MD, and Frank Livelli, Jr, MD Twenty-Year Follow-up of Saphenous Vein Aortocoronary Artery Bypass Grafting Karl S. Ulicny, Jr, MD, John B. Flege, Jr, MD, George M. Callard, MD, and Joseph C. Todd, MD Reoperation for Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis in the Third Trimester of Pregnancy Stephen Westaby, FRCS, Andrew J. Parry, FRCS, and J. Colin Forfar, FRCP Availability of the In Situ Right Gastroepiploic Artery for Coronary Artery Bypass Tsutomu Saito, MD, Hisayoshi Suma, MD, Yasushi Terada, MD, Yasuhiko Wanibuchi, MD, Sachito Fukuda, MD, and Shoichi Furuta, MD Changing Profiles of Failed Coronary Angioplasty Patients: Impact on Surgical Results Harold L. Lazar, MD, David P. Faxon, MD, Gaetano Paone, MD, Ahmad Rajaii-Khorasani, MD, Alice K. Jacobs, MD, Maureen P. Fallon, BA, and Richard J. Shemin, MD Platelet-Leukocyte Plasmapheresis Attenuates the Deleterious Effects of Cardiopulmonary Bypass Gerald G. Davies, FFARCSI, Douglas G. Wells, FFARACS, Thomas M. Mabee, MD, Richard Sadler, MD, and Nicholas J. Melling, PA New Method for Describing the Performance of Cardiac Surgery Cannulas Ralph E. Delius, MD, J. Patrick Montoya, PhD, Scott I. Merz, MD, Jana McKenzie, BS, Sandy Snedecor, MLS, Edward L. Bove, MD, and Robert H. Bartlett, MD Experience With the Symbion Total Artificial Heart as a Bridge to Transplantation Robert W. Emery, MD, Lyle D. Joyce, MD, Mikel Prieto, MD, Kristen Johnson, RN, Irvin F. Goldenberg, MD, and Marc R. Pritzker, MD Gastric Substitution for Resectable Carcinoma of the Esophagus: An Analysis of 368 Cases Liang-Shun Wang, MD, Min-Hsiung Huang, MD, Biing-Shiun Huang, MD, and Kwang-Yu Chien, MD Sclerosing Hemangioma of the Lung: Radiographic and Pathological Study Kenji Sugio, MD, Hideki Yokoyama, MD, Satoshi Kaneko, MD, Teruyoshi Ishida, MD, and Keizo Sugimachi, MD ix Effects of Shaving Methods and Intraoperative Irrigation on Suppurative Mediastinitis 301 After Bypass Operations Wilson Ko, MD, W. Douglas Lazenby, MD, John A. Zelano, PhD, O. Wayne Isom, MD, and Karl H. Krieger, MD Heart, Heart-Lung, and Lung Transplantation in the First Year of Life 306 Vaughn A. Starnes, MD, Philip E. Oyer, MD, PhD, Daniel Bernstein, MD, David Baum, MD, Patricia Gamberg, RN, Joan Miller, RN, and Norman E. Shumway, MD, PhD Coronary Artery Endothelial Cell and Smooth Muscle Dysfunction After Global 311 Myocardial Ischemia Rebecca J. Dignan, MD, Cornelius M. Dyke, MD, Anwar S. Abd-Elfattah, PhD, Harry A. Lutz, PhD, Thomas Yeh, Jr, MD, K. Francis Lee, MD, Jitendra Parmar, MD, and Andrew S. Wechsler, MD Imaged Thoracoscopic Surgery: A New Thoracic Technique for Resection of Mediastinal 318 Cysts Ralph J. Lewis, MD, Robert J. Caccavale, MD, and Glenn E. Sisler, MD Surgical Management of Posteroseptal Accessory Atrioventricular Pathways 321 Fred H. Edwards, MD, and Lawrence Weston, MD Case Reports Cyclosporine-Associated Central Neurotoxicity After Heart Transplantation 326 Robert P. McManus, MD, Daniel P. O’Hair, MD, Jan Schweiger, RN, MSN, Jan Beitzinger, RN, BSN, and Ronald Siegel, MD Cardiac Echinococcosis: Cyst Removal in a Beating Heart 328 Gawie J. Rossouw, MMed(Thor), FCS(Thor), Christopher J. Knott-Craig, MMed(Thor), and Paul E. Erasmus, MB, ChB Homograft Root Replacement for Juvenile Rheumatoid Aortic Valve Incompetence 330 Samuel B. Keeley, MD, Philip L. Brewer, MD, and Fred M. Burdette, MD Long-Term Palliation of Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma by Radical Excision and Adjuvant 332 Therapy Harold D. Head, MD, Marshall S. Flam, MD, Madhu J. John, MD, Stephen S. Lipnik, MD, David L. Slater, MD, and Robert D. Stewart, MD Prolonged Intraaortic Balloon Support for Septal Rupture After Myocardial Infarction 335 Tulio Estrada-Quintero, MD, Barry F. Uretsky, MD, Srinivas Murali, MD, and Robert L. Hardesty, MD Systemic Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator Lysis for Left Atrial Thrombus 338 Formation After Single-Lung Retransplantation Christof Schmid, MD, Dietrich Christoph Gulba, MD, Bernd Heublein, MD, Josef Kemnitz, MD, PhD, and Axel Haverich, MD Mitral Valve Repair in Patients on Chronic Hemodialysis Eugene K. W. Sim, FRCS, Carlos A. Mestres, MD, Chuen Neng Lee, FRACS, and Oluwole Adebo, FRCSC Benign Schwannoma of the Esophagus Presenting as a Giant Fibrovascular Polyp Timothy J. Eberlein, MD, Robert Hannan, MD, Miguel Josa, MD, and David J. Sugarbaker, MD How to Do It Vascularized Rib Strut Technique for Repair of Pectus Excavatum Akiteru Hayashi, MD, and Yu Maruyama, MD Preoperative and Postoperative Hemopump Support for Patients Undergoing Orthotopic Heart Transplantation J. Michael Duncan, MD, Robert T. Baldwin, MD, and O. H. Frazier, MD Rapid Transfusion After Aortic Decannulation Hakob G. Davtyan, MD, and Robert A. Guyton, MD Retrograde Cardioplegia: Current Methods W. Randolph Chitwood, Jr, MD Current Review Cardiac Pheochromocytomas Victor A. Jebara, MD, Miguel Sousa Uva, MD, Arnaud Farge, MD, Christophe Acar, MD, Michel Azizi, MD, Pierre Francois Plouin, MD, Pierre Corvol, MD, Juan-Carlos Chachques, MD, Patrice Dervanian, MD, Jean-Noél Fabiani, MD, Alain DeLoche, MD, and Alain Carpentier, MD, PhD Correspondence Daniel A. Reid, MD: December 5, 1941-September 10, 1991 Rolf G. Sommerhaug, MD, Steven F. Wolfe, MD, and David E. Lindsey, MD Bronchogenic Carcinoma With Chest Wall Invasion Yossef Aelony, MD Reply Douglas J. Mathisen, MD Retrograde Cerebral Perfusion Yuichi Ueda, MD, and Shigehito Miki, MD Reply Michael D. Crittenden, MD Single Venous Cannulation for Valve Operations George Robinson, MD xi Penetrating Injury of the Innominate Artery 365 Acar Tokcan, MD Retrograde Continuous Warm Blood Cardioplegia 366 Victor Aldrete, MD Reply Tomas A. Salerno, MD Internal Mammary Artery Preparation 367 A. Norman Lewin, MD Emergency: An Urgent Problem Emergent? 368 Darryl Hoffman, FRCS, FCS Announcements Information for Authors A-23, 24 Guidelines for the Submission of Electronic Manuscripts A-25 Forthcoming Articles A-27 Notice From the American Board of Thoracic Surgery 246, 294 1991 Meeting, Southern Thoracic Surgical Association 362 Events of Interest A-35, 36 Classified Advertisements A-37, 38 Index to Advertisers A-41 Number 3 March 1992 Editorials Surgical Repair of Aortic Arch Interruption 369 John E. Foker, MD, PhD Endothelial Covering of Biological Artificial Heart Valves 371 Robert W. M. Frater, MD, Guangfu Gong, MD, Darryl Hoffman, MD, and Kangxiong Liao, MD Choices, Chances, Values 373 Stephen K. Plume, MD Original Articles Intraoperative Aortic Dissection Robert J. Still, MD, Alan D. Hilgenberg, MD, Cary W. Akins, MD, Willard M. Daggett, MD, and Mortimer J. Buckley, MD Synchronous Operation for Ischemic Cardiac and Cerebrovascular Disease: Early Results and Long-Term Follow-up Freddy E. E. Vermeulen, MD, Ruben P. H. M. Hamerlijnck, MD, Jo J. A. M. Defauw, MD, and Sjef M. P. G. Ernst, MD Adjuvant Treatment Using Transfer Factor for Bronchogenic Carcinoma: Long-Term Follow-up Richard I. Whyte, MD, M. Anthony Schork, PhD, Herbert Sloan, MD, Mark B. Orringer, MD, and Marvin M. Kirsh, MD Primary Surgical Closure of Large Ventricular Septal Defects in Small Infants Joel T. Hardin, MD, Alan D. Muskett, MD, Charles E. Canter, MD, Thomas C. Martin, MD, and Thomas L. Spray, MD Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest as a Surgical Adjunct: A 5-Year Experience With 60 Adult Patients Elizabeth A. Davis, BA, A. Marc Gillinov, MD, Duke E. Cameron, MD, and Bruce A. Reitz, MD Chest Wall Stabilization With Synthetic Reabsorbable Material Francesco Puma, MD, Mark Ragusa, MD, and Giuliano Daddi, MD Iron Chelation in Myocardial Preservation After Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury: The Importance of Pretreatment and Toxicity David A. DeBoer, MD, and Richard E. Clark, MD Familial Cardiac Myxoma Hugh M. van Gelder, MD, Daniel J. O’Brien, PhD, Edward D. Staples, MD, and James A. Alexander, MD Adverse Hemodynamic Effects of Pericardial Closure Soon After Open Heart Operation Steven Hunter, FRCS, Geoffrey H. Smith, FRCS, and Gianni D. Angelini, MD, MCh, FRCS Early Results of Direct Repair of Aortic Interruption by the Lateral Approach Steven Griffin, FRCS, David Richens, FRCS, and Raj Behl, MS, FRCS Thromboelastogram Fails to Predict Postoperative Hemorrhage in Cardiac Patients Jian-Sheng Wang, MD, Chung-Yuan Lin, MD, Wei-Te Hung, MD, Michael F. O’Connor, MD, Ronald A. Thisted, PhD, Bryan K. Lee, MD, Robert B. Karp, MD, and Ming-Wen Yang, MD Cardiac Function and Myocardial Performance of 24-Hour—Preserved Asphyxiated Canine Hearts Ryota Shirakura, MD, Hikaru Matsuda, MD, Susumu Nakano, MD, Seizo Nakata, MD, Mitsunori Kaneko, MD, Yuji Miyamoto, MD, Ryousuke Matsuwaka, MD, Satoru Kitagawa, MD, Norihide Fukushima, MD, and Yasunaru Kawashima, MD