| | Editorial In Memoriam: Carlos Manuel de Castro, Jr. (1930–2007) Robert J. Hall PMCID: PMC1894699 Clinical Investigations Influence of 677 C→T Polymorphism of Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase on Medium-Term Prognosis after Acute Coronary Syndromes José M. García-Pinilla, Salvador Espinosa-Caliani, Manuel Jiménez-Navarro, Juan J. Gómez-Doblas, Fernando Cabrera-Bueno, Armando Reyes-Engel, and Eduardo de Teresa-Galván PMCID: PMC1894727 Endovascular Repair of Paraanastomotic Aneurysms after Aortic Reconstruction James H. Mitchell, Kathryn G. Dougherty, Neil E. Strickman, Ali Mortazavi, and Zvonimir Krajcer PMCID: PMC1894696 Left Ventricular Aneurysmal Repair within 30 Days after Acute Myocardial Infarction: Early and Mid-Term Outcomes Bektas Battaloglu, Nevzat Erdil, and Vedat Nisanoglu, MD PMCID: PMC1894711 Systemic and Myocardial Inflammation in Traditional and Off-Pump Cardiac Surgery Gokcen Orhan, Murat Sargin, Sahin Senay, Meral Yuksel, Erol Kurc, Muge Tasdemir, Batuhan Ozay, and Serap Aykut Aka PMCID: PMC1894692 Prognostic Value of 6-Minute Walk Test in Stable Outpatients with Heart Failure Sakir Arslan, Mustafa Kemal Erol, Fuat Gundogdu, Serdar Sevimli, Enbiya Aksakal, Huseyin Senocak, and Necip Alp, MD PMCID: PMC1894714 Right Coronary Revascularization by Coronary–Coronary Bypass with a Segment of Internal Thoracic Artery Askin Ali Korkmaz, Burak Onan, Burak Tamtekin, Kerem Oral, Vedat Aytekin, and Cihat Bakay PMCID: PMC1894723 Surgical Technique Single-Lung Ventilation with Contralateral Lung Deflation: A Simplified Method for Multivessel Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Luís Alberto O. Dallan, Luiz Augusto F. Lisboa, Fernando Platania, Sérgio A. Oliveira, and Noedir A. Stolf PMCID: PMC1894706 Introduction The Texas Heart® Institute Award for Undergraduate Writing in the History of Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery PMCID: PMC1894720 Historical Perspective The Discovery of Aspirin's Antithrombotic Effects Jonathan Miner and Adam Hoffhines PMCID: PMC1894700 Review Inferior Vena Cava Filters for Recurrent Thrombosis: Current Evidence Salil H. Patel and Rima Patel PMCID: PMC1894721 Congenital Anomalies Pseudosequestration of the Left Lung Ashutosh S. Singh, Senthil Kumar Subbain, K. Ganapathy Subramanian, Ravi Agarwal, Dhiren J. Dave, Snehal Kulkarni, and K. M. Cherian PMCID: PMC1894705 Case Reports Stent-Graft Exclusion of Multiple Symptomatic Coronary Artery Fistulae Seyed Ebrahim Kassaian, Mehran Mahmoodian, Mojtaba Salarifar, Mohammad Alidoosti, Seyed Hesameddin Abbasi, and Abdi Rasekh, MD PMCID: PMC1894722 Editorial Commentary: Coronary Fistulae: Which Ones Deserve Treatment, and What Kind of Treatment Do They Need? Paolo Angelini PMCID: PMC1894717 Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Device Placement during Active Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for Severe Refractory Cardiogenic Shock after Acute Myocardial Infarction Gary M. Idelchik, Pranav Loyalka, and Biswajit Kar, MD PMCID: PMC1894693 The TandemHeart® pVAD™ in the Treatment of Acute Fulminant Myocarditis Wissam I. Khalife and Biswajit Kar PMCID: PMC1894709 Friedreich's Ataxia as a Cause of Premature Coronary Artery Disease Gregory R. Giugliano and Prabhdeep S. Sethi PMCID: PMC1894724 Use of a Transvenous Dual-Chamber ICD after a Mustard Operation for d-Transposition of the Great Vessels J. Alberto Lopez and Roberto Lufschanowski PMCID: PMC1894703 Severe Post-Ischemic Elongation of the Anterior Papillary Muscle: An Unusual Cause of Mitral Insufficiency in a 75-Year-Old Man Bogdan Adrian Popa, Marco Diena, Gheorghe Cerin, Guido Lanzillo, and Ugo Filippo Tesler PMCID: PMC1894715 Right-to-Left Interatrial Shunt with Hypoxemia Caused by a Right Atrial Thrombus Franco Vargas-Beal, Stephanie A. Coulter, Sai Yendamuri, Ariadna Contreras, and J. Michael Duncan PMCID: PMC1894698 Two Donor Hearts Beat in One Chest Shu-Hsun Chu, Kuan-Ming Chiu, Tzu-Yu Lin, Thomas Waitao Chu, Dong-Feng Yeih, and Ai-Hsien Li PMCID: PMC1894712 Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm after Resection of an Infected Cardiac Myxoma Niyazi Guler, Cenap Ozkara, Yuksel Kaya, and Enis Saglam PMCID: PMC1894726 Multiple Recurrences of Nonfamilial Cardiac Myxomas: A Report of Two Cases Cesar Mendoza, Erik Bernstein, and Alexandre Ferreira PMCID: PMC1894702 Surgical Approach for Stanford Type A Aortic Dissection in a Patient with Marfan Syndrome and Pectus Excavatum Vedat Nisanoglu, Bektas Battaloglu, Nevzat Erdil, Bulent Ozgur, and Akin Kuzucu PMCID: PMC1894713 Pheochromocytoma Underlying Hypertension, Stroke, and Dilated Cardiomyopathy Pi Chi Lin, Jen Te Hsu, Chang Min Chung, and Shih Tai Chang PMCID: PMC1894695 Brief Communication Stroke after Cardiac Surgery in a Patient with Smith-Magenis Syndrome Alyas P. Chaudhry, Carl Schwartz, and Arun K. Singh PMCID: PMC1894707 Images in Cardiovascular Medicine Unrepaired Tetralogy of Fallot with Right Hemitruncus in an Adult: A Rare Case Rajiv J. Patel, Ramzan M. Zakir, Virender Sethi, Jayant N. Patel, John Apovian, John C. Alexander, Marc Klapholz, and Muhamed Saric PMCID: PMC1894716 Pseudoaneurysm of the Left Ventricle in the Presence of Dressler's Syndrome Nikola Dobrilovic, Cary S. Passik, and Richard Shaw, MD PMCID: PMC1894725 Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm Evaluated by 64-Detector CT 254 in a Patient with Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot Amgad N. Makaryus, John Catanzaro, and Lawrence Boxt PMCID: PMC1894697 Unusual Chest Radiograph after Surgical Pericardiotomy Eloi Marijon, Dinesh Jani, and Stéphane Aubert PMCID: PMC1894718 Correspondence Adenosine's Usefulness in Vascular Surgery Maurice Lippmann, Clinton Kakazu, Tony D. Fang, Harold Bui, Carlos Donayre, and Rodney A. White PMCID: PMC1894694 Adenosine's Usefulness in Vascular Surgery Panagiotis G. Hountis PMCID: PMC1894701 Acute Spinal CordIschemia during Aortography Lucas Restrepo PMCID: PMC1894704 A Simple Technique for Difficult Atriocaval Cannulation Peter Matt, Thierry Carrel, and Wolfgang Brett PMCID: PMC1894708 House-Staff Working Hours and Continuity of Patient Care William S. Frankl PMCID: PMC1894710 House-Staff Working Hours and Continuity of Patient Care Tsung O. Cheng PMCID: PMC1894719 |
