| | Guest Editorial Acronymesis: The Exploding Misuse of Acronyms Herbert L. Fred and Tsung O. Cheng PMCID: PMC307708 Editorial The Benefits of Off-Pump Coronary Bypass: A Reality or an Illusion? James J. Livesay PMCID: PMC307709 Clinical Investigations Full-Sternotomy Off-Pump versus On-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Procedures: In-Hospital Outcomes and Complications during One Year in a Single Center Tomaso Bottio, Giulio Rizzoli, Luca Caprili, Georgios Nesseris, Gaetano Thiene, and Gino Gerosa PMCID: PMC307710 Diagnostic Value of D-Dimer and Antithrombin-III Levels in Predicting Prosthetic Heart Valve Thrombosis Cem Nazli, Ozan Kinay, Bahattin Tunc, Oktay Ergene, Omer Gedikli, Ali Ayata, Abdullah Dogan, Ahmet Altinbas, Ulku Ergene, Mehmet Ozaydin, Turan Yavuz, and Halil Kahraman PMCID: PMC307711 Determinants of Gastrointestinal Complications in Cardiac Surgery Giuseppe D'Ancona, Richard Baillot, Brigitte Poirier, Francois Dagenais, José Ignacio Saez de Ibarra, Richard Bauset, Patrick Mathieu, and Daniel Doyle PMCID: PMC307712 Discrete Subaortic Stenosis: Surgical Outcomes and Follow-Up Results Osman Tansel Darcin, Tahir Yagdi, Yuksel Atay, Cagatay Engin, Erturk Levent, Suat Buket, and Emin Alp Alayunt PMCID: PMC307713 Post-Traumatic Pseudoaneurysm of the Brachial Artery and Its Surgical Treatment Ufuk Yetkin and Ali Gurbuz PMCID: PMC307714 The Role of Brain Natriuretic Peptide in the Prediction of Cardiac Performance in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Osman Saribulbul, Ilker Alat, Senol Coskun, Anil Z. Apaydin, Tahir Yagdi, Mefkure Kiliccioglu, and Emin Alp Alayunt PMCID: PMC307715 Pilot Study Plasma Volume and Outcome in Pulmonary Hypertension Karen B. James, Kay Stelmach, Roberta Armstrong, James B. Young, and Fetnat Fouad-Tarazi PMCID: PMC307716 Case Reports Benzocaine-Induced Methemoglobinemia: A Potentially Fatal Complication of Transesophageal Echocardiography Rajesh Sachdeva, Jaime G. Pugeda, Linda R. Casale, Jay L. Meizlish, and Stuart W. Zarich PMCID: PMC307717 Extensive Retroperitoneal Fibrosis with Duodenal and Ureteral Obstruction Associated with Giant Inflammatory Aneurysm of the Abdominal Aorta Michele Torella, Luca S. De Santo, Alessandro Della Corte, Salvatore Esposito, Francesco Onorati, Gianantonio Nappi, Lucio Agozzino, and Maurizio Cotrufo PMCID: PMC307718 Graves' Disease and Pulmonary Hypertension: Report of 2 Cases Salim S. Virani, Cesar E. Mendoza, Alexandre C. Ferreira, and Eduardo de Marchena PMCID: PMC307719 Transradial Intracoronar Cathete-Aspiration Embolectomy for Acute Coronary Embolism after Mitral Valve Replacement Wei-Chin Hung, Chiung-Jen Wu, Wei-Jen Chen, Cheng-Hsu Yang, and Jen-Ping Chang PMCID: PMC307720 A 29-Year-Old Harken Disk Mitral Valve: Long-Term Follow-up by Echocardiographic and Cineradiographic Imaging David H. Hsi, Gerald F. Ryan, Janice Taft, and Thomas J. Arnone PMCID: PMC307721 Mycotic Ascending Aortic Pseudoaneurysm Secondary to Pseudomonas Mediastinitis at the Aortic Cannulation Site Dionisios Vrochides, William C. Feng, and Arun K. Singh PMCID: PMC307722 Management of Intramural Hematoma of the Ascending Aorta and Aortic Arch: The Risks of Limited Surgery David V. Saborio, Alireza Sadeghi, Joshua H. Burack, Robert C. Lowery, Mark H. Genovesi, and Gregory R. Brevetti PMCID: PMC307723 Brief Communications Diaphragmatic Defect with Peritoneopericardial Communication Andrew S. Olearchyk PMCID: PMC307724 Correction of Coarctation of the Aorta with Simultaneous Off-Pump Myocardial Revascularization Fernando Moraes, Diana Lamprea, João Wanderley, and Carlos R. Moraes PMCID: PMC307725 Acute Aortic Dissection with an Aorta–Right Atrium Fistula Michael W. Frank and Mark J. Stout PMCID: PMC307726 Images in Cardiovascular Medicine Pneumopericardium and Pneumomediastinum in an Adolescent after Blunt Chest Trauma Wayne J. Franklin, Gaurav Arora, and Nancy A. Ayres PMCID: PMC307727 Cardiac Involvement in a Bronchial Carcinoma Demonstrated by Contrast-Enhanced Electron-Beam Computed Tomography Alexander Lembcke, Adrian C. Borges, Pascal M. Dohmen, and Christian N.H. Enzweiler PMCID: PMC307728 Book Review Saving Lives, Training Caregivers, Making Discoveries: A Centennial History of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Denton A. Cooley PMCID: PMC307729 Correspondence Right Luxation of the Heart after Pericardial Rupture Caused by Blunt Trauma Caroline Augris and Marc Freysz PMCID: PMC307730 Emergent Surgery for Massive Pulmonary Embolism on the Basis of Clinical Diagnosis Robert R. Hilker and John F. Marquardt PMCID: PMC307731 Hemopericardium Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction Tsung O. Cheng PMCID: PMC307732 |
