Volume 8 Number 5 October, 2002


EDITORIAL
General Thoracic Surgery and Science: It All Takes Time
Harvey I. Pass

REVIEW
Beyond Implantable First Generation Cardiac Prostheses for Treatment of End-stage Cardiac Patients with Clinical Results in a Multicenter
Setsuo Takatani, et al.
Bicuspid Aortic Valve
Nuran Yener, et al.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Development of a New Hollow Fiber Silicone Membrane Oxygenator for ECMO: The Recent Progress
Shinji Kawahito, et al.
Effects of a Left Ventricular Assist Device with a Centrifugal Pump on Left Ventricular Diastolic Hemodynamics
Akira Saito
A Modified Infarct Exclusion Technique for a Post-infarction Ventricular Septal Defect
Takashi Hirotani, et al.
Superoxide Radical Concentration and Superoxide Dismutase (SOD) Enzyme Activity in Varicose Veins
Mahmoud A. Wali, et al.
Histological Study on the Influences of an Ultrasonic Scalpel on Skeletonized Vessel Wall
Yoshio Fukata, et al.
Upper Limb Vascular Trauma in the Asir Region of Saudi Arabia
Mahmoud A. Wali

CASE REPORT
Atypical Carcinoid of the Esophagus: Report of a Case
Zhao Xiaogang, et al.
Methylene Blue Administration in Severe Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) after Thoracic Surgery
Martin Friedrich, et al.
Reoperation for a Patient 25 Years after a Starr-Edwards Ball Mitral Valve was Installed
Zhidong Ye, et al.
A Report of a Surgical Case of Left Atrial Free Floating Ball Thrombus in the Absence of Mitral Valve Disease
Katsuhiko Yoshida, et al.
Experience in Heart Transplantation after Dynamic Cardiomyoplasty
Akira Sezai, et al.