Featured Articles - 1998

Every month The Society of Thoracic Surgeons selects articles from the current issue of the The Annals of Thoracic Surgery that are of general interest to the public and to the surgical community. These featured articles are available free of charge and are listed below.

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December 1998
Volume 66 Number 6

	Success of Laparoscopic Fundoplication for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Rodney J. Landreneau, MD, Robert J. Wiechmann, MD, Stephen R. Hazelrigg, MD, Tibetha S. Santucci, RN, Theresa M. Boley, MSN, Mitchell J. Magee, MD, Keith S. Naunheim, MD
	Partial Left Ventriculectomy for Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Early Results and Six-Month Follow-Up Sinisa Gradinac, MD, Milutin Miric, MD, PhD, Zoran Popovic, MD, Aleksandar D. Popovic, MD, PhD, Aleksandar N. Neskovic, MD, Ljiljana Jovovic, MD, PhD, Ljiljana Vuk, MD, Milovan Bojic, MD, PhD
	Atrioventricular Septal Defect With Tetralogy of Fallot: Results of Surgical Correction Stacey B. O'Blenes, MD, David B. Ross, MD, Maurice A. Nanton, MD, David A. Murphy, MD

November 1998
Volume 66 Number 5

	Cardiac Operations in the Elderly: Who Is at Risk? Gyaandeo S. Maharajh, Roy G. Masters, Wilbert J. Keon
	Surgical Repair of the Congenitally Malformed Mitral Valve in Infants and Children Elias A. Zias, Constantine Mavroudis, Carl L. Backer, Lisa M. Kohr, Nina L. Gotteiner, Albert P. Rocchini
	Determinants of Midterm Outcome of Partial Left Ventriculectomy in Dilated Cardiomyopathy Noedir A. G. Stolf, Luiz Felipe P. Moreira, Edimar A. Bocchi, Maria de Lourdes Higuchi, Fernando Bacal, Giovanni Bellotti, Adib D. Jatene
	Comparison of Open and Thoracoscopic Bilateral Volume Reduction Surgery: Complications Analysis John R. Roberts, Joseph E. Bavaria, Peter Wahl, Angela Wurster, Joseph S. Friedberg, Larry R. Kaiser

October 1998
Volume 66 Number 4

	Repair of Coarctation of the Aorta During Infancy Minimizes the Risk of Late Hypertension Peter A. Seirafi, Kenneth G. Warner, Robert L. Geggel, Douglas D. Payne, Richard J. Cleveland
	Lung Cancer in Women Compared With Men: Stage, Treatment, and Survival Denise Ouellette, Geneviève Desbiens, Claude Emond, Gilles Beauchamp
	Results of a Regional Study of Modes of Death Associated With Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Gerald T. O'Connor, John D. Birkmeyer, Lawrence J. Dacey, Hebe B. Quinton, Charles A. S. Marrin, Nancy J. O. Birkmeyer, Jeremy R. Morton, Bruce J. Leavitt, Christopher T. Maloney, Felix Hernandez, Robert A. Clough, William C. Nugent, Elaine M. Olmstead, David C. Charlesworth, Stephen K. Plume

September 1998
Volume 66 Number 3

	Thoracic Surgeons and Tobacco: Past Failures and Present Opportunity Frederic W. Grannis, Jr
	Aortic Valve Replacement for Octogenarians: Are Small Valves Bad? Benjamin Medalion, Bruce W. Lytle, Patrick M. McCarthy, Robert W. Stewart, Kristopher L. Arheart, John H. Arnold, Floyd D. Loop, Delos M. Cosgrove, III
	Primum Atrial Septal Defect in Children: Early Results, Risk Factors, and Freedom From Reoperation Hani K. Najm, William G. Williams, Suphachai Chuaratanaphong, Stefan B. Watzka, John G. Coles, Robert M. Freedom
	Detection of Extrathoracic Metastases by Positron Emission Tomography in Lung Cancer Walter Weder, Ralph A. Schmid, Helke Bruchhaus, Sven Hillinger, Gustav K. von Schulthess, Hans C. Steinert

August 1998
Volume 66 Number 2

	Outcome of Medicare Patients With Emphysema Selected for, but Denied, a Lung Volume Reduction Operation Bryan F. Meyers, Roger D. Yusen, Stephen S. Lefrak, G. Alexander Patterson, Mary S. Pohl, Veronica J. Richardson, Joel D. Cooper
	Minimal-Access Aortic and Valvular Operations, Including the "J/j" Incision Lars G. Svensson, Richard S. D'Agostino
	A 26-Year Experience With Surgical Management of Tetralogy of Fallot: Risk Analysis for Mortality or Late Reintervention Christopher J. Knott-Craig, Ronald C. Elkins, Mary M. Lane, Jeannie Holz, Carolyn McCue, Kent E. Ward

July 1998
Volume 66 Number 1

	Does Arterial Revascularization Decrease the Risk of Infarction After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting? Paul T. Sergeant, Eugene H. Blackstone, Bart P. Meyns
	Endovascular Stent Graft Repair for Aneurysms on the Descending Thoracic Aorta Marek Ehrlich, Martin Grabenwoeger, Fabiola Cartes-Zumelzu, Michael Grimm, Dietmar Petzl, Johannes Lammer, Siegfried Thurnher, Ernst Wolner, Michael Havel
	Surgical Treatment of Hepatic and Pulmonary Metastases From Colorectal Cancers Jean-Francois Regnard, Dominique Grunenwald, Lorenzo Spaggiari, Philippe Girard, Dominique Elias, Michel Ducreux, Pierre Baldeyrou, Philippe Levasseur
	Impact of Gender on Coronary Bypass Operative Mortality Fred H. Edwards, Joseph S. Carey, Frederick L. Grover, Joseph W. Bero, Renee S. Hartz

June 1998
Volume 65 Number 6

	Therapeutic Angiogenesis With Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor: Technique and Early Results Frank W. Sellke, Roger J. Laham, Elazer R. Edelman, Justin D. Pearlman, Michael Simons
	Long-Term Clinical Outcome After Transcervical Thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis Vera Bril, Jasna Kojic, Werner K. Ilse, Joel D. Cooper
	HeartMate Left Ventricular Assist Device as Bridge to Heart Transplantation Bansi Koul, Jan-Otto Solem, Stig Steen, Henrik Casimir-Ahn, Hans Granfeldt, Urban J. Lönn
	Reversibility of Cardiac Dysfunction After Valve Replacement in Elderly Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis Masafumi Natsuaki, Tsuyoshi Itoh, Shinji Tomita, Kozo Naito

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