Original articles:

Wilfried Wisser, Walter Klepetko, Ömer Senbaklavaci, Theo Wanke, Eva Gruber, Edda Tschernko, and Ernst Wolner

Chronic hypercapnia should not exclude patients from lung volume reduction surgery
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998 14: 107-112. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Muharrem Celik, Semih Halezeroglu, Canan Senol, Murat Keles, Zeynep Yalcin, Senol Urek, Hakan Kiral, and Bülent Arman

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: experience with 341 cases
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998 14: 113-116. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

H. Renner, S. Gabor, H. Pinter, A. Maier, G. Friehs, and F.M. Smolle-Juettner

Is aggressive surgery in pleural empyema justified?
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998 14: 117-122. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Eugeniusz Jadczuk

Postpneumonectomy empyema
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998 14: 123-126. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

N. Halkic, P.F. Cuénoud, M.E. Corthésy, R. Ksontini, and M. Boumghar

Pulmonary sequestration: a review of 26 cases
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998 14: 127-133. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Kalliopi Athanassiadi, Georgios Kalavrouziotis, Antonios Loutsidis, Ion Bellenis, and Nicholaos Exarchos

Surgical treatment of echinococcosis by a transthoracic approach: a review of 85 cases
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998 14: 134-140. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Vassilios Gulielmos, Markus Dangel, Natalja Solowjowa, Florian M. Wagner, Pune Karbalai, Volker Schmidt, and Stephan Schueler

Clinical experiences with minimally invasive mitral valve surgery using a simplified port access^TM technique
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998 14: 141-147. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Marco Giambuzzi, Salvatore Spagnolo, Vincenzo Dottori, Enrico Parodi, and Giuseppe De Gaetano

Aortic valve reconstruction associated to ascending aorta tubular graft replacement in aortic incompetence by annuloaortic ectasia
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998 14: 148-151. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Tokujiro Yano, Yasuro Fukuyama, Hideki Yokoyama, Shinji Kuninaka, Yasuhiro Terazaki, Tadashi Uehara, Hiroshi Asoh, and Yukito Ichinose

Long-term survivors with pN2 non-small cell lung cancer after a complete resection with a systematic mediastinal node dissection
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998 14: 152-155. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Maria-Benedicta Edwards, Chandana P. Ratnatunga, Caroline J. Dore, and Kenneth M. Taylor

Thirty-day mortality and long-term survival following surgery for prosthetic endocarditis: a study from the UK heart valve registry
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998 14: 156-164. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

T. Beyens, D. Biarent, J.M. Bouton, H. Demanet, P. Viart, H. Dessy, A. Devillé, J. Lamote, and F.E. Deuvaert

Cardiac surgery with extracorporeal circulation in 23 infants weighing 2500 g or less: short and intermediate term outcome
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998 14: 165-172. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Morten H. Helvind, James F. McCarthy, Michiaki Imamura, Lourdes Prieto, George E. Sarris, Jonathan J. Drummond-Webb, and Roger B.B. Mee

Ventriculo-arterial discordance: switching the morphologically left ventricle into the systemic circulation after 3 months of age
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998 14: 173-178. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Illze E.W. van Onna, Roderik Metz, Lilian Jekel, Stephen R. Woolley, and Henry J.C.M. van de Wal

Post cardiac surgery phrenic nerve palsy: value of plication and potential for recovery
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998 14: 179-184. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Franklin L. Rosenfeldt, Olga V. Korchazhkina, Stephen M. Richards, Jane L. Fisher, Stephen Tong, and Oleg I. Pisarenko

Aspartate improves recovery of the recently infarcted rat heart after cardioplegic arrest
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998 14: 185-190. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

K. Wiebe, Th. Wahlers, W. Harringer, H.v.d. Hardt, H. Fabel, and A. Haverich

Lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis – a single center experience over 8 years
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998 14: 191-196. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

James F. McCarthy, Daniel J. Cook, Malek G. Massad, Y. Sano, Kiaran J. O'Malley, Norman R. Ratliff, Robert W. Stewart, Nicholas G. Smedira, Randal C. Starling, James B. Young, and Patrick M. McCarthy

Vascular rejection post heart transplantation is associated with positive flow cytometric cross-matching
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998 14: 197-200. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Michael J.H.M. Jacobs, León Eijsman, Sven A.G. Meylaerts, Ron Balm, Dink A. Legemate, Peter de Haan, Cor J. Kalkman, and Bas A.J.M. de Mol

Reduced renal failure following thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair by selective perfusion
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998 14: 201-205. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Kalervo Verkkala, Anne Eklund, Juhani Ojajärvi, Leena Tiittanen, Jan Hoborn, and Paavo Mäkelä

The conventionally ventilated operating theatre and air contamination control during cardiac surgery – bacteriological and particulate matter control garment options for low level contamination
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998 14: 206-210. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Case reports:

Mehmet Biçer, Sadik Yaldiz, Soner Gürsoy, and Metin Ülgan

A case of giant benign localized fibrous tumor of the pleura
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998 14: 211-213. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

J.A.M. van Son, J. Hambsch, P. Schneider, and F.W. Mohr

Repair of aortico-right ventricular tunnel
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998 14: 214-217. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

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