Joao-Carlos Das-Neves-Pereira, Patrick Bagan, Jose-Ribas Milanez-de-Campos, Vera-Luiza Capelozzi, Claire Danel, Fabio-Biscegli Jatene, Jean-François Bernaudin, and Marc Riquet
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Mohan P. Devbhandari, Pauline Quennell, Piotr Krysiak, Rajesh Shah, and Mark T. Jones
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Patrick Bagan, Françoise Le Pimpec-Barthes, Alain Badia, Flora Crockett, Antoine Dujon, and Marc Riquet
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Federico Rea, Giuseppe Marulli, Marco Schiavon, Andrea Zuin, Abdel-Mohsen Hamad, Giovanna Rizzardi, Egle Perissinotto, and Francesco Sartori
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Tomasz Grodzki, Jacek Alchimowicz, Anna Kozak, Bartosz Kubisa, Jaroslaw Pieróg, Janusz Wójcik, Michal Bielewicz, and Dominika Witkowska
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Tatsuo Nakagawa, Norihito Okumura, Keiji Ohata, Hitoshi Igai, Tomoaki Matsuoka, and Kotaro Kameyama
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Tohru Sakuragi, Yukio Okazaki, Masahiro Mitsuoka, Fumio Yamasaki, Masanori Masuda, Daisuke Mori, Toshimi Satoh, and Tsuyoshi Itoh
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Riken Kawachi, Shun-ichi Watanabe, Kenji Suzuki, and Hisao Asamura
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Pedro M. Rodríguez, Jorge L. Freixinet, Mohamed Hussein, Jose M. Valencia, Rita M. Gil, Jorge Herrero, and Araceli Caballero-Hidalgo
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Jeong Su Cho, Yeong Dae Kim, Hoseok I, Sang Kwon Lee, and Yeon Joo Jeong
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Darren H. Freed, Bruce M. Thomson, Steven S.L. Tsui, John J. Dunning, Karen K. Sheares, Joanna Pepke-Zaba, and David P. Jenkins
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Wojciech Dyszkiewicz, Marek Jemielity, Cezary Piwkowski, Mariusz Kasprzyk, Bartlomiej Perek, Lukasz Gasiorowski, and Elzbieta Kaczmarek
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Rongjing Ding, Wenhui Feng, Hongwei Li, Lei Wang, Dalian Li, Zhiguang Cheng, Jianzhong Guo, and Dayi Hu
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Tanveer Khan, Girish Chawla, Romany Daniel, Mallikarjuna Swamy, and Wade R. Dimitri
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Siamak Mohammadi, Osama Benhameid, Andrew Campbell, Jim Potts, Jacqueline Joza, Hamad Al-Habib, Suvro Sett, and Jacques Le Blanc
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Christian Schreiber, Julie Cleuziou, Juliane K. Cornelsen, Jürgen Hörer, Andreas Eicken, and Rüdiger Lange
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Julie Cleuziou, Christian Schreiber, Juliane Karen Cornelsen, Jürgen Hörer, Andreas Eicken, and Rüdiger Lange
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Han Ki Park, Young Nam Youn, Hong-Seok Yang, Byoung Won Yoo, Jae Young Choi, and Young-Hwan Park
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Fumiaki Shikata, Toshikatsu Yagihara, Koji Kagisaki, Ikuo Hagino, Shuichi Shiraishi, Junjiro Kobayashi, and Soichiro Kitamura
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Alessandra Frigiola, Victor Tsang, Johannes Nordmeyer, Philipp Lurz, Carin van Doorn, Andrew M. Taylor, Philipp Bonhoeffer, and Mark de Leval
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Pascal R. Vouhé
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Feyzan Özaslan, Thomas Wittlinger, Nadejna Monsefi, Tamimount Bouhmidi, Sinthu Theres, Mirko Doss, Gerhard Wimmer-Greinecker, and Anton Moritz
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Jan J.J. Aalberts, Tjalling W. Waterbolk, J. Peter van Tintelen, Hans L. Hillege, Piet W. Boonstra, and Maarten P. van den Berg
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Eva S. Krähenbühl, Franz F. Immer, Mario Stalder, Lars Englberger, Friedrich S. Eckstein, Jürg Schmidli, and Thierry P. Carrel
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Maximilian A. Pichlmaier, Omke E. Teebken, Nawid Khaladj, Jürgen Weidemann, Michael Galanski, and Axel Haverich
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Christian D. Etz, Konstadinos A. Plestis, Fabian A. Kari, Maximilian Luehr, Carol A. Bodian, David Spielvogel, and Randall B. Griepp
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Richard Pearson, Nicholas Philips, Richard Hancock, Sharul Hashim, Mark Field, David Richens, and Donal McNally
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Aihong (Rachel) Zhao, Mark L. Field, Kennerly Digges, and David Richens
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Jacques Kpodonu, Ourania Preventza, Venkatesh G. Ramaiah, Hani Shennib, Grayson H. Wheatley, III, Julio A. Rodriquez-Lopez, James Williams, and Edward B. Diethrich
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Ludwig K. von Segesser, Enrico Ferrari, Dominique Delay, Olaf Maunz, Judith Horisberger, and Piergorgio Tozzi
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Andreas Straub, Daniela Schiebold, Hans Peter Wendel, Carole Hamilton, Thomas Wagner, Eckhard Schmid, Klaus Dietz, and Gerhard Ziemer
	Using reagent-supported thromboelastometry (ROTEM®) to monitor haemostatic changes in congenital heart surgery employing deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2008;34:641-647. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Florian Loeffelbein, Uwe Zirell, Christoph Benk, Christian Schlensak, and Sven Dittrich
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Yara Banz, Robert Rieben, Claudia Zobrist, Pascal Meier, Sidney Shaw, Jonas Lanz, Thierry Carrel, and Pascal Berdat
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Jianhua Zhu, Yuangang Qiu, Qiqi Wang, Yujuan Zhu, Shenjiang Hu, Liangrong Zheng, Lihong Wang, and Yun Zhang
	Low dose cyclophosphamide rescues myocardial function from ischemia-reperfusion in rats (Original articles) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2008;34:661-666. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Javier G. Castillo, Indran Ramanathan, and Farzan Filsoufi
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Andreas Bairaktaris, Soren Schenk, Oliver Grimmig, and Reiner Koerfer
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Si Young Choi, Ung Jin, Jong Hui Suh, and Yong Hwan Kim
	Chronic post-traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the innominate artery with an associated bovine aortic arch resulting in airway obstruction (Images in cardio-thoracic surgery) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2008;34:669. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Martin Simek, Petr Nemec, Hana Studentova, and Josef Novotny
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René Quaden, Tim Hümme, Jochen Cremer, and Aziz Rahimi
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Naricha Chirakalwasan, Jaswinderpal Sandhu, Syed Anees, and Samuel Weinstein
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Ilaria Pochesci, Mohsen Ibrahim, Laura Gabriella Vismara, and Erino Angelo Rendina
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Hisayuki Shigematsu, Akio Andou, Kammei Rai, and Ryohei Higashi
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Thomas F. Molnar, Andras Farkas, Jozsef Stankovics, and Örs Peter Horvath
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Antonio Maria Calafiore, Angela Lorena Iacò, Marco Contini, and Michele Di Mauro
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Shigeaki Aoyagi, Koichi Arinaga, Takeshi Oda, and Hidetsugu Hori
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Alejandro Crespo, José I. Aramendi, Gadah Hamzeh, and Roberto Voces
	Off-pump supra-arterial myotomy for myocardial bridging (Case reports) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2008;34:682-684. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [On-line Video]

Richard P. Chalwin, Ravindranath Tiruvoipati, and Giles J. Peek
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Marion Durand, Thomas Lecompte, Marie Hacquard, and Jean-Pierre Carteaux
	Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and cardiopulmonary bypass: anticoagulation with unfractionated heparin and the GPIIb/IIIa inhibitor tirofiban and successful use of rFVIIa for post-protamine bleeding due to persistent platelet blockade (Case reports) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2008;34:687-689. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Andrew J. Turley, John Dark, and Philip C. Adams
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Tsuyoshi Shoji, Nobuharu Hanaoka, Hiromi Wada, and Toru Bando
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Wenxin He, Gening Jiang, Boxiong Xie, and Ming Liu
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Frédéric Cochennec, Agathe Seguin, Marc Riquet, and Jean-Noël Fabiani
	Intracardiac renal cell carcinoma metastasis (Case reports) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2008;34:697-699. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Sachin Talwar, Shiv Kumar Choudhary, and Balram Airan
	Reoperation after relief of congenital subaortic stenosis (Letters to the Editor) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2008;34:700. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Efstratios Apostolakis, Ioanna Koniari, and Dimitrios Dougenis
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Bettina Marty
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Ganesh Athappan and Thirumalaikolundu Subramanian
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Neuza Lopes, Felipe S. Paulitsch, and Whady Hueb
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Marco Ranucci
	Clinical impact of heparin-bonded circuits: when a meta-analysis does not clear out the clouds (Letters to the Editor) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2008;34:703-704. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Omar Mangoush
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Tamami Isaka, Masato Kanzaki, and Takamasa Onuki
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Hideki Itano
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Alfonso Fiorello, Giovanni Vicidomini, and Mario Santini
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Ralph A. Schmid and Morris Beshay
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Stijn Heyman and Paul Van Schil
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Marco Lucchi and Alfredo Mussi
	Reply to Heyman and Van Schil (Letters to the Editor) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2008;34:708. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Paul De Leyn and Tony Lerut
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Paul E. Van Schil, Michèle De Waele, and Ramon Rami-Porta
	Reply to De Leyn and Lerut. Mediastinoscopy and repeat mediastinoscopy: still useful tools in experienced hands! (Letters to the Editor) Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2008;34:709-710. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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