1. Optimal temperature of continuous lidocaine perfusion for the heart preservation

   • Mitsuru Asano
   • Koichi Inoue
   • Toshihiro Takaba

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 9

2. Early results of complete off-pump coronary revascularization using left internal thoracic artery with composite radial artery

   • Yoshitsugu Nakamura
   • Junjiro Kobayashi
   • Soichiro Kitamura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 10 - 15

3. Salmonella pericarditis in a patient with primary idiopathic chylopericardium

   • Hiromu Yoshioka
   • Kikuo Shigemitsu
   • Yuichi Ueda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 16 - 17

4. Successful repair of left ventricular pseudoaneurysm after mitral reoperation under hypothermic circulatory arrest

   • Hisao Suda
   • Kazuyuki Ikeda
   • Tsuyoshi Ito

   OriginalPaper Pages: 18 - 20

5. Lung cancer associated with sarcoidosis

   • Yoko Sato
   • Susumu Sasano
   • Sumio Nitta

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 24

6. Biventricular repair for pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum associated with sinusoidal communications

   • Motoyuki Hisagi
   • Yasuyuki Suzuki
   • Shisei Nakayama

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 28

7. Thymic carcinoid tumor

   • Masaya Tamura
   • Yasuhiko Ohta
   • Go Watanabe

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 31

8. Rupture of a small fusiform thoracic aortic aneurysm

   • Hiroo Takayama
   • Tetsuro Morota
   • Shinichi Takamoto

   OriginalPaper Pages: 32 - 33

9. Bronchogenic cyst with high serum carcinoembryonic antigen

   • Takahiro Oto
   • Akio Ando
   • Nobuyoshi Shimizu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 34 - 36

10. Open retroperitoneal irrigation for graft infection after thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair

    • Mikio Ninomiya
    • Tsuyoshi Taketani
    • Shinichi Takamoto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 40