1. Important contributions to cardiothoracic surgery by Japanese Thoracic and Cardiac Surgeons

   • Arthur E. Baue

   Special Contribution Pages: 181 - 185

2. Early results of off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting for patients on chronic renal dialysis

   • Satsuki Fukushima
   • Junjiro Kobayashi
   • Soichiro Kitamura

   Original Article Pages: 186 - 192

3. Pericardial metastasis of myxoid liposarcoma causing cardiac tamponade

   • Akihiro Aoyama
   • Noritaka Isowa
   • Tadahiro Ito

   Case Report Pages: 193 - 195

4. False positive accumulation in ¹⁸F fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography scan due to sarcoid reaction following induction chemotherapy for lung cancer

   • Jun Maeda
   • Mitsunori Ohta
   • Hikaru Matsuda

   Case Report Pages: 196 - 198

5. Emergent permanent pacemaker implantation in a premature 1,502 g neonate

   • Shin Takabayashi
   • Hisato Ito
   • Yoshihiro Komada

   Case Report Pages: 199 - 201

6. Surgical closure of an apical ventricular septal defect through a septal ventriculotomy

   • Shin Takabayashi
   • Shin Shomura
   • Hideto Shimpo

   Case Report Pages: 202 - 205

7. Cardiac tamponade due to intrapericardial rupture of an amebic liver abscess

   • Tadamasa Miyauchi
   • Hiroshi Takiya
   • Eiji Murakami

   Case Report Pages: 206 - 209

8. Ossifying cardiac myxoma with neovascularity

   • Takahiro Nishida
   • Yukihiro Tomita
   • Shigeki Morita

   Case Report Pages: 210 - 212

9. Bidirectional cavopulmonary shunt using the azygos vein

   • Yoshihiro Ko
   • Yuzuru Nakamura
   • Fumihito Yamashiro

   Case Report Pages: 213 - 216

10. Re-reconstruction of visceral arteries with thoraco-abdominal aortic replacement using a branched graft

    • Kazuchika Suzuki
    • Teruhisa Kazui
    • Yohei Ohkawa

    Case Report Pages: 217 - 219

11. Successful surgical treatment for acute aortic dissection in pregnancy with Marfan’s syndrome

    • Masayuki Sakaguchi
    • Hiroto Kitahara
    • Jun Amano

    Case Report Pages: 220 - 222

12. Successful surgical treatment for an adult case of double aortic arch

    • Chiaki Kondo
    • Shin Takabayashi
    • Isao Yada

    Case Report Pages: 223 - 226

13. Thoracoabdominal coarctation of the aorta

    • Koji Nomura
    • Yuzuru Nakamura
    • Katsushi Kinouchi

    Case Report Pages: 227 - 229

14. Anterior spinal artery syndrome after minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting under general combined epidural anesthesia

    • Seijiro Yoshida
    • Yoshio Nitta
    • Katsuhiko Oda

    Case Report Pages: 230 - 233