1. Controlled reperfusion

   • Hajime Ichikawa

   Editorial 12 February 2012 Pages: 65 - 67

2. Is pulmonary vein isolation effective for permanent atrial fibrillation?

   • Yosuke Ishii

   Editorial 12 February 2012 Pages: 68 - 70

3. Rationale of Miyamoto’s technique for reconstruction of tracheal carina

   • Kimihiro Shimizu

   Editorial 12 February 2012 Pages: 71 - 72

4. Reversal of oxidant-mediated biochemical injury and prompt functional recovery after prolonged single-dose crystalloid cardioplegic arrest in the infantile piglet heart by terminal warm-blood cardioplegia supplemented with phosphodiesterase III inhibitor

   • Katsushi Kinouchi
   • Kiyozo Morita
   • Kazuhiro Hashimoto

   Original Article 12 February 2012 Pages: 73 - 81

5. Mid-term results of the box pulmonary vein isolation and the cryo-maze procedure for chronic atrial fibrillation associated with mitral valve disease

   • Taiichi Takasaki
   • Taijiro Sueda
   • Naomichi Uchida

   Original Article 12 February 2012 Pages: 82 - 89

6. Carinal resection and reconstruction for respiratory tumors using Miyamoto’s technique

   • Adnan Sayar
   • Okan Solak
   • Atilla Gürses

   Original Article 12 February 2012 Pages: 90 - 96

7. Safety and prognosis of limited surgery for octogenarians with non-small-cell lung cancer

   • Akira Okada
   • Tatsuhiko Hirono
   • Takehiro Watanabe

   Original Article 12 February 2012 Pages: 97 - 103

8. Current status of postoperative follow-up for lung cancer in Japan: questionnaire survey by the Setouchi Lung Cancer Study Group—A0901

   • Shigeki Sawada
   • Hiroshi Suehisa
   • Hiroshi Date

   Original Article 12 February 2012 Pages: 104 - 111

9. Surgical treatment of entrapped intravascular ultrasonography catheter

   • Yusuke Shimahara
   • Junjiro Kobayashi
   • Tomoyuki Fujita

   Case Report 12 February 2012 Pages: 112 - 114

10. Combination of familial Barlow’s disease with bilateral axillary artery aneurysms in two brothers

    • Hirofumi Kasahara
    • Mikihiko Kudo
    • Akira Shiikawa

    Case Report 12 February 2012 Pages: 115 - 117

11. Anomalous systemic arterial supply to the basal segments of the lung with three aberrant arteries

    • Tadashi Akiba
    • Hideki Marushima
    • Toshiaki Morikawa

    Case Report 12 February 2012 Pages: 118 - 121

12. Pleural solitary fibrous tumor with bullae: is it a microinvasive tumor?

    • Yoshihiko Kanai
    • Shunsuke Endo
    • Mitsuhiro Nokubi

    Case Report 12 February 2012 Pages: 122 - 124