1. Effects of concomitant usage of milrinone and catecholamine for weaning from cardiopulmonary bypass

   • Yukihiko Orime
   • Motomi Shiono
   • Yukiyasu Sezai

   Original Article Pages: 803 - 809

2. Primary mediastinal seminoma

   • Hiroaki Osada
   • Koji Kojima
   • Noboru Yamate

   Case Report Pages: 810 - 814

3. Aortic and mitral valve replacement in an 83-year-old female

   • Kazuo Tanemoto
   • Masahiko Kuinose
   • Keiichiro Kuroki

   Case Report Pages: 815 - 820

4. Combined surgery for mitral regurgitation associated with extensive annular calcification and left main coronary artery disease

   • Hiroshi Okamoto
   • Shin Morita
   • Takao Niimi

   Case Report Pages: 821 - 824

5. Resection of malignant fibrous histiocytoma invading the thoracic aorta

   • Shinzo Takamori
   • Akihiro Hayashi
   • Kazuo Shirouzu

   Case Report Pages: 825 - 828

6. Ischemic preconditioning in the aged heart —Myocardial protective effect as compared with the mature heart—

   • Masahisa Uematsu
   • Masayoshi Okada

   Original Article Pages: 833 - 845

7. Aprotinin and recombinant human erythropoietin reduce the need for homologous blood transfusion in cardiac surgery

   • Motoo Osaka
   • Ikuo Fukuda
   • Hiroshi Ohuchi

   Original Article Pages: 846 - 853

8. Glutamate neurotoxicity during spinal cord ischemia —Neuroprotective effects of glutamate receptor antagonists—

   • Tsukasa Nakamichi

   Original Article Pages: 854 - 859

9. Does adenosine administration during the early reperfusion period affect ischemic preconditioning?

   • Masahisa Uematsu
   • Masayoshi Okada

   Original Article Pages: 860 - 867

10. Postoperative changes in the coagulation and fibrinolytic systems in endoluminal stent-graft treatment of thoracic aortic aneurysms

    • Taro Shimazaki
    • Shin Ishimaru
    • Yukio Obitsu

    Original Article Pages: 868 - 872

11. Repair of mitral regurgitation caused by prolapse of the anterior mitral leaflet

    • Takashi Hirotani
    • Tadashi Kameda
    • Hiroyoshi Fujiwara

    Original Article Pages: 873 - 877

12. A case of coronary artery bypass grafting for effort angina in a patient with post skin grafting for an extramammary Paget’s desease

    • Kensuke Kobayashi
    • Masahiro Endo
    • Hitoshi Koyanagi

    Case Report Pages: 878 - 881

13. Aneurysm of the nonpatent ductus arteriosus in the adult —A report of the case and review of the literature—

    • Kazuhiro Myojin
    • Yoshimitsu Ishibashi
    • Hideyuki Kunishige

    Case Report Pages: 882 - 888

14. A case of traumatic aneurysm of the brachiocephalic artery

    • Satoshi Yamashiro
    • Kiyoshi Iha
    • Kageharu Koja

    Case Report Pages: 889 - 892

15. Surgical treatment for chronic dissecting aneurysm (DeBakey Type I) —A case using “elephant trunk” and “aortic tailoring”—

    • Taira Yamamoto
    • Haruo Makuuchi
    • Kenji Nonaka

    Case Report Pages: 893 - 897

16. Case report of surgical repair of left ventricular free wall rupture using GRF® glue and pericardial patch

    • Hiroyuki Tsukui
    • Kuniyoshi Ohara
    • Kouhei Abe

    Case Report Pages: 898 - 901

17. Intraabdominal organ injury due to blunt chest trauma —Report of two cases—

    • Shuhei Inoue
    • Noriaki Tezuka
    • Shozo Fujino

    Case Report Pages: 902 - 905

18. Massive mediastinal bleeding due to spontaneous rupture of the vertebral artery in Von Recklinghausen disease

    • Tatsuo Magara
    • Masahiko Onoe
    • Masarou Matsumoto

    Case Report Pages: 906 - 909

19. Surgical treatment for perforated aorta caused by mediastinitis after bidirectional Glenn shunt and closure of atrial septal defect —A case report—

    • Kou Takigami
    • Toshifumi Murashita
    • Keishu Yasuda

    Case Report Pages: 910 - 914

20. A case report of infective endocarditis caused by MRSA and characterized by pedicled vegetation on the posterior wall of left atrium

    • Atsushi Yuda
    • Kunio Asada
    • Shinjiro Sasaki

    Case Report Pages: 915 - 918

21. Simultaneous operation of intra-descending aorta bypass grafting and brachiocephalic artery reconstruction in a patient of aortitis syndrome

    • Naoki Kanemitsu
    • Seiichiro Wariishi
    • Fumio Kitamura

    Case Report Pages: 919 - 922

22. Primary cardiac synovial sarcoma —A case report—

    • Munehiro Fujioka
    • Shigefumi Suehiro
    • Tomoko Haba

    Case Report Pages: 923 - 927

23. A surgical case of supravalvular aortic stenosis with severe hypoplastic ascending aorta (diffuse type) in Williams-Beuren syndrome

    • Shunji Uchita
    • Tadashi Fujiwara
    • Yoshitomo Okajima

    Case Report Pages: 928 - 932

24. A successful case report of one and one half ventricle repair for pure pulmonary stenosis in a 4-year-old girl

    • Muneyasu Kawasaki
    • Katsunori Yoshihara
    • Yoshinori Takanashi

    Case Report Pages: 933 - 938

25. A successful repair of infective endocarditis accompanied by a pseudoaneurysm of the left ventricle

    • Arifumi Takazawa
    • Kazuya Akiyama
    • Shigeru Sasaki

    Case Report Pages: 939 - 942