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4/29/2006 1:00 pm   Endograft Therapy for Aortic Disease- Developing A New Treatment and Training Paradigm in CT Surgery 4/29/2006 1:00 pm   Disruptive Events 4/29/2006 1:00 pm   Developing New Technology In The Era Of Pharma/Copyrights/IRB 4/29/2006 1:00 pm   Reinventing Academic Cardiothoracic Surgery in the new Millennium 4/29/2006 1:00 pm   The University General Thoracic Surgeon as Interventionalist: incorporation of Non – Surgical therapies into Practice and Training Programs 4/29/2006 1:00 pm   What will the future academic cardiac surgeon look like 4/29/2006 1:00 pm   Dealing with Conflict of Interest in Academics 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Surgical Management of Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Management of the Patient with an Aortic Root Sepsis 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Surgical Ventricular Restoration (SVR) of the Infarcted Ventricle 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Thoracic Aortic Endovascular Intervention- Basic Principles/Hospital Regulatory Issues 4/30/2006 8:00 am   When Reconstruction Fails or is Not Feasible- Which Valve Replacement? 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Structure/Function Relationships between Fiber Orientation and Ventricular Efficiency 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Cerebral Protection in Thoracic Aortic Surgery 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Update on Drug-Eluting Stents- What Can Interventional Cardiology Do? 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Valve Sparing Aortic Root Replacement 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Decision-making in Thoracic Aortic Surgery 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Radiation-Induced Heart Disease 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Options for Aortic Arch Replacement 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Passive LV Restraint Devices in the Management of the Impaired Left Ventricle 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Acute Aortic Dissection: Surgical Decision-making and Operative Management: How much is enough? 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Advanced Coronary Artery Disease in High-Risk Patients – Role for Off-Pump Surgery and Novel Revascularization Strategies 4/30/2006 8:00 am   The Surgeon’s Role in Resynchronization Therapy (Biventricular Pacing) 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Hybrid Open- Endovascular Reconstruction of the Thoracic Aorta 4/30/2006 8:00 am   The Impaired Ventricle and Secondary Mitral Regurgitation: Mechanisms, Evaluations, Surgical Decision-making, and Perioperative Management 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Bronchosopic Treament of Emphysema 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Management of the Solitary Pulmonary Nodule 4/30/2006 8:00 am   How I do it: Sleeve Lobectomy 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Radiofrequency Ablation and Cyberknife 4/30/2006 8:00 am   How I do it: Laprascopic Collis Gastoplasty and Fundoplication 4/30/2006 8:00 am   The Diagnosis and Minimally Invasive Management of Esophageal Motility Abnormalities 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Update on Lung Cancer Imaging 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Invasive Mediastinal Staging: Role of Lymphadenectomy 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Bronchoalveolar Carcinoma and EGFR 4/30/2006 8:00 am   How I do it: Robotic Esophagectomy 4/30/2006 8:00 am   How I do it: Video-Assisted Transcervical Thymectomy 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Esophogeal Cancer: Staging and Neoadjuvant Therapy 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Esophogeal Replacement: Approaches and Conduits 4/30/2006 8:00 am   How I do it: VATS Lobectomy 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Indwelling Pleural Catheters 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Adjuvant Therapy in Mediastinal Disease 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Extrapleural Pneumonectomy and Heated Chemotherapy 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Mediastinal Pathology 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Mediastinal Masses: Diagnosis and Imaging 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Lung Cancer 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Hybrid approaches in pediatric heart surgery – Current Status 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Overview: Anatomy, Timing, Results 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Tricuspid Valve 4/30/2006 8:00 am   When Reconstruction Fails or is Not Feasible – Which Valve Replacement? 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Pathophysiologic Implications of the Ventricular Myocardial Band (Helical Heart) 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Potential Implications to Congenital Heart Disease 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Single Patch Technique 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Adult Ebstein’s 4/30/2006 8:00 am   The Ventricular Myocardial Band and Right Ventricular Remodeling – Clinical Experience 4/30/2006 8:00 am   New Therapeutic Approaches for Borderline HLHS 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Tissue Engineered Heart Valves – Current Status 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Neonatal Ebstein’s 4/30/2006 8:00 am   The Helical Ventricular Myocardial Band of Torrent-Guasp 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Aortic Valve 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Mitral/Systemic A-V Valve 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Double Patch Technique 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Partial A-V Canal – Pitfalls in Technique 4/30/2006 8:00 am   The Maze in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Modified Single Patch Technique 4/30/2006 8:00 am   HITT in Pediatric Heart Surgery 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Technical Modifications for Complex AV Canal 4/30/2006 8:00 am   Decision Making for Surgeons with Intraoperative Echo Following Repair of AV Canal Defects 4/30/2006 3:00 pm   Intra-operative Localization of Lymph Node Metastases Using a Replication-competent Herpes Simplex Virus 4/30/2006 3:00 pm   Improvement In Hemodynamic Performance, Exercise Capacity, Inflammatory and Apoptotic Profiles After Intra-coronary Delivery of Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC) in an Experimental Model of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy 4/30/2006 3:00 pm   The Clinical Stage of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer as Assessed by FDG-PET/CT Scan is Less Accurate in Smokers 4/30/2006 3:00 pm   Wnt Inhibitory Factor Inhibits Lung Cancer Cell Growth 4/30/2006 3:00 pm   Endothelin-1 Accentuates the Proatherosclerotic Effects of C- Reactive Protein via Protein Kinase C 4/30/2006 3:00 pm   Radial Artery Graft Treatment with Phenoxybenzamine is Safe and Reduces Perioperative Myocardial Injury 4/30/2006 3:00 pm   Conditional Transgenic Overexpression of Angiopoietins (Ang) Reveals a Dominant Role for Ang-2 in Neovascularization of the Chronically Ischemic Hindlimb 4/30/2006 3:00 pm   Proteomics of Brain Injury in a Neonatal Model of Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest. 5/1/2006 8:00 am   Long Term Results of Aortic Valve Sparing Operations for Aortic Root Aneurysm 5/1/2006 8:00 am   Risk Model of In-Hospital Mortality in 15,183 Patients Requiring Thoracic Surgery: Results from a Nationally Representative Database 5/1/2006 8:00 am   A Randomized Clinical Trial of Regional Cerebral Perfusion versus Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest: Outcomes for Infants with Functional Single Ventricle 5/1/2006 8:00 am   Neurocognitive Function, Cerebral Emboli, and S100ß after On-pump and Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: a Randomised Study. 5/1/2006 8:00 am   CABG And Intramyocardial Delivery Of CD133+ Bone Marrow Stem Cells For Chronic Ischemic Heart Failure: Final Phase-1 And Phase-2 Results 5/1/2006 8:00 am   The Utility of Positron Emission Tomography in Staging of Patients with Potentially Operable Carcinoma of the Thoracic Esophagus 5/1/2006 10:05 am   Genetic Control of Programmed Cell Death in C. elegans 5/1/2006 11:25 am   Presidential Address 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Carotid Artery Cannulation in Aortic Surgery 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Reverse Right Ventricular Remodeling after Pulmonary Endarterectomy 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Analysis of 92 Mitral Pulmonary-Autograft Replacement (Ross II) Operations 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Dividing Secondary Chords Improves Mitral Leaflet Mobility and Reduces Mitral Regurgitation in Patients with Ischemic MR 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Conduit Selection Strategy Determines the Long-term Results of Coronary Surgery for Triple Vessel Disease: Results Over 10 Years 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Suture Bicuspidization of the Tricuspid Valve Versus Ring Annuloplasty for Repair of Functional Tricuspid Regurgitation: Mid-Term Results of 257 Consecutive Patients 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Surgery for Atrial Fibrillation in Mitral Patients with and without Additional Procedures. Results at 5 Years from an International Registry 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Endovascular Treatment of Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysms 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Factors Predicting Poor Survival After Resection of Stage IA Non-small Cell Lung Cancer 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Long-term Survival and Recurrence in Patients with Resected Subcentimeter Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Preoperative FDG PET SUVmax Predicts Survival Independent of Clinical but not Pathologic TNM Staging of NSCLC 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Restaging Patients with N2 (Stage IIIa) Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer after Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy: A Prospective Study 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Prevalence Of Mediastinal Metastases and Sensitivity of Mediastinoscopy in Potentially Operable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Screened by Computerized Tomography and Positron Emission Tomography. 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   T2N0M0 Esophageal Cancer 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Collis Gastroplasty and Reinforced Crural Repair: Essential Components of Laparoscopic Giant Hiatal Hernia Repair 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Postoperative Esophageal Leak Management using the Polyflex Esophageal Stent 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Resection of Posterior Coarctation Shelf Reduces Neoaortic Obstruction in HLHS. 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Less Invasive Cardiopulmonary Bypass System In Neonates And Small Infants 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Predictors of Reintervention Following Non-valved Autologous Reconstruction of the Right Ventricular Outflow Tract in Neonates and Infants. 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Pulmonary Valve Cusp Augmentation With Autologous Pericardium May Improve Early Outcome For Tetralogy Of Fallot. 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Current Surgical Therapy for Ebstein’s Anomaly in Neonates 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Can Pulmonary Conduit Dysfunction and Failure Be Reduced In Infants Less Than Age Two Years?: A Congenital Heart Surgeons Society Study 5/1/2006 1:45 pm   Surgical ASD Closure After Interventional Occluder Placement - Incidence And Outcome 5/1/2006 2:00 pm   Over Two Decades of Pediatric Heart Transplantation 5/2/2006 7:00 am   Differential Patterns Of Matrix Metalloproteinase And Inhibitor Expression In Ascending Aortic Aneurysms With Bicuspid Versus Tricuspid Valves. 5/2/2006 7:00 am   Chordal "Translocation" for Functional Mitral Regurgitation (MR) ---- Towards Another Surgical Contribution in the Era of Percutaneous Valve Treatment 5/2/2006 7:00 am   Overexpression of Integrin-Linked Kinase Induces Cardiac Stem Cell Expansion 5/2/2006 7:00 am   Postnatal Changes In Human Cardiac Myocyte Putative Precursor Cell Populations. 5/2/2006 7:00 am   Strain Related Regional Alterations of Calcium Handling Proteins in Heart Failure 5/2/2006 7:00 am   Myocardial Regeneration Therapy for Ischemic Cardiomyopathy with Cyclin A2 5/2/2006 7:00 am   Myocardial Transcription Factors Are Modulated During Pathologic Cardiac Hypertrophy In Vivo- Identifying Potential Targets For Pharmaco-therapy Of Heart Failure 5/2/2006 7:00 am   Aging Is Associated With An Impaired Coronary Microvascular Response To Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor In Patients 5/2/2006 7:00 am   Increased Bcl-2 Immunoreactivity at 10°C Indicates Additional Protection of Neocortex and Hippocampus during Prolonged Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest (HCA) 5/2/2006 7:00 am   The Potential Role of Cytoprotective Cytokines in Mediating the Beneficial Effects of Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury 5/2/2006 7:00 am   Idiopathic Postpneumonectomy Pulmonary Edema: 1.Hyperinflation Of The Remaining Lung Is An Aetiological Factor 2. Abolished By Use Of Balanced Pleural Drainage 5/2/2006 7:00 am   Molecular Changes Of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor And Its Impact On The Clinical Outcomes In Surgically Resected Adenocarcinoma Of The Lung 5/2/2006 7:00 am   Behavior Of Oxidative Stress And Scavenger Capacity In Esophageal Mucosa After Antireflux Surgery: A Prospective Four Year Follow-up Study 5/2/2006 7:00 am   Gossypol, A Phytochemical Compound With BH3 Mimetic Property, Sensitizes Cultured Thoracic Cancer Cells to Apo2L/TRAIL (TNF-Related Apoptosis Inducing Ligand)-Mediated Apoptosis 5/2/2006 7:00 am   Prevention Of Local Tumor Growth With Paclitaxel Loaded Microspheres 5/2/2006 7:00 am   Analysis of Cellular Sub-Fractions in Lung Cancer: A Proteomics Approach 5/2/2006 7:00 am   Regulation of Mononuclear Inflammation in the Lung by Intercommunications Between the Bronchial and Pulmonary Microcirculations 5/2/2006 7:00 am   Experimental Safety And Efficacy Evaluation Of An Extracorporeal Pumpless Artificial Lung In Providing Respiratory Support Via The Axillary Vessels 5/2/2006 7:00 am   Life-supporting Function Of Galt ko Pig Lungs In Baboons. 5/2/2006 7:00 am   The Relationship Between RASSF1A Aberrant Methylation And Survival In Small Sized Lung Adenocarcinoma. 5/2/2006 9:00 am   Long Term Clinical Results of Mitral Valvuloplasty Using Flexible and Rigid Ring : Prospective and Randomized study 5/2/2006 9:00 am   Mid Term Results Of Surgery Of Congenital Heart Disease In Adult Age: Italian Multicentric Study 5/2/2006 9:00 am   Pulmonary Metastasectomy Results in Improved Survival: An Analysis of 1,720 Pulmonary Metastatic Melanoma Patients 5/2/2006 9:00 am   Long-Term Results of the Konno Procedure for Complex Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction 5/2/2006 9:00 am   Surgical Therapy For Ischemic Heart Failure: Global Experience With Surgical Ventricular Restoration From One Single Center 5/2/2006 11:25 am   A World in Need: Lessons Learned in Medical Diplomacy. The Project HOPE Perspective 5/2/2006 2:00 pm   Objective Assessment Of Sudomotor Response Following Thoracoscopic Sympathectomy 5/2/2006 2:00 pm   Risk-adjusted Morbidity and Mortality Models to Compare the Performance of Two Units after Major Lung Resections 5/2/2006 2:00 pm   Impact of Bilateral Versus Single Lung Transplantation on Survival in Recipients 60 Years of Age and Older 5/2/2006 2:00 pm   Impact Of Donors Aged 60 Years And Older On Outcome After Lung Transplantation: Results Of An 11-year Single Center Experience 5/2/2006 2:00 pm   Surgical Patient Outcomes Following The Increased Utilization Of Bilateral Lung Transplantation 5/2/2006 2:00 pm   Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Awaiting Lung Transplantation 5/2/2006 2:00 pm   Surgical Repair Of Multiple Muscular Ventricular Septal Defects. The Role Of Re-endocardialization 5/2/2006 2:00 pm   How long the Artificial Graft Used in Total Cavopulmonary Connection is Durable? - More than 10 Years Evaluation 5/2/2006 2:00 pm   Surgical Strategy for the Bicuspid Aortic Valve: Tricuspidization with Leaflet Extension Versus Pulmonary Autograft 5/2/2006 2:00 pm   Outcomes Of Definitive Surgical Repair for Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries or Atrioventricular Discordance with Double Outlet Right Ventricle: Risk Analyses In 195 Patients 5/2/2006 2:00 pm   The Cone Reconstruction Of Tricuspid Valve In Ebstein's Anomaly: The Operation, Early And Midterm Results. 5/2/2006 2:00 pm   Optimal timing of the Fontan conversion 5/2/2006 2:00 pm   Recurrent Mitral Regurgitation Following Repair: Should the Mitral Valve be Re-Repaired? 5/2/2006 2:00 pm   Reoperative Aortic Root and Transverse Arch Procedures: A Contemporary Comparison of Redo and Primary Operations 5/2/2006 2:00 pm   Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting With Or Without Cardiopulmonary Bypass In Patients With Preoperative Non Dialysis Dependent Renal Insufficiency : A Randomized Study 5/2/2006 2:00 pm   The Impact of Patient-Prosthesis Mismatch on Late Outcomes after Mitral Valve Replacement 5/2/2006 2:00 pm   The Impact Of Ablation Technology On Surgical Outcomes Following The Cox Maze Procedure: A Propensity Analysis 5/2/2006 2:00 pm   Primary and Repeat Heart Transplantation in the United States: A propensity score matching analysis of 594 re-recipients through 5 -years 5/2/2006 2:00 pm   Prospective Randomised Comparison Of Carbomedics And St Jude Medical Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valve Prostheses: 10 Year Follow-up 5/2/2006 2:00 pm   Use of Limited Periods of Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest Is Not Associated with Worse Neurodevelopmental Outcome at One-Year of age 5/3/2006 7:00 am   Myocardial Assistance by Grafting a New Bioartificial Upgraded Myocardium (MAGNUM Trial): Preliminary Results 5/3/2006 7:00 am   Superiority of Cut and Sew Technique for the Cox-maze Procedure. Comparison with Bipolar Radiofrequency Ablation 5/3/2006 7:00 am   Cathether-Based Infrared Light Scanner as a Tool to Assess Conduit Quality in Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery 5/3/2006 7:00 am   Gene Expression Profiles Characterizing The Progression Of Heart Failure In Patients With Aortic Valve Stenosis 5/3/2006 7:00 am   In Vivo Autologous Recellularization Of A Tissue Engineered Heart Valve: Are Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells The Best Candidate? 5/3/2006 7:00 am   A New Device for Correcting Aortic Insufficiency: Aortic Ring Annuloplasty 5/3/2006 7:00 am   Application of the Open Arch Antegrade “Stented Elephant Trunk” Approach for Hybrid Repair of the Aortic Arch using the Gore TAG Stent Graft in Type A dissections 5/3/2006 7:00 am   Initial US Experience with the Paracor Cardiac Support Device 5/3/2006 7:00 am   Clinical Application Of Airway Bypass, A New Bronchoscopic Procedure For Severe Emphysema 5/3/2006 7:00 am   Global Threat Assessment and CBRNE (Chemical/Biological/Radiological/Nuclear Event) Response Planning 5/3/2006 7:00 am   Response to the Madrid Bombing Event: Lessons Learned 5/3/2006 7:00 am   Humanitarian Assistance in the Setting of Natural Catastrophe: The Pakistan Earthquake Experience-Realities and Challenges 5/3/2006 7:00 am   Communication Challenges in Disaster Management and Response: Past Experiences and Future Perspectives 5/3/2006 7:00 am   FDA Perspective on Cardiovascular Device Development 5/3/2006 9:30 am   Biological vs. Mechanical Valve Replacement of the Pulmonary Valve After Multiple Reconstructions of the RVOT Tract 5/3/2006 9:30 am   Robotics are the Future of Cardiac Surgery…And Always Will Be 5/3/2006 9:30 am   Robotics are the Future of Cardiac Surgery…And Always Will Be 5/3/2006 9:30 am   Biological vs. Mechanical Valve Replacement of the Pulmonary Valve After Multiple Reconstructions of the RVOT Tract 5/3/2006 9:30 am   Thoracic Aortic Stent Grafts Should Only be Performed by CT Surgeons 5/3/2006 9:30 am   Thoracic Aortic Stent Grafts Should Only be Performed by CT Surgeons - Rebuttal 5/3/2006 9:30 am   Congenital Cardiac Surgeons Should be Trained in an Accredited Two-Year Fellowship 5/3/2006 9:30 am   VATS Lobectomy is the Best Operation for Clinical Stage 1 NSCLC 5/3/2006 9:30 am   VATS Lobectomy is the Best Operation for Clinical Stage 1 NSCLC 5/3/2006 9:30 am   Declining Cardiothoracic Surgery Applications is Good for the Specialty 5/3/2006 9:30 am   Declining Cardiothoracic Surgery Applications is Good for the Specialty 5/3/2006 9:30 am   Declining Cardiothoracic Surgery Applications is Good for the Specialty 5/3/2006 9:30 am   Esophagectomies Should Only Be Performed in High-Volume Centers 5/3/2006 9:30 am   Esophagectomies Should Only Be Performed in High-Volume Centers 5/3/2006 9:30 am   VATS Lobectomy is the Best Operation for Clinical Stage 1 NSCLC 5/3/2006 9:30 am   Congenital Cardiac Surgeons Should be Trained in an Accredited Two-Year Fellowship

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