Editorials:

Closed operation for mitral stenosis

JG Scannell
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 299.  

Articles:

A 25-year experience with the closed method of treatment in 139 patients with mitral stenosis

TA Salerno, IR Neilson, EJ Charrette, and RB Lynn
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 300-304. [Abstract]  

Acute traumatic disruption of the thoracic aorta: a ten-year experience

CW Akins, MJ Buckley, W Daggett, JB McIlduff, and WG Austen
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 305-309. [Abstract]  

Coronary artery bypass operation in septuagenarians

BE Berry, PW Acree, DJ Davis, CH Sheely, 2d, and S Cavin
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 310-313. [Abstract]  

A coded study of antitumor immunity to human lung cancer assayed by tube leukocyte adherence inhibition

DM Thomson, RO Ayeni, JK MacFarlane, DN Tataryn, M Terrin, D Schraufnagel, J Wilson, and DS Mulder
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 314-321. [Abstract]  

Scalene node biopsy in pulmonary carcinoma: when is it indicated?

MH Schatzlein, S McAuliffe, MB Orringer, and MM Kirsh
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 322-324. [Abstract]  

Use of circumferential stapler in reconstruction following resections for carcinoma of the cardia

JE Molina, BR Lawton, and D Avance
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 325-328. [Abstract]  

Changing indications for pacemakers in children

WH Fleming, LB Sarafian, JD Kugler, PJ Hofschire, and EB Clark
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 329-333. [Abstract]  

Acute and chronic stimulation thresholds of intramyocardial screw-in pacemaker electrodes

DS Starr, GM Lawrie, and GC Morris, Jr
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 334-338. [Abstract]  

St. Thomas cardioplegia versus topical cooling: ultrastructural and biochemical studies in humans

W Flameng, M Borgers, W Daenen, F Thone, WA Coumans, GJ Van der Vusse, and G Stalpaert
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 339-346. [Abstract]  

Systemic effects of multidose hypothermic potassium cardioplegia

RB Mammana, S Levitsky, CB Beckman, A Vasu, and D Sernaque
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 347-349. [Abstract]  

Cell-mediated immunity is depressed following cardiopulmonary bypass

JA Roth, SH Golub, RA Cukingnan, J Brazier, and DL Morton
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 350-356. [Abstract]  

The embolization of bone wax from sternotomy incisions

F Robicsek, TN Masters, L Littman, and GV Born
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 357-359. [Abstract]  

Thoracopulmonary hypogenesis with systemic artery-pulmonary vessel fistulae: report of a case

RC Chiu, MJ Herba, J Viloria, and DS Mulder
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 360-363. [Abstract]  

Intraventricular repair of double-outlet left ventricle

DA Murphy, DA Gillis, and KS Sridhara
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 364-369. [Abstract]  

Internal mammary artery-saphenous vein composite conduit: an alternative for the proximal coronary anastomosis

R Brodman and G Robinson
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 370-372. [Abstract]  

Contractile fibroblasts (myofibroblasts) in a painful pacemaker pocket

R Rudolph, JR Utley, and M Woodward
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 373-376. [Abstract]  

A simple technique of placing temporary atrial pacemaker electrodes

PG Spyrou
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 377-378. [Abstract]  

Intermittent venting of the left ventricle

IM Ross and TE Theman
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 379-380. [Abstract]  

Aortopulmonary anastomosis in patients with levotransposition

JR Utley
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 381-383. [Abstract]  

Decannulation from the tenuous aorta

JM Piehler and JR Pluth
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 384. [Abstract]  

Cotton gloves: useful aids to hold the heart during coronary artery operation

A Wakabayashi
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 385. [Abstract]  

A historical account of the "wet lung of trauma" and the introduction of intermittent positive-pressure oxygen therapy in world war II

LA Brewer, 3d
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 386-393. [Abstract]  

Letters:

Anoxic injury during cross-clamping

DM Lolley
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 394-395.  

Neomycin ototoxicity

PC Samson
Ann Thorac Surg 1981 31: 395-396.  

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