1. Hrad17 expression in thymoma

   • Hidefumi Sasaki
   • Yoshihiro Kobayashi
   • Yoshitaka Fujii

   OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 85

2. Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting in octogenarians

   • Tomoki Shimokawa
   • Naoki Minato
   • Manabu Itoh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 86 - 90

3. The current role of preoperative and intraoperative autologous blood donation in pediatric open-heart surgery

   • Hiroomi Murayama
   • Masanobu Meda
   • Akemi Kawamura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 97

4. Intracellular calcium increasing at the beginning of reperfusion assists the early recovery of myocardial contractility after diltiazem cardioplegia

   • Koichi Inoue
   • Susumu Ando
   • Toshihiro Takaba

   OriginalPaper Pages: 98 - 103

5. Pulmonary inflammatory pseudotumor with rapid growth and serum carcinoembryonic antigen elevation

   • Takahiko Misao
   • Katashi Satoh
   • Yousuke Yamamoto

   OriginalPaper Pages: 104 - 106

6. A rare case of a pulmonary granular cell tumor presenting as a coin lesion

   • Tomoko Hosaka
   • Satoshi Suzuki
   • Masashi Handa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 109

7. Bilateral subclavian steal associated with severe coarctation of the thoracic aorta and an aberrant right subclavian artery

   • Masayoshi Hamawaki
   • Motoharu Narimatsu
   • Kiyoyuki Eishi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 110 - 112

8. Rastelli type repair using freestyle valved conduit for a 69-year-old woman with tetralogy of Fallot

   • Kazuya Horike
   • Yoshio Fukata
   • Tetsuya Kitagawa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 116

9. Combined right atrial resection for lung cancer that developed intractable atrial flutter

   • Mitsunori Ohta
   • Kenji Hazama
   • Hikaru Matsuda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 119

10. Surgery for cardiomyopathy with mitral regurgitation and dyssynchrony

    • Tetsuji Kawata
    • Shigeki Taniguchi
    • Shigeo Nagasaka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 120 - 122