Turkish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Original Article

ANTIBACTERIAL EFFECT AND MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION RISK OF ETHYL 2-CYANOACRYLATE, A TISSUE ADHESIVE USED IN CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY

Pages : 141-146- Serap Şimşek Yavuz, *Mehmet Kaplan, *Mustafa Sinan Kut, *Mahmut Murat Demirtaş

APPLICABILITY OF EuroSCORE (EUROPEAN SYSTEM FOR CARDIAC OPERATIVE RISK EVALUATION) RISK SCORING SYSTEM IN TURKISH PATIENTS

Pages : 147-158- Mehmet Kaplan, Mustafa Sinan Kut, Serdar Çimen, Mahmut Murat Demirtaş

THE RESULTS OF MITRAL VALVE SURGERY IN PATIENTS WITH SEVERE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION

Pages : 159-162- Ali Civelek, Atike Tekeli, Serdar Akgün, *Tekin Yıldırım, Selim İsbir, **Mine Öz, **Nazan Aksoy, *Sinan Arsan

THROMBOSIS OF MECHANICAL MITRAL VALVES IN EARLY POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD: THE ANALYSIS OF FIVE DIFFERENT TYPES OF PROSTHESES

Pages : 163-168- Veysel Kutay, *Kaan Kırali, Hasan Ekim, *Cevat Yakut

ELECTRICAL STABILITIY OF HEART IN THE EARLY POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD IN DIABETIC PATIENTS UNDERWENT CORONARY BYPASS SURGERY

Pages : 169-173- Şekip Kazım Çelik, Abdi Sağcan, Atilla Çevik, Mücettin Şen, Suat Büket, Münevver Yüksel

Case Report

FAMILIAL HYPERLIPIDEMIA AND PUBERTAL CORONARY REVASCULARIZATION: GRAFT SELECTION

Pages : 188-189- Kıvanç Metin, *Öztekin Oto, *Baran Uğurlu, *Nejat Sarıosmanoğlu, *Eyüp Hazan, **Adnan Akçoral, **Gül Saylam, **Nurettin Ünal

VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT CAUSED BY PENETRATING CARDIAC INJURY: A CASE REPORT

Pages : 190-192- Gürkan Çetin, Ahmet Özkara, Ali Murat Mert, *Numan Ali Aydemir, **Özge Köner, Rüstem Olga, ***Özen Güven

ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OF ALKALINE BATTERY IN CHILDREN

Pages : 193-194- İbrahim Can Kürkçüoğlu, Atilla Eroğlu, Celal Tekinbaş, Nurettin Karaoğlanoğlu

HYDATID CYST WITH UNUSUAL LOCALIZATION

Pages : 195-197- Ahmet Tansel Çörtelekoğlu, Kazım Beşirli, **Lale Yüceyar, Kürşat Bozkurt, *Kamil Kaynak, Hasan Tüzün, Ayla Gürel Sayın

CAROTID BODY TUMORS

Pages : 198-200- Alper Kunt, *Fatih Bulut, **Canser Yılmaz Demir

Review

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION IN PATIENTS WITH SEVERE HEART FAILURE: IS AN ALTERNATIVE THERAPY?

Pages : 201-205- Ali Civelek, Wolf Peter Klövekorn

Thoracic Surgery

THE IMPORTANCE OF THORACOMYOPLASTY IN CHRONIC EMPYEMA

Pages : 174-177- Yekta Altemur Karamustafaoğlu, *Levent Cansever, *Ayşe Gül Çevik, *Gökhan Hacıibrahimoğlu, *Cemal Asım Kutlu, *Mehmet Ali Bedirhan

THE EVALUATION OF 36 PATIENTS UNDERGOING CERVICAL MEDIASTINOSCOPY

Pages : 178-180- Recep Demirhan, Hasan Fehmi Küçük, İrfan Sancaklı, Nagehan Özdemir, Yaman Özyurt, *Sevinç Bilgin, Necmi Kurt, Mustafa Gülmen

Vascular Surgery

RENAL DYSFUNCTION AFTER ELECTIVE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM

Pages : 181-184- Vedat Erentuğ, Nilgün Ulusoy Bozbuğa, Denyan Mansuroğlu, Hasan Ardal, Deniz Göksedef, Yücel Özen, Kaan Kırali, Mustafa Güler, Mehmet Balkanay, Gökhan İpek, Esat Akıncı, Mete Alp, Cevat Yakut

THE ROLE OF TRACE ELEMENTS IN THE ETIOLOGY OF ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS

Pages : 185-187- Ahmet Tansel Çörtelekoğlu, *Cengiz Köksal, **Meltem Ercan, Ahmet Kürşat Bozkurt, Kazım Beşirli, Hasan Tüzün, Ayla Gürel Sayın