Pilling Surgical Instruments 1993 catalogue, p. 304, designs for Miscellaneous Heart Instruments. |
Article entitled “Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery Grafting via Left Anterior Small Thoracotomy without Cardiopulmonary Bypass” by Calafiore et al., in the 1996 Journal, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, pp. 1658-1665. |
Article entitled “Coronary Artery Bypass without Cardiopulmonary Bypass” by Pfister et al, in the 1992 Journal, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, pp. 1085-1092. |
Article entitled “Snaring of the Target Vessel in Less Invasive Bypass Operations does not cause Endothelial Dysfunction”, by Perrault et al., in the 1997 Journal, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, pp. 751-755. |
Article entitled “Triple Coronary Artery Revascularization on the Stabilized Beating Heart: Initial Experience”, by Cartier et al., from the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and the Dept. of Anesthesiology, Montreal Heart Institute, Sep. 19, 1997, pp. 283-288. |
Article entitled “Direct Myocardial Revascularization by Saphenous Vein Graft” by Favaloro et al. in the Aug. 1970, vol. 10, Journal of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, pp. 97-111. |
Editorial entitled “Coronary Surgery without Cardiopulmonary bypass”, in British Heart Journal, 1995;73:pp. 203-205. |
Article entitled “A new retaratcor to aid in coronary artery surgery” by DelRossie et al., 2 pages, in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, vol. 36, No. 1, Jul. 1983. |
Article entitled “The Cardiac Rag- simple exposure of the heart” by Badellino et al., vol. 15, No. 2, 1988 in the Texas Heart Institute Journal, pp. 134-135. |
Letter to the Editor in Archives of Surgery, vol. 115, No. 9, Sep. 1980, on “New Use for an Old Clamp”, 4 pages. |
J Cardiovasc Surgery, 30, 1989, pp. 996-997, Technical Comments article entitled “Internal mammary artery dissection: A three dimensional sternal retractor” by Roux et al. |
Article entitled “Off-Bypass Coronary Grafting via Minithoracotomy using Mechanical Epicardial Stabilization”, by Cremer et al., in the 1997 Journal, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, pp. 579-583. |
Article entitled “Single coronary bypass grafting- a comparison between minimally invasive “off pump” techniques and conventional procedures”, by Bonatti et al., in the European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery 17 (Suppl 1), 1998, pp. S7-S12. |
Article entitled “Less Invasive Coronary Surgery: Consensus from the Oxford Meeting”, by Westaby et al., in the 1996 Journal, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, pp. 924-931. |
Article entitled “Mini-Sternotomy for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting”, by Arom et al., in the 1996 Journal, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, pp. 1271-1272. |
Article entitled “Limited Access Myocardial Revascularization” by Cooley, in the Texas Heart Institute Journal, vol. 23, No. 2, 1996, pp. 81-84. |
Letter to the Editor on Mini-Sternotomy for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting by A. Cohen et al., 1996, pp. 1884-1885, Journal, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. |
Article entitled “Fabric Heart Retractor for Coronary Artery Bypass Operations” by Kazama et al. in the 1993 Journal, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, pp. 1582-1583. |
Article entitled “Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting” by Calafiore et al. in the 1996 Journal, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, pp. 1545-1548. |
Article entitled “Improved Visualization of the Internal Mammary Artery with a New Retractor System” by Pittman et al. in the 1989 Journal, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, pp. 869-870. |
Article entitled “A Modified Sternal Retractor” by Ancalmo et al. from the Dept. of Surgery, Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation and Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, LA, Aug. 8, 1975., p. 174. |
Article entitled “A Versatile Retractor For Use In Harvesting The Internal Mammary Artery And Performing Standard Cardiac Operations” by Phillips et al., in the J Thoracic Carciovasc Surg 1989, vol. 97, pp. 633-635. |
Article entitled “Surgical Management of Diseased Intracavitary Coronary Arteries” by Ochsner et al. in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, vol. 38, No. 4, Oct. 1984, pp. 356-362. |
Article entitled “Technique of internal mammary-coronary artery anastomosis” by Green, in the Journal of Thoracic Surgery, vol. 78, 1979, pp. 455-459. |
Article entitled “Graduated probes for coronary bypass surgery” by Parsonner et al., in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, vol. 68, No. 3, Sep. 1974, pp. 424-427. |
Article entitled “A Modified Sternal Retractor for Exposure of the Internal Mammary Artery” by McKeown et al., in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, 1980, p. 619. |
Article entitled “A New Concept in Sternal Retraction: Application for Internal Mammary Artery Dissection and Valve Replacement Surgery” by Chaux et al., in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, vol. 42, Oct. 1986, pp. 473-474. |
Article entitled “Cardiac Retractor for Coronary Bypass Operations” by Rousou et al., in The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, pp. 877-878. |
Article entitled A New Retractor to Aid in Coronary Artery Surgery: by DelRossi et al., in the in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, vol. 36, No. 1, Jul. 1983. |
Article entitled “New Helper Instrument in Cardiac Surgery” by Roux et al., in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, 1989, pp. 505-596. |
Article entitled “Aortic Spoon-Jaw Clamp for Aorto-Saphenous Vein Anastomosis” by Robicsek, in the Journal of Card Surg, 1995; vol. 10, pp. 583-585. |
Article entitled “Techniques of dissecting the internal mammary after using the Moussali bar” by Hasan et al. , the European J Cardio-thorac Surg, 1990, vol. 4, pp. 571-572. |
Article entitled “Self-Retaining Epicardial Retractor For Aortocoronary Bypass Surgery” by Parsonnet et al., in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 1979, pp. 629-630. |
Article entitled Coronary Artery bypass Grafting without Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Without Interruption of Native Coronary Flow Using a Novel Anastomosis Site Restraining Device (“Octopus”), by Borst et al., JACC, vol. 27, No. 6, May 1996, pp. 1356-1364. |
Article entitled “A New Internal Mammary Artery Retractor” by Bugge, in the Thorac.cardiovasc.Surgeon, vol. 38, 1990, pp. 316-317. |
Article entitled “A Simple, Inexpensive Method of Heart Retraction During Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery” by Angelini, in the Ann Thorac Surg, vol. 46, pp. 246-247, Aug. 1988. |
Article entitled A New Device for Exposing the Circumflex Coronary Artery: by Matsuura et al., in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, 1995, pp. 1249-1250. |
Article entitled “Application of a Special vasal devaricator during coronary surgery” by Vigano, in the Minerva Cardioangiologica, Jul. 1975, pp. 370-371. |
Translation of “Heart Retractor for Use in Anastomosis in Coronary Artery By-pass Surgery” by Eguchi, from the Japanese Journal of Thoracic Surgery, vol. 40, No. 1, 1987, 4 pages. |
Japanese article (title translated) on “A Special Retractor for Stabilizing the Heart During Circumflex Coronary Grafting” by Eguchi, 1987, 2 pages. |
Article entitled “Revascularization of the Circumflex Coronary Artery—A new Instrument and a Technical Method-” by Murata, in the Japanese Journal of Thoracic Surgery, 1989, vol. 42, No. 2, 6 pages. |