Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery
Vol.18 No.6 2002 CONTENTS

Editorial

Evidence Based Surgery (EBS)
Yasunaru Kawashima

Original

Long-term Echocardiographic Follow-up Study of Aortic Regurgitation after Closure of Ventricular Septal Defect
Hiromi Muta, et al. ……617 Full text PDF
Beta-blocker Therapy for Congestive Heart Failure in Children: A Multi-center Survey Conducted in the Kansai District of Japan
Hiroshi Katayama,, et al. ……626 Full text PDF
Effect of Octreotide on Postoperative Chylothorax
Masataka Kitano,, et al. ……639 Full text PDF

Case Report

Y-stenting for Pulmonary Bifurcation Stenosis Through Bioprosthetic Valve in the Tricuspid Position: A Case Report
Sung-Hae Kim,1) Aiko Aoyama,1) Masaki Osaki,1)
Norie Mitsushita,1) Yasuhiko Tanaka,1) Akihiro Saito,1)
and Hideshi Tomita2) ……647 Full text PDF
Accelerated Idioventricular Rhythm Progressing to Dilated Cardiomyopathy: A Case Report
Masaru Hoshina, et al. ……654 Full text PDF

Editorial Comments

Aortic Insufficiency Associated with Ventricular Septal Defect
Nobuo Tauchi ……622 Full text PDF
The Actions of Beta-blocker and the Effects of Beta-blocker Treatment in Chronic Heart Failure
Shiro Ishikawa ……633 Full text PDF
Somatostatin and Its Synthetic Analogue Octreotide in the Treatment of Chylothorax
Tatsuo Shimizu ……645 Full text PDF