Program for Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the

Southern Thoracic Surgical Association

November 14-16, 1968

Puerto Rico Sheraton Hotel, San Juan, P.R.

NOVEMBER 14, 1968 (THURSDAY)

Afternoon Scientific Session

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1. COMMUNITY-WIDE AVAILABILITY OF PULMONARY EMBOLECTOMY W I T H CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS Thomas 0. Gentsch, M.D., Parry B. Larsen, M.D., DeWitt C. Daughtry, M.D., John G. Chesney, M.D., and Harold C. Spear, M.D., Miami, Fla.

SURVIVAL FOLLOWING ACUTE LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING COR- ONARY ARTERY LIGATION, VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION, AND VENTRICULAR ASSISTANCE I N T H E PIG Carl H . Almond, M.D., Richard E. Hoffer , D.V.M., M.S., Eugene E. Elefson, D.V.M., and James Mackenzie, M.D., Columbia, Mo.

3. SURGICAL TREATMENT OF ADULT-TYPE ANOMALOUS ORIGIN OF T H E LEFT CORONARY ARTERY FROM T H E PULMONARY ARTERY: COLLECTIVE REVIEW AND REPORT OF A CASE Martin L. Dalton, Jr., M.D., and Samuel M . King, M.D., Lubbock, Tex.

4. SURGICAL CORRECTION OF VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT FOL- LOWING ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION H . Newland Oldham, Jr., M.D., Stewart M . Scott, M.D., Charles H . Dart, Jr., M.D., Robert G. Fish, M.D., Calvin P. Claxton, M.D., Marcus L. Dillon, Jr., M.D., and David C. Sabiston, Jr., M.D., Durham and Oteen, N.C.

5. CLINICAL EXPERIENCE I N CARDIAC TRANSPLANTATION Robert D. Bloodwell, M.D., Grady L. Hallman, Jr., M.D., Robert D. Leach- man, M.D., James J. Nora, M.D., and Denton A. Cooley, M.D., Houston, Tex.

Robert H . LePere, M.D., San Antonio, Tex.

T H E EFFECT OF SYNTHETIC WRAPS ON VASCULAR SUTURE LINES AND VENOUS GRAFTS Yale H . Zimberg, M.D., Richmond, Va.

8. ARTERIES AND ANASTOMOSES: SOME BASIC CONTROVERSIES SETTLED William B. Nickell, M.D., Thomas D. Bartley, M.D., and Craig S. Hartley, Ph.D., Gainesville, Fla.

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6. ANASTOMOTIC ANEURYSMS

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Panel Discussion

“HOW I DO IT” Sam Stephenson, M.D., Harold Urschel, M.D., Paul Adkins, M.D., and Edward Munnell, M.D.

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Program: Meeting of Southern Thoracic Surgical Association

NOVEMBER 15, 1968 (FRIDAY)

Morning Scientific Session

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REPORT ON BRONCHIAL ADENOMAS William D. Logan, Jr., M.D., Jagjit S. Sehdeva, M.D., Osler A . Abbott, M.D., and Charles R. Hatcher, Jr., M.D., Atlanta, Ga.

COEXISTING CARCINOMA OF T H E LUNG AND PULMONARY TUBER- CULOSIS Sohrab Gerami, M.D., and Francis H . Cole, M.D., Memphis, Tenn.

SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS DUE T O ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIA B. G. Hattler, Jr., M.D., W . G. Young, Jr., M.D., W. C. Sealy, M.D., and W. H. Gentry, M.D., Durham and McCain, N.C.

AND EMPYEMA Ivan C. Schmidt, M.D., and Parly B. Larsen, M.D., Miami, Fla.

PLEUROPNEUMONECTOMY FOR TUBERCULOSIS-DESTROYED LUNG

T E N YEARS’ EXPERIENCE W I T H PNEUMONECTOMIES A T A TUBER- CULOSIS HOSPITAL (1957-1966) J . R. Jude, M.D., C. R. Lombardo, M.D., T . S. Feng, M.D., and M . Zequeira, M.D., Miami, Fla.

ARFONAD THERAPY: CLINICAL RESPONSES AND CONTROL William A . Cook, M.D., David L. Schwartr, M.D., and Verl G. Bass, M.D., Bronx, N.Y.

SURGICAL TREATMENT OF AORTIC INSUFFICIENCY DUE T O MEDIONECROSIS OR CHRONIC DISSECTION OF ASCENDING AORTA Isam N. Anabtawi, M.D., Thomas J . Yeh, M.D., Victor E. Cornett, M.D., and Robert G. Ellison, M.D., Augusta, Ga.

Presidential Address

EVOLVING CONCEPTS REGARDING DIAPHRAGMATIC HERNIA AND GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX Milton V. Davis, M.D., Dallas, Tex.

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NOVEMBER 16, 1968 (SATURDAY)

Morning Scientific Session 8~30-

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FUNDOPLICATION: RATIONALE AND RESULTS I N COMPLICATED HIATAL HERNIA Hiram C. Polk, Jr., M.D., and Robert Zeppa, M.D., Miami, Fla.

T H E MANAGEMENT AND PROBLEMS OF CAUSTIC BURNS OF T H E ESOPHAGUS I N CHILDREN J . Neal Middlekamp, M.D., Thomas B. Ferguson, M.D., Charles L. Roper, M.D., and F. Donald Hoflmann, M.D., St. Louis, Mo.

PULMONARY CONTUSION: CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUD- IES Glenn H. Shepard, M.D., Joe L. Ferguson, B.S., and John H . Foster, M.D., Nashville, Tenn.

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Address by Honored Guest

SOME UNSOLVED PROBLEMS IN CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY John W. Kirklin, M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, The University of Alabama in Birmingham

UATION OF 65 CASES Lloyd E. Hoflman, M.D., L. Jerome Krouetz, M.D., Ira H . Gessner, M.D., L. H . S . Van Mierop, M.D., Thomas D. Bartley, M.D., M . W . Wheat, Jr., M.D., and Gerold L. Schiebler, M.D., Gainesville, Fla.

20. OPERATIVE CORRECTION AND POSTOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF TRANSPOSITION OF GREAT VESSELS IN NINE CHILDREN Crile Crisler, M.D., Robert Brawley, M.D., John Cameron, M.D., and J . Alex Haller, Jr., M.D., Baltimore, Md.

MIAS FOLLOWING OPEN-HEART OPERATIONS Allen S. Hudspeth, M.D., A . Robert Cordell, M.D., and Frank R. Johnston, M.D., Winston-Salem, N.C.

Marion R. Lawler, Jr., M.D., Walter G. Gobbel, Jr., M.D., Duncan A. Killen, M.D., and Rollin A. Daniel, Jr., M.D., Nashville, Tenn.

ESOPHAGEAL REPLACEMENT WITH INTERPOSED JEJUNUM Jack E. Arrants, M.D., Dallas H . Dalton, Jr., M.D., William H . Lee, Jr., M.D., and Peter Hairston, M.D., Charleston, S.C.

19. ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECTS IN CHILDREN: A POSTOPERATIVE EVAL-

21. PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF VENTRICULAR ARRHYTH-

22. CARCINOMA OF THE ESOPHAGUS

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