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Cardiac surgical procedures for the coronary sequelae of Kawasaki disease [PDF]

Libyan Journal of Medicine, 2012
Objectives: The aim of this article is to make an evaluation on the clinical features of patients with Kawasaki disease who require a cardiac surgical procedure including coronary artery bypass grafting, coronary arterial aneurysmorrhaphy or heart ...
Shi-Min Yuan
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Lung transplantation following prior cardiac surgical procedures [PDF]

JHLT Open
Background: As lung transplant candidates are older with increased comorbidities, we sought to examine the prevalence and outcomes of lung transplant recipients after prior cardiac surgery.
Shane S. Scott, PhD, MS, Doug A. Gouchoe, MD, Divyaam Satija, BS, Justin P. Rosenheck, DO, Matthew C. Henn, MD, MS, Nahush A. Mokadam, MD, Bryan A. Whitson, MD, PhD, Verai Ramsammy, MD, David R. Nunley, MD, Sakima A. Smith, MD, MPH, Asvin M. Ganapathi, MD   +10 more
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Digital video recording of cardiac surgical procedures

Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2004
We attempted to find a method of reducing time and effort for recording videos of cardiac surgical procedures.A camera mounting arm designed by us provided a properly fixed digital camera location for undisturbed recording. The camera and its remote control unit provided an opportunity for the surgeon to record only the steps of the operation without ...
A Sampath Kumar
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Prediction of operative mortality for patients undergoing cardiac surgical procedures without established risk scores. [PDF]

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 2023
Objective: Current cardiac surgery risk models do not address a substantial fraction of procedures. We sought to create models to predict the risk of operative mortality for an expanded set of cases.
Ong CS, Reinertsen E, Sun H, Moonsamy P, Mohan N, Funamoto M, Kaneko T, Shekar PS, Schena S, Lawton JS, D'Alessandro DA, Westover MB, Aguirre AD, Sundt TM.   +13 more
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Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgical Procedures in Children [PDF]

Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, 2020
Corresponding Author: Pedro J. del Nido, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA. Email: pedro. delnido@ cardio. chboston. org Innovations 2020, Vol.
P. D. del Nido
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Preoperative Frailty Assessment and Outcomes at 6 Months or Later in Older Adults Undergoing Cardiac Surgical Procedures: A Systematic Review. [PDF]

Ann Intern Med, 2016
Approximately 500000 cardiac surgical procedures are performed each year in the United States, more than 50% of them in older adults (1). Because of the high burden of cardiovascular disease and evolution of minimally invasive surgical techniques, this ...
Kim DH, Kim CA, Placide S, Lipsitz LA, Marcantonio ER.   +4 more
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Multiple cardiac surgical procedures in a case of an octogenarian with essential thrombocythemia. [PDF]

Surg Case Rep, 2023
Abstract Background Essential thrombocythemia (ET) is a chronic myeloproliferative disorder characterized by an elevation of platelet counts with a tendency for thrombosis and hemorrhage. The perioperative management of cardiovascular surgery of an ET patient is complicated.
Maeda M, Sakamoto SI, Murata T, Hiromoto A, Suzuki K, Ishii Y.   +5 more
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Impact of staff turnover during cardiac surgical procedures.

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2019
OBJECTIVE The impact of staff turnover during cardiac procedures is unknown. Accurate inventory of sharps (needles/blades) requires attention by surgical teams, and sharp count errors result in delays, can lead to retained foreign objects, and may ...
J. Bloom, P. Moonsamy, Rajshri M. Gartland, Catherine O'Malley, G. Tolis, M. Villavicencio-Theoduloz, Carolyn M. Burkhardt, P. Dunn, T. Sundt, D. D'Alessandro   +9 more
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Survival after surgical ablation for atrial fibrillation in mitral valve surgery: Analysis from the Polish National Registry of Cardiac Surgery Procedures (KROK)

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2019
Objectives: Surgical ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF) performed at the time of other valvular‐ or nonvalvular cardiac procedure is a mainstay of therapy; yet the data regarding its influence on remote survival are sparse.
Tomasz Hirnle, Inga Dziembowska, Marek Cisowski   +2 more
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Acute adrenal insufficiency following cardiac surgical procedures.

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 1979
Five of 4,364 adult patients undergoing cardiac surgical procedures at this hospital from 1974 to 1978 have experienced bizarre and confusing postoperative courses, ultimately shown to be caused by acute adrenal insufficiency. Four were men and the age range was 53 to 73 years.
W. Alford, C. K. Meador, J. Mihalevich, G. R. Burrus, D. M. Glassford, S. W. Stoney, C. S. Thomas   +6 more
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