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Combined cardiac surgical procedures in octogenarians: operative outcome

open access: yesClinical Research in Cardiology, 2008
The number of patients with an indication for cardiac surgery in their ninth decade of life is increasing. This study analyses the single-center results with combined and redo cardiac surgical procedures in octogenarians retrospectively.Three groups were evaluated: (I) Two hundred and thirty six patients with combined cardiac surgical procedures, mean ...
Jürgen Ennker, Ennker J
exaly   +5 more sources

Combined carotid and cardiac procedures: improved results and surgical approach

open access: yesVascular, 1998
Severe cerebrovascular complications following cardiac surgical procedures remain a major concern, particularly in patients with significant carotid atherosclerotic involvement (14% of perioperative stroke). Operative mortality for carotid operations in patients with documented Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) may be as high as 20%.
Francesco Donatelli   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Multifactorial Index of Cardiac Risk in Noncardiac Surgical Procedures

New England Journal of Medicine, 1977
To determine which preoperative factors might affect the development of cardiac complications after major noncardiac operations, we prospectively studied 1001 patients over 40 years of age. By multivariate discriminant analysis, we identified nine independent significant correlates of life-threatening and fatal cardiac complications: preoperative third
Allan H Goroll   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

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
exaly   +3 more sources

Mediastinitis After More Than 10,000 Cardiac Surgical Procedures

Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2006
Poststernotomy mediastinitis as a complication is rare but disastrous. We assessed incidence, predisposing factors for, and outcome from, mediastinitis after cardiac surgery.We studied 10,713 consecutive patients who underwent open-heart surgery from 1990 to 1999 in a tertiary care university hospital using data prospectively recorded in the hospital ...
Outi Lyytikäinen   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

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