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Ventricular pacemaker lead in the left hemithorax: Mechanisms and evidence‐based management of a late‐onset hazardous complication

Clinical Case Reports, 2021
Late‐onset migration of pacing leads in the left hemithorax is a rare but potentially life‐threatening complication. Radiological examinations are required to detect any involvement of either left ventricle or lung parenchyma, prompting immediate ...
Jacopo Marazzato, Fabrizio Caravati, Federico B. M. Blasi, Taulant Refugjati, Manola Vilotta, Federica Torchio, Andrea M. Musazzi, Cesare Beghi, Roberto De Ponti   +8 more
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Immediate Recognition and Surgical Treatment of Iatrogenic Acute Type A Aortic Dissection Is Associated with Low Hospital Mortality and High Intermediate-Term Survival

Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
Background: To investigate short- and intermediate-term outcomes of immediate (on table) recognition and surgical treatment of iatrogenic acute type A aortic dissection (ATAD) that occurred during the course of the cardiac surgical procedures.
Yulin Wang, Fangyu Liu, Kai Song, Hao Lai, Yongxin Sun, Jun Li, Chunsheng Wang, Qiang Ji   +7 more
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Comparison of Sexual Knowledge between Patients Prepared for Cardiac Surgery and Patients Prepared for Cardiac Rehabilitation in Iran

Journal of Tehran University Heart Center, 2019
Background: Although sexual death during intercourse occurs rarely in patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), most such patients avoid it because they fear a dangerous event.
Behzad Heydarpour, Parvin Ezzati, Ali Soroush, Mozhgan Saeidi, Saeid Komasi   +4 more
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The Brazilian Registry of Adult Patient Undergoing Cardiovascular Surgery, the BYPASS Project: Results of the First 1,722 Patients

Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
Objective: To report the early results of the BYPASS project - the Brazilian registrY of adult Patient undergoing cArdiovaScular Surgery - a national, observational, prospective, and longitudinal follow-up registry, aiming to chart a profile of patients ...
Walter J. Gomes, Rita Simone Moreira, Alexandre Cabral Zilli, Luiz Carlos Bettiati Jr, Fernando Augusto Marinho dos Santos Figueira, Stephanie Steremberg Pires D' Azevedo, Marcelo José Ferreira Soares, Marcio Pimentel Fernandes, Roberto Vito Ardito, Renata Andrea Barberio Bogdan, Valquíria Pelisser Campagnucci, Diana Nakasako, Renato Abdala Karam Kalil, Clarissa Garcia Rodrigues, Anilton Bezerra Rodrigues Junior, Marcelo Matos Cascudo, Fernando Antibas Atik, Elson Borges Lima, Vinicius José da Silva Nina, Renato Albuquerque Heluy, Lisandro Gonçalves Azeredo, Odilon Silva Henrique Junior, José Teles de Mendonça, Katharina Kelly de Oliveira Gama Silva, Marcelo Pandolfo, José Dantas de Lima Júnior, Renato Max Faria, Jonas Pereira dos Santos, Rodrigo Pereira Paez, Guilherme Henrique Biachi Coelho, Sergio Nunes Pereira, Roberta Senger, Enio Buffolo, Guido Marco Caputi, José Amalth do Espírito Santo, Juliana Aparecida Borges de Oliveira, Otavio Berwanger, Alexandre Biasi Cavalcanti, Fabio B. Jatene   +38 more
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Mapping Surgeon's Hand/Finger Motion During Conventional Microsurgery to Enhance Intuitive Surgical Robot Teleoperation [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Purpose: Recent developments in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) have led to significant advances in healthcare technologies enhancing robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RAMIS) in some surgical specialties. However, current human-robot interfaces lack intuitive teleoperation and cannot mimic surgeon's hand/finger sensing and fine ...
arxiv  

Surgical treatment of lone atrial fibrillation

São Paulo Medical Journal
Currently, off-pump video-assisted thoracoscopic epicardial pulmonary vein isolation offers an attractive alternative to on-pump Maze procedures for surgical treatment of lone atrial fibrillation.
Shi-Min Yuan, Hua Jing, Leonid Sternik
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Real-time Informative Surgical Skill Assessment with Gaussian Process Learning [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Endoscopic Sinus and Skull Base Surgeries (ESSBSs) is a challenging and potentially dangerous surgical procedure, and objective skill assessment is the key components to improve the effectiveness of surgical training, to re-validate surgeons' skills, and to decrease surgical trauma and the complication rate in operating rooms. Because of the complexity
arxiv  

Cardiac papillary fibroelastomas: A 10-year single-center surgical experience and long-term echocardiographic follow-up study

Biomedical Papers, 2020
Aims: Limited contemporary data are available on the clinical and echocardiographic outcomes after surgery for cardiac papillary fibroelastoma (CPF). The aim of this study was to review the clinical manifestations, pathological characteristics, surgical ...
Martin Kolek, Jana Dvorackova, Oldrich Motyka, Radim Brat   +3 more
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Computer simulation of surgical interventions for the treatment of refractory pulmonary hypertension [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
This paper describes computer models of three interventions used for treating refractory pulmonary hypertension (RPH). These procedures create either an atrial septal defect, a ventricular septal defect, or, in the case of a Potts shunt, a patent ductus arteriosus.
arxiv  

The Effects of the Multidisciplinary Team Approach on Blood Transfusion

Southern Clinics of Istanbul Eurasia, 2019
INTRODUCTION[|]The Joint Commission and the American Medical Association-Convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement reported that the blood transfusions are among the top five overused treatments in modern medicine.
Ayten Saraçoğlu, Mehmet Ezelsoy, Aylin Ordu, Kemal Tolga Saraçoğlu   +3 more
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