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Staging of Surgical Procedures in Comorbid Congenital Tracheal Stenosis and Congenital Cardiovascular Disease [PDF]

Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2020
Comorbid long segment congenital tracheal stenosis and congenital cardiovascular abnormalities in children pose significant challenges with regard to repairing these abnormalities simultaneously or in stages. The aim of this study was to explore whether this combination of abnormalities needs a staged approach for surgical repairs.All children who ...
Yi-Ting Yeh, Martin Kostolný, Nagarajan Muthialu   +2 more
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Institutional Red Blood Cell Transfusion Rates Are Correlated Following Endovascular and Surgical Cardiovascular Procedures: Evidence That Local Culture Influences Transfusion Decisions

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020
Background The relationship between local hospital culture and transfusion rates following endovascular and surgical cardiovascular procedures has not been well studied.
Eirini Apostolidou, Dhaval Kolte, Kevin F. Kennedy, Charles E. Beale, J. Dawn Abbott, Afshin Ehsan, Hitinder S. Gurm, Jeffrey L. Carson, Shafiq Mamdani, Herbert D. Aronow   +9 more
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Cognitive Outcomes of Cardiovascular Surgical Procedures in the Old: An Important but Neglected Area

Heart Lung and Circulation, 2016
Older individuals can now undergo invasive cardiovascular procedures without serious concern about mortality, and the numbers and proportions of the over 65s and 85s doing so in Australia has been increasing over the last 20 years. There is overwhelming evidence linking cardiovascular conditions to late-life (65 years and over) cognitive impairment and
Hannah A D Keage, Ashleigh E Smith, Tobias Loetscher   +2 more
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Bacteria and the growing threat of multidrug resistance for invasive cardiac interventions [PDF]

Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
Invasive cardiovascular procedures which include heart transplantations, congenital heart surgery, coronary artery bypass grafts, cardiac valve repair and replacement, and interventional cardiac electrophysiology procedures represent common mechanisms
Grant N. Pierce, Craig Resch, Muntahi Mourin, Pavel Dibrov, Elena Dibrov, Amir Ravandi   +5 more
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Intestinal complications associated with cardiovascular surgical procedures [PDF]

Critical Care, 2007
Intestinal complications after cardiopulmonary bypass procedures are infrequent but they carry a significant incidence of morbidity and mortality. Predictors of these complications are not well developed, and the role of fundamental variables remains controversial.
Mastoraki, S, Mastoraki, E, Douka, L, Kriaras, I, Geroulanos, S   +4 more
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ROLE OF ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERURIA IN SURGICAL SITE INFECTION IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES

International Journal of Advanced Research, 2022
Introduction:Asymptomatic bacteruria (ASB) is defined as the presence of significant bacteruria [>105) in a clean voided midstream urine from a patient without fever or symptoms of UTI. ASB should be screened and treated only in pregnant patients and individuals prior to their urological procedures as recommended by Infectious disease society of ...
Arifat Jabeen, Mohd Suhail Lone, Ahmad, Syed Khurshid   +2 more
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Surgery for Acute Type A Aortic Dissection in A Pregnant Woman At 28 Weeks’ Gestation [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 2019
A 27-year-old woman with sudden back pain was transported to our hospital. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed pregnancy of 28 weeks’ gestation. Computed tomography demonstrated a type A aortic dissection.
Yoshinori Kuroda, Tetsuro Uchida, Azumi Hamasaki, Atsushi Yamashita, Masahiro Mizumoto, Kentaro Akabane, Ai Ishizawa, Mitsuaki Sadahiro   +7 more
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Cardiovascular MR Imaging after Surgical Correction of Tetralogy of Fallot: Approach Based on Understanding of Surgical Procedures [PDF]

RadioGraphics, 2013
Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is one of the most common congenital heart diseases for which patients are referred for postoperative magnetic resonance (MR) imaging evaluation. The most common surgical procedures for TOF repair include infundibulectomy, transannular pulmonary artery patch repair, and right ventricle-pulmonary artery conduit placement.
Ordovas, Karen G, Muzzarelli, Stefano, Hope, Michael D, Naeger, David M, Karl, Tom, Reddy, Gautham P, Marchiori, Edson, Higgins, Charles B   +7 more
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Greater omentum flap in the treatment of infant postoperative mediastinitis [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica, 2016
INTRODUCTION: Postoperative mediastinitis is a serious condition that presents high mortality rates. The greater omentum flap has been used with good results in postoperative mediastinitis after cardiac surgery.
Nárlei Amarante Pereira, Aloísio Ferreira da Silva Filho, José Carlos Ribeiro Resende Alves, Erick Horta Portugal, Marconi de Oliveira Ruas, Rebeca Paohwa Liu da Fonseca, Cláudio Azevedo Salles, Augusto César de Melo Almeida, Raíssa Lemos Ferreira da Silva   +8 more
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Acute lower limb ischemia due to thrombo-embolic arterial occlusions in two previously healthy men with markedly elevated Lp(a) [PDF]

, 2006
Lipoprotein (a) (Lp(a)) is a well-documented risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Its role in acute thrombo-embolic occlusions of peripheral arteries is not known.
Federico Tatò, Gabriella V Bedarida, Igarashi Y, Koschinsky ML, Krause M, Novak-Gottl U, Ulrich Hoffmann   +6 more
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