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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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Diathermy smoke: hazardous to health? [PDF]

, 2013
The heat used in electrocautery causes cells to boil and explode, or simply dry up, producing a gaseous by-product known as diathermy smoke. This smoke may have mutagenic and carcinogenic potential, similar to that of cigarette smoke (Spearman et al ...
Brown, Steven, Dunn, Lynda
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Synchronous surgical treatment for brain and heart of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases

Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery
Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are homologous diseases and can be comorbidities. Atherosclerosis is the pathological basis of the comorbidities of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. In recent years, with the improvement of surgical
SHI Ming⁃gang, TONG Xiao⁃guang
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Preoperative neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio and outcome from coronary artery bypass grafting [PDF]

, 2007
Background: An elevated preoperative white blood cell count has been associated with a worse outcome after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Leukocyte subtypes, and particularly the neutrophil-lymphocyte (N/L) ratio, may however, convey superior ...
Buchan, Keith G., Croal, Bernard L., Cuthbertson, Brian, El-Shafei, Hussein, Gibson, George, Gibson, Patrick H., Hillis, Graham S., Ifezulike, Ada I., Jeffrey, Robert R., Small, Gary R.   +9 more
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Low Cost Simulator for Heart Surgery Training

Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
Objective: Introduce the low-cost and easy to purchase simulator without biological material so that any institution may promote extensive cardiovascular surgery training both in a hospital setting and at home without large budgets.
Roberto Rocha e Silva, Artur Lourenção Jr., Maxim Goncharov, Fabio B. Jatene   +3 more
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Clinical review: Can we predict which patients are at risk of complications following surgery? [PDF]

, 2013
There are a vast number of operations carried out every year, with a small proportion of patients being at highest risk of mortality and morbidity. There has been considerable work to try and identify these high-risk patients.
Hamilton, M, Shah, N
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More attention on synchronous intervention on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases by neurosurgeon and card

Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery
Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are one of the most common cause of death in the world, atherosclerosis is the main pathologic change, and often involving cardiovascular and cerebrovascular concurrently.
TONG Xiao⁃guang, SHI Ming⁃gang
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Long‐Term Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Aortic Root Replacement With Mechanical Versus Bioprosthetic Valves: Meta‐Analysis of Reconstructed Time‐to‐Event Data

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2023
Background An aspect not so clear in the scenario of aortic surgery is how patients fare after composite aortic valve graft replacement (CAVGR) depending on the type of valve (bioprosthetic versus mechanical).
Michel Pompeu Sá, Panagiotis Tasoudis, Xander Jacquemyn, Jef Van den Eynde, Thomas G. Caranasos, John S. Ikonomidis, Danny Chu, Derek Serna‐Gallegos, Ibrahim Sultan   +8 more
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Dexmedetomidine as an Anesthetic Adjuvant in Cardiac Surgery: a Cohort Study

Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
Objective: α-2-agonists cause sympathetic inhibition combined with parasympathetic activation and have other properties that could be beneficial during cardiac anesthesia.
Paulo Gabriel Melo Brandão, Francisco Ricardo Lobo, Serginando Laudenir Ramin, Yasser Sakr, Mauricio Nassau Machado, Suzana Margareth Lobo   +5 more
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Comparing Two Surgical Outcomes: Minithoracotomy or Full Sternotomy in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery [PDF]

, 2019
Cardiovascular diseases and heart-related conditions can be life-threatening; however, some cardiovascular conditions can be managed with open heart surgery.
Badrkhani, Shirin
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