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Perioperative and anesthetic deaths: toxicological and medico legal aspects [PDF]

, 2019
Background: Anesthesia has become safer during decades, though there is still a preventable mortality; the complexity of medical and surgical interventions, increasingly older and sicker patients, has created a host of new hazards in anesthesiology.
Argo A., Buscemi R., Karch S. B., Lanzarone A., Roccuzzo R., Zerbo S.   +5 more
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Evaluation of in vitro toxicity of common phytochemicals included in weight loss supplements using 1H NMR spectroscopy

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
We investigated the toxicity of 12 active compounds commonly found in herbal weight loss supplements (WLS) using human liver and colon cell models. Epigallocatechin‐3‐gallate was the only compound showing significant toxicity. Metabolic profiling revealed protein degradation, disrupted energy and lipid metabolism suggesting that the inclusion of EGCG ...
Emily C. Davies, Garth L. Maker, Ian F. Musgrave, Samantha Lodge   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adjuvant Pericardial Sac Restraining in Heart Failure Treatment. A Medical Hypothesis Illustrated by a Case Report

Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 2016
Ventricular constraint therapy has been used to prevent and reverse the progression of heart failure in ischemic and nonischemic cardiomyopathies. We hypothesized that ventricular restraint should be tried by closing the pericardium that was previously ...
Paulo Roberto Barbosa Evora, Minna Moreira D. Romano, Luis Gustavo Gali, André Schmidt, Alfredo José Rodrigues   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does the revised cardiac risk index predict cardiac complications following elective lung resection? [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Revised Cardiac Risk Index (RCRI) score and Thoracic Revised Cardiac Risk Index (ThRCRI) score were developed to predict the risks of postoperative major cardiac complications in generic surgical population and thoracic surgery respectively.
A Bobbio, A Brunelli, A Brunelli, A Brunelli, Amy Kerr, Andrea Marshall, AS Detsky, Babu Naidu, CA Polanczyk, CD Parmar, D Amar, DJ Bertges, DW Hosmer, E Lim, Ehab Bishay, HC Fernando, JP Mathew, L Goldman, LA Fleisher, Maninder Kalkat, MK Ferguson, MK Ford, Pala Rajesh, Richard Steyn, Robin Wotton, TH Lee, V Fuster, WD Neary   +27 more
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Tracking Motor Progression and Device‐Aided Therapy Eligibility in Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To characterise the progression of motor symptoms and identify eligibility for device‐aided therapies in Parkinson's disease, using both the 5‐2‐1 criteria and a refined clinical definition, while examining differences across genetic subgroups.
David Ledingham, Sahana Sathyanarayana, Charlotte B. Stewart, Robyn Iredale, Victoria Foster, Debra Galley, Mark Baker, Nicola Pavese   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Oral Health Status, Health Behaviour and Treatment Needs of Patients Undergoing Cardiovascular Surgery

Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
Objective: The aim of the present study was to assess the oral health status and treatment needs of cardiovascular surgery patients. Second, the awareness of cardiovascular surgery patients regarding the association between oral health and heart disease ...
Ansul Kumar, Arpita Rai
doaj   +1 more source

Immediate access arteriovenous grafts versus tunnelled central venous catheters: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial [PDF]

, 2015
Background Autologous arteriovenous fistulae (AVF) are the optimal form of vascular access for haemodialysis. AVFs typically require 6 to 8 weeks to “mature” from the time of surgery before they can be cannulated.
Aitken, Emma, Berry, Colin, Chandramohan, Mohan, Geddes, Colin, Kasthuri, Ram, Kingsmore, David, Thomson, Peter   +6 more
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Scoliosis Surgery in a Patient With Advanced Friedreich's Ataxia—It Is Not Too Late

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Friedreich's ataxia is a multisystem disorder with scoliosis being the most common non‐neurological manifestation. While scoliosis surgery is typically performed in adolescent, ambulatory patients, few data exist on surgical outcomes in patients with advanced disease.
Kathrin Reetz, Stella A. Lischewski, Jörg B. Schulz, Maximilian Praster, Miguel Pishnamaz, on behalf of the FACROSS study group, Imis Dogan, Sandro Romanzetti, Ravi Dadsena, Kerstin Konrad, Thomas Clavel, Vera Jankowski, Joachim Jankowski, Oliver Pabst, Nikolaus Marx, Julia Moellmann, Malte Jacobsen, Katharina Marx‐Schütt, Juergen Dukart, Simon Eickhoff, Ralf‐Dieter Hilgers   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association of hematological and biochemical tests and complications after cardiovascular surgery

O Mundo da Saúde, 2022
Cardiac surgery has postoperative complications of varying severities. Knowing the predictors of such complications can minimize risks and increase patient survival.
Sandra Leontina Graube, Karen Rafaela Okaseski, Bruna Felipin Ludvig, Silvana Agnolleto Bewanger, Vivian Lemes Lobo Bittencourt, Christiane de Fátima Colet, Eliane Roseli Winkelmann   +6 more
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NOViSE: a virtual natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery simulator [PDF]

, 2016
Purpose: Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) is a novel technique in minimally invasive surgery whereby a flexible endoscope is inserted via a natural orifice to gain access to the abdominal cavity, leaving no external scars.
Barrow, A, Bello, F, Hald, N, Korzeniowski, P, Sodergren, M   +4 more
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