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Lung and heart-lung transplantation [PDF]
Cardiology in the Young, 2009 I NCREASED UNDERSTANDING AND AWARENESS OF congenital cardiac disease has allowed early identification of these children. Advances in surgical techniques, anesthesia, and medical treatment have rendered the majority of forms of congenital cardiac defects treatable.
Date, Hiroshi, Sweet, Stuart C
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Normalization of Pulmonary Hypertension by the Use of Left Ventricular Assist Device in Patients with End-stage Heart Failure: A Possible Contribution to Donor Pool Expansion in Lung Transplantation [PDF]
International Journal of Gerontology, 2014 Heart transplantation alone has been recognized to be contraindicated when pulmonary hypertension (PH) and elevated pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) are irreversible, irrespective of any medical intervention by the use of inotropic agents or pulmonary
Hirokazu Akashi +10 more
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Cardiac Imaging in Patients After Fontan Palliation: Which Test and When?
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022 The Fontan operation represents the final stage of a series of palliative surgical procedures for children born with complex congenital heart disease, where a “usual” biventricular physiology cannot be restored.
Paolo Ciliberti +10 more
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Downregulation of Filamin a Expression in the Aorta Is Correlated With Aortic Dissection
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021 Filamins (FLNs) are actin cross-linking proteins, and as scaffolding proteins, FLNs are closely associated with the stabilization of the cytoskeleton. Nevertheless, the biological importance of FLNs in aortic dissection (AD) has not been well-elucidated.
Yue Chen +18 more
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Long-term outcomes after chest wall resection and repair with titanium bars and sternal plates
Frontiers in Surgery, 2022 ObjectivesEn-bloc complete resection remains the treatment of choice for localized chest wall (CW) tumors. Titanium bars reconstruction demonstrated encouraging results with satisfactory early outcomes.
Hugo Clermidy +11 more
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Heart transplantation in a patient with complex heart lung disease: a case report
Korean Journal of Transplantation, 2021 Heart disease is often accompanied by lung disease as they share the same risk factors. Heart or lung transplantation is regarded as a definitive treatment for the end-stage disease of each, while the expected median survival for lung transplantation is ...
Seok Hyun Kim +3 more
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Totally endoscopic non-robotic excision of aortic valve fibroelastoma: a case report
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2022 Background Papillary fibroelastomas (PFEs) are a rare subtype of benign primary cardiac tumours, which are most commonly found on the aortic valve. Although median sternotomy is still used frequently there has been different attempts to remove the aortic
Sadia Batool +3 more
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022 Thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) is a life-threatening cardiovascular disease whose formation is reported to be associated with massive vascular inflammatory responses.
Qunhui Wang +12 more
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Clinics in Chest Medicine, 1990 The results of combined heart-lung transplantation have continued to improve following its reintroduction into clinical practice in 1981. En-bloc implantation has an apparent protective effect on subsequent tracheal anastomotic healing. Continuing developments in immunosuppression, rejection surveillance, and organ preservation will allow the procedure
Robert S. Bonser, Stuart W. Jamieson
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Children, 2022 Pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect and major aortopulmonary collaterals is a complex congenital heart defect that includes a heterogeneous subgroup of patients.
Matteo Trezzi +5 more
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