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Management of a huge right atrial thrombus in a patient with multiple comorbidities

The Egyptian Heart Journal, 2020
Background Floating right heart thrombi (RHT) represent an underdiagnosed, potentially hazardous, and to some extent rare phenomenon in patients presenting with acute pulmonary embolism (APE).
Peter Philip Shaker Selwanos, Ahmed Osman Ahmed, Karim Mohamed El Bakry, Ahmed Nazmy Elsharkawy, Omar Alaaeldin Mohamed, Hatem Hosny, Amir Anwar Shaker Samaan   +6 more
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Eradication of P. aeruginosa biofilm in endotracheal tubes based on lock therapy: results from an in vitro study

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017
Background Despite the several strategies available for the management of biofilm-associated ventilator-associated pneumonia, data regarding the efficacy of applying antibiotics to the subglottic space (SS) are scarce.
María Jesús Pérez-Granda, María Consuelo Latorre, Beatriz Alonso, Javier Hortal, Rafael Samaniego, Emilio Bouza, María Guembe   +6 more
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A prospective analysis of sleep deprivation and disturbance in surgical patients [PDF]

, 2016
Introduction: Sleep deprivation has a potentially deleterious effect on postoperative recovery. The aim of our prospective study was to identify the factors contributing to postoperative sleep deprivation and disturbance in order to recommend ...
Camilleri-Brennan, John, Dolan, Ross, Huh, Jae, Sproat, Tom, Tiwari, Neil   +4 more
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Late plasma exosome microRNA-21-5p depicts magnitude of reverse ventricular remodeling after early surgical repair of primary mitral valve regurgitation

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
IntroductionPrimary mitral valve regurgitation (MR) results from degeneration of mitral valve apparatus. Mechanisms leading to incomplete postoperative left ventricular (LV) reverse remodeling (Rev–Rem) despite timely and successful surgical mitral valve
Fausto Pizzino, Fausto Pizzino, Giulia Furini, Valentina Casieri, Massimiliano Mariani, Giacomo Bianchi, Simona Storti, Dante Chiappino, Stefano Maffei, Marco Solinas, Giovanni Donato Aquaro, Vincenzo Lionetti, Vincenzo Lionetti   +12 more
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Effect of postoperative systemic prednisolone on short-term and long-term outcomes in chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps: A multi-centered randomized clinical trial

Frontiers in Immunology, 2023
IntroductionThe objective of this study was to determine whether postoperative additive systemic steroid administration in chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) impacted selected endoscopic, subjective and objective outcome measures ...
Sarina K. Mueller, Olaf Wendler, Susanne Mayr, Maximilian Traxdorf, Werner Hosemann, Heidi Olze, Helmut Steinhart, Susanne Wiegand, Susanne Wiegand, Afshin Teymoortash, Thomas Kuehnel, Stephan Hackenberg, Stephan Hackenberg, Thomas Hummel, Petra Ambrosch, Azita Fazel, Bernhard Schick, Hanns-Wolf Baenkler, Michael Koch, Harald Buerner, Konstantinos Mantsopoulos, Philipp Grundtner, Angela Nocera, Abbas Agaimy, Benjamin Bleier, Heinrich Iro   +25 more
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Huge Interatrial Septal Aneurysm: A Coincidental but Rather Fatal Finding

Case Reports in Medicine, 2011
We report the case of a patient with a huge interatrial septal aneurysm as an intraoperative coincidental finding that led to a fatal outcome. The patient was admitted to our hospital in order to undergo elective coronary artery bypass grafting because ...
Petros Tzimas, Georgios Papadopoulos
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Incisional negative pressure wound therapy for the prevention of surgical site infection: an up-to-date meta-analysis and trial sequential analysisResearch in context

EClinicalMedicine, 2023
Summary: Background: The evidence on prophylactic use of negative pressure wound therapy on primary closed incisional wounds (iNPWT) for the prevention of surgical site infections (SSI) is confusing and ambiguous.
Hannah Groenen, Hasti Jalalzadeh, Dennis R. Buis, Yasmine E.M. Dreissen, Jon H.M. Goosen, Mitchel Griekspoor, Wouter J. Harmsen, Frank F.A. IJpma, Maarten J. van der Laan, Roald R. Schaad, Patrique Segers, Wil C. van der Zwet, Stijn W. de Jonge, Ricardo G. Orsini, Anne M. Eskes, Niels Wolfhagen, Marja A. Boermeester   +16 more
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Free serum cortisol during the postoperative acute phase response determined by equilibrium dialysis liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry [PDF]

, 2003
In severely ill patients low concentrations of the corticosteroid binding globulin are typically found; the aim of this study was to quantify directly free bioactive cortisol concentrations in the sera of postoperative cardiosurgical patients.
Bland JM, Clerico A, Haourigui M, Lentjes EGWM, Pugeat M, Rosner W, Sun X, Zonghai H   +7 more
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Rapid Sequence Intubation for Head Injury Patients. A Practice

Pielęgniarstwo Neurologiczne i Neurochirurgiczne, 2016
Rapid Sequence Intubation is one of most commonly applied procedures for trauma patient in emergency practice such as Medical Rescue Service as Emergency Hospital Ward, but in the case of patients with maxillofacial trauma it is usually complicated ...
Paweł Witt, Wojciech Leśniak
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The impact of preoperative dexamethasone on the magnitude of the postoperative systemic inflammatory response and complications following surgery for colorectal cancer [PDF]

, 2017
Background: The magnitude of the postoperative systemic inflammatory response (SIR), as evidenced by C-reactive protein (CRP), is associated with both short- and long-term outcomes following surgery for colorectal cancer.
Horgan, Paul G., McMillan, Donald C., Mcsorley, Stephen T., Roxburgh, Campbell S.D.   +3 more
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