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Sternal pseudoarthrosis after resternotomy treated with the Strasbourg Thoracic Osteosyntheses System: a case report

Acta Medica Lituanica, 2013
Sternal dehiscence is a serious complication after general thoracic and cardiac surgery. Sternal resuturing, performed by simple rewiring or technical modification of rewiring, can fail overall when the bone quality is poor or the sternum is completely ...
Ričardas Janilionis, Pierre-Emmanuel Falcoz, Vytautas Jovaišas, Žymantas Jagelavičius, Ramūnas Valančius   +4 more
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Cardiac Reoperation in a patient who previously underwent omentoplasty for postoperative mediastinitis: a case report [PDF]

, 2011
Sternal infection has become a rare but challenging problem with significant mortality and morbidity rates since the introduction of sternotomy. Reported rates of mediastinal and sternal infection range from 0.4% to 5%.
Mehmet S Bilal, Onur Gürer, Ahmet Kırbaş, Yahya Yıldız, Ahmet Çelebi   +4 more
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In Response to Thyroid Cartilage Fracture Following Endotracheal Intubation

The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.
Robert Wang, Taimur Khalid
wiley   +1 more source

Pharmacological inhibition of hydroxysteroid 11‐beta dehydrogenase type 1 (11‐βHSD1) after myocardial infarction preserves cardiac function in a translational mini‐pig model

British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and Purpose Plasma glucocorticoids increase acutely after MI, thereafter tissue levels are amplified selectively within cells expressing 11‐ßhydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11‐ßHSD1) that regenerates active glucocorticoids from circulating metabolites.
Sara Al Disi, Raimondo Ascione, Shazia Khan, Thomas Johnson, Eva Sammut, Vito Domenico Bruno, Daniel Baz Lopez, Carol‐Anne James, Joanna Simpson, Natalie Z. Homer, Michael Millar, Trisha Singh, Alex von Kreigsheim, Nick L. Mills, Brian R. Walker, Ruth Andrew, Scott P. Webster, Andrew Whittaker, Adrian Freeman, Gillian A. Gray   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Efficacy of bilateral pectoralis nerve block for ultrafast tracking and postoperative pain management in cardiac surgery

Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, 2018
Background: Good postoperative analgesia in cardiac surgical patients helps in early recovery and ambulation. An alternative to parenteral, paravertebral, and thoracic epidural analgesia can be pectoralis nerve (Pecs) block, which is novel, less invasive
Karthik Narendra Kumar, Ravikumar Nagashetty Kalyane, Naveen G Singh, P S Nagaraja, Madhu Krishna, Balaji Babu, R Varadaraju, N Sathish, N Manjunatha   +8 more
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Interdisciplinary three-step strategy to treat aortic stenosis and coronary artery disease in a patient with end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [PDF]

, 2012
Background: Valvular aortic stenosis is a common disease in the elderly, often in multimorbid patients. It is often associated with coronary artery disease and peripheral artery disease.
Michel, Sebastian, Bigdeli, Amir Khosrow, Beiras Fernández, Andrés, Schmitz, Christoph, Wolf, Manuel, Sodian, Ralf, Kaczmarek, Ingo   +6 more
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Intravascular Lithotripsy to Facilitate Extraction of Very Old Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices Leads

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background One of the challenges encountered when extracting transvenous leads with long dwell times is the presence of dense calcifications encasing the leads. This is the most likely reason for failure to advance a laser extraction sheath.
Jamie Kowal, Travis Richardson, George H. Crossley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A single dose of tramadol in continuous wound analgesia with levobupivacaine does not reduce post-sternotomy pain: a randomized controlled trial

Journal of Pain Research, 2019
Floriane Bethenod,1 Omar Ellouze,1 Vivien Berthoud,1 Anis Missaoui,1 Amélie Cransac,2 Serge Aho,3 Olivier Bouchot,4 Claude Girard,1 Pierre Grégoire Guinot,1 Belaid Bouhemad1 1Service d’Anesthésie Réanimation, Unité
Bethenod F, Ellouze O, Berthoud V, Missaoui A, Cransac A, Aho S, Bouchot O, Girard C, Guinot PG, Bouhemad B   +9 more
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Laparoscopic omentoplasty and split skin graft for deep sternal wound infection and dehiscence patient [PDF]

, 2016
Treatment of sternotomy dehiscence secondary to infection is complex. We describe a case where following debridement and negative pressure therapy the greater omentum was harvested laparoscopically, pedicled on the right gastroepiploic artery and ...
Axisa, Benedict, Darmanin, Francis X., Galea, Joseph, Schembri, Kevin, Sladden, David   +4 more
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‘You can't have an ego in this game’: A simulation primed qualitative inquiry of team reflection in paediatrics

Medical Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Acute care paediatric teams face ambiguous, dynamic patient care situations that demand adaptability to avoid patient harm. Team huddles and adaptation processes have shown promise in mitigating risk and reducing harm. One team process that may occur in huddles is team reflection (TR), defined as a team's capacity to consciously ...
Rustin Meister, Mary E. McBride, Jan B. Schmutz, Mark Adler, Walter Eppich   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source