A Clampless Aortoprosthetic End to Side Anastomotic Device with Large Diameter Aortic Puncher
Introduction: To facilitate safe anastomosis of a vascular prosthesis onto the proximal ascending aorta without side clamping, a clampless anastomotic device with large diameter aortic puncher was developed.
Tadahiro Sasajima +4 more
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Infection in prosthetic material [PDF]
Surgical site infection (SSI) occurs when a wound created as part of a surgical procedure becomes infected. SSI is one of the most common healthcare-associated infections and occurs in approximately 5% of patients undergoing a surgical procedure. SSI may
Chetter, Ian, Smith, George
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The Usefulness of Biosynthetic Vascular Graft Omniflow II and Autologous Veins for the Treatment of Massive Infection of Dacron Vascular Graft with Enterococcus faecalis HLAR [PDF]
Infections of vascular grafts are the most severe complications in vascular surgery. We present the case of a 73-year-old male with infection of a dacron prosthesis with a strain of Enterococcus faecalis.
Witold Woźniak +3 more
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Salvage resection of advanced mediastinal tumors [PDF]
The surgical treatment of locally advanced mediastinal tumors invading the great vessels and other nearby structures still represent a tricky question, principally due to the technical complexity of the resective phase, the contingent need to carry out
Andreetti, Claudio +9 more
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Large caliber blood vessel pseudoaneurysm following prosthetic surgery. Mathematical model and numerical considerations [PDF]
Using a non-Newtonian mathematical model for the blood flow and a generalized Maxwell model for the viscoelastic behavior of the large vessels – elaborated and presented already by us in previous papers [1], [2] we make some remarks on the wall shear ...
Balazs ALBERT +2 more
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Erectile dysfunction - an update of current practice and future strategies [PDF]
Erectile dysfunction (ED) is defined as the inability to achieve and maintain a penile erection adequate for satisfactory sexual intercourse.1 Up to 150 million men worldwide suffer from ED and this figure is likely to double by the year 2025.2 A number
Kalsi, J, Muneer, A
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Background: Following the publication of a prospective randomized trial (Endovascular Aneurysm Repair Trial 2 - EVAR2) that questioned the benefits of endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) in high-surgical-risk patients, we decided to ...
Célio Teixeira Mendonça +5 more
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Management of erectile dysfunction post-radical prostatectomy [PDF]
© 2015 Saleh et al.Radical prostatectomy is a commonly performed procedure for the treatment of localized prostate cancer. One of the long-term complications is erectile dysfunction.
Abboudi, H +4 more
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Prótese vascular derivada do látex Latex-derived vascular prosthesis
CONTEXTO: O desenvolvimento de prótese vascular tem sido vital para os avanços e realizações da cirurgia vascular reconstrutora durante as últimas 5 décadas.
Marcelo Luiz Brandão +5 more
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Silver-coated dacron prosthesis in the treatment of infection in arterial surgery: Case reports [PDF]
INTRODUCTION Although the incidence is low, infection of prosthetic vascular graft bears a high incidence of serious complications including 25-75% mortality rate and 40-75% limb loss.
Nenezić Dragoslav +7 more
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