Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery
Resection of thoracic malignancies infiltrating cardiac structures with use of cardiopulmonary bypass
... underwent surgery at our institution between 01/2002 and 05/2014 was retrospect- ively ...advanced thoracic malignan- cies and cardiopulmonary bypass support during resec- ...combined cardiac ...
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Assessment and pathophysiology of pain in cardiac surgery
... in cardiac and thoracic surgery ensures effective control of intra- and postoperative ...to surgery, and lower tendency to activation of the coagulation system has been ...
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Hyperbilirubinaemia after major thoracic surgery: comparison between open heart surgery and oesophagectomy
... bilirubinaemia after open-heart surgery and oesophagec- tomy. This comparison is helpful in evaluating the co- occurrence of CPB with hyperbilirubinaemia after surgery. The incidence of hyperbilirubinaemia ...
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A comparison of thoracic or lumbar patient controlled epidural analgesia methods after thoracic surgery
... atelectasis and pneumonia [2,3,7]. In our study, a major finding is that the incidence of hypotension and brady- cardia were significantly lower in the TEA group in com- parison to the LEA group. However, we have shown ...
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Salvage thoracic surgery in patients with lung cancer: potential indications and benefits
... ipsilateral thoracic cavity within a median of 6 (range, 6 – 18) months, whereas seven had metastasis to the brain (three), bones (two), and multiorgan systems (two) at a median of 11 (range, 6 – 19) ...of ...
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Impact of thoracic epidural sympathetic block on cardiac repolarization
... Twenty-three patients, aged 20–60 years, with American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status I or II who were scheduled to undergo thoracic surgery were included. This study was approved by the ...
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History of Thoracic Surgery in Iran
... of thoracic surgery and would perform ...countries, thoracic surgeries were performed by Iranian or foreign ...perform thoracic surgeries and taught it to his ...of thoracic ...
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Is single-port video-assisted thoracic surgery for mediastinal cystectomy feasible?
... open surgery or perform- ance of a second ...of surgery by adjusting the variables chosen in advance and based on clinical relevance, including the operation time, cyst location, diameter of the cysts, sur- ...
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The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database
... Aortic valve replacement, surgical Aortic valve replacement, transcatheter Mitral valve balloon valvotomy/valvuloplasty Mitral valve commissurotomy, surgical Mitral valve repair, per[r] ...
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Role of Telemedicine in Pace of Consultation and Physicians Satisfaction in Thoracic Surgery ICU
... undergone thoracic surgery procedures, were critically ill with multiple organ failure and impossible to transfer and timely consultation was required for prompt patient ...cases), thoracic ...
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Predictive Models for Post-Operative Life Expectancy after Thoracic Surgery
... The goal of this research was to analyse several data mining techniques in search of discovering their strengths and weaknesses, dealing with an imbalanced dataset of thoracic surgery patient details. We ...
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Evaluation of Robotic Cardiac Surgery Simulation Training
... possible, for both open and robotic surgeries 43 . During robotic coronary artery bypass grafting, three external ports are placed in the 3 rd , 5 th and 7 th intercostals spaces in the left anterior axillary line. With ...
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Determination of the threshold of cardiac troponin I associated with an adverse postoperative outcome after cardiac surgery: a comparative study between coronary artery bypass graft, valve surgery, and combined cardiac surgery
... in cardiac surgery, it has been shown that cTnI is an independent predictor of short-term and long-term adverse outcome in cardiac surgical patients ...in cardiac surgery to identify a ...
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Adenosine and lidocaine (AL) combination dilates intimally damaged rat thoracic aortic rings and guinea pig mesenteric arteries: possible significance to cardiac surgery
... rat thoracic aortic rings and guinea-pig pressurized mesenteric arterial ...major surgery can be particularly lethal with mortality rates of over 70% [19, ...
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Intramural haematoma of the thoracic aorta: who's to be alerted the cardiologist or the cardiac surgeon?
... issue. Aortic intramural haematoma can firstly appear to hypertensive and atherosclerotic patients who suffer an impulsive haemorrhage from vasa vasorum rupture into the media either spontaneously, or less commonly, as a ...
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Microvascular reactivity and clinical outcomes in cardiac surgery
... Cardiac surgery provokes a vigorous inflammatory re- sponse and can induce systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) ...during cardiac sur- gery ...in cardiac surgery pa- ...during ...
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Preoperatory Anxiety in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
... impending cardiac surgery, that can lead to inconveniences in the intervention and subsequent ...undergoing cardiac surgery was carried ...to surgery was assessed using the STAI-S ...
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Point-of-Care Testing of Hemostasis in Cardiac Surgery
... inside the glass specimen tubes. Blood (2 mL), transferred into an ACT tube, is mixed by a manual, steady shaking of the tube. After the tube is inserted into a 37°C heat block chamber, it rotates inside the instrument ...
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Neurodevelopmental Outcomes After Cardiac Surgery in Infancy
... Nonetheless, we could not identify significant improvements in outcomes over time, even when restricting unadjusted analyses to homogeneous diagnostic subgroups of TGA, TOF, and HLHS. Similarly, in analyses adjusting for ...
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Physiotherapy following cardiac surgery: Program comparison
... of cardiac rehabilitation is to return the patients' daily activities and social environment as quickly as possible, at the same time preserving human functioning in high physical and psychological ...during ...
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