Xu, Weijun Jiang, Shan Liu, Qi
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
This study's objective is to investigate the effect of downregulation of micro ribonucleic acid (miR)-124a on myocardial injury after ischemia reperfusion (I/R) in rats. Sprague Dawley (SD) rats (n=20) were divided into four groups - sham, I/R, I/R+miR-124a antagomir (I/R+ant-miR-124a), and I/R+ant-normal control (NC). The pathomorphological and in...
Fotbolcu, Hakan Özdemir, Ramazan
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is an alternative for high-risk aortic valve replacement. There are limited data related to the late complications of TAVI. Deep aortic prosthetic valve implantation can cause direct erosive perforation of anterior mitral leaflet or erosive endothelial lesion which predisposes the tissue to infective e...
Jiang, Haibing Ge, Zhengrong Zhang, Lijing Yang, Yi Zhai, Xueqin Chen, Zhanxi Wei, Qing
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
This study investigated the correlation between the levels of long noncoding ribonucleic acids (lncRNAs) AF131217.1 and coronary slow flow (CSF). A total of 22 patients in the high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) group diagnosed with CSF from January 2018 to December 2018 were enrolled in this study. Coronary flow velocity was determined usi...
Lordsleem, Andréa Bezerra de Melo da Sil... Lima, Sandro Gonçalves de Bezerra, Lucas Soares Calado, Eveline Barros Granja, Fabio Antônio Amando Markman-Filho, Brivaldo
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
Dessotte, Carina Aparecida Marosti Grotti, Elisa Maia de Oliveira Ignácio, Isabelle Brigliadori Fernandes, Paolla Algarte Maier, Suellen Rodrigues de Oliveira Rossi, Lidia Aparecida Dantas, Rosana Aparecida Spadoti
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
Implantable cardiac pacemakers or cardioverter defibrillators are alternatives for the treatment of arrhythmias, however, their use has caused changes in the emotional state of patients. The objective of this study was to compare the measures of anxiety and depression symptoms in individuals according to their sex, type of cardiac device, and diagn...
Bingol, Bilge Elcik, Deniz Kutuk, Sinan Özsoy, Sevil Kelesoglu, Saban Tuncay, Aydin Cetinkaya, Zeki Sulaiman, Joma Inanc, Mehmet Tugrul Kalay, Nihat
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase enzyme activity may affect the vessel wall and have a role in development of aortic aneurysms. EPCs originate from hematopoietic stem cells and can be enumerated from peripheral blood samples by flow cytometry. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the...
Güven, Cengiz Kafadar, Hüseyin
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
The goal of this study is to investigate the association between diagnosis and severity of coronary artery disease (CAD) and Asprosin level. Patients diagnosed with CAD who underwent conventional coronary angiography for the first time were included in the present study. The patients were divided into four groups, each consisting of 20 individuals,...
Bhushan, Rahul Chugh, Vaibhav Loona, Manpal Bandey, Javed Jhajhria, Narender Singh Grover, Vijay Gupta, Vijay Kumar
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
In developing countries like India, it is common for late presentation of Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) patients to a hospital as compared to that of developed countries. The objective of this study is to analyze the surgical outcome of TOF patients with age > 15 years. This is a retrospective descriptive study of the surgical outcomes of 45 adult pati...
Özmen, Rifat Tunçay, Aydın Yılmaz, Halis Sarı, Gülden Taşdemir, Haluk Kutay
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
In this study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between postoperative mortality, morbidity, hospital stay and development of postoperative complications with the glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) level and low left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) in diabetic and non-diabetic patients who underwent elective coronary artery bypass (CABG) s...
Değirmencioğlu, Aleks Karakuş, Gültekin Zencirci, Ertuğrul Güllü, Ahmet Ümit Şenay, Şahin
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
There are several approaches for pericardiocentesis. However, there is no definite suggestion about puncture location after cardiac surgery. The purpose of this study is to examine whether there is any difference regarding puncture location during pericardiocentesis in postoperative cardiac tamponade comparing to nonsurgical cardiac tamponade. We r...
