Bademci, Mehmet Senel Ocakoglu, Gokhan Kocaaslan, Cemal Bayraktar, Fatih Avni Tayfur, Kaptaniderya Aydin, Ebuzer
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
In this study, we aimed to evaluate the anatomical deformations of the major vascular structures in the retrosternal area caused by adhesions following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). This single-center, retrospective study included a total of 40 patients with a previous CABG who were admitted to our emergency unit for any reason and underw...
Condello, Ignazio Santarpino, Giuseppe
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
Dikme, Reşat Padak, Mahmut Işık, Mesut Koyuncu, İsmail Temiz, Ebru Aydın, Mehmet Salih Göç, Ömer
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
The growth Stimulation expressed gene 2 (ST2) (or interleukin 1 receptor-like 1, also known as IL1RL1) is considered a biomarker of poor prognosis in cardiovascular diseases. The aims of this study are to investigate ST2 in the pericardial fluid (PF) of coronary artery disease patients and to contribute to the understanding of the pathophysiology o...
Zhang, Yuhai Wang, Liang Wei, Shixiong
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
In December 2019, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) began to break out in the Hubei Province of China. At present, the epidemic situation in the world continues and the number of confirmed cases is increasing every day. A recent review showed that children under the age of ten years make up about 1% of the infected po...
Taşdemir, Arzu Tuncay, Aydın Karaman, Hatice Canoz, Ozlem Aşık, Ramazan Özmen, Rifat Elcik, Deniz
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
This study aimed to review the surgical excision results and pathological diagnostic features of rarely observed intracardiac masses in the light of the literature. Diagnosis and treatment approaches and complications were evaluated. Forty patients (26 females, mean age 52.1±18.1 years, and 14 males, mean age 48.1±20.5 years), who had undergone sur...
Zhang, Qi-Liang Xu, Ning Huang, Shu-Ting Chen, Qiang Cao, Hua
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
The purpose of this study was to explore the clinical effect of preoperative health education based on the WeChat platform for parents of children with simple congenital heart disease. In this study, participants were randomly divided into an intervention group (WeChat group, n=40) and a control group (leaflet group, n=40) in our center. All parent...
Vinck, Eric E Ebels, Tjark Hittinger, Romain Peterson, Tim F
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
Despite being one of the main vacation destinations in the world, health care in the Caribbean faces many difficulties. The challenges involved in these islands' medical care range from low-resource institutions to lack of specialized care. In the field of thoracic and cardiac surgery, many limitations exist, and these include the lack of access to...
Zubarevich, Alina Zhigalov, Konstantin Rad, Arian Arjomandi Vardanyan, Robert Wendt, Daniel Schmack, Bastian Ruhparwar, Arjang Weymann, Alexander
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
Multivalve redo procedures carry a high surgical risk. We describe an alternative surgical treatment for patients presenting with severely degenerated aortic and mitral valve prostheses who have to undergo open surgery due to endocarditis. Open transcatheter multivalve implantation is a feasible bailout strategy in high-risk patients to save cross-...
Krishnasamy, Sivakumar Mokhtar, Raja Amin Raja Singh, Ramesh Sivallingam, Sivakumar Aziz, Yang Faridah Abdul Mathaneswaran, Vickneswaran
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
Rapid prototyping is a process by which three-dimensional (3D) computerized surface models are converted into physical models. In this study, a 3D heart bio model was created using the rapid prototyping method and the accuracy of this heart model was assessed by clinicians. The two-dimensional images of normal heart from gated computed tomography s...
Pagotto, Vitor Penteado Figueiredo Gallafrio, Samuel Terra Carneiro, Igor Castro Gemperli, Rolf Jatene, Fabio B
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
This study presents the method used for chest reconstruction and treatment of mediastinitis following cardiac surgery at the Heart Institute of the University of São Paulo Medical School. After infection control with antibiotic therapy associated with aggressive surgical debridement and negative pressure wound therapy, chest reconstruction is perfo...
