Köse, Sema Avşar, Gülçin
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
This quasi-experimental study aimed to evaluate the impact of early and regular mobilization on vital signs and oxygen saturation in open-heart surgery patients. The study universe comprised patients undergoing open-heart surgery in the cardiovascular intensive care unit of a heart center. The study sample consisted of patients who underwent open-h...
Cruz, Yoandy López-de la Quintero-Fleites, Yolepsis Fidel Abi-Rezk, Manuel Nafeh
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
A common element of internal thoracic artery harvesting techniques is a distal vascular clamp placement at the end of the procedure, not only to avoid bleeding, but also to increase the internal hydrostatic pressure, diameter and flow. The logic indicates that the placement of this clamp at the beginning of the dissection will allow the artery to b...
Oliveira, Tatiana Farias de Rocha, Carlos Alberto de Oliveira Santos, Aisla Graciele Galdino Dos Silva, Luiz Carlos Francelino Junior Aquino, Saulo Henrique Salgueiro de Cunha, Euclides José Oliveira da Alcântara, Rafaela Campos Mesquita, Rodrigo da Rosa Arnozo, Gabriel Monteiro Santana, Fernanda Mayara Santos
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
The present study intends to systematically review the literature on the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The research was carried out according to the recommendations of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyzes (PRISMA). Studies were selected from ...
Zubarevich, Alina Zhigalov, Konstantin Schmack, Bastian Rad, Arian Arjomani Vardanyan, Robert Wendt, Daniel Ruhparwar, Arjang Weymann, Alexander
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
In the growing era of transcatheter aortic valve implantation, it is crucial to develop minimally invasive surgical techniques. These methods enable easier recovery from surgical trauma, especially in elderly and frail patients. Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement (MIAVR) is frequently performed via upper hemisternotomy. We describe MIAVR v...
Elcik, Deniz Tuncay, Aydın Sener, Elif Funda Taheri, Serpil Tahtasakal, Reyhan Mehmetbeyoğlu, Ecmel Gunes, Isın Emirogullari, Omer Naci
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
Blood cardioplegia (BC) and Custodiol cardioplegia (CC) have been used for a long time in open heart surgery and are highly effective solutions. The most controversial issue among these two is whether there is any difference between them regarding myocardial damage after ischemia surgery. In this study, autophagy, apoptosis, and hypoxia markers wer...
Paiva, Patrícia Pinheiro Leite, Filipe Miguel Antunes, Pedro E Antunes, Manuel J
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
Our objective was to identify preoperative risk factors and to develop and validate a risk-prediction model for the need for blood (erythrocyte concentrate [EC]) transfusion during extracorporeal circulation (ECC) in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). This is a retrospective observational study including 530 consecutive pat...
Selçuk, Ümmühan Nehir Sargın, Murat Baştopçu, Murat Mete, Evren Müge Taşdemir Erdoğan, Sevinç Bayer Öcalmaz, Şeyda Orhan, Gökçen Aka, Serap Aykut
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a life-saving treatment in cardiogenic and respiratory shock. It is prone to various complications, infection being among the most frequent. This study aims to define the prevalence and characteristics of infections in ECMO patients in a tertiary care center for cardiac diseases. All ECMO patients betwe...
Begot, Isis Gomes, Walter J Rocco, Isadora S Bublitz, Caroline Gonzaga, Laion R A Bolzan, Douglas W Santos, Vinicius Batista Moreira, Rita Simone Lopes Breda, João R Almeida, Dirceu Rodrigues de
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
In heart transplantation (HT) recipients, several factors are critical to promptly adopting appropriate rehabilitation strategies and may be important to predict outcomes way after surgery. This study aimed to determine preoperative patient-related risk factors that could adversely affect the postoperative clinical course of patients undergoing HT....
Silva, Bianca Lopes Silva, Roberto Ribeiro da Reis, Hugo Valverde Rodriguez, Ana Carolina Accosio Souza, Priscila Souza E Andrade, Isabela de Fonseca, Leonardo Guizillini, Solange Reis, Michel Silva
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
Patients in the postoperative period of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) present respiratory and autonomic dysfunctions. In this sense, cardiovascular physiotherapy has been offered as an indispensable differential for the improvement of the prognosis of this population. Heart rate variability is a simple, noninvasive method to analyze autono...
Kucukosmanoglu, Mehmet Sahin, Seyda Urgun, Orsan Deniz Yildirim, Arafat Kilic, Salih Sen, Omer Kurt, Ibrahim Halil
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
In this study, we aimed to investigate the impact of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) on serum apelin levels in patients with severe symptomatic aortic valve stenosis (AS). Forty-six consecutive patients (76.9±7.4 years, n=27 women) who underwent TAVI and 45 age- and sex-matched control subjects were included in the study. Echocardiog...
