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Conclusion: EuroSCORE proved to be a good predictor of major postoperative morbidity in cardiac surgery: respiratory and dialysis-dependent renal failure.. Descriptors:

The independent variables for late mortality were previ- ous cardiac surgery, septic emboli, preoperative renal dys- function, congestive heart failure, culture-negative endo-

Inlammatory cytokines (TNF-α, IL-4 and IL-10) were measured and ten mitral valves of patients who underwent irst valve replacement were collected for deter- mination of

Against the scenario of the large number of patients with Chagas cardiomyopathy and advanced heart failure in our country and the excellent results obtained main- ly in Europe in

Objective: Report the experience with the Society of Thoracic Surgeons scoring system in a Brazilian population submitted to isolated coronary artery bypass graft surgery..

The mean value for all the clinical oral pa- rameters suggested that patients with lower levels of CRP (<0.3 mg/dl) have less severe periodontal disease, even though, for

When playing a tomographic cross section at right an- gles (or that is, perpendicular to the axis of the aorta), with rotation and orthogonal exposure of the renal artery, it is pos

Conclusion: Histidine-tryptophan-glutamate solution was better than histidine-tryptophan-alphacetoglutarate solution because it reduced caspase (apoptosis), increased KI-67 (cell