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A preoperative Doppler echocardiogram diagnosed slight aorta insufficiency and significant aorta stenosis with an aortic transvalvar gradient of 144 mmHg (peak) and 91 mmHg (mean)

CPB: cardiopulmonary bypass, PT: perfusion time (minutes), VS: venoatrial shunt time (minutes), MIT: myocardial ischemia time (minutes), -: without venoatrial shunt or

The factors associated to the greatest blood loss within the first 24 postoperative hours were, according to univariant analysis: emergency operations, the use of

Owing to the scarcity of published national studies, there is a justification in evaluating the new method of hemoconcentration in patients submitted to heart surgery using CPB,

The population of the study was randomized in three groups: Valve correction plus the simplified pulmonary vein isolation (PVI Group), valve correction plus the Cox-Maze III

3 – Diagram showing the application of radiofrequency inside the left atrium, around the orifices of the left pulmonary veins (LPV) – (line f); around the orifices of the

Objective: To evaluate the effect on the left ventricular function of the early and late use of dopamine in an experimental model of an isolated heart.. Method: Were used 60

The development of a new ablation model of the ICNS using benzalkonium chloride (BC) has been investigated over some time [7]. The destruction of intrinsic myoenteric neurons caused