[PDF] Top 20 Braz. J. Cardiovasc. Surg. vol.17 número4

... The times and perspectives of cardiovascular surgery are also a theme of the article “A Realistic View of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Specialty” published in the section “In My Opinion” o[r] ... See full document

... The right internal mammary artery was anastomosed in the anterior descending artery and a great saphenous vein graft was utilized for the first marginal branch of the circumflex artery a[r] ... See full document

... Gender did not influence mortality significantly, although it was higher in the women (10.5%) than in men (4.7%). Age was not predictive of mortality either, death was absent in under 16-year-old patients, 9.0% in ... See full document

... regurgitation disease in both left and right iliac veins sustain this hypothesis for the study of treatment by endovascular (valved stents) or direct surgical implantation of valve prost[r] ... See full document

... 7. Embrey RP, Behrendt DM. Congenital abnormalities of the mitral valve. In: Bave AE, Geha AS, Laks H, Hammond GL, Naunheim KS, editors. Glenn’s thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. 6ª ed. vol II. Stanford: ... See full document

... 3. Gabbay S, McQueen DM, Yellin EL, Becker RM, Frater RW. In vitro hydrodynamic comparison of mitral valve prostheses at high flow rates. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1978; 76: 771-87. 4. Manouguian S, ... See full document

... Surgical techniques for the treatment of ostial lesions of the coronary arteries, with the exception of endarterectomy [1], utilize patches of autologous tissue (bovine pericardium) [2,3[r] ... See full document

... consistency. Consequently, collateral venous dilations are formed, damaging the communicating perforating valves and this degeneration propagates to the great and lesser saphenous vein segments in the legs. This ... See full document

... [7], studied 48 patients randomly divided in two groups, 1 using epsilon-aminocaproic acid and the other tranexamic acid, reported that there was no statistical difference in the two gro[r] ... See full document

... The irregularity of an aneurysmal thrombus or the presence of ulcerated plaque along the femoral-iliac access can be risk factors for embolic complications described in the installation [r] ... See full document

... As the animals were functionally homogenous soon after myocardial infarction, it is difficult to understand how a group which presented with a stabilization of the left ventricle ejectio[r] ... See full document

... Method: We modified the combined graft technique, by making anastomoses of the radial artery to the anterior interventricular artery, and, consequently the LITA is sewed above the anasto[r] ... See full document

... The prolapse, or rupture of the chordae tendineae of the anterior cuspid might by treated by transferring chords. Excellent results were obtained by LESSANA et al. [16] employing this technique: 97% of their 39 patients ... See full document

... There has been an explosion of new developments in cardiac surgery such as robotics, minimally invasive valve and coronary artery surgery, a variety of surgical procedures for the treatm[r] ... See full document

... The postoperative data that was collected included the number of grafts per operation, the graft types that were used (i.e., left internal mammary artery, radial artery or saphenous v[r] ... See full document

... The impact of the choice of valve prosthesis for patients who have rheumatic etiology has not been established. The use of bioprosthesis in this population inluences the late mortality, since it may be a new procedure ... See full document

... Three distinct described pathologic processes are well known to inluence early or late failure of revascularization with GSV. During the irst 30 days after surgery, up to 12 % of the grafts can become clogged, which is ... See full document

... Graft counts in the groups were as follows (Group 1/ Group 2 respectively): One vessel 26/10 patients, two vessels 84/25 patients, three vessels 126/17 patients, four vessels 30/3 patients and ive vessels 3/0 ... See full document

... Historically, no monitoring technique showed good cor- relation with the neurological status of the awake patient, which is considered the “gold standard” (to which all other techniques should be compared). The main ... See full document

... In this report, we present a 16 months old female patient in whom cardiac cath- eterization had been performed which had revealed a segment of coarctation and saccular aneurysm in the [r] ... See full document