[PDF] Top 20 Braz. J. Cardiovasc. Surg. vol.18 número4

... The best way to adapt the publication without prejudicing one or the other language is still being discussed. The theme will be dealt with in a special meeting on 30th January. However, we stress that our journal will ... See full document

... I have the pleasure of knowing the majority of surgeons of the Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery and, certainly, all of them work to maintain the united-social spirit, the dign[r] ... See full document

... 12. Eckstein FS, Bonilla LF, Englberger L, Immer FF, Berg TA, Schmidli J et al. The St. Jude Medical symmetry aortic connector system for proximal vein graft anastomoses in coronary artery bypass grafting. ... See full document

... A cineangiocardiographic study complemented the diagnostic investigation demonstrating the presence of a patent left superior vena cava, right atrial isomerism, single left-type ventricl[r] ... See full document

... Thus, an angiography was performed which did not demonstrate a patent arterial canal, but the cardiac catheterization evidenced a large connection between the first septal branch of the [r] ... See full document

... The lack of an ideal replacement valve and the good results achieved with reconstruction of atrioventricular valves serve as an incentive for some surgeons to become attracted to the cha[r] ... See full document

... In Brazil, research utilizing artificial respiration with a pump-less extracorporeal membrane oxygenator in the arterio-venous position was restricted to experimental works performed by GOMEs et al. [18]. The ... See full document

... Starting from the postulate that patients with dilated heart disease and terminal heart failure can have progressive contractile dysfunction of the myocardium, modified by a morphologica[r] ... See full document

... Patent ductus arteriosus in infants and children: a review of 936 operations (1946-69). Musewe NN, Benson LN, Smallhorn JF, Freedom RM. Two- dimensional echocardiographic and color flow [r] ... See full document

... Conclusion: Pulmonary root translocation showed to be efficient in the repair of ventriculo-arterial connection anomalies, with ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis, and it w[r] ... See full document

... [11], comparing patients operated on between 1st July 1991 and 30th September 2001, reported a greater mean number of grafts (3.7 versus 3.3 – p-value <0.001) in patients operated on [r] ... See full document

... Método: De 1989 a 2002, 23 pacientes foram submetidos a tratamento cirúrgico da EmiC, excluindo aqueles com defeito do septo atrioventricular, e formas univentriculares. A idade mediana foi de 15,5 meses (variação de 2 a ... See full document

... Special attention was paid to renal function. The levels of urea and creatinine in the pre-operative period were high in 90% of the patients (18 of 20), that is, pre-renal uremia, because of the lack of filtration ... See full document

... Patients submitted to coronary artery bypass grafting however develop VS. Nevertheless, by avoiding CPB the incidence of VS was 0.4% in a cohort of 1014 patients [18]. The Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) [19] ... See full document

... 2. Salerno TA, Lince DP, White DN, Lynn RB, Charrette EJ. Arch versus femoral artery perfusion during cardiopulmonary bypass. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1978; 76: 681-4. femoral arteries implies a risk ... See full document

... 4. Mack CA, Patel SR, Schwartz EA, Janzonico P, Hahn RT, Ilerch et al. Biologic bypass with the use of adenovirus- mediated gene transfer of the complementary deoxyribonucleic acid for vascular endothelial growth factor ... See full document

... Some investigators believe that abnormalities in different phases of cell migration of the neural crest might, either in isolation or in association, be responsible for the occurrence of abnormalities of the aortic ... See full document

... Even today, in these hospitals, admittances for acute rheumatic fever are common, many hospital beds are occupied by sufferers of chronic rheumatic heart disease and more than one third [r] ... See full document

... In this study, the pre-operative functional class, the pulmonary vascular resistance and the muscle graft stimulation mode were identified as independent risk factors in the long-term su[r] ... See full document

... Surgical treatment of active infective aortic valve endocarditis with associated periannular abscess- 11 year results. Trivalvular/bivalvular heart: a philosophical, scientific and thera[r] ... See full document