[PDF] Top 20 Braz. J. Cardiovasc. Surg. vol.18 número3

... On receiving a manuscript for publication, the editor indicates three reviewers among the Associated Editors or members of the Editorial Board (in exceptional cases, the editor can choos[r] ... See full document

... Recurrent cerebrovascular events in patients with patent foramen ovale, atrial septal aneurysm, or both and cryptogenic stroke or transient ischemic attack.. French Study Group on Patent[r] ... See full document

... An operation confirmed the echocardiographic diagnosis of pulmonary atresia with integral interventricular septum and the presence of a right coronary artery-right ventricle fistula.. OP[r] ... See full document

... 2. DeLeon SY, Gidding SS, Ilbawi MN, Idriss FS, Muster AJ, Cole RB et al. Surgical management of infants with complex cardiac anomalies associated with reduced pulmonary blood flow and total anomalous pulmonary venous ... See full document

... Aiming at reducing the time of anoxia, mainly in cases in which the ischemia time might be long, after the anastomoses of the pulmonary veins, the aorta can be anastomosed before the pul[r] ... See full document

... In the last few years, there has been a great advance in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) without CPB (Off-pump) mainly owing to the combination of advances in the surgical techniq[r] ... See full document

... the most important advantage of the method: it has a solid mathematical basis, which gives reliability in respect to its codes and, in many problems, makes it possible to establish a priori estimation for the error ... See full document

... Método: Foram estudadas 28 crianças com a idade de 3 a 108 meses, peso médio de 11,8 kg, sendo 18 do sexo masculino, divididas em dois grupos, 16 no grupo I (GI) e 12 no grupo II (GII). O GI recebeu solução ... See full document

... Conclusions: the use of bovine pericardial prostheses in patients with aortic valve disease provides an excellent survival rate over 12 years of follow-up.. Patients with 70 years and o[r] ... See full document

... Based on experimental studies of pre-conditioning, it is believed that there is a benefit on human hearts of pre- conditioning. The phenomenon was observed by DEUSTCH et al. [18] in patients with arteriosclerotic ... See full document

... Three patients died in the immediate post-operative period giving a 16.6% hospital mortality rate. The first death occurred with a 12-year-old female patient diagnosed with a left univentricular atrioventricular ... See full document

... Há o adequado e o inadequado para cada um desses níveis; (2) em linguagem, é de bom senso adotar a flexibilidade; (3) a linguagem científica deve ser: exata, para não propiciar equívocos[r] ... See full document

... Purpose: Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is associated with increased prevalence of annulo-aortic ectasia, dissection and ascending aortic aneurysm. This study was undertaken to compare the amount of fibrillin-1 and elastin ... See full document

... Leakage in the proximal portion of the stent was observed as the main complication of the method by other authors [18]. The solution to this problem involves the use of another prosthesis in an attempt to occlude ... 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

... 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

... first time the angiographic appearance of coronary sinus thrombosis. This may have been the result of surgical trauma during mitral valve replacement or inadvertent coronary sinus cannul[r] ... 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