[PDF] Top 20 Braz. J. Cardiovasc. Surg. vol.18 número2

... We would also like to thank the warm manifestations of support sent by several of our Brazilian colleagues, both from inside the Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery (Sociedade Br[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

... 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

... With the appearance of dyspnea and signs of congestive heart failure three months after the accident the transthoracic echocardiogram was repeated which compared to the previous examinat[r] ... See full document

... 8. Knez I, Rienemüller R, Maier R, Rehak P, Schröttner B, Mächler H et al. Left ventricular architecture after valve replacement due to critical aortic stenosis: an approach to dis-/qualify the myth of valve ... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... The Electronic Library Probe (Programa Biblioteca Eletrônica) – ProBE (www.probe.br) was created in 1999, with the objective of making complete texts of international scientific journals[r] ... 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

... 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

... In a recent publication, COSTA et al. [14] reported a relationship between an increase in CKMB and risk of greater cardiac events (death, myocardial infarction, re- operation and cerebrovascular events). The samples of ... 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

... 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

... 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