We report an unusual clinical presentation of an acute type A aortic dissection as a left hemothorax in a patient with a congenital pericardial defect. Although the pericardial defect was diagnosed preoperatively, we ...

Objective: The aims of this study were 1) to assess early clinical outcomes for patients with unstable angina (UA) who undergo urgent/emergent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG); and 2) to evaluate the feasibility and ...

Purpose: We aimed to evaluate the effects of preoperative pulmonary hypertension (PH) on early and long term results in patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery and the effects of coronary bypass surgery on PH. Methods: ...

We retrospectively evaluated early clinical results of coronary revascularization using none but arterial grafts in patients aged 65 years and older. The cases of 449 consecutive patients who had undergone isolated ...

Pericardial effusion (PE) after cardiac surgery is frequent. It is more frequently seenafter valve replacement or other types of heart surgery. Oral anticoagulants and antiplatelet agents mayinduce effusion development ...

Cardiac tamponade, especially posterior tamponade,is one of the most serious and potentially lethal com-plications occurring in a minority of patients after openheart surgery and yet most potentially correctable of ...

A reduction in QT dispersion (QTd) has been previously shown in patients receiving thrombolytics and undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). The purpose of the present study was to investigate changes occurring ...

This study was conducted to investigate how brief pretreatments with 4 different vasodilators applied topically at normal body temperature affect blood flow in the internal mammary artery. One hundred patients who had an ...

An 18-year-old male living donor for his father with end-stage liver cirrhosis due to hepatitis B underwent an extended right lobe donor hepatectomy. The middle hepatic vein was visualised on the cut surface of the graft ...

The Thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI) frame count is a simple clinical tool for assessing quantitative indexes of coronary blood flow. This measurement has been significantly correlated with flow velocity measured ...