Abstract The clinical importance of viscoelastic testing in patient blood management when performing cardiovascular surgery is increasing. We aimed to examine the effect of a blood transfusion protocol including an..
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Abstract Background Cardiomyopathies in advanced stages and highly complex congenital heart disease may not be amenable to therapy or surgical correction thus being indicated pediatric heart transplant. In this study,..
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Abstract Cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass is associated with systemic inflammatory response. In some cases this clinical condition is characterized by severe hypotension due to low systemic vascular resistance during..
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Abstract Background: From 1990-2005 at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, LA, cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) was used only when necessary during lung transplantation surgeries. Ochsner's lung transplant program was closed..
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Abstract Cardiac surgery causes direct trauma to cardiac tissue, breaches the pericardium, and disrupts the normal composition of the fluid largely produced from the myocardial interstitium and epicardial and visceral..
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Abstract Introduction: Arterial filter is the part of the cardiopulmonary bypass circuit where blood cells are exposed to high mechanical stress and where cellular aggregates may fasten in large quantities...
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Background (CPB) and membrane oxygenation (ECMO) are used to facilitate in standard cardiac surgery and emergency intervention, but CPB and ECMO are not used routinely in involving the and major vessels. The primary aim..
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Abstract Early cancer diagnosis, new therapies that increased survival of patients, besides the increasingly elderly population are some factors would be associated with possible cancer dissemination in patients under cardiopulmonary..
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