Abstract Surgeons continuously work to ensure that their patients receive safe, timely and high-quality care, often in challenging circumstances. The strive for excellence may often manifest itself in the surgeons’..
Lire la suiteAbstract Background: To report and compare the characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) to non-COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients on ECMO. Methods: We..
Lire la suiteAbstract OBJECTIVES To report long-term survival and predictors of mortality in patients included in a large, contemporary, multicentre, multinational database: Nordic Consortium for Acute Type A Aortic Dissection (NORCAAD), which..
Lire la suiteAbstract OBJECTIVES The first transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in England and Wales was performed in 2007. This study presents the subsequent national activity and outcomes for both TAVI and..
Lire la suiteAbstract Background: Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, a rare complication of acute pulmonary embolism, is characterized by fibrothrombotic obstructions of large pulmonary arteries combined with small-vessel arteriopathy. It can be cured by..
Lire la suiteAbstract OBJECTIVES To determine if the use of cardiopulmonary bypass is associated with all-cause in-hospital and mid-term survival for patients undergoing left internal mammary artery (LIMA) to left anterior descending..
Lire la suiteAbstract OBJECTIVES According to the EuroSCORE-II criteria, patients undergoing emergency coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) are operated on before the beginning of the next working day after decision to operate..
Lire la suiteAbstract Objective A diverse group of operative strategies are utilized for treatment of acute Stanford type A . We hypothesized that a surgical strategy to prevent cross-clamp injury or false lumen..
Lire la suiteAbstract Background: Renal failure is a common occurrence in patients with refractory cardiogenic shock including those supported with veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Prevalence and outcome of acute and chronic kidney..
Lire la suiteAbstract Recent advances in ECLS technology have led to the adoption of centrifugal pumps for the majority of patients worldwide. Despite several advantages of centrifugal pumps, they remain controversial because..
Lire la suiteAbstract OBJECTIVES Post-cardiotomy cardiogenic shock (PCCS) results in substantial morbidity and mortality, whereas refractory cases require mechanical circulatory support (MCS). The aim of the study was to compare extracorporeal membrane..
Lire la suiteAbstract Background Since the 2009 pandemic influenza, we have nationally established a committee of the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) project. This project involves adequate respiratory management for severe respiratory failure..
Lire la suiteThe data article refers to the paper titles “Impact of malnutrition on long-term survival in adult patients after elective cardiac surgery” . The data refer to the analysis of the relationship..
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