Abstract More than 1 million patients worldwide undergo cardiac surgery each year, amounting to approximately 123 per 100,000 population. Cardiopulmonary bypass has been central to this success, facilitating the possibility of..
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Abstract Perioperative pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a common complication of chest surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and its etiology is multifactorial. Patients undergoing this surgery often have underlying conditions,..
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Abstract Hemodynamic conditions with reduced commonly are observed in patients undergoing cardiac surgery and may range from moderate reductions in , as a side effect of general anesthetics, to a profound vasodilatory..
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Abstract Background Cardiac surgery is known to induce acute endothelial dysfunction, which may be central to the pathophysiology of postoperative complications. Preoperative endothelial dysfunction could also be implicated in the..
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