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TAVI7
- Objectives Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is an established treatment for patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis. (bmj.com)
- 5 For patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS), valvular replacement has been increasingly performed via a femoral catheter technique called transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). (bmj.com)
- The procedure is also referred to as The Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation or TAVI. (merillife.com)
- The purpose of the study is to investigate the safety and efficacy of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in patients with severe, symptomatic Aortic Stenosis (AS) at intermediate surgical risk by randomizing patients to either Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement (SAVR) or TAVI with the Medtronic CoreValve® System. (stanford.edu)
- Single Arm: The purpose of this trial is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of transcatheter aortic valve implementation (TAVI) in patients with severe symptomatic Aortic Stenosis (AS) at intermediate surgical risk with TAVI. (stanford.edu)
- Medtronic has received CE Mark approval in Europe to introduce its CoreValve Evolut 23mm transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) system. (medgadget.com)
- With the introduction of the CoreValve Evolut valve, Medtronic can now treat the broadest range of TAVI patient valve sizes (annulus diameters from 18mm to 29mm). (medgadget.com)
Aneurysm1
- He is developing a treatment strategy for abdominal aortic aneurysms by delivering mesenchymal stem cells or their secreted products to the periadventitial side of the aneurysm to inhibit the matrix degradation commonly seen in the disease progression and promote its regeneration. (pitt.edu)
Dissection14
- Aortic dissection (see the image below) is defined as separation of the layers within the aortic wall. (medscape.com)
- Tears in the intimal layer result in the propagation of dissection (proximally or distally) secondary to blood entering the intima-media space. (medscape.com)
- Aortic dissection can be rapidly fatal, with many patients dying before presentation to the emergency department (ED) or before diagnosis is made in the ED. (medscape.com)
- No one sign or symptom can positively identify acute aortic dissection. (medscape.com)
- Acute aortic dissection can be treated surgically or medically. (medscape.com)
- Endovascular repair is emerging as the preferred treatment for descending aortic dissection. (medscape.com)
- chronic aortic dissection) included 34 patients each. (biomedcentral.com)
- Expansion of true lumen after FET implantation was significant at all levels in both groups for patients with aortic dissection. (biomedcentral.com)
- Postoperative increase in true lumen diameter mirrors decrease of false lumen diameter, goes along with favorable midterm outcome and prolongs freedom from secondary interventions in acute aortic dissection. (biomedcentral.com)
- Its use in the emergency setting of acute aortic dissection (AAD) is still a matter of ongoing debate [ 5 , 6 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
- Patients with acute aortic disease as well as patients with chronic disease, such as atherosclerotic aneurysms involving the aortic arch and the descending aorta with or without aortic dissection were analyzed. (biomedcentral.com)
- Pathologies included acute aortic dissection type A (AADA, Debakey I) and B (AADB) presenting with (multiple) intimal tears in the aortic arch and/or requiring debranching of the arch vessels to ensure adequate perfusion (group 1). (biomedcentral.com)
- Aortic dissection due to sildenafil abuse. (shengsci.com)
- This report deals with a 28-year-old male patient, admitted with a type A aortic dissection, potentially related to the use of sildenafil. (shengsci.com)
Thoracic4
- The frozen elephant trunk (FET) technique was developed to facilitate the two-stage surgery of extensive pathologies of the thoracic aorta and is now routinely applied in acute and chronic aortic syndromes. (biomedcentral.com)
- Patient group 2 suffered from chronic degenerative diseases, such as chronic aortic dissections of both types A and B (CADA/B), as well as thoracic aortic aneurysms. (biomedcentral.com)
- The Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery offers the full range of surgical treatment of diseases of the heart, lungs, thoracic organs and blood vessels. (bookinghealth.com)
- The main focuses of clinical practice include coronary artery bypass grafting, modern procedures for heart valve reconstruction and replacement, treatment of diseases of the thoracic aorta, as well as treatment of heart failure by implanting an artificial heart. (bookinghealth.com)
Including aortic valve repla1
- Percutaneous Valvular interventions including aortic valve replacement need a special mention. (medginnie.com)
TAVR6
- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has revolutionized the treatment of aortic stenosis and is the treatment of choice for patients at prohibitive and high surgical risk. (ahajournals.org)
- If one disregards the financial considerations, predictability of the procedural outcome and certainty regarding the durability of TAVR prostheses are 2 of the main remaining restrictions to universal implementation. (ahajournals.org)
- The field of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) was enabled by the development of X-ray systems, allowing us to view the pathology, and was critically dependent on courageous and imaginative physicians and scientists who developed percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), stents, and transarterial aortic valve replacement (TAVR). (rmmj.org.il)
- Let's understand what aortic stenosis is, the SAVR and TAVR procedures and what life is like after undergoing these procedures. (merillife.com)
- While the open heart surgery is also known as Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement or SAVR, The minimally invasive procedure is known as the Trans-catheter Aortic Valve Replacement or TAVR. (merillife.com)
- The Trans-catheter Aortic Valve Replacement or TAVR procedure is a minimally invasive heart procedure used by surgeons to replace a narrowed aortic valve, which does not open properly. (merillife.com)
Repairing the mitral valve1
- The benefits of repairing the mitral valve include improved heart function, reduced symptoms, and a reduced risk of further heart problems. (medginnie.com)
Symptomatic aortic stenosis2
- Safety and Efficacy Study of the Medtronic CoreValve® System in the Treatment of Severe, Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis in Intermediate Risk Subjects Who Need Aortic Valve Replacement (SURTAVI). (stanford.edu)
- Investigations into the current management of patients with valvular heart disease in Europe and the United States showed that as many as one third of elderly patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis, and a similar number of patients with mitral regurgitation, were not referred for surgical management by the attending practitioner. (medscape.com)
Insufficiency4
- Most often, valvular stenosis or insufficiency occurs in isolation in individual valves, but multiple valvular disorders may coexist, and a single valve may be both stenosed and insufficient. (msdmanuals.com)
- Insufficiency of the mitral valve causing flow of blood from the left ventricle (LV) into the left atrium during ventricular systole. (msdmanuals.com)
- Although mitral valve repair and replacement can successfully treat many patients with mitral valvular insufficiency, techniques currently in use are attended by significant morbidity and mortality. (justia.com)
- it either fails to close tightly (aortic regurgitation or insufficiency) or gets too tight (aortic stenosis). (ctsurgerypatients.org)
Replacement26
- Impact of Complications During Transfemoral Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: How Can They Be Avoided and Managed? (ahajournals.org)
- The mitral valve is a Heart Valve Replacement that separates the left atrium from the left ventricle and controls the flow of blood from the atrium to the ventricle. (medginnie.com)
- Cardiac procedures consisted of off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (n = 4), aortic valve replacement (n = 3), mitral valve plasty (n = 2), total arch replacement (n = 1), and descending aorta replacement (n = 1). (go.jp)
- With progressed stenosis, percutaneous mitral balloon valvuloplasty (PMBV) or open heart surgery (surgical repair or replacement of mitral valve) is performed. (groupflorence.com)
- More than 49,000 mitral valve or aortic valve replacement procedures are performed annually in the U.S., along with a significant number of heart valve repair procedures. (justia.com)
- Aortic stenosis can only be treated with aortic valve replacement. (ctsurgerypatients.org)
- RESULTS: A total of 91 patients underwent transcatheter mitral valve replacement (February 2015 to December 2017). (bvsalud.org)
- Indeed, it has been widely accepted and established that it is now possible to surgically manage aortic valve disease with Aortic Valve Replacement (AVR) with the help of various available prostheses. (merillife.com)
- Possible treatment options for this disease are general medication, an aortic valve repair procedure or a valve replacement surgery. (merillife.com)
- Let's understand the aortic valve replacement procedure in detail. (merillife.com)
- There are two ways in which the aortic valve replacement surgery may be performed. (merillife.com)
- It is also possible that the doctor may use some other kind of biological tissue valve replacement, which uses the patient's pulmonary valve. (merillife.com)
- Before undergoing the aortic valve replacement surgery, the surgeon usually discusses the benefits and risks associated with each valve type. (merillife.com)
- Health Status After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients at Extreme Surgical Risk: Results From the CoreValve U.S. Trial. (stanford.edu)
- The field of percutaneous valve replacement and repair is currently developing at a rapid pace: percutaneous treatment of valvular heart disease is now one of the fastest developing areas of cardiology. (medscape.com)
- Transcatheter aortic and pulmonary valve replacement and a variety of mitral valve therapy approaches have been successfully performed in hundreds of patients (see the table below). (medscape.com)
- Efforts to develop and refine percutaneous catheter-based approaches to cardiac valve repair and replacement have advanced rapidly over the past several years. (medscape.com)
- With the increasing availability of cardiopulmonary bypass, surgical expertise, and intensive care facilities, valve repair and replacement are widely performed to relieve symptoms and improve prognosis of valvular heart disease, despite the associated morbidity and mortality. (medscape.com)
- Preoperative atrial fibrillation is an independent risk factor for mid-term mortality after concomitant aortic valve replacement and coronary artery bypass graft surgery. (shengsci.com)
- Few studies, however, have evaluated the impact of PAF on early and mid-term outcomes after concomitant aortic valve replacement and coronary aor. (shengsci.com)
- Thoracoscopic retrieval of an atrial appendage occlusion device after embolization into the left ventricular outflow tract and damaging the mitral valve requiring replacement. (shengsci.com)
- This study investigated the clinical outcomes of patients with AEF who received in situ cryopreserved aortic allograft replacement. (shengsci.com)
- El Hajj M, Krajcer Z . A roadmap to arrhythmias after transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement in pediatric patients. (viictr.org)
- Krajcer Z . A Minimalist Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Approach: Safety and Effectiveness in Real-World Practice. (viictr.org)
- Segar MW, Krajcer Z . Sex-based differences in patients undergoing transseptal transcatheter mitral valve replacement: Closing the sex disparity gap. (viictr.org)
- Postalian A, Krajcer Z . Facilitating future access to the coronary arteries in patients who need transcatheter aortic valve replacement: A significant step in the right direction. (viictr.org)
Congenital5
- Conditions indicating the need for a cardiac catheter include the following: atherosclerosis, cardiomyopathy, congenital heart disease, heart failure, and heart valve disease. (wikipedia.org)
- catheterization and invasive measurement of pressure in the cavities of the heart, main vessels in case of congenital or acquired heart diseases. (dobrobut.com)
- The aortic valve may be abnormal from birth (congenital), or it could become diseased with age (acquired). (ctsurgerypatients.org)
- The most common congenital aortic valve abnormality, called a bicuspid aortic valve, occurs when the valve has only two leaflets (bicuspid) instead of three (tricuspid). (ctsurgerypatients.org)
- Some people suffer from aortic stenosis owing to a congenital heart defence known as a bicuspid aortic valve. (merillife.com)
Heart valve9
- A device that substitutes for a heart valve. (lookformedical.com)
- Prosthesis, usually heart valve, composed of biological material and whose durability depends upon the stability of the material after pretreatment, rather than regeneration by host cell ingrowth. (lookformedical.com)
- When repair is not an option, replacing your damaged heart valve may be the most effective treatment for your condition. (medginnie.com)
- Any heart valve can become stenotic or insufficient (also termed regurgitant or incompetent), causing hemodynamic changes long before symptoms occur. (msdmanuals.com)
- Mitral stenosis is a heart valve disease developed associated with acute rheumatic fever suffered in the childhood. (groupflorence.com)
- Journal of Heart Valve disease 20.3 (2011): 327. (structuralheart.abbott)
- Transcatheter heart valve function remained stable in all 3 groups. (bvsalud.org)
- One of the options is a frozen valve from a heart valve bank. (lupinepublishers.com)
- The design and fabrications of biomedical components include 3D printing of bone, low-cost high-quality prosthetics, intervertebral disks, medical equipment, heart valve, building tissues using blood vessels and drugs. (springer.com)
Procedure11
- Integrating this therapy with percutaneous coronary angioplasty (hybrid procedure) offers multi-vessel revascularization through a mini-thoracotomy. (wikipedia.org)
- In this procedure the surgeon repairs the ring-like part around the valve by stitching a ring of metal, cloth, or tissue around the valve. (medginnie.com)
- Mitral valve repair- Mitral valve repair is a surgical procedure that repairs a damaged or diseased mitral valve. (medginnie.com)
- During the procedure, the surgeon repairs or replaces the damaged valve to restore normal blood flow. (medginnie.com)
- The procedure involves grafting a piece of a healthy blood vessel from another part of the body to bypass a blocked or narrowed section of a coronary artery and improve blood flow to the heart muscle. (medginnie.com)
- However, the clinical success of this procedure is limited by low availability of autologous blood vessels. (biomedcentral.com)
- One of them is in vitro endothelialization, i.e. colonization of the prosthesis with the patient's cells before the implantation procedure. (biomedcentral.com)
- Also pacemaker implantation is a commonly performed invasive cardiology procedure at Electrophysiology Pacemaker Laboratory of our Center. (groupflorence.com)
- In the past two decades, several critical advancements in the aortic valve repair field have established the procedure as a feasible and viable alternative to valve replacements. (merillife.com)
- During the SAVR procedure, the surgeon removes the aortic valve, replacing it with a mechanical valve. (merillife.com)
- The minimally invasive procedure can relieve the patient of the various signs and symptoms associated with aortic valve stenosis. (merillife.com)
Interventions1
- The therapeutic options include aortic surgery, coronary artery bypass grafting, transplantation surgery, surgical treatment of heart rhythm disorders (arrhythmias), minimally invasive surgery, surgical treatment of the heart valves, including reconstructive interventions. (bookinghealth.com)
Bicuspid2
- In the literature, we found only two other potentially sildenafil-related cases of aortic dissections, one type A and one type B. In our patient, a bicuspid aortic valve and an asc. (shengsci.com)
- El Hajj M, Krajcer Z . The Role of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in Patients With Bicuspid Valves in 2023. (viictr.org)
Mitral valve d1
- According to recent estimates, more than 79,000 patients are diagnosed with aortic and mitral valve disease in U.S. hospitals each year. (justia.com)
Great vessels2
- Echocardiography Echocardiography uses ultrasound waves to produce an image of the heart, the heart valves, and the great vessels. (msdmanuals.com)
- Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons. (drnishantchandel.com)
Valvular5
- Certainly, reopening occluded coronary arteries through dilation (with a balloon) and, in many cases, the introduction of a last-generation prosthesis (called a 'stent') is the most frequent type of surgery - yet, more and more often, valvular heart diseases are also treated using these techniques, especially when dealing with patients highly at risk for cardiac surgery. (cardiocentro.org)
- A collapsible valvular structure is sewn to the frame for permitting blood to flow in only one direction. (justia.com)
- The prosthetic valve includes a collapsible valvular structure made with pericardium. (justia.com)
- New innovations have been directed toward the 2 most frequent forms of valvular heart disease in the industrialized West: aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation, which account for more than 70% of the cases of acquired valve disease in the United States and Europe (see the table below). (medscape.com)
- As the populations of the United States and other industrialized countries continue to age, the need for less invasive and safer methods of treating valvular disease (particularly calcific aortic stenosis) will continue to grow. (medscape.com)
Mortality2
- The FET technique can be applied in acute aortic syndromes with similar risks regarding adverse events or mortality when compared to chronic degenerative aortic disease. (biomedcentral.com)
- Surgical treatment of aneurysms and dissections involving the aortic arch and the descending aorta carries a significant morbidity and mortality risk. (biomedcentral.com)
Aneurysms1
- He is currently studying the biomechanical progression of aortic aneurysms by modeling the mechanical forces that act on the degenerating vessel wall. (pitt.edu)
Injured or diseased3
- Surgical insertion of synthetic material to repair injured or diseased heart valves. (lookformedical.com)
- Surgical insertion of BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES to repair injured or diseased blood vessels. (lookformedical.com)
- Device constructed of either synthetic or biological material that is used for the repair of injured or diseased blood vessels. (lookformedical.com)
Patient's2
- Other deciding factors may include the patient's suitable vessels for grafting, body mass index, radiographic contrast allergies, and response to antiplatelet therapies. (wikipedia.org)
- The prosthetic valve includes a radially collapsible frame configured for advancement through a patient's vasculature using a catheterization technique. (justia.com)
Balloon Valvuloplasty1
- Percutaneous aortic balloon valvuloplasty, however, has yielded largely unfavorable results and is now seldom performed because of its substantial risks and short-lived benefits. (medscape.com)
Coronary vessels1
- particularly essential is the choice of methods of recognizing calcification in specific parts of the heart - especially the valves and coronary vessels [14-21]. (lupinepublishers.com)
Surgically1
- Methods: We evaluated whether surgery-related blood HGF elevation has prognostic significance in patients with surgically resected non-small cell lung cancer. (go.jp)
Cardiac catheterization1
- Cardiac catheterization is the insertion of a catheter into the heart through a blood vessel. (wikipedia.org)
Prosthetic6
- One repair technique which has been shown to be effective in treating incompetence, particularly of the mitral and tricuspid valves, is annuloplasty, in which the effective size of the valve annulus is contracted by attaching a prosthetic annuloplasty ring to the endocardial surface of the heart around the valve annulus. (justia.com)
- Annuloplasty rings may also be utilized in combination with other repair techniques such as resection, in which a portion of a valve leaflet is excised, the remaining portions of the leaflet are sewn back together, and a prosthetic annuloplasty ring is then attached to the valve annulus to maintain the contracted size of the valve. (justia.com)
- A prosthetic valve is provided for implantation in a stenosed aortic valve. (justia.com)
- The prosthetic valve includes a metallic frame formed with intersecting bars having diameters in the range of 0.1 to 0.6 mm. (justia.com)
- The prosthetic valve also includes an internal cover which forms a substantially impermeable tubular sleeve. (justia.com)
- It's a slightly evolved device over the previously available CoreValves, being the smallest of the bunch and featuring TruFit technology to help produce an optimal fit between the failing valve and the new prosthetic. (medgadget.com)
Endovascular3
- The option of treating cardiac pathologies using the endovascular route - that is to say, with no need for surgery, by accessing the heart through a catheter inserted in a blood vessel - is currently gaining ground, and is being applied not just to coronary pathologies. (cardiocentro.org)
- X-ray endovascular surgery is a scientific advancement in medicine, a technique of intervention in the human body through the vessel wall. (dobrobut.com)
- Endovascular surgery opens up great opportunities for assessing vasculature condition and blood flow in any organ of the human body. (dobrobut.com)
Angiography1
- There is no one test that can diagnose aortic valve disease, so your doctor may recommend one or more of the following: electrocardiogram (EKG), echocardiogram (echo), chest x-ray, blood tests, and coronary angiography. (ctsurgerypatients.org)
Symptoms7
- The benefits of CABG include improved blood flow to the heart muscle, reduction in angina (chest pain) and other symptoms, and a reduced risk of heart attack and death. (medginnie.com)
- Depending on which valve is involved, the most common symptoms include dyspnea, fatigue, and peripheral edema. (msdmanuals.com)
- A faulty or failing aortic valve may cause symptoms such as shortness of breath, chest pain, and dizziness or loss of consciousness (passing out). (ctsurgerypatients.org)
- These symptoms are due to the heart having to work harder because of the narrowed or leaky valve. (ctsurgerypatients.org)
- Many people suffering from aortic stenosis do not experience any specific, noticeable symptoms until the restricted blood flow amount decreases significantly. (merillife.com)
- Common symptoms associated with Aortic Stenosis include chest pain, breathing troubles or shortness of breath, rapidly fluttering heartbeats, feeling lightheaded or dizzy, fainting, swollen feet or ankles, difficulty walking short distances, sleeping problems and decline or reduction in energy for everyday activities. (merillife.com)
- Apart from these above-mentioned symptoms associated with aortic stenosis disease, the left ventricle wall may also show muscular thickening, since the ventricle has to work extra hard to pump blood through the narrow valve opening into the aorta. (merillife.com)
Angioplasty1
- The intent of these methods is to maintain patency after an occluded vessel has been re-opened using balloon angioplasty, laser angioplasty, atherectomy, rotoablation, invasive surgery, or a combination of these treatments. (patentcut.com)
Tricuspid valve2
- Other valve repair techniques in current use include commissurotomy (cutting the valve commissures to separate fused valve leaflets), shortening mitral or tricuspid valve chordae tendonae, reattachment of severed mitral or tricuspid valve chordae tendonae or papillary muscle tissue, and decalcification of the valve leaflets or annulus. (justia.com)
- El Hajj M, Krajcer Z . Percutaneous tricuspid valve repair: A safer alternative to traditional approaches? (viictr.org)
Patients underwent3
- From 11/2006 to 07/2017, 68 patients underwent aortic arch repair using the FET technique. (biomedcentral.com)
- Between November 2006 and July 2017, 68 patients underwent aortic arch repair using the FET technique at our department. (biomedcentral.com)
- A consecutive series of 4014 patients underwent cardiosurgical procedures in the period from January 2001 to December 2006 in our centre, where modified Calafiore warm blood-cardioplegic solution was used. (shengsci.com)
Leaflets11
- In this one or more leaflets of the valve is trimmed, shaped, or rebuild. (medginnie.com)
- The leaflets are the flaps that are responsible for opening and closing of the valve. (medginnie.com)
- Mitral stenosis occurs when two leaflets of the valve thicken and attach to each other, and is characterized by narrowed valve as a result of thickened and shrunk muscles and fibers holding the mitral valve. (groupflorence.com)
- Normally, the aortic valve has three flaps (leaflets) that regulate blood flow by opening and closing, allowing blood to flow throughout your body. (ctsurgerypatients.org)
- In a healthy aortic valve, valve leaflets open wide to let blood through and close tightly to keep it from going backward. (ctsurgerypatients.org)
- The valve leaflets are thin and pliable. (ctsurgerypatients.org)
- Calcium collects on the valve and can cause the leaflets to stiffen and narrow, which limits their motion. (ctsurgerypatients.org)
- It was determined that the structures of valve leaflets after prolonged freezing time (4-5 years) do not return to their initial, pre-frozen state. (lupinepublishers.com)
- Macroscopic observations of the valve leaflets morphology showed that valves kept in deep freeze even for a long time do not differ from fresh valves (Photo 1). (lupinepublishers.com)
- However, observations of the leaflets' surface conducted in higher magnifications reveal a lot of details, including differences in the appearance of the valve leaflets' surface. (lupinepublishers.com)
- Apart from the visible differences resulting from the leaflets' structure, especially the layout of the collagen fibers (Photo 2(a)), defects connected with the process of harvesting the material for the valve bank are visible on the surface of some leaflets. (lupinepublishers.com)
Annuloplasty2
- Annuloplasty rings may be used in conjunction with any repair procedures where contracting or stabilizing the valve annulus might be desirable. (justia.com)
- BACKGROUND: The MITRAL (Mitral Implantation of Transcatheter Valves) trial is the first prospective trial to evaluate the safety and feasibility of balloon-expandable aortic transcatheter heart valves in patients with failed surgical bioprostheses or annuloplasty rings and severe mitral annular calcification treated with mitral valve-in-valve (MViV), valve-in-ring (MViR), or valve-in-mitral annular calcification (ViMAC). (bvsalud.org)
Distal2
- A medical apparatus and method for remodeling a mitral valve annulus adjacent to the coronary sinus includes an elongate body having a proximal end and a distal end. (justia.com)
- The aim of this retrospective single-center study was to evaluate the operative outcome of the FET technique over a 10-year-observation period, with an additional focus on distal aortic remodeling. (biomedcentral.com)
Arterial1
- Retinal arterial occlusive events caused by cholesterol, fibrinoplatelet or calcific emboli are known to occur in individuals with atheromatous vessels and aortic valves especially during or after interventional procedures such as cardiac catheterisation and coronary artery bypass graft procedures. (bmj.com)
Postoperative2
- We examined blood HGF concentration, c-met expression, and postoperative prognosis of 25 cases of primary resected, non-small cell lung cancer. (go.jp)
- A multivariate analysis was performed using logistic regression models to reveal the statistical significance of the effect of single-shot cardioplegia on the occurrence of: death, intraoperative need of inotropics, intraoperative intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP), postoperative infarction, arrhythmia, postoperative need for inotropics and postoperative IABP. (shengsci.com)
Arch1
- Further two patients presented with acute penetrating aortic ulcers requiring acute intervention due to expanding intramural hematoma of the aortic arch segment. (biomedcentral.com)
Left atrium3
- Mitral valve is located between the left atrium and the left ventricle. (groupflorence.com)
- Mitral stenosis prevents oxygenated blood coming from the lungs from passing from the left atrium to the left ventricle. (groupflorence.com)
- Therefore, the left atrium is the first to enlarge then the blood begins accumulating in the lungs. (groupflorence.com)
Chest pain1
- These blockages obstruct the free flow of the blood to the various parts of the heart leading to severe chest pain (known as angina) or a heart attack in the later stages. (medginnie.com)
Acute1
- Acute heart failure was related to other hemodynamic irregularities, including coronary sinus blood fl ow and reduced cardiac output. (romanianjournalcardiology.ro)
Diseases2
- However, it is possible to slow down the progress of aortic stenosis diseases with appropriate treatment. (merillife.com)
- The department offers the full range of surgical services for the treatment of diseases of the cardiovascular system, respiratory tract, including heart and lung transplantation, artificial heart implantation. (bookinghealth.com)
Grafts3
- Implantation of synthetic grafts without this endothelium barrier may lead to surface protein adsorption followed by platelet adhesion, activation, and aggregation. (biomedcentral.com)
- This invention relates to the field of intraluminal grafts and particularly to thin-wall intraluminal grafts useful as a lining for blood vessels or other body conduits. (patentcut.com)
- These conventional vascular grafts usually require invasive surgical methods that expose at least both ends of the segment of vessel to be repaired. (patentcut.com)