Balloon mitral valvotomy offers significant short-term hemodynamic improvement, but needs to be properly compared with surgical treatment of mitral stenosis. Although aortic valve replacement with homografts and pulmonary autografts yields excelle...
Mentioning the ‘plague’ of rheumatic heart disease for the population of China there is a significant percentage of patients affected by rheumatic heart valve problems requiring heart valve surgery. Hardly anyone knows this, and little is talked about this. 说到风湿性心脏病,中国患者可谓是饱受“折...
Medical procedures or surgeries, such as heart valve surgery, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, or having a balloon or stent placed Cardiac rehabilitation, which uses a supervised exercise program to help your heart get stronger after after a heart attack, if you have heart failure, or after...
There's also a version ofangioplastythat uses a laser, instead of a balloon, to eliminate the plaque that clogs your arteries. Minimally invasive heart surgery.This is a form of bypass surgery that may be less risky for you than the traditional open-chest method. Your surgeon puts instruments...
Heart-valve surgery is possible with minithoracotomy. Informs that a team of surgeons at the Hopital Broussais in Paris, France has successfully operated on the mitral valve in three patients through a minitho... Gozlan,Marc - 《Lancet》 被引量: 0发表: 1996年 A generalized uncertainty ...
Objective To review and summarize the clinical results and experiences of the intra-aortic balloon pump(IABP) in the treatment of valvular heart disease following heart surgery.Methods From October 2008 to August 2010,450 consecutive patients with valvular heart disease underwent valve replacement with ...
used a bovine pericardial heart valve that can be compressed onto a balloon to the approximate diameter of a pencil, threaded from the leg into the circulatory system and deployed across the patient’s pulmonary valve. The valve replacement is accomplished as a “beating heart” procedure, without...
However physicians have been advised not to use the balloon pump if heart surgery patients also have aortic insufficiency. That's when theaortic valve's inability to close completely prompts oxygen-rich blood to backwash into theleft ventricle. The heart chamber that pumps blood out to the body...
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Perhaps the most dramatic development in open-heart surgery was the heart transplant. This procedure was first successfully performed in Cape Town, South Africa, by Dr. Christiaan Barnard in 1967. [See also Artificial heart ; Angioplasty, balloon ] User...