Background Delirium is one of the prevalent complications of post open heart surgery. The present research aimed to assess the effect of multi-component interventions on the incidence rate, severity, and duration of post open heart surgery delirium among hospitalized patients. Methods In this quasi-...
Complications After Surgical Repair of Congenital Heart Disease in Infants. An Experience From Tertiary Care Center. J Saudi Heart Assoc. 2021;33(4):271–8. Jenkins KJ, Gauvreau K. Center-specific differences in mortality: preliminary analyses using the Risk Adjustment in Congenital Heart Surgery ...
Treatment usually consists of medications, but in severe cases,open-heart surgerymight be required. A newer procedure known as alcohol septal ablation (ASA) helpspatientsavoid open-heart surgery by injecting alcohol directly into the thickened muscle via a thin catheter through either the femoral orr...
Open surgery was performed in both patients and treatment of the AVFs led to the resolution of all symptoms. Follow up at four and three years, respectively, was uneventful in both cases. Discussion Although rare, heart failure secondary to an AVF can be encountered. These rare cases high...
The purpose of this study was to provide basic data for the development of educational material in Korean for patients being discharge after open heart surgery. The subjects were 45 adult patients who were seen in the out-patient department of the thoracic surgery unit of P University hospital ...
Post hoc unmatched and matched analysis of LAS VEGAS [18,19], a worldwide, prospective 1–week observational study describing intraoperative ventilation management and postoperative complications in the first five postoperative days in patients undergoing surgery in 146 centres in 29 countries. Patients ...
Arrhythmias are common after cardiac surgery such as coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. Although most of these arrhythmias are transient and have a benign course, it may represent a significant source of morbidity and mortality. Postoperative arrhy
During removal of adhesions, further injuries to adjacent bowel or other organs occur in up to 19% of the procedures, which causes intestinal spillage and severe septic complications1,8. For example, after gynecologic surgery, adhesions account for 15–20% of infertility cases10,11. This vicious...
Fox H, Büttner S, Hemmann K, Asbe-Vollkopf A, Doss M, Beiras-Fernandez A, Moritz A, Zeiher AM, Scheuermann E, Geiger H, Fichtlscherer S, Hauser IA, Lehmann R (2013) Transcatheter aortic valve implantation improves outcome compared to open-heart surgery in kidney transplant recipients req...
Cardiac arrhythmias, heart failure, and nonfatal coronary syndromes are also common. The brain-heart axis is implicated in post-stroke cardiovascular complications known as the stroke-heart syndrome, sudden cardiac death, and Takotsubo syndrome, among other neurocardiogenic syndromes. Multiple ...