Surgical therapy for heart failure.Cardiac Surgical ProceduresHeart FailureCongestive心力衰竭充血性After a meeting of the American College of Cardiology in 2003, the cover of US News and World Report boldly proclaimed: "The end of heart disease." The media frenzy after one of the national ...
Many of these procedures achieved excellent operative, medium-, and long-term results and survival, which match well those observed with cardiac transplantation, most often with advantages in the quality of life and, not unimportantly, in financial costs. For operated patients, especially those with...
Heart-Assist DevicesCardiac Surgical ProceduresIn 2003, Medicare expanded coverage of ventricular assist devices as destination, or permanent, therapy for end-... Hernandez,Adrian F - 《Jama the Journal of the American Medical Association》 被引量: 215发表: 2008年 ...
Heart failureNOSDiagnostic Neoplasm StagingGENERAL OPERATIVE PROCEDURESCardiac failure remains the leading cause of death in the Western World today. After myocardial insult, as the heart remodels and dilates, an increase in wall tension occurs secondary to increased radius of curvature, leading to ...
In the United States CHF treatment is estimated to cost more than 25 billion dollars for 2004.1 The initial stages of heart failure are managed with medical therapy, and end-stage heart failure is managed with surgical procedures in addition to medical therapy. Some of the proven surgical ...
Jai Raman, MD, PhD is a highly skilled cardiac and thoracic surgeon known for his efforts to develop new and innovative surgical procedures, especially for the treatment of heart failure. He helped develop ventricular containment (or the wrap procedure) and performed the first eight of these proc...
摘要: CiNii Articles - 1 Present status of medical and surgical treatments for profound heart failure(Cell-Based Cardiac Repair for Heart Failure,Meet the Expert 6 (ME6) (M),The 70th Anniversary Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Circulation Society)...
Sergical procedures and devices for increasing cardiac output of the heart Methods and devices for passively assisting the cardiac function of the heart are disclosed. A method of increasing the cardiac output of a heart includes providing a site of surgical access to the portion of the heart to...
More and more patients beyond 80 years old need surgery,but they are with many basic illnesses,at high risk in surgery procedures and complications easily occurring after surgeries. Performing perioperative work well and choosing simple effective operation methods are important factors to ensure patients...
Minimally invasive bilateral thorascopic surgical procedures can achieve a similar Cox-Maze lesion set, but are associated with increased adverse events compared to catheter ablation. Future prospective randomized studies are required to confirm whether the recently developed hybrid subxyphoid epicardial/...