Early Clinical Outcomes of Surgical Management following Vacuum-Assisted Closure in Poststernotomy Mediastinitis by Rafik F. Soliman, Hatem M. Soltan, Saeed O. Abdelwahed, Ibrahim M. Khalil

“…Results: A total of 32 patients presented with DSWI after elective (87.5%) and emergent (12.5%) cardiac surgery. There were 18 male patients and 14 female patients, with ages ranging from 38 to 74. …”
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Effects of High Altitude on Sleep and Respiratory System and Theirs Adaptations by Turhan San, Senol Polat, Cemal Cingi, Gorkem Eskiizmir, Fatih Oghan, Burak Cakir

“…Altitude also affects sleep and cardiac output, which is the other determinant of oxygen delivery. …”
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Manual Compression versus Suture-Mediated Closure Device Technique for VA-ECMO Decannulation by Clemens Scherer, Christopher Stremmel, Enzo Lüsebrink, Thomas J. Stocker, Konstantin Stark, Carmen Schönegger, Antonia Kellnar, Jan Kleeberger, Maja Hanuna, Tobias Petzold, Sven Peterss, Daniel Braun, Jörg Hausleiter, Christian Hagl, Steffen Massberg, Martin Orban

“…We retrospectively analyzed 180 consecutive patients weaned from VA-ECMO after cardiac arrest or cardiogenic shock from January 2012 to June 2020. …”
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Left Internal Mammary Artery Injury Requiring Resuscitative Thoracotomy: A Case Presentation and Review of the Literature by Ammar Al Hassani, Yassir Abdul Rahman, Ahad Kanbar, Ayman El-Menyar, Abubaker Al-Aieb, Mohammad Asim, Rifat Latifi

“…To describe an external cardiac tamponade caused by massive tension hemothorax from penetrating injury of the left internal mammary artery (LIMA). …”
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Adipose Tissue-Derived Stromal Cells Induce a Highly Trophic Environment While Reducing Maturation of Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells by Morten Juhl, Bjarke Follin, Monika Gad, Jesper Larsen, Jens Kastrup, Annette Ekblond

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Intrapericardial injection of hydrogels with ASC and their secretome to treat dilated cardiomyopathies by Tácia Tavares Aquinas Liguori, Gabriel Romero Liguori, Viktor Sinkunas, Cristiano Jesus Correia, Raphael dos Santos Coutinho e Silva, Fernando Luiz Zanoni, Vera Demarchi Aiello, Martin Conrad Harmsen, Luiz Felipe Pinho Moreira

“…Abstract Doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy (DOX-IC) is a significant and common complication in patients undergoing chemotherapy, leading to cardiac remodeling and reduced heart function. We hypothesized that the intrapericardial injection of hydrogels derived from the cardiac decellularized extracellular matrix (dECM) loaded with adipose tissue-derived stromal cells (ASC) and their secretome dampens or reverses the progression of DOX-IC. …”
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Factors Associated with High-Quality Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Performed by Bystander by Hye Ji Park, Won Jung Jeong, Hyung Jun Moon, Gi Woon Kim, Jin Seong Cho, Kyoung Mi Lee, Hyuk Joong Choi, Yong Jin Park, Choung Ah Lee

“…Bystander cardiopulmonary dresuscitation (CPR) improves the survival and neurological outcomes of sudden cardiac arrest patients. The rate of bystander CPR is increasing; however, its performance quality has not been evaluated in detail. …”
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Impact of Acute Myocardial Injury on Short‐ and Long‐Term Outcomes in Patients With Primary Intracerebral Hemorrhage by Shenghui Ma, Jiawen Li, Qi Kong, Zhiming Xu, Haojie Wu, Yujia Jin, Xianghua Ye, Dong Luo, Lusha Tong, Feng Gao

“…Background Myocardial injury is common after brain injury; however, few studies have reported serial cardiac troponin (cTn) measurements to distinguish whether the myocardial injury is acute or chronic. …”
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Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Perioperative Atrial Fibrillation following Noncardiothoracic Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis of Observational St... by Yamini Subramani, Omar El Tohamy, Daniil Jalali, Mahesh Nagappa, Homer Yang, Ashraf Fayad

“…Atrial fibrillation (AF) occurs in 16–30% of patients after cardiac and thoracic surgery and can lead to serious complications like hypoperfusion of vital organs, pulmonary edema, and myocardial infarction. …”
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Thymic Hyperplasia after Lung Transplantation Imitating Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder by Christina Maria Steger, Severin Semsroth, Thomas Hager, Ralf Rieker, Ludwig Müller

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Recurrent Syncope, a Clue in Amyloid Cardiomyopathy by Julian A. Marin-Acevedo, Catalina Sanchez-Alvarez, Ali A. Alsaad, Ricardo J. Pagán

“…The article illustrates the role of advanced cardiac imaging in the diagnosis of the disease with a focused literature review. …”
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Anaesthetic Management of Parturient with Acute Atrial Fibrillation for Emergency Caesarean Section by Madhu Gupta, Shalini Subramanian, Preeti Adlakha

“…The physiological changes during pregnancy may exacerbate their cardiac symptoms. They may present with complications like congestive cardiac failure, atrial fibrillation, or pulmonary thromboembolism during the antenatal, intrapartum, or postpartum period. …”
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Nursing care of a patient after pericardiocentesis in terms of the International Classification of Nursing Practice ICNP® – a case study by Filip M. Tkaczyk

“…The study was conducted in January 2024 and included a 51-year-old man hospitalised for angioplasty with complications of cardiac tamponade. The most important nursing problems were taken into account in the patient’s nursing process. …”
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Recent Advances on Electroconductive Hydrogels Used in Heart Repair and Regeneration by Xu Yan, Huan Sun, Ping Yang

“…Myocardial infarction (MI) permanently damages cardiac tissue. Tissue engineering exhibits tremendous potential as a strategy for developing engineered tissue to repair congenital abnormalities in the heart and/or cardiovascular tissue. …”
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Adaptive Output Tracking of Driven Oscillators by Lili Diao, Martin Guay

“…Heart dynamics are usually unknown and require the application of real-time control technique because of the fatal nature of most cardiac arrhythmias. The problem of controlling the heart dynamics in a real-time manner is formulated as an adaptive learning output-tracking problem. …”
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Rare Cause of Late Recurrent Angina following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Iatrogenic Aortocoronary Arteriovenous Fistula Causing Coronary Steal by Jayakumar Sreenivasan, Muhammad Ayub, Neha Yadav, Yasmeen Golzar

“…Iatrogenic aortocoronary arteriovenous fistula is a very rare complication of coronary artery bypass grafting in which one of the arterial grafts inadvertently forms a fistulous tract with a cardiac vein, shunting blood from the anastomosed coronary artery. …”
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A Case of Trastuzumab-Associated Cardiomyopathy Presenting as an Acute Coronary Syndrome: Acute Trastuzumab Cardiotoxicity by Sylvana Hidalgo, Carol A. Albright, Gretchen L. Wells

“…Trastuzumab is a monoclonal antibody highly effective in the treatment of several cancers, but its use is associated with cardiac toxicity which usually responds to cessation of the drug and/or medical therapy. …”
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Myocardial damage in cardioplegia and cardiopulmonary bypass by M.Т. Vatutin, G.G. Taradin, A.О. Taratorina, Ye.V. Yeshchenko, V.S. Kolesnikov

“…Cardiopulmonary bypass and cardioplegia are the most frequently used techniques in cardiac surgery. The level of cardiac mortality in the postoperative period depends on them both directly and indirectly. …”
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Early Detection and Management of Massive Intraoperative Pulmonary Embolism in a Patient Undergoing Repair of a Traumatic Acetabular Fracture by Tobechi E. Okoronkwo, XueWei Zhang, Jessica Dworet, Matthew Wecksell

“…Cardiac catheterization revealed a large left pulmonary embolism. …”
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Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in an Extremely Tortuous S-Shaped Aorta by Shuangbo Liu, Olga Toleva, Amir Ravandi, Zlatko Pozeg, Alan Menkis, Malek Kass

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