Publications by authors named "Antonios N Kourtesis"
Article Synopsis
- A male child, 18 months old, with a complex heart condition and a pacemaker, was admitted due to fainting episodes that were initially misdiagnosed as epilepsy.
- Ambulatory monitoring showed that the pacemaker was malfunctioning in the ventricular lead but functioning correctly in the atrial lead.
- The child's treatment involved preserving the atrial lead and implanting a new ventricular lead using a less invasive, transvenous method, which was connected to the pacemaker implanted in the abdomen.
Background: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of N-acetyl-L-cysteine on lung ischaemia reperfusion injury.
Methods: Nineteen pigs were used. Group I (n = 5) underwent sham operation, group II (n = 7) 90-min left-lung ischaemia followed by 180-min reperfusion.