Publications by authors named "Balazs Matlakovics"

Introduction: Due to the aging population, aortic valve stenosis is the most frequently diagnosed acquired cardiac disease amongst adults. Various surgical techniques have been developed and median sternotomy has become the standard practice for exploration. Improvements in cardiological intervention techniques allow surgery to provide the same quality with less invasiveness.

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A careful post-mortem investigation is needed to determine the cause of death of patients bearing coronary stents and to describe complications of stent implantation. The main purpose of this study was to combine post mortem methods of CT angiography and corrosion cast preparation for the visualization of coronary stenoses, coronary stents, instent restenosis, and stent occlusion. Injection-corrosion method was combined with post-mortem MSCT angiography to characterize the pathomorphological changes after stent implantation in 6 male cadaver hearts.

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