Publications by authors named "Claudia Riera-Hernandez"

Article Synopsis
  • The study outlines the establishment of a registry, ReVAC, for vascular and valvular allograft transplants in Catalonia, Spain, addressing the need for administrative and clinical oversight in the evolving transplant field.
  • It involved key focus groups that defined essential requirements and included data collection from 380 patients across ten hospitals between 1995 and 2015, ensuring comprehensive coverage of transplant data.
  • The project's outcome is an online platform for ReVAC that categorizes data into patient, surgery, and transplant-related information, facilitating better administrative control and enabling guideline development for future transplants.
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Introduction: Situs inversus totalis (SIT) is an uncommon congenital syndrome, which refers to a reversal mirror-image of the normal thoracoabdominal organs position. The coexistence of SIT and abdominal aortic aneurysm has been seldom previously reported.

Presentation Of The Case: We report a case of a 69-year-old man with SIT and infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) that underwent open repair with a straight graft through a minilaparatomy without evisceration.

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