Desmopressin has no beneficial effect on excessive postoperative bleeding or blood product requirements associated with cardiopulmonary bypass.

Cardiopulmonary bypass during open-heart surgery is sometimes associated with excessive perioperative bleeding. Following a non-randomized study suggesting that desmopressin acetate (desmopressin) reduced blood product requirements in these patients, we conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized trial of desmopressin (0.3 micrograms/kg, i.

Prosthetic valve endocarditis due to Thermomyces lanuginosus Tsiklinsky--first case report.

The first case of Thermomyces lanuginosus endocarditis occurring on a porcine heterograft prosthesis, secondary to a Staphylococcus aureus infection of the aortic valve, is reported. The diagnosis was made post-mortem by direct examination of the prosthesis and culture of surgical samples on Sabouraud's agar. Identification was based on the presence of warty, dark brown aleurioconidia.