The anaesthetic management of patients with thoracic ascending aortic aneurysms: A review.

Thoracic aortic aneurysms present significant challenges to clinicians, especially due to their complex nature and an evolving understanding of the safest and most effective ways to manage this condition in the perioperative setting. Thoracic aortic aneurysms have a prevalence rate of 1.3-8.

Dental clearance and postoperative heart infections: Observations from a preoperative evaluation clinic for day-admission surgery.

Every year, two-million hospitalised patients develop healthcare-associated infections with a consequent mortality eclipsing 90,000. The literature suggests that dental infections are one of many potential sources of these infections and may be associated with an increased risk of endocarditis in surgical patients, especially those undergoing cardiac procedures, though some studies have conversely shown no heightened risk of cardiac infections in patients forgoing pre-surgical dental screenings. We sought to elucidate whether patients seen at our preoperative evaluation clinic who obtained pre-surgical dental clearance experienced improved outcomes compared to those who did not receive dental clearance prior to their surgical interventions.

Commemorating 50 years since the first heart transplantation in Bratislava - Czechoslovakia.

The first human-to-human heart transplantation in Czechoslovakia, and the 25th transplantation in the world, was performed in Bratislava, the second largest city in Czechoslovakia on July 9, 1968. The operation was carried out by a team led by Professors Karol Siska and Ladislav Kuzela at the second Surgical Clinic at the Comenius University of the Medical Faculty in Bratislava, Partizanska Street-only seven months after the first heart transplantation performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard in Cape Town.