Publications by authors named "I B Bosisio"
Pulmonary vascular remodeling process was analyzed using morphometry in lung biopsy specimens taken from 26 children, aged 6 to 160 months, who had congenital heart disease and significant pulmonary arterial hypertension. Reparative surgery was performed in 22 patients and palliative surgery was performed in four patients. One patient expired postoperatively and four others after hospital discharge.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To report short and midtem follow-up results of balloon aortic valvuloplasty to treat congenital aortic stenosis.
Methods: Seventy-five patients (median age: 8 years) underwent the procedure through the retrograde femoral or carotid route.
Results: The procedure was completed in 74 patients (98.
Purpose: To determine the value of the quantitative analysis of lung biopsies from patients with congenital cardiac defects.
Methods: Fourty nine biopsies were examined, from patients: 43 patients increased pulmonary blood flow, 3 with pulmonary atresia and large systemic-to-pulmonary collateral vessels, and 3 with decreased pulmonary flow. The degree of lesion was determined as in Heath-Edwards and of Rabinovitch and col.
Purpose: To report the accumulated experience in the treatment of patients with postoperative chylothorax (CHT) recovery utilizing pleural drainage associated to alipoidic diet and/or intravenous nutrition.
Methods: The aim of this work is to analyse the management of 11 patients (8 males; 11 months to 70 years old) with post-operative CHT. The previous pathologies were: congenital heart disease in 7; coronary insufficiency in 2; pulmonary tumor in 1 and mediastinal tumor in 1.