Video-assisted thoracic surgery in hemothorax evacuation after cardiac surgery or cardiac interventions.

Introduction: Cardiac surgery and cardiac interventions are associated with the risk of iatrogenic complications, including hemothorax. Minimally invasive methods of evacuating hemothorax include video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS).

Aim: This paper presents this method and provides its detailed analysis.

Inflammatory components in endarterectomy lesions: an immunohistological study.

The aim of this study was to characterize the immunohistological components of chronic inflammation in endarterectomy lesions. Therefore, in 24 patients endarterectomy specimens were obtained from coronary arteries during CABG surgery (16 from RCA and 8 from LCA) and immunohistologically analyzed using avidin-biotin method (LSAB(R)/AP) with monoclonal antibodies. Macrophages and CD3 lymphocytes were counted under 200x magnification but MHC class II and ICAM-1 adhesion molecules were analyzed semi-quantitatively (scale from 0 to 3+).