Publications by authors named "K Tabayashi"
A 40-year-old man presented to our hospital with fever and slight palpitation. The echocardiogram revealed bicuspid aortic valve, massive aortic regurgitation, and aneurysm of Valsalva sinus. Operative findings showed an aortic root pseudoaneurysm originating just below the avulsion of the right to left commissure.
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- The trial aimed to assess if adding pitavastatin, a statin, would improve long-term outcomes for patients with uncomplicated acute type B aortic dissection (ABAD) who are receiving standard medical treatment.
- Fifty patients were divided into two groups: one received pitavastatin while the other did not, and they were monitored for one year.
- Results indicated that patients on pitavastatin showed less aortic arch dilation compared to those who didn't receive the statin, suggesting that it may help reduce related complications in ABAD patients.
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- Suture line disruption is a major complication in aortic surgery, and a previous study showed that incorporating basic fibroblast growth factor into biodegradable polyglycolic acid (PGA) felt can help prevent tissue damage at the surgery site.
- This study involved 67 patients using the PGA felt (Group P) and compared them with 129 patients treated with traditional polytetrafluoroethylene felt (Group N), finding no significant differences in mortality or complications between the groups.
- Results over a median follow-up of nearly 5 years indicated that while both groups had a low rate of anastomotic aneurysms, the PGA felt group experienced less dilation at the surgery site, suggesting potential long-term advantages for using this
Objective: Cardiac interventional radiology (IR) can cause radiation injury to the staff who administer it as well as to patients. Although education in the basic principles of radiation is required for nurses, their level of radiation safety knowledge is not known. The present study used a questionnaire protocol to assess the level of radiation safety knowledge among hospital nurses.
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