Surgical treatment of acute infective valvular endocarditis (18 years experience).

Background: Infective endocarditis morbidity remains high: 3 to 8 cases per 100,000 of population. Antibiotic therapy is ineffective. Its surgical treatment experience is relatively limited.

Aortic aneurysms at the site of the repair of coarctation of the aorta: a review of 48 patients.

Background: Study of the long-term results from 1 to 24 years after coarctation of the aorta repair in 891 patients showed that in 48 (5.4%, Mean age, 30.9 +/- 1.