Outcomes in neonatal critical and non-critical aortic stenosis: a retrospective cohort study.

Objective: To compare long-term survival, reinterventions and risk factors using strict definitions of neonatal critical and non-critical valvular aortic stenosis (VAS).

Design: A nationwide retrospective study using data from patient files, echocardiograms and the Swedish National Population Registry.

Setting And Patients: All neonates in Sweden treated for isolated VAS 1994-2018.

A national study of the outcome after treatment of critical aortic stenosis in the neonate.

Objective: This study describes short-term and long-term outcome after treatment of critical valvular aortic stenosis in neonates in a national cohort, with surgical valvotomy as first choice intervention.

Methods: All neonates in Sweden treated for critical aortic stenosis between 1994 and 2016 were included. Patient files were analysed and cross-checked against the Swedish National Population Registry as of December 2017, giving complete survival data.

Off-pump CABG reduces complement activation but does not significantly affect peripheral endothelial function: a prospective randomized study.

Objective: Cardiac surgery initiates a systemic inflammatory response, which may affect endothelial function. The aim of this study was to investigate if off-pump CABG (OPCAB) reduces the postoperative inflammatory response and affects endothelial function less than conventional on-pump CABG.

Design: Fifty-two patients submitted for elective CABG were included in a prospective, randomized study.