Early Mortality in Cardiac Surgery - Is Lactate Significant?

Introduction: Serum lactate is a consequence of tissue hypoperfusion and has been used routinely for patient management following cardiac surgery. This study aims to determine the association of lactate with early mortality and postoperative morbidity.

Methods: This is a prospective cohort study carried out in the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, King George's Medical University (India), from January 2020 to December 2022.

A New Era of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/CRISPR-associated Protein 9 Gene Editing Technology in Cardiovascular Diseases: Opportunities, Challenges, and Perspectives.

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain major causes of global mortality in the world. Genetic approaches have succeeded in the discovery of the molecular basis of an increasing number of cardiac diseases. Genome-editing strategies are one of the most effective methods for assisting therapeutic approaches.

Isolated cardiac cysticercosis of the right ventricle.

Cardiac cysticercosis is a rarely encountered form of cysticercosis, caused by the larval cyst of tapeworm (). It commonly affects the central nervous system; however, systematic involvement has been reported as well. We describe a case of isolated cardiac cysticercosis incidentally discovered in a 16-year-old female undergoing surgical closure of a ventricular septal defect (VSD), with no prior history of parasitic infestation.

Cardiac synovial sarcoma masquerading as effusive constrictive pericarditis.

Primary cardiac synovial sarcoma is a rare entity, arising from the pericardium or the chambers of the heart. It presents in the 4 decade of life with a striking male predisposition. We describe an unusual case of a 22-year-old female who presented with complaints of dyspnoea on exertion, palpitations, and chest pain.

Management of traumatic flail chest in intensive care unit: An experience from trauma center ICU.

Background/aim: The thoracic injury and related complications are responsible for upto 25% of blunt trauma mortality. This study is designed to compare these two popular ventilation modes in traumatic flail chest.

Materials And Method: A total of 30 patients with thoracic trauma, aged 18-60 years, were enrolled in this study for a period of 1 year.