Publications by authors named "Mozart A S Escobar"
Luis Tavares revolutionized cardiac surgery, always bringing the most modern instruments and equipment from his travels to England - surgical forceps, scissors, scalpels, etc. He always insisted that he was not just a thoracic surgeon, for his work extended over a wide field and created three important cardiac surgery centers which promoted a great development of cardiology. He carried out the first open heart surgery (atrial septal defect) employing extracorporeal circulation and closure of a ventricular septal defect with deep surface hypothermia of north and northeast Brazil.
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- Women experience higher morbidity and mortality rates than men following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, prompting a comparison of off-pump versus on-pump CABG outcomes specifically in women.
- A study analyzing 941 women undergoing CABG from January 2000 to December 2005 showed lower mortality rates for off-pump surgery (3.1% vs. 5.3%), but this was not statistically significant, while certain complications were significantly lower in the off-pump group.
- The findings suggest that off-pump CABG may reduce complications and improve outcomes for women, with 10 out of 13 investigated complications showing benefits in the off-pump group compared to the on-pump approach.
Objective: To describe the technique and evaluate the immediate results of using an ultrasonic scalpel in the skeletonization of the internal thoracic artery for coronary artery bypass grafting surgery.
Methods: From January 2000 to October 2006, 188 patients were submitted to coronary artery bypass grafting with the internal thoracic artery skeletonized using an ultrasonic scalpel. Seventy-one patients (37.
Objective: The main goal of this study is to present a technical alternative that allows myocardial revascularization to be performed on the marginal branches of the circumflex coronary artery without the use of extracorporeal circulation (ECC).
Methods: The technique for exposing the coronary vessels is performed by placing a stitch in the posterior pericardium. The surgeon lifts the heart using his or her left hand with the aim of exposing the posterior pericardium.