Effect of different priming fluids on extravascular lung water, cell integrity and oxidative stress in cardiopulmonary bypass surgery.

Background: Discussions continue on the ideal priming fluid in adult cardiac surgery. The purpose of this prospective study was to evaluate the effects of different types of priming fluids on extravascular lung water, cell integrity and oxidative stress status.

Methods: Thirty elective coronary artery bypass surgery patients were randomised prospectively into two groups.

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Endophlebectomy of the common femoral vein and endovascular iliac vein recanalization for chronic iliofemoral venous occlusion.

Background: Chronic post-thrombotic occlusion of the iliofemoral veins causes significant morbidity, which can be alleviated if venous drainage is restored. We report our technique of surgical endophlebectomy and patchplasty of the common femoral vein (CFV) in conjunction with iliac vein stenting to restore venous flow from the infrainguinal venous system to the vena cava.

Methods: There were 157 patients who underwent CFV endophlebectomy combined with iliocaval recanalization.

Comparative Effects of Blood and Crystalloid Cardioplegia on Cellular Injury and Oxidative Stress in Cardiovascular Surgery.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of different cardioplegic solutions on endothelial integrity and oxidative stress in cardiovascular surgery.

Methods: In this randomized prospective study, after ethics approval and informed consent, 60 surgical patients were included. Patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery were randomized into two groups as warm blood cardioplegia (n = 30) and cold crystalloid cardioplegia (n = 30) following the cross-clamping.

Use of bone wax is related to increased postoperative sternal dehiscence.

Aim: To investigate the relation between use of bone wax and postoperative sternal dehiscence after cardiac surgery.

Material And Methods: Five thousnad three hundred and eighteen consecutive patients who underwent cardiac surgery between 1999 and 2009 were evaluated prospectively. Perioperative use of bone wax, perioperative data and outcome parameters were recorded.

Utility of cerebral oxymetry for assessing cerebral arteriolar carbon dioxide reactivity during cardiopulmonary bypass.

Background: Our study evaluated changes in cerebral arterial oxygen saturation (rSO2) during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) that were caused by changes in arterial carbon dioxide tension (PaCO2).

Methods: A group of 126 patients undergoing routine, elective, first-time coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) was entered into a prospective study using bilateral near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) before anesthetic induction (T1), after anesthetic induction (T2), and continuing at 5-minute intervals during moderate hypothermic (32°C) CPB. Pump flows were set at 2.

Efficacy of near-infrared spectrometry for monitoring the cerebral effects of severe dilutional anemia.

Introduction: Clear guidelines for red cell transfusion during cardiac surgery have not yet been established. The current focus on blood conservation during cardiac surgery has increased the urgency to determine the minimum safe hematocrit for these patients. The aim of this study was to determine whether monitoring of cerebral regional oxygen saturation (rSO2) via near-infrared spectrometry (NIRS) is effective for assessing the cerebral effects of severe dilutional anemia during elective coronary arterial bypass graft surgery (CABG).

A hybrid therapy as a third approach for type 1 proximal endoleak of thoracic endovascular aortic replacement: Caroticocarotid bypass and re-redo endovascular therapy.

Introduction: In selected cases with thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), thoracic endovascular aortic replacement (TEVAR) is commonly used and shall be proper therapy method. We are presenting a case of TAA previously treated twice by endovascular aortic approaches and complicated by type 1 endoleak.

Case: A 67-year-old male patient was admitted to our clinic with back pain at rest.

A right coronary artery saccular aneurysm leading to an embolic myocardial infarction during diagnostic cardiac catheterization: A case report.

Coronary artery aneurysms are localized dilatations greater than 1.5 times the diameter of the adjacent segments. These rarely seen abnormalities may lead to serious life-threatening complications such as myocardial infarction, coronary perforation and death.

Interrupted aortic arch or extreme coarctation? A case report and review of the literature.

The hallmark feature of aortic interruption that is useful in differentiating it from aortic coarctation is the "complete absence" of continuity between both parts of the interrupted segment. In this study, we reviewed the 28 patients diagnosed with isolated interrupted aortic arch (IAA) who reached adult age (> 20 years), aimed to review the validity of the Celoria-Patton classification in the literature, and reported the first microscopic pathology of the IAA in an adult.

Increased expression of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) in radiation-induced small bowel injury in rats.

Background: Radiation therapy is a widely used adjuvant therapy for various abdominal and pelvic cancers. On the other hand, it is not a benign treatment modality, as most radiation patients suffer from some kind of radiation enteritis. Currently available treatments are only palliative and no ideal compound has as yet been discovered.