Non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs reduce the efficacy of autologous blood pleurodesis.

Background: This study aims to perform autologous blood pleurodesis in an animal model and investigate the effects of paracetamol and diclofenac on autologous blood pleurodesis.

Methods: We divided 42 female Wistar albino rats (aged three months; average weight 275±25 g) into three major groups of 14. Each major group was further divided into two subgroups of seven rats to be sacrificed at seven days for early changes and 21 days for late changes.

Acute mesenteric ischemia after cardiac surgery: an analysis of 52 patients.

Objective: Acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) is a rare but serious complication after cardiac surgery. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the incidence, outcome, and perioperative risk factors of AMI in the patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery.

Methods: From January 2005 to May 2013, all patients who underwent cardiac surgery were screened for participation, and patients with registered gastrointestinal complications were retrospectively reviewed.

Cavitary lung cancer presenting as subcutaneous emphysema on the contralateral side.

Bronchocutaneous fistula is an extremely rare complication of lung cancer and is frequently seen following biopsy or radiotherapy. A 67-year old male patient was administered to our hospital due to sudden onset of shortness of breath and subcutaneous emphysema on the right side. Chest computed tomography revealed a cavitary lesion in the left upper lobe in connection with the subcutaneous emphysema on the right side through sternum and anterior chest wall.

An adult case of giant bronchogenic cyst mimicking tension pneumothorax.

Bronchogenic cysts are usually discovered only incidentally in the adult. A giant bronchogenic cyst in a 19-year-old woman presenting with pain and shortness of breath was mistaken for tension pneumothorax and initially treated with tube thoracostomy. Giant bullae were diagnosed by computed tomography.

Inhibitory effects of ticlopidine and clopidogrel on the intimal hyperplastic response after arterial injury.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of ticlopidine and clopidogrel on the development of neointimal hyperplasia after experimental arterial injury.

Methods: This experimental, prospective, randomized controlled study was performed on twenty-seven rabbits, which were divided into three groups, each of which contained nine subjects. Following the development of a balloon catheter injury in the iliac artery, no drugs were administered to Group 1 (control).

Histological results of sclerotherapy, phototherapy, and pulsed 980-nm laser irradiation of the dorsal rabbit ear vein.

Objective: To compare the histological changes occurring after three different treatment modalities for telangiectasias.

Materials And Methods: Thirty 16-week-old New Zealand white rabbits weighing 2.4-3.

Intracoronary shunt versus bulldog clamp in off-pump bypass surgery. Endothelial trauma: shunt versus clamp.

Background: During off-pump coronary bypass grafting, local vascular control of the target vessel and a bloodless field are crucial. The aim of this study is to asses the histopathological outcomes of intracoronary shunts and bulldog clamping on the beating heart in a canine model.

Methods: Twelve healthy adult mongrel dogs weighing between 15 to 25 kg were included in the study.

Treatment modalities in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy: surgical myectomy versus percutaneous septal ablation.

Background: The aim of this study was to compare the results of percutaneous septal myocardial ablation (PSMA) and surgical myectomy (SM) for decreasing the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) gradient, septal thickness, ventricular dimensions, and mitral regurgitation (MR) in patients with symptomatic hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.

Methods: We treated 40 patients (mean age, 24.4 +/- 6.

Sternal closure reinforced with rib heads: a novel technique for prevention and treatment of sternal dehiscence.

Background: When a sternotomy cannot be performed at the midline and/or there is infection at the operation site, sternotomy revision can cause problems that increase the mortality and morbidity of the patients. There is no agreement on the best treatment method. In this paper we present a modified wiring technique.

Giant size abdominal aortic aneurysm repair using open proximal anastomosis under hypothermic circulatory arrest: a report of two cases.

Hypothermic total circulatory arrest and open proximal anastomosis techniques are not commonly used in abdominal or juxtarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Proximal aortic clamping is usually adequate for surgical repair of abdominal aortic pathologies. We present two cases of giant-sized abdominal aortic aneurysms, one was juxtarenal and one was a Crawford type IV thoracoabdominal aneurysm, that were repaired by using open proximal anastomosis under hypothermic total circulatory arrest and a transabdominal approach.