Publications by authors named "Tomas Heredia-Cambra"
Comparative Temporal Analysis of Morbidity and Early Mortality in Heart Transplantation with Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support: Exploring Trends over Time.
Biomedicines
September 2024
Article Synopsis
- - The study investigates the impacts of using venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) as a support mechanism for patients undergoing urgent heart transplants over a 17-year period, focusing on morbidity and mortality rates.
- - Results indicate that while the number of patients able to receive transplants without mechanical ventilation has increased, there have been no significant changes in overall mortality rates within 30 days, one year, or five years across different time periods.
- - Comorbidity rates were high, averaging 3.33 per patient, with common complications including vascular issues, the need for post-transplant ECMO, and myopathy, especially more pronounced in recent years.
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor is a neoplasm with uncertain behavior. We describe a case in a 66-year-old female who underwent resection of a left atrial tumor suspected to be a cardiac myxoma which was subsequently diagnosed as an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor. After three years' follow-up the patient underwent a second operation to remove tumoral occurrence in the right atrium, diagnosed as an intimal sarcoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate outcomes in our department after surgery for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and to establish the impact of a delay on the indication for surgery.
Methods: From January 1998 to February 2011, 69 patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and left ventricular outflow tract obstruction at rest were operated on by the same team, and followed up for at least 1 year. We retrospectively analysed clinical data, echocardiography and ambulatory Holter electrocardiogram findings before surgery, early after surgery, at 3 months and annually at follow-up, to detect possible prognostic determinants.