Publications by authors named "Tomohiko Uetsuki"
To evaluate the mid-term outcomes following thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) for chronic type B aortic dissection (TBD), especially to know which re-entry closure affects the thoracic false lumen remodeling in the late chronic TBD. : From April 2017 to April 2022, 25 patients with chronic TBD underwent TEVAR. The late chronic TBD received the re-entry closure including stent-graft deployment in the renal artery, infrarenal aorta, and unilateral or bilateral iliac artery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 60-year-old woman presented with a fever of unknown origin. Echocardiography revealed a large left atrial tumor protruding into the left ventricle during diastole. Laboratory investigation showed an elevated white blood cell count, C-reactive protein concentration, and interleukin-6 concentration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: We developed an adventitial overlay method for reinforcing aortic anastomoses. This study evaluated the midterm morphologic and clinical outcomes of this method.
Methods: We harvested and prepared adventitia from a resected aneurysm or dissected aortic wall and performed aortic repair using the adventitial overlay method.
Comprehensive Pain Control Strategy in Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair.
Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
June 2022
Purpose: The effect of our comprehensive strategy to reduce pain after minimally invasive mitral valve repair through a right mini-thoracotomy was assessed retrospectively.
Methods: Our comprehensive strategy constituted the following: planned rib cutting to avoid rib injury, sufficient intercostal muscle division to mobilize the cut rib, limiting the number of intercostal ports, avoiding nerve entrapment, continuous extra-pleural intercostal nerve block, and regular use of oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. We compared patients treated with this comprehensive strategy (Group S, n = 13) and patients before this strategy was implemented (Group C, n = 13).