Publications by authors named "Xiaoyi Teng"

Background: The prevalence of chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) has increased alongside rising rates of diabetes mellitus (DM). While diabetic patients with CLTI have worse outcomes compared to patients without diabetes, conflicting data exist on the relationship between the severity of DM and CLTI outcomes. Close inspection of the relationship between DM severity and outcomes in CLTI may benefit surgical decision-making and patient education.

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Telemedicine uses telephone-based or any form of digital communication for remote clinical services. It has been a field of interest for the last century, with broader implementation of telemedicine technologies during the last 25 years. The COVID-19 pandemic was an impetus for the adoption of these technologies globally across all health care services, including patient care, surgical practice, and workflow.

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Objective: As part of a multidisciplinary aortic dissection (AD) program, a more comprehensive repair strategy for patients with acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) and frequent endografting for suitable patients with type B aortic dissection (ATBAD) was adopted in 2015. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of these changes.

Methods: This study is a retrospective review of a prospective database containing all patients treated for acute AD between 2003 and 2020.

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  • - The study outlines the technical process of modifying four Cook Zenith devices for the treatment of complex aortic aneurysms, including stent graft deployment and creating fenestrations with specific materials.
  • - Four patients had successful exclusion of their aneurysms, with 15 fenestrations effectively bridged, and guidance on various procedure metrics like time, blood loss, and hospital stay provided.
  • - The findings suggest that physician-modified endografts are a safe and effective alternative to custom devices, particularly in urgent situations, and should be included in complex aortic treatment protocols.
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Background: Endovascular rescue of failed infrarenal repair (EVAR) has emerged as an attractive option to stent graft explantation. The procedure, however, is underutilized due to limited devices accessibility and the challenges associated with their implantation in this patient population. The purpose of this study was to report our outcomes and discuss our approach to rescuing previously failed infrarenal endovascular aneurysm repairs (EVAR) with fenestrated/branched endografts (f/b-EVAR).

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Mycotic celiac artery aneurysm (MCAA) is extremely rare. To date, only 8 cases have been reported in the literature. Endocarditis is the most commonly documented etiology.

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Background: There are few if any real-time physiologic measures that currently provide feedback during resuscitation from cardiac arrest. Such measures could be used to guide therapy not simply based on process guidelines but on the physiologic response of the patient from moment to moment. To this end, we applied an existing technology - quantitative waveform measures (QWMs) of the ventricular fibrillation (VF) electrocardiogram (ECG) - as a continuous measure of myocardial response to reperfusion with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) after prolonged cardiac arrest.

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Replication stress is a frequent and early event during tumorigenesis. Whereas the cellular responses to a persistent block of replication fork progression have been extensively studied, relatively little is known about how cells respond to low-intensity replication stress. However, transient replication fork perturbations are likely to occur even more frequently in tumor cells than a permanent replication arrest.

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