The conditions of the pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) are associated with overloading intensive care units, conversion of hospitals, and changes in routing of patients with acute cardiovascular pathology. At the same time, medical practice is still challenged to provide medical care to patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Patients with COVID-19 and acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are at a higher risk of death while the incidence of this combination of diseases will be growing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose of our investigation was to evaluate the immediate and intermediate results of staged operations of carotid endarterectomy and coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with multifocal atherosclerosis. We analysed a total of 475 operations. Of these, 371 (78.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: to assess the clinical status, comorbidities, complications, in-hospital mortality and its structure in dependence of age and type of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in case of early invasive strategy of ACS management.
Materials And Methods: we included in this retrospective study data of all patients (n=1353) with ACS subjected to emergency and urgent myocardial revascularization in High Medical Technologies Center (Kaliningrad, Russia) in 2014-2016. Age of 984 patients was <75 (group 1) and of 369 >75 years (group 2).
Spontaneous rupture of the left ventricular posterior wall after mitral valve replacement is a severe complication and is associated with high mortality rate. This complication was first described in 1967 by Roberts and Morrow, which describe the results of autopsy of two patients. In leading clinics around the world left ventricular wall ruptures after mitral valve replacement account for up to 20% of causes of hospital mortality.
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