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Front Cardiovasc Med
January 2025
Department of Cardiology, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Aim: To evaluate the safety of brachial artery (BA) sheath removal after heparin neutralization with a half dose of protamine immediately after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
Methods: The clinical data of 209 consecutive patients who underwent PCI through the BA at Fu Wai Hospital between September 2019 and June 2024 were retrospectively collected. In group I, the brachial sheath was removed 4 h after the PCI procedure.
J Extra Corpor Technol
September 2024
Department of Clinical Engineering, Kitaharima Medical Center, 926-250, Ichiba-cho, Ono-shi, Hyogo 675-1392, Japan.
Severe pulmonary vasoconstriction induced by protamine is a rare complication. We report a case of a 77-year-old male patient with a history of mitral valve plasty (MVP). He underwent redo MVP via right thoracotomy under the totally endoscopic procedure (MICS redo-MVP).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBr J Clin Pharmacol
June 2024
Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Bleeding events are common in patients prescribed anticoagulants and can have devastating consequences. Several specific and nonspecific agents have been developed to reverse the effects of anticoagulant drugs or toxins. Vitamin K, as the oldest of these antidotes, specifically counteracts the effects of pharmaceuticals and rodenticides designed to deplete stores of vitamin K-dependent factors.
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May 2024
Blood Transfusion Research Center, High Institute for Research and Education in Transfusion Medicine, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address:
Background: Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is considered the choice treatment for patients suffering from coronary artery disease (CAD). In the inflammatory milieu of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) can induce a platelet pro-inflammatory state which could exacerbate post-CABG inflammatory status while affecting hemostatic function in patients. Therefore, focusing on platelets, the study presented here attempted to evaluate the pro-inflammatory and immunomodulatory profile of platelets as well as pro-aggregatory status during CABG.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: Pericardial tamponade (PT) is the most frequent severe complication during electrophysiology (EP) procedures and requires immediate, co-ordinated, and effective treatment. However, multiple aspects of PT treatment are either not standardized or are under ongoing debate.
Methods And Results: An online questionnaire consisting of 26 multiple-choice questions was sent out to the European Heart Rhythm (EHRA) Research Network and also distributed via social media outputs.
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