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Langenbecks Arch Surg
January 2025
Department of Trauma Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Rämistrasse 100, CH - 8091, Zurich, Switzerland.
Introduction: Blunt traumatic aortic injury (TAI) is a critical condition and a leading cause of mortality in trauma patients, often resulting from high-speed accidents. Thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) has developed into the preferred therapeutic approach due to its minimally invasive nature and promising outcomes. This study evaluates the safety and efficacy of TEVAR for managing TAI over a 10-year period at a Level-1 trauma center.
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January 2025
Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital of Gent, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, 9000, Ghent, Belgium.
Restenosis occurs commonly after aortic coarctation (CoA) repair, usually requiring treatment by balloon dilation. Its effect on physical exercise performance is not documented. A retrospective analysis of exercise testing and echocardiographic assessment was performed in children after CoA repair.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe present the case of a 74-year-old female patient with a 50 mm ascending aortic aneurysm who underwent ascending aorta replacement. During routine open heart surgery, suboptimal flow in the cardiopulmonary bypass circuit, led to the discovery of a type B aortic dissection with substantial flow in the false lumen. Conservative management was chosen, focusing on blood pressure control in the ICU.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Coll Physicians Surg Pak
January 2025
Department of General and Laparoscopic Surgery, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Hospital Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan.
Objective: To determine the importance of the Glasgow Coma scale (GCS), ASA physical status classification system, and P-POSSUM score in predicting mortality among patients undergoing emergency laparotomies.
Study Design: An analytical study. Place and Duration of the Study: Department of General Surgery, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Hospital Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, from October 2020 to January 2022.
BMC Pharmacol Toxicol
January 2025
Evangelical College, N'Djamena, BP 1200, Chad.
The study evaluated the anti-hyperlipidemic effects of myrcenol and curzerene on a high fat diet induced hyperlipidemia rat model. Thirty male albino rats were fed on a high-fat diet for four months. The HFD-induced hyperperlipidemia rats were treated with rosuvastatin (10 mg/kg), curzerene (130 mg/kg) and myrcenol (100 mg/kg) for four weeks.
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