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J Cardiothorac Surg
January 2025
Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Heart Disease, Haukeland University Hospital, Jonas Lies vei 65, 5021, Bergen, Norway.
Background: A broncho-esophageal fistula (BEF) is a medical and surgical disaster. Treatment of BEF is often limited to palliative stent treatment that may migrate or cause erosions and tissue necrosis. Surgical repair of BEF is the only established definite treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth
December 2024
Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
Heart Lung
January 2025
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Zigong First People's Hospital, Zigong 643000, Sichuan, China. Electronic address:
Background: Chronic inflammatory airway diseases (CIAD) are well-known risk factors for depression symptoms. There exists a complex interplay between leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) and depressive symptoms. However, the relationship between LTPA duration and depressive symptoms in CIAD patients remains unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInterdiscip Cardiovasc Thorac Surg
January 2025
Cardiac Surgery Department, Sanatorio Italiano, Asunción, Paraguay.
Coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) remains the gold standard in the treatment of complex coronary artery disease (CAD). Saphenous vein grafts (SVG) are commonly used for the non-left anterior descending artery (LAD). However, SVG failure rates in CABG surgery have been reported to be as high as 30% at 1 year and ∼50% at 10 years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeuroinformatics
January 2025
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, USA.
A reader of the peer-reviewed neuroscience literature will often encounter expressions like the following: 'the brain is a dynamic system', 'the brain is a complex network', or 'the brain is a highly metabolic organ'. These expressions attempt to define the essential functions and properties of the mammalian or human brain in a simple phrase or sentence, sometimes using metaphors or analogies. We sought to survey the most common phrases of the form 'the brain is…' in the biomedical literature to provide insights into current conceptualizations of the brain.
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