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Cureus
November 2024
Cardiovascular Surgery, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, JPN.
We report a 75-year-old female with a history of two heart operations: aortic valve replacement (St. Jude Medical 21 mm) at the age of 44 years for severe rheumatic aortic stenosis and mitral valve replacement (Carbomedics 29 mm) at the age of 51 years for rheumatic mitral regurgitation. Decades later, she presented with exertional dyspnea.
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December 2024
Service de Médecine Intensive - Réanimation-SRPR, APHP, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Sorbonne Université, 75013, Paris, France.
Background: The present study was designed to investigate the evolution and the impact of respiratory muscles function and limb muscles strength on weaning success in prolonged weaning of tracheotomized patients. The primary objective was to determine whether the change in respiratory muscles function and limb muscles strength over the time is or is not associated with weaning success.
Methods: Tracheotomized patients who were ventilator dependent upon admission at a weaning center were eligible.
Eur J Case Rep Intern Med
October 2024
Unità Terapia Intensiva Respiratoria, AOE Cannizzaro, Catania, Italy.
Background: The level of spinal cord injury affects the severity of respiratory impairment and the alteration of respiratory pattern and gas exchanges. Lesions at the C3-C5 level (phrenic nerve nucleus) cause disruption of descending input with paralysis of the main inspiratory muscle, often requiring tracheostomy and prolonged mechanical ventilation. Oxygen therapy is essential to switch from ventilatory support to removal of the endotracheal tube to correct residual difficulties in oxygenation management.
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July 2024
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ankara Bilkent City Hospital, Ankara, Türkiye.
Background: This study aims to investigate the incidence, prognosis, and etiology of diaphragmatic elevation following cardiac surgery.
Methods: Between February 2019 and December 2019, a total of 888 patients (631 males, 257 females; mean age: 58.4±12.
J Pain Res
September 2024
Department of Anesthesiology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
Objective: To investigate the efficacy of ultrasound-guided interscalene brachial plexus block in the treatment of shoulder pain following hepatectomy.
Design: A randomized controlled trial.
Methods: We conducted a single-center, randomized controlled trial.
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