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Performing modified fontan before six years of age leads to superior long-term exercise capacity.
Hellenic J Cardiol
August 2021
Department of Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery, Iaso Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece.
We investigated the influence of age at Fontan completion on the exercise capacity of patients who underwent a Fontan operation. Our study demonstrated that age at the time of the Fontan operation significantly affects the peak oxygen consumption at mid-term follow up and that exercise capacity is superior in patients who have undergone Fontan completion at an earlier age. These findings provide support for recommendations to perform Fontan completion procedures relatively early.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAprikalim a potassium adenosine triphosphate channel opener reduces neurologic injury in a rabbit model of spinal cord ischemia.
Int J Surg
January 2014
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Attikon University Hospital Center, Rimini 1, Chaidari, Athens, Greece.
Background: Potassium adenosine triphosphate (KATP) channel openers have been involved in the enhancement of ischemic tolerance in various tissues. The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the effects of aprikalim, a specific KATP channel opener, on spinal cord ischemic injury.
Methods: Fifty-four rabbits were randomly assigned to three groups: group 1 (n = 18, sham operation), group 2 (n = 18, 30 min of normothermic aortic cross-clamping) and group 3 (n = 18, aprikalim 100 μg/kg was administered 15 min before 30 min of normothermic aortic cross-clamping).