4 results match your criteria: "Vitebsk Regional Clinical Hospital[Affiliation]"

Background: Exposure to antibiotics predisposes to dysbiosis and Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) that can be severe, recurrent (rCDI), and life-threatening. Nonselective drugs that treat CDI and perpetuate dysbiosis are associated with rCDI, in part due to loss of microbiome-derived secondary bile acid (SBA) production. Ridinilazole is a highly selective drug designed to treat CDI and prevent rCDI.

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Background & Objectives: Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a frequent participant in the infectious process in critically ill patients. This study aimed to determine the incidence of HCMV reactivation in critically ill patients and estimate the clinical effect of reactivation on the course of the pathological process.

Methods: To determine the incidence of HCMV reactivation, plasma and sputum samples were collected from 82 critically ill patients.

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Multi-vessel small thoracotomy coronary artery bypass using in situ bilateral internal thoracic arteries and right gastroepiploic artery.

Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg

April 2017

Public health establishment "Vitebsk regional clinical hospital", Vitebsk State Medical University. 210037, Voinov-Internacionalistov street 37, Vitebsk, Belarus. Department of cardiac surgery.

We present an innovative method of minimally invasive total arterial revascularization on a beating heart, using in situ bilateral internal thoracic arteries and laparoscopically harvested in situ right gastroepiploic artery. The safety and feasibility of this technique have been established.

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Early and Midterm Results of No-Touch Aorta Multivessel Small Thoracotomy Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Propensity Score-Matched Study.

Innovations (Phila)

June 2016

From the *Department of Cardiac Surgery, Vitebsk Regional Clinical Hospital, Vitebsk State Medical University, Vitebsk, Belarus; and †Cardiac Surgery Laboratory, Republic Scientific and Practical Center of Cardiology, Minsk, Belarus.

Objective: To carry out the comparative analysis of early and midterm results of no-touch aorta multivessel small thoracotomy coronary artery bypass grafting (MVST CABG), conventional off-pump (OPCABG) and on-pump CABG (ONCABG).

Methods: From 2007 to 2014, 537 consecutive patients underwent CABG by the same surgeon. Propensity score computer matching was performed, and a total of 453 patients were successfully matched in 3 groups of 151 patients.

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