Aspergillusaortitis after cardiac surgery

The effects of magnesium supplementation on the incidence of cardiac complications after pediatric cardiac surgery

Background and Objective: The present study aimed to assess the role of magnesium sulfate (MgSO4) sup-plementation after cardiac surgery in pediatric patients, evaluating the incidence of cardiac complications, such as arrhythmia. Methods: In this study, 105 children scheduled for elective cardiac surgery were randomly divided into 3 groups. The first group, as the placebo group, received sali...

Delirium after Cardiac Surgery

Delirium after cardiac surgery is common and associated with acute cognitive dysfunction, physical, mental, and behavioral problems, as well as increased mortality. The impact is substantial for patients, families, and society as a whole. The aims of this article is to review the relationship between cognition and delirium, incidence and mechanism of delirium, factors associated with occurrence...

acute renal failure after cardiac surgery

acute renal failure (arf) following cardiac surgery occurs in 1 to 10% of patients. patients who develop arf have higher rates of mortality. this study was undertaken to estimate the role of perioperative variables in predicting of post cardiac surgery arf. we studied a cohort of 398 adult patients who underwent cardiac surgery at our institution from february 2004 to february 2006. adult patie...

Occipital alopecia after cardiac surgery.

To the Editor: Since 1991, an autologous blood programme for elective surgery has been available here. l Preliminary experience showed that 14% of 66 aatologous donors undergoing cardiac bypass surgery had received no allogeneic red cells but had received allogeneic products other than red cells. 2 It was suggested that, if autologous blood programmes were to have an impact on patient exposure ...

Atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery