eComment. Ventricular pseudoaneurysms in postsurgical cardiac patients

eComment: follow-up for femoral pseudoaneurysms.

are at higher risk for adverse outcomes following surgical repair of femoral pseudoaneurysm after cardiac catheter-ization. The explanation for the increased risk in most elderly patients may be related to age related changes in the arterial wall associated, mediated by increasing calci-fication and loss of elastin w14x. Careful monitoring of physical findings and ultrasound examination is reco...

Predictors of postsurgical stress among cardiac patients.

AIM To explore the role of stress vulnerability, dispositional optimism, fears of surgery and negative affective disposition in prediction of postsurgical stress among cardiac patients who underwent heart surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS The sample included 60 cardiac patients (39 males and 21 females, aged 58.50 +/- 10.97 years). All patients completed two sets of standardized questionnaires. B...

eComment. Levosimendan in adult patients undergoing cardiac surgery.

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Cardiac aneurysms, pseudoaneurysms, and diverticula.

eComment. Retained temporary epicardial pacing wires in cardiac surgery.

8159.2011.03112.x. [11] Sakellaridis T, Argiriou M, Panagiotakopoulos V, Charitos C. Bilateral sternobronchial fistula after coronary surgery—are retained epicardial pacing wires responsible. J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;4:26. [12] Horng GS, Ashley E, Balsam L, Reitz B, Zamanian RT. Progressive dyspnoea after CABG: complication of retained epicardial pacing wires. Ann Thorac Surg 2008;86:1352–4. [1...