At Odense University Hospital (OUH), 5-9% of all unselected cardiac surgical patients undergo reoperation due to excessive bleeding. The reoperated patients have an approximately three times greater mortality than non-reoperated. To reduce the rate of reoperations and mortality due to postoperative bleeding, we aim to identify risk factors that predict reoperation. A total of 1452 consecutive p...

OBJECTIVE The ideal valve substitute in children does not exist. Biologic and bioprosthetic valves do not require anticoagulation, however their use is complicated by accelerated degeneration and requirement for reoperation. We examine results following mitral (MVR) or aortic (AVR) replacement with biologic and bioprosthetic valves at our institution. METHODS Medical records of children who u...

Introduction. The aim of the study was to investigate associations between reoperations after contralateral risk-reducing mastectomies (CRRM) and emotional problems, body image, sexuality, and health related quality of life (HRQoL) in women with breast cancer and hereditary high risk. Patients and Methods. Patients scheduled for CRRM with breast reconstruction between 1998 and 2010 completed qu...

AIMS Two viable options were compared, reoperation and botulinum toxin injection, in the management of children who need retreatment after surgery for acquired esotropia. METHODS 47 strabismic children previously operated to correct an acquired esotropia were randomised to reoperation or botulinum toxin injection. Reoperation was undertaken in 24 of these patients and botulinum toxin injectio...

OBJECTIVES We sought to examine, angiographically, the longterm fate of a large number of mainly venous coronary bypass grafts and to correlate graft patency and disease with patient survival and reoperation. BACKGROUND Much is known about bypass graft patency and disease, but the precise relation between graft fate and patient outcome has not been substantiated and documented. METHODS A to...

PURPOSE To determine the prevalence rate and related risk factors of reoperation among patients with congenital esotropia. METHODS One hundred fifty-seven children with congenital esotropia were divided into two groups after at least one operation: children with deviation within 10 PD (n = 89; success group) and those with deviation greater than 10 PD or history of reoperation (n = 68; failur...

BACKGROUND Osteochondral allograft transplantation (OAT) is being performed with increasing frequency, and the need for reoperations is not uncommon. PURPOSE To quantify survival for OAT and report findings at reoperations. STUDY DESIGN Case series; Level of evidence, 4. METHODS A review of prospectively collected data of 224 consecutive patients who underwent OAT by a single surgeon with...

BACKGROUND Both medication and surgery are effective treatments for severe gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD). Postoperative risks have contributed to decreased use of antireflux surgery. The aim of this study was to assess short-term mortality following primary laparoscopic fundoplication. METHODS This was a population-based nationwide cohort study including all Swedish hospitals that ...

Due to the damaged anatomical structure and a large amount of fibrous and scar tissues in the surgical field, reoperation of papillary thyroid carcinoma is difficult. This study introduces a new method of locating metastatic lymph nodes during reoperation and evaluates the effectiveness and safety of the preoperative ultrasound-guided carbon nanoparticles (CNs) localization. This retrospective ...

Objective: Between 1977 and 1988, 27 patients, mean age 8.9 (range 4±22) received an antibiotic sterilised aortic allograft in the setting of the Fontan procedure. This study describes the long-term follow-up of these patients. Methods: Fifteen patients had tricuspid atresia, nine double inlet ventricles and three others. The connection with the allograft was made to the pulmonary artery on the...