Atrial fibrillation (AF) can be found in an increasing number of cardiac surgical patients due to a higher patient's age and comorbidities. Atrial fibrillation is known, however, to be a risk factor for a greater mortality, and one aim of intraoperative AF treatment is to approximate early and long-term survival of AF patients to survival of patients with preoperative sinus rhythm. Today, surge...

abstract background: primary cardiac lymphoma is extremely rare. case report: in this care report, we present the case of a 46-year-old man with primary cardiac lymphoma involving left atrium and interatrial septum, presenting as dyspnea palpitation and irregular heart beat. the diagnosis was obtained by transthoracic echocardiography and surgical biopsy with subxiphoid approach which revealed ...

Atrial fibrillation is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Surgical treatment is the most effective means of curing atrial fibrillation. The classic Cox maze procedure eliminates atrial fibrillation in more than 90% of patients and has remained the gold standard in surgery for atrial fibrillation. Despite being highly effectiv...

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to assess the safety, efficacy, medium-term outcome, and complications of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) stenting in duct-dependent pulmonary circulation. BACKGROUND Patent ductus arteriosus stenting has been proposed as an alternative to surgical shunt on account of postoperative morbidity and complications of surgical shunting. METHODS Between April 2000...

Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is an integral component of modern-day cardiac surgical conduct.[1] While TEE probe insertion a relatively simple procedure usually successful in the first attempt, it not sans risks particularly when difficulties are encountered while performing same. The American Society Echocardiography and Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists outlines complication rate 0.0...

Modern imaging techniques including various echocardiographic technologies have become firmly established in the practice of cardiac surgery. The method intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is particular significance for ensuring safety patients during open heart This necessary performing reconstructive interventions on valve apparatus with initial myocardial dysfunction to ass...

Adaptive cardiac binding, a new surgical procedure for advanced heart failure, allows a gradual increase in compression on the dilated heart, with separate loads on the left and right ventricles. A canine model of biventricular heart failure (anastomosis between the carotid artery and jugular vein and doxorubicin administration) was created. Twenty-four dogs were divided into 4 groups: control,...

BACKGROUND Surgical ventricular reconstruction is a specific procedure designed to reduce left ventricular volume in patients with heart failure caused by coronary artery disease. We conducted a trial to address the question of whether surgical ventricular reconstruction added to coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) would decrease the rate of death or hospitalization for cardiac causes, as co...