cardiac rupture, particularly rupture of the left ventricular wall, has a very high mortality rate. in this occasion, even if injured patients being alive when carried to the hospital, many of them will die due to following possible reasons: severe bleeding, cardiac tamponade, wasting time for routine and usual diagnostic procedures or transferring the injured to other hospital equipped for car...

– Any surgical procedure, ranging from general operation (the most common procedures is surgical creation of arteriovenous fistula and catheter for peritoneal dialysis placement) to open heart surgery, may be performed in patients with chronic renal failure treated conservatively or with dialysis without a significant increase in the perioperative motality and morbidity in comaparation to patie...

background: postoperative pulmonary dysfunction is one of the most frequent complications after cardiac surgery and it is believed to result from the use of cardiopulmonary bypass (cpb). in this study, we investigated the effect of low tidal volume ventilation during cpb on postoperative gas exchange and lung mechanics. methods: this prospective randomized study included 100 patients undergoing...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate longitudinal changes of the utilization of operational and surgical medical care inside and outside a metropolitan area over 10 years, analyzing the residential areas of patients and the locations of medical facilities for major cardiovascular surgery. METHODS Data analysis was conducted by classifying the addresses of patients and the l...

A [though most hospitals diagnose and treat heart disease, one Catholic hospital in Roslyn, NY, does nothing else. For more than 70 years, St. Francis Hospital, the Heart Center, has been synonymous with excellence in cardiac diagnostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitative services. New York's premier heart center, St. Francis has the highest cardiac case load in the state. Last year it logged almo...

BACKGROUND Specific transcription factors (TFs) modulate cardiac gene expression in murine models of heart failure, but their relevance in human subjects remains untested. We developed and applied a computational approach called transcriptional genomics to test the hypothesis that a discrete set of cardiac TFs is associated with human heart failure. METHODS AND RESULTS RNA isolates from faili...

The incidence of ischemic heart disease (IHD) is increasing worldwide. number patients with IHD or without interventions coming for non-cardiac surgical procedures are increasing. These have an increased risk myocardial ischemia, infarction (MI), conduction disturbances, morbidity, and mortality during the peri-operative period.

The radioactive microsphere technique was used to trace regional blood flow and total cardiac output distribution in rats in heart failure secondary to biventricular volume overload during acute intravenous infusion of nitroglycerin. Data from rats with heart failure (chronic arteriovenous shunt) were compared to data obtained from rats subjected to sham surgical procedures. In both glycerin an...

A 69-year-old male presented with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, mitral valve regurgitation, and myxomatous mitral valve prolapse. A spontaneous chordal rupture and acute severe mitral regurgitation resulted in abrupt clinical deterioration despite complete relief of severe left ventricular outflow tract obstruction and systolic anterior motion of the anterior mitral leaflet. The pati...