A Lemaire, Fabio Cuttone, Julien Desgué, Calin Ivascau, Sabino Caprio, Vladimir Saplacan, Annette Belin, Gérard Babatasi
Background Coarctation of the aorta is a congenital malformation that has long
been considered completely correctable with appropriate surgery in childhood.
However, with the aging of these patients, many late complications have been
reported, and this notion must be reevaluated. Methods We retrospectively
reviewed all patients who underwent reoperation between 1992 and 2012 in our
adult cardiac s... hiện toàn bộ
The saphenous vein is the most commonly used conduit for coronary artery bypass
grafting. Arterial grafts are harvested with the outer pedicle intact whereas
saphenous veins are harvested with the pedicle removed in the conventional graft
harvesting technique. This conventional procedure causes considerable vascular
damage. One strategy to improve vein graft patency has been to provide external
su... hiện toàn bộ
Trần Minh Bảo Luân, Ho Tat Bang, Nguyen Lam Vuong, Le Tien Dung, Trung Tin Nguyen, Tran Quyet Tien, Nguyễn Hoài Nam
Background Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy combined with
lymphadenectomy is widely utilized worldwide for treating non-small cell lung
cancer. We evaluated the long-term survival outcomes of this approach and
determined the prognostic factors of overall survival. Methods This prospective
observational study was performed in patients with non-small cell lung cancer
who were subjected... hiện toàn bộ
Background We sought to assess the risk and late outcome of bilateral internal
thoracic artery grafting in eligible insulin-treated diabetic subsets. Methods
147 insulin-treated diabetic patients undergoing arterial revascularization were
grouped as: skeletonized bilateral internal thoracic artery ( n = 83) or
internal thoracic artery-radial artery ( n = 64). Chronic lung disease or
overweight and... hiện toàn bộ