Aortic surgery

Aortic Valve Surgery

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Aortic Valvular Surgery

TWO AND A HALF years have now elapsed since we performed our first successful prosthetic replacement for severe aortic regurgitation. During this time, 115 patients with severe aortic regurgitation and/ or calcific stenosis have had operative correction by means of artificial valves. This presentation is a review of the patients who presented themselves for operation, the surgical management, a...

complications of elective abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery

because of significant reduction of rupture rate and increase in the patient’s life expectancy, elective surgical treatment in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm has been widely accepted. the present article aims at assessing the postoperative complications and mortality rate in patients who had been submitted to elective surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysms. this is a retrospective stud...

Abdominal Aortic Surgery: Anesthetic Implications

The objectives of the review are to highlight the clinical characteristics of the patient population; to assess multivariate risk factor analysis and the invasive/non-invasive techniques available for risk factor identification and management in this high-risk surgical population; to assess the major hemodynamic, metabolic, and regional blood flow changes associated with aortic cross-clamping/u...

Timing of aortic valve surgery.