Background/Introduction Phrenic nerve palsy (PNP) is a well-recognized complication after cardiac surgery which might occur as a result of topical myocardial cooling, direct injury or ischemia. It can result in deleterious respiratory effects especially in children and in patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease which adversely affect recovery and increase the length of ICU and hospit...

research should be directed at studies of the interplay between bowel integrity, portal circulation and liver function. Different preventative measures to increase the gut integrity in the form of selective antibiotic treatment, administration, of immunostimulants, stimulation of mucosal growth or induction of bacterial antagonism by the administration of probiotics require further evaluation. ...

The increasing difference between the number of patients in waiting lists for liver transplantation and the number of available donors has generated a great interest in the use of non-ideal organs, like grafts obtained from cardiac death donors (DCD). However, the extreme sensibility to ischemia of these livers results in a low utilization rate and a high percentage of post-transplant complicat...

Cold agglutinins are predominately immunoglobulin M autoantibodies that react at cold temperatures with surface antigens on the red blood cell. This can lead to hemagglutination at low temperatures, followed by complement fixation and subsequent hemolysis on rewarming. Development of hemagglutination or hemolysis in patients with cold agglutinins is a risk of cardiac surgery under hypothermia. ...

Survival following major juxtahepatic venous injury is rare in blunt liver trauma despite the use of intracaval shunting. Prolonged liver arterial inflow control, total hepatic venous isolation and lobectomy without shunting was used in a patient to repair a combined vena caval and hepatic venous injury after blunt liver injury. An extended period of normothermic hepatic ischemia was tolerated....

La conservation d’organes peut être définie comme l’ensemble des procédés qui s’attachent à protéger le greffon méfaits de l’anoxie entre moment sa déafférentation vasculaire chez donneur et celui revascularisation receveur. Elle s’est appuyée longtemps sur principe selon lequel l’hypothermie, distribuée par la perfusion initiale solutions conservations dans les vaisseaux du greffon, atténuait ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Serotonin, via 5-HT2 receptors, exerts an excitatory effect on CA1 neurons and may play a role in ischemia-induced excitotoxic damage. To evaluate the role of serotonin in ischemia, both neurochemical and histopathological studies were performed. METHODS Neurochemical studies included rats that were subjected to 12.5 or 20 minutes of normothermic ischemia by two-vessel ...