Learning Objectives: Facial nerve management in the surgery Internal carotid artery management in the surgery Intracranial vascular bypass As for the most challenging surgery of the lateral skull base, glomus jugular tumor resection is now safely controlled and managed. In this study we focused on the the strategies of facial nerve and internal carotid artery management during glomus jugular tu...

Surgical repair of pulmonary artery sling without concomitant correction of associated tracheal abnormalities has yielded poor results in the past. We combined vascular sling repair done during cardiopulmonary bypass through a median sternotomy incision with tracheopexy for severe associated tracheomalacia in 2 infants. Neither experienced substantial postoperative respiratory difficulties and ...

conclusions both anesthetic regimens were acceptable for induction in patients with coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery. results incidence of pain on injection (2 - 4%) and myoclonus (10%) was less in both groups. the hemodynamic response was similar in the two groups for all variables over the time interval, except for ci at ...

In the study by Karaca et al. (1), published in the current issue of the journal authors have shown that use of blood cardioplegia in the reperfusion period after aortic cross clamp in patients with diabetes mellitus type II undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting surgery was superior to crystalloid solution in terms of myocardial protection as assessed by the degree of nitric oxide (NO) rel...

Pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) is generally believed to be elevated after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) due to whole body inflammation. Aprotinin has an antiinflammatory action, and it was hypothesized that aprotinin would attenuate the PVR increase induced by CPB. Ten mongrel dogs were placed under moderately hypothermic CPB for 2 hr. The experimental animals were divided into a control gr...

BACKGROUND To examine the effects of peripheral bypass surgery on patients' quality of life (QoL) as well as to compare two treatment modalities to reduce postoperative edema with regard to patients' QoL. METHODS This was a randomized controlled trial set in the department of vascular surgery in a nonacademic teaching hospital. Ninety-three patients (mean age, 70 years; 33% Rutherford 5-6), e...

HYPOTHESIS Comorbid conditions are associated with the risk of death from coronary artery bypass graft surgery. DESIGN Prospective cohort study data were collected on patient and disease characteristics and comorbid conditions including hypertension, diabetes, obesity, vascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer (excluding nonmelanoma skin cancer), dialysis-dependent renal...

We propose an arterial network model based on 1D blood hemodynamic equations to study the behavior of different vascular surgical bypass grafts in case of an arterial occlusive pathology: an obliteration or stenosis of the iliac artery. We investigate the performances of three different bypass grafts (Aorto-Femoral, Axillo-Femoral and cross-over Femoral) depending on the degree of obliteration ...