AIM To present characteristics of heart and great vessel injuries in patients wounded during the 1992-1994 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and their management in conditions of lack of complex diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. METHODS Retrospective analysis was performed on the medical records of 31 patients treated for cardiac and great vessel injuries at the Department of Surgery, Tuzla ...

OVER THE PAST DECADE, VARIOUS FORMS OF cavopulmonary anastomoses (the bidirectional Glenn shunt, the hemi-Fontan procedure) have become the palliative procedure of choice for the treatment of hearts with a functionally single ventricle. Significantly, the occurrence of pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas had been noted as an important 'late' complication after construction of the classic Glenn ana...

BRAWLEY, ROBERT K., H. NEWLAND OLDHAM, JOHN S. VASKO, R. PETER HENNEY, AND ANDREW G. MORROW. Am. J. Physiol. 2 I I (2) : 347-353. 1g66.-The patterns of instantaneous blood flow in the superior and inferior venae cavae were determined, and related to right atria1 and right ventricular pressure events in 40 dogs. The character of the normal right atria1 pressure pulse was changed by producing tri...

Percutaneous Transluminal Caval-flow Regulation (PTCR) is an emerging alternative therapy to treat patients with acute heart failure (AHF). AHF represents the first cause of hospitalization in elderly persons and main determinant huge healthcare expenditure related (HF). Despite therapeutic advances, prognosis poor, in-hospital mortality ranging from 4% 7%, 60 90-day mortality. To reverse this ...

Traditionally, DVTs have been treated with the use of oral anticoagulation medication (such as warfarin) for a period of 6 months. However, this is associated with a high risk for recurrent thrombosis, and approximately one third will develop post thrombotic syndrome despite treatment (Prandoni et al 1996). The recurrence of DVT is thought to be related to damage to the venous valves during an ...

It is important in order to advance the increasingly successful attack on subacute bacterial endocarditis to be able to produce the disease experimentally and to treat it with new and improved therapeutic regimens. Since endocarditis caused by Streptococcus mitis has not been consistently produced previously in the dog, a study was undertaken in which cardiovascular stress was created by the es...

A case of mediastinal paraganglioma presenting with superior vena caval obstruction is reported. The tumour extended into the right atrium and ventricle. Tru-Cut biopsy under ultrasonographic guidance was performed safely to provide a diagnosis before death.

Liver tumors involving hepatic vein (HV) at caval confluence have been always considered an indication for major hepatectomy and/or HV reconstruction. However; careful study by means of intraoperative ultrasonography (IOUS) of tumor-vein relations and HV anatomy searching for accessory veins, together with color-Doppler IOUS analysis of portal flow, allows more conservative approaches also in t...