BACKGROUND This study was undertaken to define the factors that influence mortality rate and neurologic outcome after repair of the aortic arch and various portions of the thoracic aorta in patients with profound hypothermia and circulatory arrest. METHODS Between November 1986 and January 1996, 105 patients were treated surgically for aortic disease involving the transverse aortic arch. Prof...

According to the World Health Organization’s data, circulatory diseases are the world's leading cause of death, being responsible for the death of 17 million people annually, 5,5 million of them being in Europe. According to the data of the Croatian National Institute of Public Health, circulatory diseases are the leading cause of death in Croatia as well. In the year 2005, there were 26,029 re...

Respiratory failure may be defined as the inability to maintain normal oxygen and carbon dioxide tensions in the arterial blood under normal atmospheric conditions. This condition will lead to serious functional disturbances of the cardiovascular system if hypoxia and hypercapnoea become severe. In addition, parenchymatous disease of the lungs, disorders affecting the mechanics of the thoracic ...

In a prospective study of 156 female patients with Turner's syndrome who had survived infancy and been followed up for an average of 17 years there were 15 deaths. The expected mortality was 3.6. Sixteen of the patients had a congenital heart anomaly and five of the deaths occurred in this group. The 10 deaths in the remaining 140 were three times as many as expected. The reduction in life expe...

The metabolic syndrome has been a useful, though controversial construct in clinical practice as well as a valuable model in order to understand the interactions of diverse cardiovascular risk factors. However the increasing importance of the circulatory system in particular the endothelium, in both connecting and controlling organ function has underlined the limitations of the metabolic syndro...

We examined whether selected circulatory diseases (heart disease, stroke, diabetes and hypertension) were associated with an increased risk of major depression in the Japanese community population. Face-to-face household surveys were carried out in 7 areas, and a total of 2,436 persons participated (overall response rate: 58.4%) from 2002 to 2004. The WHO Composite International Diagnostic Inte...

A case-control study of lung cancer mortality in U.S. railroad workers in jobs with and without diesel exhaust exposure is reanalyzed using a new threshold regression methodology. The study included 1256 workers who died of lung cancer and 2385 controls who died primarily of circulatory system diseases. Diesel exhaust exposure was assessed using railroad job history from the US Railroad Retirem...

BACKGROUND Studies have shown that exposure to the natural environment, or so-called green space, has an independent effect on health and health-related behaviours. We postulated that income-related inequality in health would be less pronounced in populations with greater exposure to green space, since access to such areas can modify pathways through which low socioeconomic position can lead to...

BACKGROUND This study searches the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) used in a previous project, aiming for reconstructing possible cerebrovascular disease-related groups (DRG),and estimating the costs between cerebrovascular disease and related diseases. METHODS AND MATERIALS We conducted a nationwide retrospective cohort study in stroke inpatients, we examined the overall ...

case presentation we report a case of anaphylactic shock during surgery of pulmonary hydatid cyst in a 42 year old woman and its management. conclusions during the surgery of hydatid cyst, any hemodynamic instability should raise the suspension of anaphylaxis and early resuscitation should be instituted. introduction hydatid cyst is a parasitic disease caused by a tapeworm echinococcusgranulosu...