Pulmonary function tests were performed before surgery on 152 patients who were operated on for pectus excavatum between 1970 and 1987 and at long-term follow-up to assess the degree of impairment and to investigate any changes caused by surgical correction. The mean age at surgery was 15.3 +/- 5.5 years. Pulmonary function was found to be restricted preoperatively. Multivariate analysis showed...

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 ...

Background: Fluid status assessment and management post coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a clinical challenge. The study aimed to establish whether central venous pressure (CVP) ultrasound measures of respiratory variability inferior vena cava (IVC) diameter might predict fluid responsiveness in mechanically ventilated patients after CABG.
 Methods: This comparative included 200 c...

background: this study was aimed to assess the effects of angiotensin ii (ang ii) supplementation to the in vitro maturation (ivm) and in vitro culture (ivc) media of vitrified-warmed ovine oocytes on their developmental competence and expression of na+/k+/atpase in resulting embryos. methods: the slaughterhouse-derived immature oocytes (n=1069) were randomly distributed into four experimental ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate if emergency medicine trainees with a short duration of training in echocardiography could perform and interpret bedside-focused echocardiography reliably on emergency department patients. METHODS Following a web-based learning module and 3 h of proctored practical training, emergency medicine trainees were evaluated in technical and interpreta...

Size of common bile duct and density of contrast material in CBD have been evaluated by IVC, in order to predict papillary stenosis, in 187 patients who underwent biliary surgery. At Iaparotomy findings and operative cholangiograms 143 CBDs were normal, 44 obstructed. The average diameter of the normal ducts was 6,19 ~ 1,75 mm. In females and in aged patients the CBD size was larger. The averag...

OBJECTIVE Trauma patients are at high risk for life-threatening venous thromboembolic (VTE) events. We examined the relationship between prophylactic inferior vena cava (IVC) filter use, mortality, and VTE. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA The prevalence of prophylactic placement of IVC filters has increased among trauma patients. However, there exists little data on the overall efficacy of prophylact...

PURPOSE We assessed whether magnetic resonance (MR) imaging evaluation of portosystemic collateral shunts can aid prediction of therapeutic effectiveness and complications after creation of a transjugular portosystemic shunt (TIPS), and technical difficulty during the TIPS procedure. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 32 patients (27 men, 5 women; mean age, 56.4 years) who unde...

INTRODUCTION Suprahepatic caval resection and replacement of inferior vena cava (IVC) is standard procedure in deceased donor liver transplantation for patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS). However, replacement of IVC in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is difficult. We report a case of BCS successfully treated by LDLT without replacement of IVC. PRESENTATION OF CASE A 52-years-o...