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Surgical management of acute dissections involving the ascending aorta. Early and late results in 38 patients.

The results emphasize the need for scrupulous long-term follow-up in surgically treated aortic dissections with high operative mortality and nonfatal complications.
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Prospective Comparison of Minimally Invasive and Standard Techniques for Aortic Valve Replacement: Initial Experience in the First Hundred Patients

The data demonstrate that a partial upper sternotomy is a safe and effective technique for AVR, and postoperative morbidity is not significantly reduced in patients undergoing AVR by this approach.
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[Mycotic aneurysm of the splenic artery. A rare complication of surgically treated infectious endocarditis and its causative cardiac lesion].

The authors report the case of a 59 year old woman with mitral valve streptococcal endocarditis complicating rheumatic valvular disease with several metastatic septic complications and a very rare mycotic aneurysm of the splenic artery.
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Thoracostomy tube pleurodysis by collagen instillation

Until the authors have some kind of working definition of its earliest manifestations, or an appropriate scoring system, they cannot properly compare new approaches in treatment or encourage early diagnosis of ARDS.
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[Valvular tumor: diagnostic trap. Report of a case of marastic endocarditis].

The case of a young patient in good general condition, admitted after a cerebro-vascular accident, and a pulmonary tumour was discovered one month after surgery suggests that it is justified to carry out an aetiological investigation of thrombotic non-bacterial endocarditis in all cases of isolated mitral valve masses.
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Right atrial septal aneurysm: An unusual cause of recurrent pulmonary embolism

This case demonstrates the usefulness of searching for sources of emboli other than deep venous thrombosis, but illustrates the limits of two-dimensional echocardiography in diagnosing atrial septal aneurysm.
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eComment. Coronary endarterectomy with or without inflow conduit?

The results of the present study indicate that coronary endarterectomy can be carried out with a low operative risk in suitable patients, for whom a vascular territory would otherwise not have been revascularized by conventional coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).
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[Economics and advanced technical performance in heart surgery].

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Homograft replacement of the calcified aortic root in familial hypercholesterolemia.

A 39-year-old woman with a known history of homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia was admitted with chest discomfort. Preoperative echocardiography and coronary angiography showed a heavily…
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[Rupture of ascending aortic aneurysm revealing Takayasu's arteritis].

A case of isolated aneurysm of the ascending aorta extending to the aortic arch, undergoing emergency surgery at the rupture phase, revealing Takayasu's arteritis is reported, with rapid growth in a major inflammatory context, and rupture.
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