Recent news on Cardioplegic

Ghassan S. Kassab, PhD, Yunlong Huo, PhD, Gerald Buckberg, MD  -  May 2, 2007
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryMore importantly, vascular resistance rose in failing hearts in both the beating and cardioplegic states (with and without pulsation) such that factors

Are Patients Really Dead When We Think They Are?  -  May 9, 2007
ScienceBlogs...cardiac arrest with an approach that involved, among other things, a "cardioplegic" blood infusion to keep the heart in a state of suspended animation.

Precise quantification of pressure-flow waveforms during pulsatile ...  -  May 2, 2007
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryWe would like to congratulate Kassab and colleagues 1 on their experimental design and results concerning pulsatile cardioplegic delivery in improved

Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease  -  Mar 29, 2007
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryThere were, as you outlined, three separate brief periods of DHCA, the longest of which is approximately 3 minutes for the delivery of cardioplegic solution

Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease  -  Mar 29, 2007
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery...one when the cannula is brought back to its central position after most of the operation is done, and then when the cardioplegic solution is given,

Oxidative stress during CABG not harmful?  -  Mar 12, 2007
TheHeart.Org,Buenos Aires, Argentina - A new study has suggested that the formation of oxidants as a result of cardioplegic arrest/reperfusion during cardiac surgery

The effect of mannitol on oxygenation and creatine kinase MB ...  -  Mar 9, 2007
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery11-13 During cardiac surgery, it can be administered in the pump prime and cardioplegic solution and has been shown to significantly decrease the wet weight

Comparative study of single- and double-patch techniques for sinus ...  -  Mar 9, 2007
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryThe surgery was performed under mild hypothermia and cardioplegic arrest. Eighteen patients (group A) underwent a single-patch technique in which a

Tirone E. David, MD * , Christopher M. Feindel, MD , Susan ...  -  Jan 31, 2007
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryOnce all this is done, cardioplegic solution is injected into the graft under pressure and the left ventricle is observed for distention.

Keeping the heart empty and beating improves preservation of ...  -  Dec 7, 2006
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery...the heart empty and beating improved myocardial fluid homeostasis and energy metabolism of hypertrophied pig hearts in comparison with cardioplegic arrest. ...

‘Because we can, should we ...?’  Oct 25, 2006
Normothermic cardiopulmonry bypass and myocardial cardioplegic protection for neonatal arterial switch operation. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2006;30:695-699. ... -European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (subscription) System error reports ring early alarm bells  Aug 25, 2006
NEARLY 20 years ago 11 patients at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital were given heavily contaminated doses of cardioplegic solution, an injection given ... -The Australian

Keeping the heart empty and beating improves preservation of ...  -  Dec 7, 2006
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryCONCLUSIONS: Keeping the heart empty and beating improves myocardial fluid homeostasis for hypertrophied hearts relative to cardioplegic arrest.

System error reports ring early alarm bells  Aug 25, 2006
NEARLY 20 years ago 11 patients at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital were given heavily contaminated doses of cardioplegic solution, an injection given ... -The Australian

Late iatrogenic coronary stenosis after selective intraoperative ...  Jul 31, 2006
During the procedure, the aorta had been crossclamped and high-potassium cold blood cardioplegic solution was delivered through the root in a classic antegrade ... -The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery



Complete excision of primary cardiac malignant fibrous ...  Mar 8, 2006
After cold cardioplegic cardiac arrest, the heart was explanted with an atrial incision line made at both pulmonary venous cuffs. ... - The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Repair of symptomatic neoaortic aneurysm after third-stage ...  Feb 14, 2006
A continuous infusion of cold blood cardioplegic solution was given through an angiocatheter inserted in the native ascending aorta after crossclamping. ... - The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Normothermic Beating Heart Surgery with Assistance of Miniaturized ...  Jan 29, 2006
The use of miniaturized cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) circuits and avoidance of cardioplegic arrest are attempts to reduce the inflammatory response to cardiac ... - Anesthesia & Analgesia (subscription)

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