A 57-year old male with a dual-chamber pacemaker and 40-year history of hemodialysis and autoinflammatory disease developed a large, 35 × 35 mm intracardiac vegetation on the right ventricular pacing lead. As this mass was large enough to occlude ...
INTERACTIVE CARDIOVASCULAR AND THORACIC SURGERY Jul 2019 [Refereed]
During extracorporeal life support (ECLS) in infants, cannulation of the right common carotid artery may result in a devastating ischaemic neurological injury. Herein, we present a case of an infant who encountered bilateral cerebral infarction du...
Surgical resection of enlarged calcification formed by idiopathic localized constrictive pericarditis during total aortic arch replacement for aortic dissection.
JOURNAL OF CARDIAC SURGERY 34(6) -511 Jun 2019 [Refereed]
A 75-year-old woman presented at a prior hospital with persistent cough and was treated conservatively for a thrombosed-type aortic dissection (Stanford A). One-year after discharge, follow-up computerized tomography revealed a DeBakey type II, ch...
Journal of Artificial Organs 22(1) 44-52 Mar 2019 [Refereed]
Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) recovery is complicated by lung inflammation from bone marrow (BM)-derived polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) and monocytes (MO). Although Sivelestat reduces inflammatory mediators and Rolipram inhibits PMN and MO act...
A 57-year old male with a dual-chamber pacemaker and 40-year history of hemodialysis and autoinflammatory disease developed a large, 35 × 35 mm intracardiac vegetation on the right ventricular pacing lead. As this mass was large enough to occlude ...
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