Complications that arise after surgery are more likely to be underrecognized and undertreated in women than in men, leading ...

Over the past century, heart operations that once were unthinkable have become commonplace. Thousands of times a day, ...

According to officials, the registration and entry of details in a central database is ensured for timely surgery of patients ...

Background: Approximately 20,000 permanent pacemakers (PPMs) are implanted annually for bradycardia or atrioventricular (AV) block after cardiac surgery. Little is known about the long-term pacing ...

Dr. Gerry Allen, a cardiothoracic surgeon at AdventHealth Waterman, is now using the da Vinci robotic system to perform ...

Results are from the largest trial assessing acute kidney injury (AKI) after cardiac surgery following extracorporeal blood purification.

We therefore recommend pacemaker implantation after cardiac surgery for patients who are pacemaker dependent after surgery and whose spontaneous rhythm does not recover by postoperative day 5.

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The Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System has appointed Marc Pelletier, MD, as division chief of cardiac surgery for the department of surgery, section chief of cardiac ...

The Scientific and Practical Medical Center for Children's Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery of the Ministry of Health intends ...

Dr. Jamal Rabbi spoke at the Freeman Advantage Healthwise event Tuesday morning. He specifically focused on cardiac surgery ...

Cardiac output was simultaneously measured using echocardiography and a commercially available transpulmonary thermodilution method (PiCCO™) at 18 h after the end of surgery. Results: At 18 h after ...