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Absence of PERV specific humoral immune response in baboons after transplantation of porcine cells or organs
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Neuere Aspekte in der Chirurgie der thorakalen Aorta
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Chirurgie bei fortgeschrittener Herzinsuffizienz
ACE-Hemmer und Betablocker haben in den letzten Jahren die Morbidität und Mortalität der chronischen Herzinsuffizienz signifikant reduziert. Sind konservative Therapiemaßnahmen allein nicht mehr ausreichend, ...
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Massive Postoperative Rhabdomyolysis Following Combined CABG/Abdominal Aortic Replacement: A Possible Association With HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitors
Objective. The beneficial effects of the treatment of hyperlipidemia in the secondary prevention of ischemic heart disease are well established. Pravastatin is a 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG CoA) r...
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Ist chronische Transplantatabstoßung die Ursache degenerativer Veränderungen in allogenen und xenogenen Herzklappentransplantaten?
Objectives: After a period of 5 to 10 years, biological heart valve prostheses undergo degenerative processes, which finally lead to dysfunction and complete destruction. Although many efforts have been made to ...
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Anticoagulant therapy in pregnant women with mechanical heart valves
Managing women with mechanical heart valves during pregnancy poses a particular challenge as there are no available controlled clinical trials to provide guidelines for effective antithrombotic therapy. Oral ...
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Aorta ascendens-Ersatz und Ross-Operation: Einfluss auf die Distensibilität der Neo-Aortenwurzel
Background: The safety and effectiveness of combined aortic root autograft replacement in combination with ascending aorta replacement has been demonstrated recently. Replacement of the ascending aorta with a va...
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Antegrade versus retrograde perfusion of the donor lung: impact on the early reperfusion phase
Transpulmonary thermodilution was used to evaluate the effect of flush route during harvest on hemodynamic and respiratory function of the pulmonary graft in the early post-transplant phase. Single lung transp...
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Endoluminal treatment of aortic dissection
Aortic dissection is most often a catastrophic medical emergency which, if untreated, can be potentially fatal. The intention of therapy in patients with aortic dissection is to prevent aortic rupture or aneur...
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Funktionelle Aspekte endothelialer Phänotypen im menschlichen Herzen
Endothelzellen spielen eine zentrale Rolle im Rahmen kardiovaskulärer Physiologie und der Pathogenese einer Vielzahl kardiovaskulärer Erkrankungen. Viele Fragen bezüglich endothelialer Heterogenizität unter Be...
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Herztransplantation und Assist Devices
Trotz der deutlichen Verbesserung der medikamentösen Therapie bei Patienten mit chronischer Herzinsuffizienz ist die Mortalität im fortgeschrittenen Stadium weiterhin hoch. Eine Herztransplantation ist bisher ...
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Intra-vital Fluorescence Microscopy for Intra-myocardial Graft Detection Following Cell Transplantation
Introduction: The aim of our study was the development of a potentially clinically applicable approach, which allows for intra-myocardial detection of the transplanted cells without the need for collection of tis...
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Biological Scaffolds for Heart Valve Tissue Engineering
Tissue engineering might bear promising solutions for overcoming the limitations of biological and mechanical heart valve substitutes. The concept of heart valve tissue engineering bases on decellularized biol...
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Enrichment of Cardiac Pacemaker-Like Cells: Neure gulin-1 and Cyclic amp Increase If-Current Density and Connexin 40 mRNA Levels in Fetal Cardiomyocytes
Generation of a large number of cells belonging to the cardiac pacemaker system would constitute an important step towards their utilization as a biological cardiac pacemaker system. The aim of the present stu...
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Myocardial Restoration and Tissue Engineering of Heart Structures
The restoration or de novo engineering of heart structures poses a challenge because of the unique structure and physical properties of the heart. The heart is a heterogeneous, complex helical structure with a...
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Enrichment of cardiac pacemaker-like cells: neuregulin-1 and cyclic AMP increase I f-current density and connexin 40 mRNA levels in fetal cardiomyocytes
Generation of a large number of cells belonging to the cardiac pacemaker system would constitute an important step towards their utilization as a biological cardiac pacemaker system. The aim of the present stu...
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On Khattab et al. (2008): multi-vessel stenting during primary percutaneous coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction
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Percutaneous interventions for treating ischemic complications of aortic dissection
The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of percutaneous interventions in treating ischemia complicating aortic dissection. Forty-five patients with ischemia complicating aortic dissection were treated b...
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Open AccessAortic root surgery in septuagenarians: impact of different surgical techniques
To evaluate the impact and safety of different surgical techniques for aortic root replacement (ARR) on early and late morbidity and mortality in septuagenarians undergoing ARR.
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Lung Perfusion in Clinical Heart-Lung Transplantation
The initial steps of cardiac transplantation were conducted more than 100 years ago by Carerel and Guthrie in 1905, employing an acute model with anastomosis of the neck vessels to cardiac structures.1 Reports of...
