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Axel Haverich
Thoracic Surgery
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Attitude of patients toward transplantation of xenogeneic organs
Background: The prospect of xenotransplantation has stimulated considerable hopes as well as major concerns. The question of whether or not patients accept xenografts is influenced not only by scientific facts b...
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Simultaneous treatment of thoracic and infrarenal aortic aneurysm using a combination of conventional surgery and endoluminal stent grafting
Introduction: Patients with multiple aortic aneurysms represent a small subgroup with the need for extensive surgical treatment at considerable risk. Endovascular treatment in combination with conventional oper...
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Heart and Heart-Lung Transplantation: Standards and Improvements
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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...
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Open AccessIntrapericardial migration of dislodged sternal struts as late complication of open pectus excavatum repairs
We present a case of sternal steel strut dislodgement and migration in a patient undergoing Ravitch repair for pectus excavatum (PE) 37 years ago. Broken struts perforated the right ventricle and right ventric...
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Surgical site infections—economic consequences for the health care system
Unfortunately, surgical site infections (SSIs) are a quite common complication and represent one of the major causes of postoperative morbidity and mortality, and may furthermore lead to enormous additional co...
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Mesenchymal stem cells and progenitor cells in connective tissue engineering and regenerative medicine: is there a future for transplantation?
Transplantation surgery suffers from a shortage of donor organs worldwide. Cell injection and tissue engineering (TE), thus emerge as alternative therapy options. The purpose of this article is to review the p...
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Open AccessEndobronchial ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration versus transcervical mediastinoscopy in nodal staging of non small cell lung cancer: a prospective comparison study
At present only few studies directly compare the diagnostic yield of endobronchial ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration (EBUS-FNA) and transcervical video-assisted mediastinoscopy (TM) for mediastinal lymp...
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Open AccessAortic valve replacement via right anterolateral thoracotomy in the case of a patient with extreme mediastinal right-shift following pneumonectomy
We report on the case of a 68-year-old male patient with the history of right pneumonectomy due to bronchial carcinoma, who was referred for aortic valve replacement due to severe calcified aortic stenosis. Pr...
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Open AccessArterial myocardial revascularization with right internal thoracic artery and epigastric artery in a patient with Leriche’s syndrome
Concomitant coronary artery disease (CAD) and Leriche’s syndrome is clinical scenario which poses a challenge to cardiovascular surgeons. This report describes a case of arterial myocardial revascularization i...
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Open AccessThe oral cavity is not a primary source for implantable pacemaker or cardioverter defibrillator infections
To test the hypothesis that the oral cavity is a potential source for implantable pacemaker and cardioverter defibrillators infections, the bacterial diversity on explanted rhythm heart management devices was ...
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Open AccessExtramedullary haematopoiesis presented as intrathoracic tumour in a patient with alpha-thalassaemia
The authors report a case of extramedullary haematopoiesis (EMH) presenting as an intrathoracic tumour in a patient with alpha-thalassaemia. CT scan and MRI of the chest were obtained and followed by tumour ex...
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Open AccessImmediate surgical coronary revascularisation in patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction
The number of patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and being untreatable by interventional cardiologists increased during the last years. Previous experience in emergency coronary artery ...
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Open AccessExtension of the right internal thoracic artery with the radial artery in extensive re-do coronary artery bypass grafting
Patients with extensive coronary artery disease often require re-do coronary artery bypass grafting. However, autologous bypass material is sometimes sparse. Since long term patency of arterial graft material ...
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Open AccessCoronary artery bypass grafting in young patients - insights into a distinct entity
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is the ‘Gold Standard’ for patients with multiple vessel coronary artery disease (CAD). Younger patients presenting with coronary artery disease requiring surgery may rep...
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Open AccessCirculatory support exceeding five years with a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device for advanced heart failure patients
Continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices (CF-LVAD) are now providing years of safe circulatory support with enhanced quality of life. We present four cases of patients with advanced heart failure who re...
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Techniques for Driveline Positioning
Next to the improvements in implantation procedure of the pump itself [1], there are some other parts of the LVAD system, which are crucial in the process of LVAD therapy such as graft anastomosis, controller ...
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Which Approach? Traditional Versus MICS
Consistently enhanced technology, research, and gain of clinical experience within the first decade of this century have established ventricular assist devices (VADs) as important option for the treatment of c...
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Intra-aortic balloon pump associated vascular complications in cardiac surgical patients: the past and the future
Despite low profile and percutaneous insertion intra-aortic balloon pumps (IABP) are prone to local vascular complications with important impact on outcome in cardiac surgery patients. The aim of this study wa...
