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    A single preoperative FGF23 measurement is a strong predictor of outcome in patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery: a prospective observational study

    Several scoring systems have been developed to predict postoperative mortality and complications in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. However, these computer-based calculations are time- and cost-intensive....

    Timo Speer, Heinrich V Groesdonk, Beate Zapf, Vanessa Buescher in Critical Care (2015)

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    Chest pain due to sternotomy wire suture in a patient with revascularized coronary heart disease

    Dr. Bettina J. Stuck, Rainer E. Dabew in Clinical Research in Cardiology (2006)

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    Effects of skeletonized versus pedicled internal thoracic artery grafts on free flow capacity during bypass

    The free flow of skeletonized ITA grafts was compared with that of pedicled ITA grafts. One hundred patients with coronary artery diseases underwent elective CABG. In the group I (n = 50), the left ITA was dissec...

    Huang Qi, Olaf Wendler, Frank Langer, Dietmar Tscholl in Current Medical Science (2000)

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    Chest size matching in single and double lung transplantation

    We applied predicted vital capacity to chest size matching between donor and recipient in lung transplantation to 15 single-lung transplant recipients with pulmonary fibrosis and to 20 double-lung transplant r...

    Shinichiro Miyoshi, Stefanos Demertzis in The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardi… (1999)

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    Early graft failure after heart transplantation: Circulatory assist versus retransplantation

    Early graft failure requiring mechanical circulatory support occurred in 12 of our first 257 patients following cardiac transplantation. Three patients had biventricular myocardial failure and were supported b...

    Michael J. Jurmann, Axel Haverich, Hans-Joachim Schaefers in Artificial Heart 3 (1991)