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Open AccessA 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....
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Chest pain due to sternotomy wire suture in a patient with revascularized coronary heart disease
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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...
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Article
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...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
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...