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Open AccessSurgical treatment of infective endocarditis with massive vegetations in a patient with a ventricular septal defect and atopic dermatitis: a case report
It is well known that congenital heart disease, especially a ventricular septal defect, is associated with a high risk of infective endocarditis. There are few reports of infective endocarditis with vegetation...
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Simplified primum ASD closure technique in complete VSD repair: shallow suture crossing on the AV node
The primum atrial septal defect suture line adjacent to the crux is performed carefully with various techniques to avoid atrioventricular block in repair of complete atrioventricular septal defect. We describe...
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Fatal septic embolism due to Staphylococcus lugdunensis-induced bacteremia
Staphylococcus lugdunensis infective endocarditis (IE) is very rare in children. A female neonote presented with fever on the 29th postoperative day after undergoing a modified Norwood procedure (right ventricula...
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Complete repair with unifocalization of the only unilateral lung
A boy with 22q11.2 deletion was diagnosed with pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect (PAVSD) and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries (MAPCAs). At 8 months, unifocalization of left MAPCAs and BT...
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The long-term outcomes of physiologic repair for ccTGA (congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries)
The short-term outcome of physiologic repair for congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (ccTGA) is generally considered favorable; however, the long-term outcome is the greatest problem, es...
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Suprasternal approach for impending tracheo-innominate artery fistula
We report preventive innominate artery division or ligation through a suprasternal approach for impending tracheo-innominate artery fistula (TIF) with recurrent airway oozing in patients with severe neuromuscu...
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A novel approach to reduce catheter-related infection using sustained-release basic fibroblast growth factor for tissue regeneration in mice
Catheter-related infection is one of the most serious complications. Microbes migrate along the catheter (the foreign material) from the wound at the insertion-site, leading to catheter-related infection. Basi...
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Enhanced angiogenesis by gelatin hydrogels incorporating basic fibroblast growth factor in rabbit model of hind limb ischemia
Recently we have developed new sustained release system of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) using gelatin hydrogel as a carrier. Using this system, we examined the effect of topical sustained release of b...
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The Convergence Rate of Fixed-Width Sequential Confidence Intervals for a Parameter of an Exponential Distribution
In this paper we consider sequential fixed-width confidence interval estimation for a parameter τ = aµ + bσ with a and b being given constants when the location parameter µ and the scale parameter σ of the neg...
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A Mobile Agent-Oriented Approach to a Distributed Design Support System
The quality of an architectural design is evaluated from diverse aspects. Application programs that evaluate the quality from a specific aspect have been developed independent of each other. It is one approach...