From Aristotle’s Teleology to Darwin’s Genealogy
The Stamp of Inutility
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Open AccessEarly outcomes of aortic valve replacement with Perceval PLUS sutureless valve: results of the prospective multicentric MANTRA study
The aim of this study is to report the preliminary real-word clinical and hemodynamic performance from the MANTRA study in patients undergoing aortic valve replacement with Perceval PLUS sutureless valve.
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Surgical Myocardial Revascularization with Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Although initial surgical revascularization of the coronary arteries was performed on a beating heart in the 1960s, the introduction of the heart-lung machine created optimal operative conditions of a blood-le...
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Endoscopic Tricuspid Valve Surgery: Planning and Deployment
, either in isolation or in combination with , can be easily implemented and performed through fully endoscopic access. Targeted measures are required for rapid, correct, and effective execution. As in th...
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Minimally Invasive Myocardial Revascularization
Minimally invasive coronary revascularization was originally developed in the mid-1990s as MIDCAB grafting is a less invasive approach compared to conventional CABG to address targets in the LAD. Minimally inv...
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Open AccessLife-threatening paradoxical thromboembolism in a patient with patent foramen ovale
Venous thromboembolism represents the third most frequent acute cardiovascular syndrome worldwide. Its clinical manifestations are deep vein thrombosis and/or pulmonary embolism. Despite a considerable mortali...
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The Young Engels and the Critique of Capitalism: His Influence on the Young Marx
This chapter shows that the young Engels was actually the progenitor of the original theoretical framework of Kapitalismuskritik, the Hegelian socialist critique of political economy. This framework is built from...
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Open AccessClinical outcomes after implantation of a sutureless aortic bioprosthesis with concomitant mitral valve surgery: the SURE-AVR registry
Early treatment of aortic valve stenosis is recommended in eligible symptomatic patients with severe aortic valve stenosis who would otherwise have a poor prognosis. The sutureless aortic valve bioprosthesis o...
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Plasma exosomes characterization reveals a perioperative protein signature in older patients undergoing different types of on-pump cardiac surgery
Although exosomes are extracellular nanovesicles mainly involved in cardioprotection, it is not known whether plasma exosomes of older patients undergoing different types of on-pump cardiac surgery protect car...
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Open AccessLeft Atrial Diameter is an Independent Predictor of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation after Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery
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Open AccessMini-Thoracotomy Access Reduces the Incidence of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation after Aortic Valve Replacement
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Open AccessSutureless bioprosthesis may increase postoperative atrial fibrillation after aortic valve replacement
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Open AccessEarly and long-term outcomes of minimally invasive mitral valve surgery through right minithoracotomy: a 10-year experience in 1604 patients
To report early and long-term outcomes of patients undergoing minimally invasive mitral valve surgery (MIMVS) through right mini-thoracotomy (RT) over a 10-year period.
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Introduction
Charles Darwin inserted this extraordinary passage from Aristotle’s Physics in a long note in ‘An Historical Sketch of the Recent Progress of Opinion on the Origin of Species’ with which the fourth edition of the...
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Crisis and Hegemony
From about the middle of the eighteenth century, especially in Francophone Europe, the three cardinal points of the traditional Aristotelian framework were repeatedly subjected to discussion, particularly in t...
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For and Against Aristotle
The origins of the modern Aristotelian tradition date back to the reintroduction that began between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries of the corpus aristotelicum into Western culture, when it was taken up agai...
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Dry Branches
The theory of descent with modifications by variation and selection represented a fundamental pivot in the process of the overturning and replacement of the traditional fixist and essentialist framework, whose...
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The Original Framework
The original framework conceived by Aristotle in constructing the edifice of the life sciences is quite coherent, despite the wealth of suggestions, perspectives, analyses, definitions, conceptual shifts, meth...
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Indirect Supremacy
If we take a bird’s eye view of the course of natural history over the arc of time that extends from about the middle of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century, we note that Aristotle’...
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Darwin’s Breakthrough
In the eyes of the young Charles Darwin, the traditional fixist, essentialist and teleological framework had found itself in an increasingly deep crisis since the end of the eighteenth century. In his opinion,...
