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Horizons
Thanks to the untiring, ongoing research, there is a step-by-step, slow but steady improvement of the handling of cardiovascular diseases. The most outstanding advance has lately been in the field of intracard...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Total Artificial Heart 1987
It has now been proven that the total artificial heart saves lives and is reliable for a short period of time (some weeks or months) in patients with acute irreversible rejection or severe myocarditis, and in ...
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Tricuspid Atresia Treated Without Valves
Tricuspid atresia is an uncommon congenital heart defect reported to occur in two to three percent of all post mortem specimens with heart disease. This condition is characterized by either the absence of or t...
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Complete Atrioventricular Canal
Complete atrioventricular canal (CAVC) is a complicated and serious congenital malformation involving the intra-atrial and intra-ventricular septa as well as the atrioventricular valves. It is a well defined f...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Early and Late Neurological Complications After Prosthetic Heart Valve Replacement
A retrospective study of early neurological complications after heart valve replacement revealed a significant reduction in the incidence (8.4% to 4.1%) and severity when patients operated on during 1969–1975 ...
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Complete Atrioventricular Canal. Long Term Results With Special Reference to Block and Mitral Valve Function
The complete atrioventricular (AV) canal is a complicated congenital malformation posing several difficulties in its surgical correction. The early results reported carried a high rate of complications mainly ...
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Symposium Künstliche Organe in der Inneren Medizin
Die Verwendung von künstlichen Organen in Form der Beinprothese oder brillenartiger Gläser als Lesehilfe kennen wir bereits seit dem Altertum. Die Verwendung von künstlichen Organen in der inneren Medizin ist ...
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Left Ventricular Function at Rest and During Exercise Before and After Surgical Treatment of Ischemic Heart Disease, Left Ventricular Aneurysm, Aortic Stenosis, and Aortic Incompetence
A total of 113 patients were recatheterized at rest and during exercise, on average one year ofter open heart surgery. (1) Fourty patients with ischemic heart disease and patent grafts after coronary artery by...
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Article
Tracheal- und Bronchotracheal-Resektionen
From the experimental laboratory we have learned that tracheal anastomosis gives the best result. If in a dog 7 to 8 rings of trachea are resected, reconstruction with different prosthesis has resulted in:
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Surgical Treatment of Atrial Septal Defects
Since 1948, when MURRAY published the first attempts to close an interatrial septal defect, several methods for closure of those defects have been described. The fact that so many different methods exist demon...
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Surgical Treatment of Ventricular Septal Defects
In its earliest stage the interventricular septum appears as a ridge of trabeculae at the apex of the common ventricle. Then a fine probe can be passed through from one ventricle to the other. But the trabecul...
