The patient was subsequently planned for urgent surgical resection of the tumour. A median sternotomy approach was chosen. Intraoperatively, the mass was found to be arising from the parietal ...

The conventional surgical approach to LVAD implantation involves complete midline sternotomy, open pericardium, aorto-bicaval cannulation and cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). Implantation is most often ...

This procedure is not an embolectomy as may be applied in the acute situation. PEA is performed via a median sternotomy on cardiopulmonary bypass. Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest is employed ...

Recent advances using transgenic animals or exogenous complement inhibitors have demonstrated prevention of hyperacute rejection of vascularized organs, but not graft loss due to acute vascular ...

Right aberrant subclavian artery, also called arteria lusoria, is one of the most common intrathoracic arterial anomalies. Although mostly asymptomatic, the retroesophageal and retrotracheal ...