Materials and Methods: Between June 2014 and June 2016, 63 consecutive patients were
admitted to the Department of Thoracic Surgery because of symptomatic MPE. After insertion …

Background Use of the Rives–Stoppa procedure for ventral incisional hernia repair (RS-VIHR),
in which the prosthesis is placed between the rectus abdominis muscle and the posterior …

The Scimitar syndrome is a rare congenital anomaly that consists in part of total or partial
anomalous venous drainage of the right lung to the inferior vena cava (IVC). This descending …

Background: The prevalence of patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction (LVD)
referred for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is increasing. Preoperative LVD is an …

Intravenous leiomyomatosis is a rare tumor arising either from a uterine leiomyoma or from
uterine vessel walls with extension into venous channels. Although intravenous …

HbA 1c is a standard clinical assessment of glycemia and the basis of most data relating
glycemic control to complications. While daily blood glucose testing gives a picture of day‐to‐…

Background: Prosthetic valve thrombosis (PVT) is one of the major causes of primary valve
failure and is defined as any thrombus formation, near or attached to an implanted prosthetic …

Introduction: The on-pump beating heart technique for myocardial revascularization with a
normothermic Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) represents a combination of standard on-pump …

Background The present study aimed to compare postoperative complications commonly
revealed after sternotomy closure by new sternal ZipFix™ (Synthes GmbH, Oberdorf, …

Acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) refers to an abrupt reduction in blood flow to the intestinal
circulation of sufficient magnitude to compromise the metabolic requirements and potentially …