The thymus gland—which produces immune T cells before birth and during childhood— is often regarded as nonfunctional in adults, and it's sometimes removed during cardiac surgery for easier access to the heart and major ...
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An interdisciplinary team of clinicians and scientists has published a consensus paper recommending appropriate quantitative imaging techniques for coronary artery stenosis and atherosclerosis related treatment and procedural ...
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When a person has heart surgery, they're often managed on cardiopulmonary bypass. This process, involving a machine that temporarily takes over for the heart and lungs during the operation, has been linked to an elevated ...
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Anna Falk at the research group Thoracic Surgery, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, will defend her thesis "Depression and delirium in cardiac surgery patients" on May 26, 2023. Here main Supervisor is Malin Stenman.
May 17, 2023
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Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine published a study in the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography showing that transesophageal echocardiography (TEE)-guided ...
Feb 22, 2023
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Measuring the patient's perspective of recovery after cardiac surgery is challenging. During the initial recovery phase, clinicians struggle to collect information about sleep patterns, mental health, and other symptoms from ...
Feb 21, 2023
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Cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CSA-AKI) is a major complication that increases morbidity and mortality after cardiac surgery. Most established predictive models are limited to the analysis of nonlinear relationships ...
Feb 16, 2023
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Developmental disorders, disabilities, and delays are common outcomes for infants with complex congenital heart disease. Targeting early factors influencing these conditions after birth and during neonatal hospitalization ...
Jan 26, 2023
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Of the many features in the recently-opened Hale Family Building at Boston Children's, maybe one of the most impactful for patients and clinicians is an innovation that puts a new spin on an old way of conducting perfusion ...
Nov 18, 2022
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A team of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM in Dresden is developing resorbable pacing leads that can significantly reduce risk factors after cardiac surgery. ...
Nov 2, 2022
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