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Salvatore Ocello

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Bidirectional Glenn and antegrade pulmonary blood flow: temporary or definitive palliation?

2008

Background We sought to investigate the role of the bidirectional Glenn with antegrade pulmonary blood flow in the surgical history of children with univentricular hearts. Methods A series of 246 patients, from three joint institutions, having univentricular heart with restricted but not critical pulmonary blood flow received a bidirectional cavopulmonary shunt with additional forward pulmonary blood flow. All patients have been studied according to their progression, or not, to Fontan operation. Two hundred and eight (84.5%) patients underwent bidirectional cavopulmonary anastomosis as primary palliation. Twenty patients (8.1%) with previous pulmonary artery banding were also enrolled in t…

Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineAdultHeart Defects CongenitalMalemedicine.medical_specialtyPulmonary CirculationAdolescentHeart VentriclesHemodynamicsKaplan-Meier EstimateHematocritFontan ProcedureRisk AssessmentSensitivity and SpecificityPulmonary artery bandingCohort StudiesArteriovenous Shunt SurgicalInternal medicinemedicineHumansHeart bypassChildSurvival rateRetrospective StudiesLungmedicine.diagnostic_testbusiness.industryHeart Bypass RightPalliative CareInfantBlood flowSurgerySurvival Ratemedicine.anatomical_structureTreatment OutcomeChild PreschoolCirculatory systemCardiologyLinear ModelsSurgeryFemaleCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicinebusinessFollow-Up StudiesThe Annals of thoracic surgery
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CRT-724 Can the Aortic Wall Communicate with Us?

2014

Association between aortic aneurysm wall and risk of rupture or dissection. Aortic specimens were obtained from 73 patients (51 men and 22 women, whose median age 61.7± 10.7 years) undergoing surgical repair of thoracic ascending aneurysm (TAA). Histopathological and immunohistochemical analyses

musculoskeletal diseasesSurgical repairmedicine.medical_specialtybusiness.industrygenotypeaortic wallSettore MED/23 - Chirurgia CardiacaDissection (medical)medicine.diseaseAneurysmSurgeryAortic wallAneurysm aortic wall genotypeAortic aneurysmAneurysmcardiovascular systemmedicineCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicinebusinessJACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
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