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pro vyhledávání: '"Micky W.T. Kwok"'
Autor:
Kevin Lim, Takuya Fujikawa, Randolph Hl Wong, Song Wan, Micky W.T. Kwok, Simon C.Y. Chow, Jacky Y.K. Ho
Publikováno v:
Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals. 30:147-155
Background Coronary endarterectomy aims to improve completeness of revascularization in patients with occluded coronary vessels. The benefits of coronary endarterectomy remain uncertain. The aim of this study was to evaluate short-term surgical outco
Autor:
Peter S Y Yu, Randolph H.L. Wong, Micky W.T. Kwok, Jacky Y.K. Ho, Takuya Fujikawa, Song Wan, Malcolm J. Underwood, Joyce W Y Chan, Simon C.Y. Chow
Publikováno v:
Journal of Thoracic Disease. 12:803-812
BACKGROUND: Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is the standard of care for patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM). Despite recent evidence supporting the role of CABG, long term outcomes for patients with ICM remain poor and 10-year results
Autor:
Randolph H.L. Wong, Peter S Y Yu, Jacky Y.K. Ho, Joyce W Y Chan, Micky W.T. Kwok, Simon C.Y. Chow, Gary S.H. Cheung
Publikováno v:
Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery. 15:85-87
Neurological complications remain a major burden in cardiac surgery, despite various intraoperative measures attempting to reduce its occurrence. Advancement of percutaneous approach in valve replacement has brought focus to the use of cerebral prote
Publikováno v:
Seminars in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. 33(3)
Aortic arch pathologies have been a surgical challenge, involving cerebral, visceral and myocardial protection. Innovative techniques including total arch replacement and frozen elephant trunk had evolved over last decades with promising mid-term out
Autor:
Peter S Y Yu, Simon C.H. Yu, Simon C.Y. Chow, Jacky Y.K. Ho, Malcolm J. Underwood, Micky W.T. Kwok, Randolph H.L. Wong
Publikováno v:
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 103:e479-e482
We describe a case of total arch replacement with frozen elephant trunk for chronic type B aortic dissecting aneurysm, which resulted in inadvertent landing of the frozen elephant trunk into the false lumen. A radiofrequency puncture system-assisted
Autor:
Malcolm J. Underwood, Sylvia S.W. Au, Rainbow W. H. Lau, Alex Pw Lee, Song Wan, Peter S Y Yu, Randolph Hl Wong, Micky W.T. Kwok, Siu-Keung Ng, Saina Attaran, Innes Yp Wan
Publikováno v:
Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals. 24:647-652
Background Commonly used complete mitral annuloplastic rings include saddle-shaped and semirigid rings, with no clear indication for either type. A semirigid ring may be preferred in patients whose native mitral saddle shape is well maintained. We pr
Publikováno v:
European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery. 56(3)
The Thoraflex™ device is a composite 4-branched graft with a distal endovascular stent that allows either a one-stage treatment or an endovascular second-stage treatment of multisegment aortic pathologies. Reports on open second-stage treatment aft
Autor:
Peter S Y Yu, Gary Sh Cheung, Eugene B. Wu, Simon C.Y. Chow, Randolph Hl Wong, Micky W.T. Kwok, Innes Yp Wan, Malcolm J. Underwood, Jacky Y.K. Ho, Alex Pw Lee
Publikováno v:
Asian cardiovascularthoracic annals. 25(5)
Background Transcatheter aortic valve implantation has been established as a safe and effective treatment option for patients at high or prohibitive surgical risk. However, some patients may not be suitable for the transfemoral approach due to severe
Publikováno v:
Chest. 147:e76-e78
Small pulmonary lesions can be difficult to locate intraoperatively. Preoperative CT scan-guided localization, for example with hookwire, is a popular method to help localize such lesions. However, the delay between CT scan localization with hookwire
Publikováno v:
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 95:1331-1339
Hyperglycemia-induced venous endothelial dysfunction accelerates the progression of vein graft failure in patients with diabetes undergoing surgical coronary revascularization. Recent studies suggest the importance of bone morphogenic protein-4 (BMP4