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pro vyhledávání: '"Ramon A. Cukingnan"'
Publikováno v:
The American Surgeon. 68:1120-1123
Regional block (RB) anesthesia for carotid surgery offers the advantage of continuously monitoring the awake patient's neurologic status during carotid cross-clamping. We retrospectively studied our experience with RB for carotid endarterectomy (CEA)
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 103:108-115
The effect of increasing age on quality of life, survival, and risk of reoperation was studied in 2479 patients followed up prospectively 2 to 20 years after myocardial revascularization. Quality of life was determined from annual questionnaires, whi
Publikováno v:
The Annals of thoracic surgery. 59(1)
We followed up 1,335 patients (287 female, 1,048 male) for 2 to 18 years (mean, 4.3 years) after they had undergone coronary artery bypass grafting. A health status index was calculated on the basis of their responses to annual questionnaires. The fe
Publikováno v:
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 28:69-72
Activated coagulation time (ACT) for protamine reversal was monitored in 28 consecutive patients (Group 1) and a standard heparin-protamine protocol was used for an earlier series of 28 patients (Group 2). Although Group 1 received a significantly hi
Autor:
Ramon A. Cukingnan, Joseph S. Carey
Publikováno v:
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 26:274-286
Carcinoma of the esophagus continues to have a low 5-year cure rate despite advances in radical surgery and super-voltage radiation. Neither patient education nor newer diagnostic techniques have improved survival. The reported operative mortality is
Publikováno v:
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 31:350-356
Sequential in vitro lymphocyte function tests in 13 patients undergoing cardiac operation were performed to determine factors that contribute to depressed cell-mediated immunity following operation. Lymphocytes were stimulated with phytohemagglutinin
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 79:188-193
To determine if subjective improvement correlated with graft patency and completeness of revascularization, we restudied 83 of 115 consecutive patients by angiography, regardless of symptoms, 1 year after operation. A total of 271 grafts were perform
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 75:227-231
Utilizing a heparinized tridodecylmethylammonium chloride (TDMAC) shunt makes it possible to treat various surgical diseases of the descending thoracic aorta without cardiopulmonary bypass. Since the initial report by Gott and associates on the use o
Autor:
Joseph S. Carey, Ramon A. Cukingnan
Publikováno v:
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 25:215-219
Normothermic coronary perfusion was used in 121 patients undergoing aortic valve replacement from 1969 to 1976. Isolated aortic valve replacement was performed in 69% of the patients (84/121), and 31% (37/121) had combined procedures consisting of ao
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 77:39-47
The survival of patients undergoing coronary bypass during the years 1972 to 1976 in Wadsworth Veterans Administration (VA-W) and community hospitals (CH) was analyzed. Base-line characteristics revealed that VA patients were younger (p