abstract：:We describe an operative technique used in 30 patients from 1982 to 1995, in which sinus venosus atrial septal defect with anomalous pulmonary venous connection is repaired through longitudinal incision confined to the vena cava. A single oval patch is folded like the wings of a butterfly: the posterior wing is used t...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Victor S,Nayak VM

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past, it has been assumed that some basic physiologic responses to altitude, exposure in coronary patients are comparable to those in normal young subjects. In fact there are similar changes in sympathetic activation, heart rate, and blood pressure early after ascent, with decrements in plasma volume, cardiac o...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Alexander JK

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes an unusual case of subaortic stenosis in which hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy was found in combination with both anomalous insertion of papillary muscle directly into the anterior mitral leaflet and "sawfish" systolic narrowing of the left anterior descending coronary artery. Definitive ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Taşdemir O,Küçükaksu DS,Kural T,Bayazit K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multidisciplinary team approach with focused objectives characterizes research at Baylor College of Medicine into the causes, prevention, and treatment of atherosclerotic disease. Current clinical activities range from programs to modify lifestyle for the primary prevention of coronary artery disease to a large, ang...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Ballantyne CM,Chan L,Guevara J Jr,Morrisett JD,Mims MP,Gotto AM Jr

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface electrocardiogram can be simply described as the P, QRS, and T (and U) waves, together with PR and ST segments. However, it is actually the summation of the action potential from the sinoatrial node, the atria, the atrioventricular node, the His-Purkinje system, and the ventricles. Although the action pote...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Shih HT

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmyocardial laser revascularization, a new surgical technique, is being tested in patients with chronic obstructive coronary artery disease that is refractory to conventional revascularization techniques and to maximal medical therapy. During the operation, which is performed on the beating heart through a left th...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Cooley DA,Frazier OH,Kadipasaoglu KA,Pehlivanoglu S,Shannon RL,Angelini P

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients with ventricular septal defect and coarctation of the aorta were treated successfully by simultaneous correction of both anomalies through a single incision via a left transsternal anterolateral thoracotomy. (Texas Heart Institute Journal 1994; 21:158-60) ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Chu SH,Chou NK,Chou TF,Wang SS

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 20% to 30% of patients who undergo coronary arteriography for the evaluation of chest pain are found to have normal coronary arteries. These patients have a survival rate comparable to that of the normal population, yet they continue to complain of symptoms on extended follow-up, and about half of this g...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Mukerji V,Beitman BD,Alpert MA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of stab wound to the heart resulting in an atrial septal defect and perforation of the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve, which we repaired successfully 7 years after the injury. To our knowledge, repair of an atrial septal defect due to penetrating trauma has never before been reported. Investigat...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Jenson B,Kessler RM,Follis F,Wernly JA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle ventricles are constructed from canine latissimus dorsi muscle. These skeletal muscle ventricles can be placed subcutaneously on the chest wall or inside the chest cavity. Skeletal muscle ventricles are connected to the descending thoracic aorta and activated to pump blood as aortic diastolic counterpu...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Nakajima H,Thomas GA,Nakajima HO,Hammond RL,Fietsam R Jr,Mocek FW,Hooper TL,Lu H,Spanta AD,Stephenson LW

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the comparative merits of antegrade cardioplegia at moderate systemic hypothermia versus retrograde cardioplegia at systemic normothermia, we performed coronary artery bypass grafting using intermittent oxygenated blood cardioplegia in 2 sets of 50 consecutive patients with triple-vessel disease ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Hoffman D,Fernandes S,Frater RW,Sisto D

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within a 40-month period ending in June 1992, we used the transseptal approach in performing mitral valve surgery on 18 patients. The patients selected had 1 or more of the following indications: small left atrium; adhesions from previous cardiac surgery or rheumatic activity; large, organized left atrial thrombus: th...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： el Saegh MM,Aly MA,el Sayegh T,Mostafa EA,Zaghloul T,Saber W

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of total left main coronary artery occlusion is rarely reported (84 chronic and acute cases in the world literature), due to the high mortality rate from massive myocardial infarction. Acute occlusions have been treated with intracoronary streptokinase, with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, or...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Lijoi A,Della Rovere F,Passerone GC,Dottori V,Scarano F,Bo M,Parodi E,Venere G

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paleopathology, the study of disease in ancient remains, adds the dimension of time to our study of health and disease. The oldest preserved heart is from a mummified rabbit of the Pleistocene epoch, over 20,000 years old. Cardiovascular disease has been identified in human mummies from Alaska and Egypt, covering a ti...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Zimmerman MR

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of a 10-year-old girl who developed visual loss progressing to blindness after orthotopic heart transplantation and an immunosuppressive regimen of cyclosporine, azathioprine, and prednisone. Headaches and visual deterioration began 2 months after transplantation, and a diagnosis of pseudotumor cer...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Schowengerdt KO Jr,Gajarski RJ,Denfield S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From January of 1984 through December of 1990, we implanted 739 Pop De Popa wild boar aortic valves in 626 patients, in all cardiac valvular positions. Of these patients, 562 received only the Pop De Popa xenobioprostheses, which numbered 620 valves. Only patients with contraindications for bioprosthetic valves (such ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： De Popa IP,Gherghiceanu D,Bârsan M,Macarie C,Socoteanu I,Petrila T,Bradu F,Fagarasanu R,Panta L

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the case of a 48-year-old woman who required emergency coronary artery bypass grafting because of extensive dissection, cardiogenic shock, and ventricular fibrillation after failed percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for stenosis of a proximal left anterior descending coronary artery. Despite ma...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Caes FL,François KJ,Primo G,Van Nooten GJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficiency and risks of a method that allows closed-chest decannulation of an intraoperatively inserted cardiac-assist balloon catheter are examined. The technique involves direct insertion of the balloon catheter into the ascending aorta under the protection of an indwelling silastic tourniquet. At the discretion...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Robicsek F

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During reoperation for replacement of a regurgitant aortic bioprosthesis (a 23-mm bovine pericardial valve), it was judged that total removal of the valve would be difficult, and hazardous to the patient. Therefore, its leaflets were excised and its sewing ring left in situ. A 21-mm Carbomedics bileaflet mechanical va...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Raffa H,Al-Ibrahim K,Sorefan AA,Narayanan L

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing atrial sounds is unusual during atrial flutter and rare during atrial fibrillation. We report a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and coarse atrial fibrillation in whom atrial sounds were recorded phonocardiographically during endocardial atrial electrography. The atrial sounds were recorded phonocardio...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Hill PE,Amos L,Haines DE

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of left ventricular pseudoaneurysm following transmural myocardial infarction can be devastating; therefore, prompt diagnosis and surgical resection are warranted. We report a rare case of recurrent left ventricular pseudoaneurysm in which color-flow Doppler echocardiography was useful in establishing the ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Gaos CM,Fighali S,Coronado R,Hernandez G,Quintanilla M,Cooley DA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unruptured aneurysms of the left sinus of Valsalva are extremely rare, and their clinical features are not well-documented in the literature. We describe an unusual case in which an unruptured aneurysm of the left sinus of Valsalva associated with previously undiagnosed Marfan syndrome caused extrinsic compression of ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Hoganson NE,Cernaianu AC,Cilley JH Jr,Delrossi AJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary artery fistulae that communicate with the left ventricle are quite rare; those accompanied by sinus-node dysfunction are even more unusual. We report 2 cases of congenital coronary-artery-to-left-ventricle fistula with sinus-node dysfunction. In each of these patients, fistulae arose from both left and right ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Endoh R,Maruyama T,Akahane K,Koike S,Sasaki Y,Furuta S,Homma T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the rarity of isolated, nonrheumatic, noninfective tricuspid valvular disease, the long-term results of treatment by tricuspid valve replacement are uncertain. From June 1967 to April 1986, we implanted 23 biological or mechanical tricuspid valve prostheses in 20 patients for nonrheumatic, noninfective endo...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Renzulli A,Goudevenos I,Santé P,Naik S,Behl PR,Blesovsky A

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 49-year-old patient, referred with a diagnosis of right atrial myxoma, was found at surgery to have extensive cardiac metastases from a previously undetected cutaneous melanoma. In reviewing the literature, we found 5 other patients with a clinical diagnosis of melanoma metastatic to the heart, all of whom had a pre...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Bortolotti U,Tursi V,Milano A,Mazzucco A,Gallucci V

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central question that faces coronary laser investigators is whether interaction between laser energy and target tissues can be controlled in a dynamic in vivo environment. In considering this question, the author reviews the in vitro and in vivo experiments that his center carried out before it began using laser a...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Nordstrom LA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From September 1987 through May 1988, 86 patients (62 men and 24 women) underwent percutaneous laser-assisted balloon angioplasty, and 2 patients (1 man and 1 woman) underwent laser-assisted balloon angioplasty via cutdowns, in our free-standing catheterization laboratory. The patients' ages ranged from 36 to 81 years...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Thomas HM Jr,Siragusa V,Bowers JA,Allen N,Gallant G

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the clinical records of the 1st 144 consecutive patients in whom the Probe trade mark, a balloon-on-the-wire, was used for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty at the Texas Heart Institute. The goal of our retrospective study was to establish the efficacy and safety of this new balloon catheter. ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Gaos CM,Coronado R,Edelman S,Angelini P

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-healing mid-sternotomy wounds are a persistently difficult problem. The numerous methods that have been employed to manage these wounds are costly in terms of patient discomfort and length of hospital stay. We present a method to manage a complicated sternotomy that uses an omental flap with an immediate, split-th...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Hellman AA,Lammermeier DE,Cooley DA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using continuous-wave Doppler echocardiography, we evaluated the mitral flow velocity pattern in 30 ventricular septal defect patients, 11 of whom had severe pulmonary vascular obstructive disease (Group I); 10 of whom had severe pulmonary hypertension without pulmonary vascular obstructive disease (Group II); and 9 o...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Stojnic B,Krajcer Z,Albreht M,Aleksandrov R,Anicic S,Prcovic M,Simeunovic S

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of a quadricuspid aortic valve with single, central leaflet fenestrations causing aortic insufficiency has not previously been reported. We recently encountered these features during aortic valve replacement for severe aortic regurgitation in a 20-year-old man who had had a history of aortic insufficien...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Coltharp WH,Warren ET,Heath BJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orthoclone OKT3 (muromonab-CD3), a murine monoclonal antibody that virtually eliminates circulating T cells and inhibits medullary lymphocyte function, has recently been found effective in reversing stubborn severe allograft rejection after heart transplantation. To determine the influence of OKT3 therapy on the devel...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Sinnott JT 4th,Cullison JP,Sweeney MS,Weinstein SS

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between February 1983 and July 1987, twelve patients underwent heart-lung transplantation at the University of Cape Town and the University of Munich. The patients included eight men and four women, whose ages ranged from 15 to 49 years (mean, 27 years). The underlying pathologic condition was idiopathic primary pulmo...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Reichenspurner H,Odell JA,Cooper DK,Novitzky D,Rose AG,Klinner W,Reichart B

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 60-year-old man with an acute inferior-wall myocardial infarction was noted, on arteriography, to have an occluded distal right coronary artery. The vessel was reopened with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator; during resolution of the clot, spasm was observed arteriographically but was successfully treated wit...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Karim AH,Bennett W,Silver SJ,Kleiman NS,Goodman D,Heibig J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A successful cardiac transplant starts with the selection of an appropriate donor. Once consent to organ donation has been obtained, the donor should be managed aggressively in order to maintain optimal organ function. In the case of multi-organ donation, the heart is the first organ to be prepared, as well as the fir...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Colón R

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe diffuse obstruction of the coronary arteries was diagnosed in an 18-month-old girl who presented with signs and symptoms of severe congestive cardiomyopathy. Most reported cases of myocardial infarction in neonates or infants have been secondary to obstruction of a single major coronary artery owing to thrombos...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Park IS,Lufschanowski R,Angelini P,Leachman RD

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many patients who undergo cardiac transplantation do so as a result of end-stage dilated cardiomyopathy (DC). Little is known about the causes of this condition, but long-term follow-up studies reveal a high incidence of DC in patients who have had acute viral myocarditis. The following article examines the role of my...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： O'Connell JB

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Massive isolated chylopericardium is a rare postoperative complication of coronary artery bypass surgery. In the following case, massive chylopericardium developed after a coronary artery bypass procedure in which the left internal mammary artery was used for revascularization. The chylopericardium resulted from direc...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Pellegrini RV,Travers DJ,Marrangoni AG,DiMarco RF,Bekoe S,Grant KJ,Woelfel GF

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the possibility of providing, in vitro, an endothelial lining for artificial hearts, we cultivated adult autologous endothelial cells on two polyurethane and two silicone rubber surfaces. Over the ensuing 11-day period, we investigated the resulting cell proliferation and morphology by means of scanning el...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Fasol R,Zilla P,Deutsch M,Fischlein T,Kadletz M,Griesmacher A,Müller MM

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a technique of intravalvular implantation of a low-profile prosthesis that has been used in nine patients with mitral valve lesions. This technique preserves the anterior and posterior chordae and papillary mechanisms, which may decrease the incidence of postoperative left ventricular dysfunction that has ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Cooley DA,Ingram MT

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00