Primary sarcoma of the heart is a rare disease that has an ominous prognosis with either medical or surgical therapy. We report a case of a 25-year-old woman with sarcoma of the heart who received a transplant and is clinically well after 7 years. We believe that transplantation must be considered in this kind of pathology for selected cases.
Cavopulmonary connections have been extensively used in the palliation of complex forms of congenital heart disease requiring some form of right heart bypass. We examine the mid term outcomes of pulmonary ventricle bypass operations in a single institution and performed by the same surgical team. POPULATION: Between March 1999 and April 2006, 62 patients underwent pulmonary ventricle bypass operations: bidirec...
OBJECTIVES: Atrio-ventricular septal (AVSD) defects include a variable spectrum of congenital malformations with different forms of clinical presentation. We report the surgical results, from a single institution, with this type of congenital cardiac malformation. Patients with hypoplasia of one of the ventricles were excluded from this analysis. POPULATION: Between November of 1998 and June of 2005, 49 patien...
Descreve-se a utilização de um sistema de assistência mecânica bi-ventricular, para-corpórea (Berlin Heart), como ponte para transplante, numa criança de dois anos, sofrendo de miocardiopatia dilatada. O período de assistência durou três meses e meio e o transplante foi bem sucedido. Descreve-se o caso clínico, os protocolos usados e revêem-se as indicações, as técnicas e os problemas com a assistência ventricu...
The Ross procedure has been used in children and young adults for aortic valve replacement and the correction of complex obstruction syndromes of the left ventricular outflow tract. We report the mid-term results of the Ross procedure in a single institution and performed by the same surgical team. Population: Between March 1999 and December 2005, 18 patients were operated on using the Ross procedure. The mean ...
A utilização do catéter de Foley na prática da algaliação está desde há muito definida. Os autores têm, no entanto, utilizado o catéter Foley em diversas situações de recurso, no âmbito da cirurgia cardíaca. A utilização deste método de enorme simplicidade e de muito baixo custo representa um verdadeiro "ovo de Colombo" e deve fazer parte do armentarium cirúrgico alternativo de cada um de nós. Descreve-se o uso...
The introduction of new procedures in surgery usually implies the costs of the so called learning curve. However patients should not suffer the negative effects of surgeon's learning curves. We report our results with the first 15 Ross procedures, a single surgeon and institution experience, and how it was possible to build a safe learning curve without major consequences for the patients. We emphasize the need...
BACKGROUND: Valve surgery in children is aimed at restoring correct hemodynamics with few reoperations and limited resort to prostheses, which would imply early deterioration or definitive hypocoagulation. OBJECTIVES: Report a series of paediatric pts with acquired mitral valve disease, mostly due to rheumatic disease, in whom it was possible, for the great majority, to repair the damaged valve. DEMOGRAPHICS: ...
Purpose: To assess the results obtained in very high-risk patients, which are those patients with an EUROSCORE greater than 13 points. Material and methods: From September 2001 to September 2003, thirty-three very high-risk patients were operated on in our department, which represents 1.6% of all the surgical activity during that period of time, being 17 male and 16 female, with an average of 69 years old (maxi...
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