Cardiac aging – a review
One-stage surgical management f ...
Background: Hydatid disease remains a serious health problem in Mediterranean areas. We reviewed the efficacy of a single-stage operation in coexist ...
Prevalence of obesity and overw ...
Background: Obesity is one of the most important health-related problems in the 21st century. Data on its respective prevalence in Austria remain sc ...
Neointimal hyperplasia in a por ...
Background: Neointima formation is a crucial problem in the early phase after coronary artery bypass grafting which may result in vein graft stenosi ...
Gene expression profiles charac ...
Background: Preoperative ejection fraction (EF) is predictive for long-term survival in patients with aortic valve stenosis (AS). To gain insight in ...
Esophageal smooth muscle cells ...
Background: Esophagus tissue engineering using the hybrid-construct approach involves assembly of the esophageal components to engineer the organ. T ...
Off-pump multi-vessel revascula ...
Background: The subset of patients that benefit most from off-pump CABG remains controversial. This study randomly compared off- with on-pump CABG ...
Transcatheter aortic valve impl ...
Background: Report of our single centre experiences with transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in a group of high-risk patients without ext ...
Her-2 in gastroesophageal cance ...
Background: The human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (Her-2) is a membrane-bound tyrosine kinase that is overexpressed in about 15% of gastroeso ...
Minimally invasive mitral valve ...
Background: Minimally invasive (MICS) mitral valve surgery has become a valid alternative to the conventional approach by full median sternotomy; ne ...
Natural orifice translumenal en ...
Background: NOTES is advancing at a rapid pace with large registries of human applications and increasing evidence to support safety and efficacy. W ...
Urgent cardiac surgery in octog ...
Background: Urgent or emergent cardiac surgery in the elderly is burdened by high operative mortality and unacceptable postoperative quality of life ...
Natural orifice translumenal en ...
Background: As an emerging surgical paradigm, NOTES is currently performed using conventional flexible endoscopes. Gastroenterologists are experts i ...
NOTES transanal rectal cancer r ...
Background: With a rapidly expanding international registry of cases, Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) continues to be held a ...
Cardiac aging – a review
Background: Physiology of aging includes numerous modifications at different levels of the cardiovascular system, resulting in adverse remodeling of ...
Development and technique of pe ...
Background: Achalasia is a primary esophageal motor disorder involving the absence of esophageal body peristalsis and defective relaxation of the lo ...
Transvaginal cholecystectomy is ...
Background: Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is regarded as less invasive than laparoscopic surgery. However, the assumed adv ...
The transvaginal hybrid cholecy ...
Background: In the recent years natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) has been an increasingly popular topic with rising numbers o ...
Idiopathic scoliosis in Korean ...
Cross-sectional epidemiologic scoliosis screening was carried out to determine the current prevalence of scoliosis in the Korean population and to c ...
TLIF for symptomatic disc degen ...
The goal of a fusion of the lumbar spine is to obtain a primary solid arthrodesis thus to alleviate pain. Different circumferential fusion technique ...
Optimal entry points and trajec ...
The present study was performed to determine the optimal entry points and trajectories for cervical pedicle screw insertion into C3–7. The study inv ...
Stand-alone cage for posterior ...
Chronic lumbar pain due to degenerative disc disease affects a large number of people, including those of fully active age. The usual self-repair sy ...
A minimally invasive posterior ...
Percutaneous techniques may be helpful to reduce approach-related morbidity of conventional open surgery. The aim of the study was to evaluate the f ...
Abnormal activation of the moto ...
The aetiology of idiopathic scoliosis (IS) remains unknown, but there is growing support for the possibility of an underlying neurological disorder. ...
Nucleus disc arthroplasty with ...
Low back pain (LBP) due to degenerative disc disease (DDD) is a common condition that can be treated along a continuum of care: from conservative th ...
Computer algorithms and applica ...
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a complex spinal deformity whose assessment and treatment present many challenges. Computer applications ha ...