Cardiothoracic
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No Consensus on Best Surgery for Neonatal Heart Syndrome
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TAVR at 10: A Review
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Operative Error Skews Surgeons' Decision to Withdraw Support
Major Finding: Surgeons evaluating complications after emergency surgery that did not involve surgeon error were nearly twice as likely to agree...
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Delirium Signals Cognitive Risk After Heart Surgery
Major Finding: Patients who developed postoperative delirium following cardiac surgery showed a greater cognitive decline during hospitalization...
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Transfusions, Blood Conservation Yield Similar Outcomes After Cardiac Surgery
Major Finding: Compared with transfusion recipients, Jehovah's Witnesses who refused transfusions after undergoing similar cardiac surgery had...
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Delayed Surgery a Plus for Blunt Aortic Injury
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Infusions Didn't Lower Cardiac Surgery-Related Kidney Injury
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Stress Echo in Asymptomatic Revascularized Patients Not Useful
Major Finding: Exercise stress echocardiography can identify the small minority (13%) of post-PCI and post-CABG patients who are at higher...
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Act 2 Opens for Stem-Cell Heart Treatments
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Obesity Paradox Also Applies to CABG Patients
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Two Million Americans Estimated to Have Congenital Heart Disease
Major Finding: About 2 million American adults and children were living with a congenital heart disease as of 2010.Data Source: The estimate came...