Cardiac Surgical Procedures

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  • "Adjustable" artificial chordal replacement for repair of mitral valve prolapse. 
  • "Other" neurologic complications after cardiac surgery. 
  • 111In oxine labelled mesenchymal stem cell SPECT after intravenous administration in myocardial infarction. 
  • 18F-florbetapir Positron Emission Tomography-determined Cerebral β-Amyloid Deposition and Neurocognitive Performance after Cardiac Surgery. 
  • 3-Factor Prothrombin Complex Concentrates in Infants With Refractory Bleeding After Cardiac Surgery. 
  • A Brazilian perspective for the use of bovine heparin in open heart surgery. 
  • A Multicenter Pilot Study Assessing Regional Cerebral Oxygen Desaturation Frequency During Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Responsiveness to an Intervention Algorithm. 
  • A Prospective Multi-Institutional Cohort Study of Mediastinal Infections After Cardiac Operations. 
  • A case of an infant with flail tricuspid valve due to spontaneous papillary muscle rupture: was neonatal lupus the culprit? 
  • A change in anticoagulation monitoring improves safety, reduces transfusion, and reduces costs in infants on cardiopulmonary bypass. 
  • A cost analysis of the impact of a new intravenous antihypertensive in managing perioperative blood pressure during cardiac surgery. 
  • A decade of short-term outcomes in post cardiac surgery ventricular assist device implantation: data from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons' National Cardiac Database. 
  • A diagnosis of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia with combined clinical and laboratory methods in cardiothoracic surgical intensive care unit patients. 
  • A double-blind, randomized, controlled, multicenter study to assess the safety and cardiovascular effects of skeletal myoblast implantation by catheter delivery in patients with chronic heart failure after myocardial infarction. 
  • A minimally invasive, algorithm-based approach for anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery. 
  • A multi-institutional cohort study confirming the risks of Clostridium difficile infection associated with prolonged antibiotic prophylaxis. 
  • A new surgical monitoring and resuscitation cart. 
  • A novel bioresorbable film reduces postoperative adhesions after infant cardiac surgery. 
  • A phase 2 prospective, randomized, double-blind trial comparing the effects of tranexamic acid with ecallantide on blood loss from high-risk cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CONSERV-2 Trial). 
  • A phase II multicenter double-blind placebo-controlled study of ethyl pyruvate in high-risk patients undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. 
  • A phase II, double-blind, placebo-controlled, ascending-dose study of Eritoran (E5564), a lipid A antagonist, in patients undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. 
  • A predictive index for length of stay in the intensive care unit following cardiac surgery. 
  • A previously unreported complication of apicoaortic conduit for severe aortic stenosis. 
  • A randomized clinical trial of nursing care for recovery from cardiac surgery. 
  • A strategy for atrial septal defect closure in small children that eliminates long-term wall erosion risk. 
  • A study of the effectiveness of a pain management education booklet for parents of children having cardiac surgery. 
  • A successful pregnancy outcome following the Ross procedure: a case report. 
  • A tale of two countries: Insights from the differences in Canadian/American patterns of care for patients with acute coronary syndromes. 
  • ACCF/AHA 2010 Position Statement on Composite Measures for Healthcare Performance Assessment: a report of American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures (Writing Committee to Develop a Position Statement on Composite Measures). 
  • ACCF/AHA 2010 Position Statement on Composite Measures for Healthcare Performance Assessment: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures (Writing Committee to develop a position statement on composite measures). 
  • ASDOS closures: congratulations and technical observations. 
  • Accuracy of the aristotle basic complexity score for classifying the mortality and morbidity potential of congenital heart surgery operations. 
  • Acute kidney injury and cardiopulmonary bypass: special situation or same old problem? 
  • Acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease after cardiac surgery. 
  • Acute kidney injury following cardiac surgery: role of perioperative blood pressure control. 
  • Acute lower extremity ischemia after cardiac surgery. 
  • Acute renal failure following cardiac surgery. 
  • Adding mitral valve annuloplasty to surgical revascularization does not benefit patients with functional ischemic mitral regurgitation. 
  • Addition of frailty and disability to cardiac surgery risk scores identifies elderly patients at high risk of mortality or major morbidity. 
  • Addressing the question of the effect of RBC storage on clinical outcomes: the Red Cell Storage Duration Study (RECESS) (Section 7). 
  • Adult surgical experience with Loeys-Dietz syndrome. 
  • Advances in contrast echocardiography: intraoperative perfusion assessment. 
  • Advances in the surgical treatment of heart failure. 
  • Advancing extubation time for cardiac surgery patients using lean work design. 
  • Advancing the Scientific and Educational Basis of Perioperative Cardiothoracic and Transplant Care. 
  • Adverse cardiac events in children with Williams syndrome undergoing cardiovascular surgery: An analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Allogeneic Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Treatment of AKI after Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Amrinone in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • An empirically based tool for analyzing mortality associated with congenital heart surgery. 
  • An infant with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and spinal muscular atrophy. 
  • An intracardiac mass in a young man with congenitally acquired HIV. 
  • An unexpected intraoperative finding. 
  • Anaphylactic reactions in cardiac surgical patients: Et tu, Brute? 
  • Anaphylactic/anaphylactoid reactions during cardiac surgery. 
  • Anaphylaxis during cardiac surgery: implications for clinicians. 
  • Anesthetic management of a patient with a brain tumor for cardiac surgery. 
  • Angiojet rheolytic thrombectomy in infants following cardiac surgery. 
  • Anterior spinal artery syndrome after aortic surgery in a child. 
  • Antibody formation after drug administration during cardiac surgery: parameters for aprotinin use. 
  • Anticoagulation monitoring during cardiac surgery: a review of current and emerging techniques. 
  • Antifibrinolytic Therapy for Cardiac Surgery: An Update. 
  • Antifibrinolytic use during cardiac and hepatic surgery makes tubular proteinuria-based early biomarkers poor tools to diagnose perioperative acute kidney injury. 
  • Antiphospholipid syndrome and cardiac surgery: management of anticoagulation in two patients. 
  • Antiplatelet agents and bleeding after cardiac surgery. 
  • Antiplatelet and anticoagulant prophylaxis and postoperative blood loss in cardiac surgery. 
  • Antithrombin deficiency increases thrombin activity after prolonged cardiopulmonary bypass. 
  • Aortic subannular left ventricular aneurysm: a rare and surgically correctable cause of angina. 
  • Apolipoprotein E genotype and S100beta after cardiac surgery: is inflammation the link? 
  • Apolipoprotein E polymorphism and the risk of acute nephropathy after cardiac surgery. 
  • Apolipoprotein epsilon 4 genotype is associated with less improvement in cognitive function five years after cardiac surgery: a retrospective cohort study. 
  • Aprotinin is useful as a hemostatic agent in cardiopulmonary surgery: yes. 
  • Aprotinin use during cardiac surgery: recent alterations and effects on blood product utilization. 
  • Aprotinin versus tranexamic acid: the controversy continues. 
  • Argatroban and Bivalirudin for Perioperative Anticoagulation in Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Arrhythmias in patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. 
  • Arterial hyperoxia during cardiopulmonary bypass and postoperative cognitive dysfunction. 
  • Assessing the safety of del Nido cardioplegia solution in adult congenital cases. 
  • Association Between Early Postoperative Acetaminophen Exposure and Acute Kidney Injury in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Association Between Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion and Readmission for Thromboembolism Among Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Concomitant Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Association of Perioperative Plasma Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin Levels with 3-Year Mortality after Cardiac Surgery: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study. 
  • Association of Surgeon Age and Experience With Congenital Heart Surgery Outcomes. 
  • Association of cardiac biomarkers with acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery: A multicenter cohort study. 
  • Association of elevated urinary concentration of renin-angiotensin system components and severe AKI. 
  • Association of gender and lowest hematocrit on cardiopulmonary bypass with acute kidney injury and operative mortality in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • Association of perioperative risk factors and cumulative duration of low bispectral index with intermediate-term mortality after cardiac surgery in the B-Unaware Trial. 
  • Association of postoperative proteinuria with AKI after cardiac surgery among patients at high risk. 
  • Association of the 98T ELAM-1 polymorphism with increased bleeding after cardiac surgery. 
  • Associations Between Unplanned Cardiac Reinterventions and Outcomes After Pediatric Cardiac Operations. 
  • Atheromatous disease of the aorta and perioperative stroke. 
  • Atrial Rhabdomyoma Resection With Extracellular Matrix Reconstruction of the Right Atrial Free Wall in an Infant. 
  • Atrial arrhythmias during chronic follow-up of surgery for complex congenital heart disease. 
  • Atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery: clinical update on mechanisms and prophylactic strategies. 
  • Atrial fibrillation correction surgery: lessons from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Cardiac Database. 
  • Atrial septal defect repair by inversion of a juxtaposed left atrial appendage. 
  • Baseline characteristics and therapeutic goals in the New Approaches to Coronary Intervention (NACI) registry. 
  • Battling the Chimaera: How Much Disclosure of Rare Risks Is Necessary? 
  • Bedside tool for predicting the risk of postoperative dialysis in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • Benign pneumoperitoneum following median sternotomy incision. 
  • Biomarkers predict progression of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery. 
  • Biomarkers to guide perioperative management. 
  • Bleeding and management of coagulopathy. 
  • Blood Versus Crystalloid Cardioplegia in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. 
  • Blood conservation in cardiac surgery. Preliminary results with an institutional commitment. 
  • Blood transfusion and infection after cardiac surgery. 
  • Blood transfusions are associated with urinary biomarkers of kidney injury in cardiac surgery. 
  • Bovine arch anatomy influences recoarctation rates in the era of the extended end-to-end anastomosis. 
  • Brain monitoring with electroencephalography and the electroencephalogram-derived bispectral index during cardiac surgery. 
  • Bridge-to-decision therapy with a continuous-flow external ventricular assist device in refractory cardiogenic shock of various causes. 
  • Brief report: The declining incidence of cerebral hyperthermia during cardiac surgery: a seven-year experience in 6,334 patients. 
  • CACI in cardiac surgery. 
  • Calcium antagonists and good results: association or causation? 
  • Calcium channel blockers and cardiac surgery. 
  • Cardiac anesthetic: is it unique? 
  • Cardiac arrest in infants after congenital heart surgery. 
  • Cardiac cryosurgery: effects of myocardial temperature on cryolesion size. 
  • Cardiac cryosurgery: regional myocardial blood flow of ventricular cryolesions. 
  • Cardiac operations for North American children with rheumatic diseases: 1985-2005. 
  • Cardiac surgery after mediastinal radiation: extent of exposure influences outcome. 
  • Cardiac surgery in infants with low birth weight is associated with increased mortality: analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Database. 
  • Cardiac surgery in octogenarians: have we gone too far...or not far enough? 
  • Cardiac surgery in the 21st century. 
  • Cardiac surgery increases surgical complexity. 
  • Cardiac surgery risk models: a position article. 
  • Cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury: putting together the pieces of the puzzle. 
  • Cardiomyoplasty: the prospect of human stem cells. 
  • Care models and associated outcomes in congenital heart surgery. 
  • Case 1-2008. One institution's decreasing use of aprotinin during cardiac surgery in 2006. 
  • Cases from the Osler Medical Service at Johns Hopkins University. Left atrial myxoma. 
  • Center variation and outcomes associated with delayed sternal closure after stage 1 palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. 
  • Center variation in hospital costs for patients undergoing congenital heart surgery. 
  • Central nervous system complications of cardiac surgery. 
  • Cerebral injury after cardiac surgery: identification of a group at extraordinary risk. Multicenter Study of Perioperative Ischemia Research Group (McSPI) and the Ischemia Research Education Foundation (IREF) Investigators. 
  • Change in plasma glutamate concentration during cardiac surgery is a poor predictor of cognitive outcome. 
  • Clevidipine effectively and rapidly controls blood pressure preoperatively in cardiac surgery patients: the results of the randomized, placebo-controlled efficacy study of clevidipine assessing its preoperative antihypertensive effect in cardiac surgery-1. 
  • Clevidipine in adult cardiac surgical patients: a dose-finding study. 
  • Clevidipine in the treatment of perioperative hypertension: assessing safety events in the ECLIPSE trials. 
  • Clinical characteristics of patients undergoing surgical ventricular reconstruction by choice and by randomization. 
  • Clinical outcomes after implantation of a centrifugal flow left ventricular assist device and concurrent cardiac valve procedures. 
  • Clinical outcomes of palliative surgery including a systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunt in infants with cyanotic congenital heart disease: does aspirin make a difference? 
  • Clinical predictors of major infections after cardiac surgery. 
  • Clinical trials evaluating red blood cell transfusion thresholds: An updated systematic review and with additional focus on patients with cardiovascular disease. 
  • Cognitive dysfunction after cardiac surgery: revisiting etiology. 
  • Combining clinical databases with genetic studies to help advance the causation model of congenital heart disease. 
  • Common ground: measuring intrainstitutional mortality among pediatric surgical procedures. 
  • Comparative analysis of antifibrinolytic medications in pediatric heart surgery. 
  • Comparative studies of prosthetic materials in the left atrium of the dog. 
  • Comparison of Coapsys annuloplasty and internal reduction mitral annuloplasty in the randomized treatment of functional ischemic mitral regurgitation: impact on the left ventricle. 
  • Comparison of Transradial and Transfemoral Approaches in Women Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in China: A Retrospective Observational Study. 
  • Comparison of long-term postoperative sequelae in patients with tetralogy of Fallot versus isolated pulmonic stenosis. 
  • Comparison of need for operative therapy in patients with mitral valve prolapse involving both leaflets versus posterior leaflet only. 
  • Comparison of prosthetic graft materials as intracardiac right atrial patches. 
  • Comparison of shunt types in the Norwood procedure for single-ventricle lesions. 
  • Complement activation and cardiac surgery: a novel target for improving outcomes. 
  • Complete resolution of systemic venous baffle obstruction and baffle leak using the Gore Excluder covered stent in two patients with transposition of the great arteries and prior Mustard procedure. 
  • Complex aortic valve repair as a durable and effective alternative to valve replacement in children with aortic valve disease. 
  • Congenital Heart Surgery Case Mix Across North American Centers and Impact on Performance Assessment. 
  • Congenital heart operations performed in the first year of life: does geographic variation exist? 
  • Congenital heart surgery outcomes in Down syndrome: analysis of a national clinical database. 
  • Contemporary outcomes of complete atrioventricular septal defect repair: analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Contemporary patterns of management of tetralogy of Fallot: data from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database. 
  • Contemporary performance of surgical ventricular restoration procedures: data from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons' National Cardiac Database. 
  • Continuous noninvasive monitoring of cardiac output with esophageal Doppler ultrasound during cardiac surgery. 
  • Contrast in intracardiac acoustic radiation force impulse images of radiofrequency ablation lesions. 
  • Copy Number Variants of Undetermined Significance Are Not Associated with Worse Clinical Outcomes in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. 
  • Coronary arteriovenous fistulae: the complexity of coronary artery-to-coronary sinus connections. 
  • Coronary flow and regional function before and after supraarterial myotomy for myocardial bridging. 
  • Corticosteroids and outcome in children undergoing congenital heart surgery: analysis of the Pediatric Health Information Systems database. 
  • Corynebacterium endocarditis of a percutaneously placed transcatheter pulmonary valve. 
  • Cost-benefit and efficacy of aprotinin compared with epsilon-aminocaproic acid in patients having repeated cardiac operations: a randomized, blinded clinical trial. 
  • Costs and outcomes after cardiac surgery in patients refusing transfusion compared with those who do not: a case-matched study. 
  • Costs associated with health care-associated infections in cardiac surgery. 
  • Critical Care Nursing's Impact on Pediatric Patient Outcomes. 
  • Critical illness hyperglycemia in pediatric cardiac surgery. 
  • Current Practices in the Timing of Stage 2 Palliation. 
  • Current density and electrically induced ventricular fibrillation. 
  • Current status of cardiac surgery in the abciximab-treated patient. 
  • Data gathering by telephone. An application in a study of clinical nursing. 
  • Defining Value-Based Care in Cardiac and Vascular Anesthesiology: The Past, Present, and Future of Perioperative Cardiovascular Care. 
  • Defining dysfunction: group means versus incidence analysis--a statement of consensus. 
  • Delayed Sternal Closure in Infant Heart Surgery-The Importance of Where and When: An Analysis of the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Delayed postmyectomy ventricular septal defect. 
  • Design and implementation of a new computerized system for intraoperative cardiac mapping. 
  • Detection of platelet isoantibodies by (3H)serotonin platelet release and its clinical application to the problem of platelet matching. 
  • Determinants of operative mortality in valvular heart surgery. 
  • Diabetes and the Association of Postoperative Hyperglycemia With Clinical and Economic Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Diagnosing heparin-induced thrombocytopenia in cardiac surgical patients: not as easy as you think. 
  • Diagnosis of acute kidney injury using functional and injury biomarkers: workgroup statements from the tenth Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative Consensus Conference. 
  • Diagnostic test use in different practice settings. A controlled comparison. 
  • Diastolic dysfunction in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: the role of gender and age-gender interaction. 
  • Diastolic dysfunction, diagnostic and perioperative management in cardiac surgery. 
  • Differential age effects of mean arterial pressure and rewarming on cognitive dysfunction after cardiac surgery. 
  • Differential case ascertainment in clinical registry versus administrative data and impact on outcomes assessment for pediatric cardiac operations. 
  • Differential gene expression and genomic patient stratification following left ventricular assist device support. 
  • Direct heart shunt placement for CSF diversion: technical note. 
  • Do omega-3 fatty acids prevent atrial fibrillation after open heart surgery? A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. 
  • Does perioperative systolic blood pressure variability predict mortality after cardiac surgery? An exploratory analysis of the ECLIPSE trials. 
  • Does the EuroSCORE perform well on the STS population? 
  • Doppler assessment of pulmonary artery flow patterns and ventricular function after the Fontan operation. 
  • Double aortic arch with aortic atresia and left-sided type B interruption. 
  • Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial Comparing the Effects of Antithrombin Versus Placebo on the Coagulation System in Infants with Low Antithrombin Undergoing Congenital Cardiac Surgery. 
  • EVEREST II randomized clinical trial: predictors of mitral valve replacement in de novo surgery or after the MitraClip procedure. 
  • Early cavopulmonary anastomosis after Norwood procedure results in excellent Fontan outcome. 
  • Echocardiographic characteristics of successful deployment of the Das AngelWings atrial septal defect closure device: initial multicenter experience in the United States. 
  • Educational program in crisis management for cardiac surgery teams including high realism simulation. 
  • Effect of A1C and Glucose on Postoperative Mortality in Noncardiac and Cardiac Surgeries. 
  • Effect of Obesity and Underweight Status on Perioperative Outcomes of Congenital Heart Operations in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: An Analysis of Data From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database. 
  • Effect of Patent Foramen Ovale in Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension. 
  • Effect of an implantable gentamicin-collagen sponge on sternal wound infections following cardiac surgery: a randomized trial. 
  • Effect of intravenous lidocaine on the transcerebral inflammatory response during cardiac surgery: a randomized-controlled trial. 
  • Effect of levosimendan on survival and adverse events after cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis. 
  • Effect of repair strategy on hospital cost for infants with tetralogy of Fallot. 
  • Effects of extreme hemodilution during cardiac surgery on cognitive function in the elderly. 
  • Effects of institutional volumes on operative outcomes for aortic root replacement in North America. 
  • Effects of red-cell storage duration on patients undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • Efficacy and safety of aprotinin in cardiac surgery. 
  • Efficacy and safety of recombinant factor XIII on reducing blood transfusions in cardiac surgery: a randomized, placebo-controlled, multicenter clinical trial. 
  • Efficacy of the internal mammary artery in combined aortic valve replacement-coronary artery bypass grafting. 
  • Electrocardiographic R-wave changes during cardiac surgery. 
  • Electrocardiographic effects of dexmedetomidine in patients with congenital heart disease. 
  • Emerging concepts in acute kidney injury following cardiac surgery. 
  • Endotoxaemia during left ventricular assist device insertion: relationship between risk factors and outcome. 
  • Enhanced recovery after cardiac surgery program to improve patient outcomes. 
  • Epidemiology and outcomes after in-hospital cardiac arrest after pediatric cardiac surgery. 
  • Erythropoietin therapy in the perioperative setting. 
  • Estimation of Achievable Oxygen Consumption Following Transfusion With Rejuvenated Red Blood Cells. 
  • Evaluation of 32 urine biomarkers to predict the progression of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery. 
  • Evaluation of Right Ventricular Myocardial Mechanics Using Velocity Vector Imaging of Cardiac MRI Cine Images in Transposition of the Great Arteries Following Atrial and Arterial Switch Operations. 
  • Evaluation of dynamic parameters of thrombus formation measured on whole blood using rotational thromboelastometry in children undergoing cardiac surgery: a descriptive study. 
  • Evaluation of failure to rescue as a quality metric in pediatric heart surgery: an analysis of the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Evaluation of patients at risk for protamine reactions. 
  • Evaluation of the quality of care in congenital heart surgery: contribution of the Aristotle complexity score. 
  • Evaluation of the topical hemostatic efficacy and safety of TISSEEL VH S/D fibrin sealant compared with currently licensed TISSEEL VH in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: a phase 3, randomized, double-blind clinical study. 
  • Evaluation of vacuum-assisted closure in the treatment of poststernotomy mediastinitis. 
  • Evidence-based renal protection in cardiac surgery. 
  • Excess costs associated with complications and prolonged length of stay after congenital heart surgery. 
  • Existential relatedness in light of eudemonic well-being and religious coping among middle-aged and older cardiac patients. 
  • Expected and realized benefits from cardiac surgery: an update. 
  • Extending the use of the pacing pulmonary artery catheter for safe minimally invasive cardiac surgery. 
  • Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for infant postcardiotomy support: significance of shunt management. 
  • Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation postcardiotomy: "With great power comes great responsibility". 
  • Extraction of intramyocardial foreign body utilizing operative ultrasonography. 
  • FOCUS: the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists' initiative to improve quality and safety in the cardiovascular operating room. 
  • Facing the Ever-Changing Challenges of Caring for Cardiothoracic and Transplant Surgery Patients. 
  • Faith-based and secular pathways to hope and optimism subconstructs in middle-aged and older cardiac patients. 
  • Fibroblast growth factor 23 levels are elevated and associated with severe acute kidney injury and death following cardiac surgery. 
  • Fifteen-year outcome trends for valve surgery in North America. 
  • First Post-Operative Urinary Kidney Injury Biomarkers and Association with the Duration of AKI in the TRIBE-AKI Cohort. 
  • First nationwide survey of US integrated 6-year cardiothoracic surgical residency program directors. 
  • First report of the point-of-care TEG: A technical validation study of the TEG-6S system. 
  • Fluid management in cardiac surgery: colloid or crystalloid? 
  • Functional Tricuspid Regurgitation in Mitral Valve Disease. 
  • Gait speed as an incremental predictor of mortality and major morbidity in elderly patients undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • Genetic factors contribute to bleeding after cardiac surgery. 
  • Genetic influences on cerebral outcome after cardiac surgery. 
  • Genetics and outcome after cardiac surgery. 
  • Genetics of coagulation: considerations for cardiac surgery. 
  • Geography or pathology? Regional variation in atrial septal defect closure rates and techniques. 
  • Gestational age at birth and outcomes after neonatal cardiac surgery: an analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Getting to a Man's Heart through His Colon. 
  • Giant parenchymal bronchogenic cyst mimicking hydropneumothorax. 
  • Glucose and outcome after cardiac surgery: what are the issues? 
  • Glycosylated hemoglobin levels and outcome in non-diabetic cardiac surgery patients. 
  • Goal-directed coagulation management in the perioperative period of cardiac surgery. 
  • Guidelines for perioperative blood transfusion and conservation in cardiac surgery: lessons and challenges. 
  • HIT happens: diagnosing and evaluating the patient with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. 
  • Hematologic and economic impact of aprotinin in reoperative pediatric cardiac operations. 
  • Hemostatic effects of antithrombin III supplementation during cardiac surgery: results of a prospective randomized investigation. 
  • Heparin neutralization by recombinant platelet factor 4 and protamine. 
  • Heparin-mediated hypotension associated with cardiac surgery. 
  • High Postoperative Blood Pressure After Cardiac Surgery Is Associated With Acute Kidney Injury and Death. 
  • High spinal anesthesia for cardiac surgery: effects on beta-adrenergic receptor function, stress response, and hemodynamics. 
  • High-Velocity Jet in the Right Atrium: What Is the Diagnosis? 
  • Highlights of the year in JACC 2007. 
  • Historical perspectives of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery: Robert Edward Gross (1905-1988). 
  • Home monitoring of infants after stage one palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. 
  • Hospital variation in postoperative infection and outcome after congenital heart surgery. 
  • Hypertension: a new look at an old problem. 
  • Hypothermia and cerebral protection strategies in aortic arch surgery: a comparative effectiveness analysis from the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. 
  • Hypoxemia after prior cardiac surgery due to interatrial shunting and its treatment with a novel transcatheter occlusion device. 
  • Iatrogenic atrial septal defect following transseptal cardiac interventions. 
  • Identifying stunned myocardium during cardiac surgery: the role of myocardial contrast echocardiography. 
  • Images in cardiovascular medicine. Left ventricular apical pseudoaneurysm: echocardiographic and intraoperative findings. 
  • Immunologic impact and clinical outcomes after surgical exposure to bovine thrombin. 
  • Immunotherapy for refractory pulmonary infection after adult cardiac surgery: immune dysregulation syndrome. 
  • Impact of Operative and Postoperative Factors on Neurodevelopmental Outcomes After Cardiac Operations. 
  • Impact of Patient Characteristics on Hospital-Level Outcomes Assessment in Congenital Heart Surgery. 
  • Impact of concurrent surgical valve procedures in patients receiving continuous-flow devices. 
  • Impact of perioperative blood pressure variability on health resource utilization after cardiac surgery: an analysis of the ECLIPSE trials. 
  • Impact of postoperative hyperglycemia following surgical repair of congenital cardiac defects. 
  • Impact of preoperative moderate/severe mitral regurgitation on 2-year outcome after transcatheter and surgical aortic valve replacement: insight from the Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valve (PARTNER) Trial Cohort A. 
  • Impact of surgical ventricular reconstruction on sphericity index in patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy: follow-up from the STICH trial. 
  • Implantable left ventricular assist devices: new hope for patients with end-stage heart failure. 
  • Implementation of a diuretic stewardship program in a pediatric cardiovascular intensive care unit to reduce medication expenditures. 
  • Improved clot formation by combined administration of activated factor VII (NovoSeven) and fibrinogen (Haemocomplettan P). 
  • Improved postoperative outcomes associated with preoperative statin therapy. 
  • Improved surgical approach to left atrial appendage aneurysm. 
  • Improving family functioning after cardiac surgery: a randomized trial. 
  • Improving recovery following cardiac surgery: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • In search of the optimal surgical mortality. 
  • Incidence of asymptomatic patent foramen ovale according to age. 
  • Incidental Cold Agglutinins in Cardiac Surgery: Intraoperative Surprises and Team-Based Problem-Solving Strategies During Cardiopulmonary Bypass. 
  • Incremenal Value of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance for Assessing Pulmonic Valve Regurgitation. 
  • Indications for ascending aortic replacement size alone is not enough. 
  • Infective Endocarditis. 
  • Infective endocarditis: a comprehensive overview. 
  • Inflammatory gene polymorphisms and risk of postoperative myocardial infarction after cardiac surgery. 
  • Inflammatory response to cardiopulmonary bypass. 
  • Influence of hospital procedural volume on care process and mortality for patients undergoing elective surgery for mitral regurgitation. 
  • Influence of the timing of cardiac catheterization and the amount of contrast media on acute renal failure after cardiac surgery. 
  • Influence of the timing of cardiac surgery on the outcome of patients with infective endocarditis and stroke. 
  • Inhaled Nitric Oxide (iNO) and Inhaled Epoprostenol (iPGI2) Use in Cardiothoracic Surgical Patients: Is there Sufficient Evidence for Evidence-Based Recommendations? 
  • Initial experience with factor-Xa inhibition in percutaneous coronary intervention: the XaNADU-PCI Pilot. 
  • Integrated catheter for 3-D intracardiac echocardiography and ultrasound ablation. 
  • Interleukin-1β gene variants are associated with QTc interval prolongation following cardiac surgery: a prospective observational study. 
  • Interleukin-8 and Tumor Necrosis Factor Predict Acute Kidney Injury After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Interpretation of blood lactate measurements in paediatric open-heart surgery and in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. 
  • Interventional catheterization procedures and cardiothoracic surgical consultation. Cardiovascular Surgery Committee. 
  • Intracardiac Echinococcal Cyst Causing Biventricular Cavity Obliteration. 
  • Intracardiac acoustic radiation force impulse imaging: a novel imaging method for intraprocedural evaluation of radiofrequency ablation lesions. 
  • Intraoperative Glycemic Control to Prevent Delirium after Cardiac Surgery: Steering a Course between Scylla and Charybdis. 
  • Intraoperative High-Frequency Jet Ventilation Is Equivalent to Conventional Ventilation During Patent Ductus Arteriosus Ligation. 
  • Intraoperative Magnesium Administration Does Not Reduce Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation After Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Intraoperative Methadone for the Prevention of Postoperative Pain: A Randomized, Double-blinded Clinical Trial in Cardiac Surgical Patients. 
  • Intraoperative Renal Resistive Index as an Acute Kidney Injury Biomarker: Development and Validation of an Automated Analysis Algorithm. 
  • Intraoperative diagnosis and management of patent foramen ovale. 
  • Intraoperative magnesium administration does not improve neurocognitive function after cardiac surgery. 
  • Intraoperative pulmonary artery stenting: an alternative technique for the management of pulmonary artery stenosis. 
  • Intraoperative transesophageal color flow mapping: initial experience. 
  • Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography in congenital heart disease. 
  • Intraoperative vasoplegia: methylene blue to the rescue! 
  • Intrapulmonary Milrinone for Cardiac Surgery Provides Insight Into Precision Delivery of Aerosolized Vasodilators. 
  • Intravenous Acetaminophen Does Not Decrease Persistent Surgical Pain After Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Intravenous acetaminophen analgesia after cardiac surgery: A randomized, blinded, controlled superiority trial. 
  • Intravenous milrinone in cardiac surgery. 
  • Introduction to the STS National Database Series: Outcomes Analysis, Quality Improvement, and Patient Safety. 
  • Invasive hemodynamic evaluation in patients with mechanical aortic valves. Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions: official journal of the society for cardiac angiography & interventions 2013. 
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  • Is There a Role for Preoperative Platelet Function Testing in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery During Antiplatelet Therapy? 
  • Is chest physiotherapy necessary after cardiac surgery? 
  • Is there any reason to withhold alpha2 agonists from patients with coronary disease during surgery? 
  • Isolated Mitral Valve Surgery: The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Analysis. 
  • Isolated Tricuspid Valve Surgery. 
  • Isolated mitral valve repair in patients with depressed left ventricular function. 
  • Isolated mitral valve surgery risk in 77,836 patients from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons database. 
  • It is Time to Stop Missing the Forest for the Trees: The Debate on Corticosteroid Use in Pediatric Heart Surgery. 
  • J. Maxwell Chamberlain Memorial Paper for adult cardiac surgery. Less-invasive mitral valve operations: trends and outcomes from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. 
  • Jehovah's Witnesses and cardiac surgery: a single institution's experience. 
  • Kicking the habit of routine preoperative laboratory testing in children undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • Laser Doppler flowmetry assessment of peristernal perfusion after cardiac surgery: beneficial effect of negative pressure therapy. 
  • Laser-assisted extraction of pacemaker and defibrillator leads: the role of the cardiac surgeon. 
  • Late thrombosis of the native aortic root after Norwood reconstruction for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. 
  • Lateral caval flap repair of adult sinus venosus atrial septal defect: A natural novel approach. 
  • Levosimendan in Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Levosimendan in Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction Undergoing Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Levosimendan in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction undergoing cardiac surgery on cardiopulmonary bypass: Rationale and study design of the Levosimendan in Patients with Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction Undergoing Cardiac Surgery Requiring Cardiopulmonary Bypass (LEVO-CTS) trial. 
  • Linking clinical registry data with administrative data using indirect identifiers: implementation and validation in the congenital heart surgery population. 
  • Long-term Adjustment After Surviving Open Heart Surgery: The Effect of Using Prayer for Coping Replicated in a Prospective Design. 
  • Long-term outcomes and costs of ventricular assist devices among Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Long-term outcomes of intraoperative pulmonary artery stent placement for congenital heart disease. 
  • Lung isolation during port-access cardiac surgery: double-lumen endotracheal tube versus single-lumen endotracheal tube with a bronchial blocker. 
  • Magnetic guidance for cardiac procedures. 
  • Major infection after pediatric cardiac surgery: a risk estimation model. 
  • Management of immune dysfunction after adult cardiac surgery. 
  • Management of systemic and pulmonary hypertension. 
  • Management practices and major infections after cardiac surgery. 
  • Measuring hospital performance in congenital heart surgery: administrative versus clinical registry data. 
  • Mediastinitis after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Risk factors and long-term survival. 
  • Metoprolol and coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: does intraoperative metoprolol attenuate acute beta-adrenergic receptor desensitization during cardiac surgery? 
  • Milrinone use is associated with postoperative atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery. 
  • Minimally invasive right lateral thoracotomy without aortic cross-clamping: an attractive alternative to repeat sternotomy for reoperative mitral valve surgery. 
  • Minimally invasive tricuspid operation using port access. 
  • Mitral procedure selection in patients on dialysis: does mitral repair influence outcomes? 
  • Mitral surgery after prior cardiac operation: port-access versus sternotomy or thoracotomy. 
  • Mitral valve repair for degenerative disease: a 20-year experience. 
  • Modeling Outcomes: Modified Aortic Arch Advancement for Neonatal Hypoplastic Arch. 
  • Models of preventable disease: contrast-induced nephropathy and cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury. 
  • Modification of the maze procedure for atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation. I. Rationale and surgical results. 
  • Modification of the maze procedure for atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation. II. Surgical technique of the maze III procedure. 
  • Monitoring the brain during cardiac surgery in children. 
  • Mortality Trends in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery: An Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Mortality characteristics of aortic root surgery in North America. 
  • Multidisciplinary approach to the challenge of hemostasis. 
  • Multinational institutional survey on patterns of intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography use in adult cardiac surgery. 
  • Myocardial protection. 
  • National Benchmarks for Proportions of Patients Receiving Blood Transfusions During Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery: An Analysis of the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • National Trends and Outcomes in Isolated Tricuspid Valve Surgery. 
  • Natural history of nonimmune-mediated thrombocytopenia and acute kidney injury in pediatric open-heart surgery. 
  • Neurocognitive Function after Cardiac Surgery: From Phenotypes to Mechanisms. 
  • Neurocognitive dysfunction following cardiac surgery. 
  • Neurocognitive outcomes after cardiac surgery. 
  • Neurocognitive outcomes after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. 
  • Neurodevelopmental outcomes after cardiac surgery in infancy. 
  • Neurodevelopmental outcomes in children with congenital heart disease: evaluation and management: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. 
  • Neurologic risk assessment, monitoring and outcome in cardiac surgery. 
  • Neurological complications of cardiac surgery. 
  • Neuroprotection in cardiac surgery. 
  • New precompetitive paradigms: focus on cardiac safety. 
  • Non-HACEK gram-negative bacillus endocarditis. 
  • Nonpharmacologic therapy in heart failure: an overview. 
  • Novel Goal-Directed Hemodynamic Optimization Therapy Based on Major Vasopressor during Corrective Cardiac Surgery in Patients with Severe Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A Pilot Study. 
  • Novel oral anticoagulation agents: new drugs create new paradigms. 
  • Nurse-monitored cardiac recovery: a description of the first 8 weeks. 
  • Off-label use of recombinant human factor VIIa. 
  • Open heart surgery and cognitive decline. 
  • Optimized multisite ventricular pacing in postoperative single-ventricle patients. 
  • Outcomes and prosthesis choice for active aortic valve infective endocarditis: analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. 
  • Outcomes for endocarditis surgery in North America: a simplified risk scoring system. 
  • Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery Who Decline Transfusion and Received Erythropoietin Compared to Patients Who Did Not: A Matched Cohort Study. 
  • Outcomes of repair of common arterial trunk with truncal valve surgery: a review of the society of thoracic surgeons congenital heart surgery database. 
  • Outcomes of transcatheter and surgical aortic valve replacement in high-risk patients with aortic stenosis and left ventricular dysfunction: results from the Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valves (PARTNER) trial (cohort A). 
  • PINOT NOIR: pulmonic insufficiency improvement with nitric oxide inhalational response. 
  • PRO editorial: PRO: three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography is a major advance for intraoperative clinical management of patients undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • Pathophysiology of bleeding and clotting in the cardiac surgery patient: from vascular endothelium to circulatory assist device surface. 
  • Patient Blood Management: Recommendations From the 2018 Frankfurt Consensus Conference. 
  • Patient blood management during cardiac surgery: do we have enough evidence for clinical practice? 
  • Patient selection for percutaneous mitral valve repair: insight from early clinical trial applications. 
  • Pectoral Fascial (PECS) I and II Blocks as Rescue Analgesia in a Patient Undergoing Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Percutanenous therapies for mitral regurgitation. 
  • Percutaneous interventions in high-risk patients following Mustard repair of transposition of the great arteries. 
  • Percutaneous mitral repair with the MitraClip system: safety and midterm durability in the initial EVEREST (Endovascular Valve Edge-to-Edge REpair Study) cohort. 
  • Performance of kidney injury molecule-1 and liver fatty acid-binding protein and combined biomarkers of AKI after cardiac surgery. 
  • Perioperative Corticosteroids in Children Undergoing Congenital Heart Surgery: Five Decades of Clinical Equipoise. 
  • Perioperative blood transfusion and blood conservation in cardiac surgery: the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and The Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists clinical practice guideline. 
  • Perioperative cardiac imaging. 
  • Perioperative experience with amrinone. 
  • Perioperative nesiritide and possible renal protection in patients with moderate to severe kidney dysfunction. 
  • Perioperative temperature and cardiac surgery. 
  • Perioperative use of dexmedetomidine is associated with decreased incidence of ventricular and supraventricular tachyarrhythmias after congenital cardiac operations. 
  • Peripheral blood levels of matrix metalloproteinases in patients referred for percutaneous balloon mitral valve commissurotomy. 
  • Peripheral nerve injuries during cardiac surgery: risk factors, diagnosis, prognosis, and prevention. 
  • Periventricular leukomalacia is common after neonatal cardiac surgery. 
  • Pharmacokinetics of aprotinin in preoperative cardiac surgical patients. 
  • Pharmacokinetics of propofol. 
  • Pharmacologically dosed oral glutamine reduces myocardial injury in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: a randomized pilot feasibility trial. 
  • Pharmacology and clinical applications of human recombinant antithrombin. 
  • Physician payment for 2007: a description of the process by which major changes in valuation of cardiothoracic surgical procedures occurred. 
  • Plasmapheresis and heparin reexposure as a management strategy for cardiac surgical patients with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. 
  • Platelet inhibitors and bleeding in cardiac surgical patients. 
  • Platelet inhibitors and cardiac surgery. 
  • Platypnea-Orthodeoxia Syndrome: To Shunt or Not to Shunt, That is the Question. 
  • Pneumonia after cardiac surgery: Experience of the National Institutes of Health/Canadian Institutes of Health Research Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network. 
  • Point-of-care washing of allogeneic red blood cells for the prevention of transfusion-related respiratory complications (WAR-PRC): a protocol for a multicenter randomised clinical trial in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • Polymerized bovine hemoglobin solution as a replacement for allogeneic red blood cell transfusion after cardiac surgery: results of a randomized, double-blind trial. 
  • Population pharmacokinetics of lidocaine administered during and after cardiac surgery. 
  • Positive heparin-platelet factor 4 antibody complex and cardiac surgical outcomes. 
  • Postinfarction ventricular septal defects: surgical or percutaneous closure-between a rock and a hard place. 
  • Postoperative Delirium and Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction: Two Sides of the Same Coin? 
  • Postoperative biomarkers predict acute kidney injury and poor outcomes after adult cardiac surgery. 
  • Postoperative hypertension: a multicenter, prospective, randomized comparison between intravenous nicardipine and sodium nitroprusside. 
  • Postoperative troponin-T predicts prolonged intensive care unit length of stay following cardiac surgery. 
  • Poverty, process of care, and outcome in acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Precardiac surgery angiotensin-converting enzymes and mineralocorticoid blockers do not trump atrial fibrillation but possibly acute kidney injury: the value of a negative randomized study. 
  • Predicting and preventing adverse neurologic outcomes with cardiac surgery. 
  • Predicting risk of postoperative lung injury in high-risk surgical patients: a multicenter cohort study. 
  • Predictive ability of perioperative atrial fibrillation risk indices in cardiac surgery patients: a retrospective cohort study. 
  • Predictors of cardiac troponin release after mitral valve surgery. 
  • Predictors of cognitive decline after cardiac operation. 
  • Predictors of cognitive recovery after cardiac surgery. 
  • Predictors of general activity 8 weeks after cardiac surgery. 
  • Prenatal Diagnosis Influences Preoperative Status in Neonates with Congenital Heart Disease: An Analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Preoperative angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blocker use and acute kidney injury in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • Preoperative anti-PF4/heparin antibody level predicts adverse outcome after cardiac surgery. 
  • Preoperative anxiety as a predictor of mortality and major morbidity in patients aged >70 years undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • Preoperative diagnosis of long QT syndrome in an infant with tetralogy of Fallot. 
  • Preoperative recombinant human erythropoietin in anemic surgical patients. 
  • Preoperative serum brain natriuretic peptide and risk of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery. 
  • Preoperative statin treatment is associated with reduced postoperative mortality and morbidity in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: an 8-year retrospective cohort study. 
  • Presurgical serum cystatin C and risk of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery. 
  • Prevalence and repair of intraoperatively diagnosed patent foramen ovale and association with perioperative outcomes and long-term survival. 
  • Prevalence of Noncardiac and Genetic Abnormalities in Neonates Undergoing Cardiac Operations: Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Preventing delirium after cardiothoracic surgery: provocative but preliminary evidence for bispectral index monitoring. 
  • Prevention of atrial fibrillation following cardiac surgery. 
  • Private prayer and optimism in middle-aged and older patients awaiting cardiac surgery. 
  • Pro: Factor Concentrates are Essential for Hemostasis in Complex Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Pro: The Value of Modified Ultrafiltration in Children After Cardiopulmonary Bypass. 
  • Pro: epiaortic scanning is routinely necessary for cardiac surgery. 
  • Procedure-based complications to guide informed consent: analysis of society of thoracic surgeons-congenital heart surgery database. 
  • Prohemostatic treatment in cardiac surgery. 
  • Prophylaxis against postoperative atrial fibrillation: current progress and future directions. 
  • Prospective echocardiographic diagnosis and surgical repair of anomalous origin of a coronary artery from the opposite sinus with an interarterial course. 
  • Protocol adherence when managing massive bleeding following complex cardiac surgery: a study design pilot. 
  • Provider perceptions in using outcomes data to improve clinical practice. 
  • Public reporting of cardiac surgery performance: Part 1--history, rationale, consequences. 
  • Public reporting of cardiac surgery performance: Part 2--implementation. 
  • Pulmonary vein isolation for the treatment of drug-refractory atrial fibrillation in adults with congenital heart disease. 
  • Pulmonary venous wedge pressure provides a safe and accurate estimate of pulmonary arterial pressure in children with shunt-dependent pulmonary blood flow. 
  • Purulent pericarditis caused by Candida: report of three cases and identification of high-risk populations as an aid to early diagnosis. 
  • Quality in perioperative echocardiography: it's about time. 
  • Quality-Cost Relationship in Congenital Heart Surgery. 
  • Quantitative echocardiographic assessment of regional wall motion and left ventricular asynchrony with color kinesis in cardiac surgery patients. 
  • Radiofrequency catheter ablation of supraventricular tachycardia substrates after mustard and senning operations for d-transposition of the great arteries. 
  • Radionuclide assessment of left ventricular function following cardiac surgery. 
  • Randomized, double-blinded, placebo controlled study of neuroprotection with lidocaine in cardiac surgery. 
  • Rate Control versus Rhythm Control for Atrial Fibrillation after Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Readmissions after cardiac surgery: experience of the National Institutes of Health/Canadian Institutes of Health research cardiothoracic surgical trials network. 
  • Recognition of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and initiation of argatroban therapy after cardiothoracic surgery in the intensive care unit. 
  • Recombinant activated factor VII and the anaesthetist. 
  • Recombinant human transgenic antithrombin in cardiac surgery: a dose-finding study. 
  • Recovery of cerebral metabolism and mitochondrial oxidation state is delayed after hypothermic circulatory arrest. 
  • Reducing thrombotic complications in the perioperative setting: an update on heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. 
  • Reduction in blood transfusion in a cohort of infants having cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass after instituting a goal-directed transfusion policy. 
  • Regional left ventricular function does not predict survival in ischaemic cardiomyopathy after cardiac surgery. 
  • Relationship between serum lactate and ionized calcium in open-heart surgery. 
  • Relationship of preoperative antiendotoxin core antibodies and adverse outcomes following cardiac surgery. 
  • Reliability of two-dimensional echocardiography in the assessment of clinically significant abnormal hemidiaphragm motion in pediatric cardiothoracic patients: Comparison with fluoroscopy. 
  • Renal Angina Is a Sensitive, but Nonspecific Identifier of Postcardiac Surgery Acute Kidney Injury. 
  • Reoperations for pediatric and congenital heart disease: an analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) congenital heart surgery database. 
  • Reply to Tleyjeh and Baddour. 
  • Reply: To PMID 23245838. 
  • Reply: To PMID 23673070. 
  • Report of the 2015 Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Practice Survey. 
  • Report of the substudy assessing the impact of neurocognitive function on quality of life 5 years after cardiac surgery. 
  • Request for retraction. 
  • Response to letter regarding article, "Intraoperative magnesium administration does not improve neurocognitive function after cardiac surgery". 
  • Results of 141 consecutive minimally invasive tricuspid valve operations: an 11-year experience. 
  • Rethinking the ross procedure in adults. 
  • Rheumatic Heart Disease in the Twenty-First Century. 
  • Richard E. Clark Award. Aortic dissection as a complication of cardiac surgery: report from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons database. 
  • Right Minithoracotomy Versus Median Sternotomy for Mitral Valve Surgery: A Propensity Matched Study. 
  • Right Ventricular Function in Left Heart Disease. 
  • Right ventricular free wall isolation: effects on regional myocardial blood flow. 
  • Right-sided pulmonary venous obstruction between a right aortic arch and an amplatzer septal occlusion device following closure of a secundum atrial septal defect. 
  • Risk assessment of patients having congenital heart disease using electrophysiologic testing: finally, opening the right door...or, an impossible chore? 
  • Risk factors and outcomes of pancreatitis after open heart surgery. 
  • Risk factors for postoperative mediastinitis due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Risk factors for prosthesis failure in pulmonary valve replacement. 
  • Risk index for predicting in-hospital mortality for cardiac valve surgery. 
  • Robotic surgery: a current perspective. 
  • STICH (Surgical Treatment for Ischemic Heart Failure) trial enrollment. 
  • Safe application of a restrictive transfusion protocol in moderate-risk patients undergoing cardiac operations. 
  • Safety of aprotinin in congenital heart operations: results from a large multicenter database. 
  • Same-day surgical admission. American College of Cardiology Cardiovascular Surgery Committee. 
  • Serum brain natriuretic peptide and risk of acute kidney injury after cardiac operations in children. 
  • Serum cystatin C- versus creatinine-based definitions of acute kidney injury following cardiac surgery: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Several new considerations in mitral valve repair. 
  • Sex differences in neurological outcomes and mortality after cardiac surgery: a society of thoracic surgery national database report. 
  • Significance of hemolysis on extracorporeal life support after cardiac surgery in children. 
  • Silver-Impregnated Dressing Does Not Decrease Incidence of Surgical Site Infection After Adult Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Single institutional experience of interrupted aortic arch repair over 28 years. 
  • Social and sexual activity after cardiac surgery. A report of the first 6 months. 
  • Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists/European Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthetists Practice Advisory for the Management of Perioperative Atrial Fibrillation in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Society of Thoracic Surgeons Risk Score and EuroSCORE-2 Appropriately Assess 30-Day Postoperative Mortality in the STICH Trial and a Contemporary Cohort of Patients With Left Ventricular Dysfunction Undergoing Surgical Revascularization. 
  • Split turnover pectoralis muscle flap for the treatment of sternal osteomyelitis. 
  • Standardized management improves outcomes after the Norwood procedure. 
  • State-mandated continuing medical education and the use of proven therapies in patients with an acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Statement of consensus on assessment of neurobehavioral outcomes after cardiac surgery. 
  • Statins--is there potential for uncovering new benefits (or detriments)? 
  • Statistical issues in the analysis and interpretation of outcomes for congenital cardiac surgery. 
  • Sternal wound dehiscence complicated by macromastia: report of two cases with discussion of literature. 
  • Successful linking of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons database to social security data to examine survival after cardiac operations. 
  • Support of the perioperative failing heart with preexisting ventricular dysfunction: currently available options. 
  • Supraventricular tachycardia terminated by external mechanical stimulation: a case of "pothole conversion". 
  • Surgeon and center volume influence on outcomes after arterial switch operation: analysis of the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Surgical Management and Outcomes of Ebstein Anomaly in Neonates and Infants: A Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database Analysis. 
  • Surgical Maze procedure as a treatment for atrial fibrillation: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. 
  • Surgical approach to a rare case of double-outlet right ventricle and aortopulmonary window. 
  • Surgical approaches to mitral regurgitation. 
  • Surgical implantation of the Jarvik-5 total artificial heart in a calf. 
  • Surgical intervention for tricuspid valve endocarditis: vegetectomy, valve excision, or valve replacement? 
  • Surgical therapy for anomalous aortic origin of the coronary arteries. 
  • Systemic venous oxygen saturation after the Norwood procedure and childhood neurodevelopmental outcome. 
  • Task-related changes in degree centrality and local coherence of the posterior cingulate cortex after major cardiac surgery in older adults. 
  • Techniques and applications of perioperative therapeutic plasma exchange. 
  • Technology: Is There Sufficient Evidence to Change Practice in Point-of-Care Management of Coagulopathy? 
  • Temperature measurement during cardiac surgery. 
  • The Axillary Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump as a Bridge to Recovery Allows Early Ambulation in Long-Term Use: Case Series and Literature Review. 
  • The Congenital Heart Surgeon's Society Complete Atrioventricular Septal Defect Cohort: Baseline, Preintervention Echocardiographic Characteristics. 
  • The Congenital Heart Technical Skill Study: Rationale and Design. 
  • The ECLIPSE trials: comparative studies of clevidipine to nitroglycerin, sodium nitroprusside, and nicardipine for acute hypertension treatment in cardiac surgery patients. 
  • The Impact of Differential Case Ascertainment in Clinical Registry Versus Administrative Data on Assessment of Resource Utilization in Pediatric Heart Surgery. 
  • The PARACHUTE IV trial design and rationale: percutaneous ventricular restoration using the parachute device in patients with ischemic heart failure and dilated left ventricles. 
  • The Perioperative Use of Dexmedetomidine in Pediatric Patients with Congenital Heart Disease: An Analysis from the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society-Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Disease Database. 
  • The Prevalence and Impact of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Among Patients Undergoing Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 2008 cardiac surgery risk models: part 1--coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 2018 Adult Cardiac Surgery Risk Models: Part 1-Background, Design Considerations, and Model Development. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 2018 Adult Cardiac Surgery Risk Models: Part 2-Statistical Methods and Results. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database: 2017 Update on Research. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Composite Measure of Individual Surgeon Performance for Adult Cardiac Surgery: A Report of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Quality Measurement Task Force. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database: 2017 Update on Outcomes and Quality. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database: 2018 Update on Research. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database: 2017 Update on Research. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Mitral Repair/Replacement Composite Score: A Report of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Quality Measurement Task Force. 
  • The Use of Topical Hemostatic Agents in Cardiothoracic Surgery. 
  • The Year in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia: Selected Highlights From 2015. 
  • The Year in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia: Selected Highlights From 2017. 
  • The association between duration of storage of transfused red blood cells and morbidity and mortality after reoperative cardiac surgery. 
  • The association of anti-platelet factor 4/heparin antibodies with early and delayed thromboembolism after cardiac surgery. 
  • The association of complication type with mortality and prolonged stay after cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. 
  • The complex relationship between pediatric cardiac surgical case volumes and mortality rates in a national clinical database. 
  • The current status and future directions of efforts to create a global database for the outcomes of therapy for congenital heart disease. 
  • The effect of milrinone on hemodynamics and left ventricular function after emergence from cardiopulmonary bypass. 
  • The effect of posture on gas exchange following cardiac surgery. 
  • The effects of MDCO-2010, a serine protease inhibitor, on activated clotting time in blood obtained from volunteers and cardiac surgical patients. 
  • The effects of milrinone on platelets in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • The evolution of the management of penetrating wounds of the heart. 
  • The future of cardiothoracic anesthesia. 
  • The genetic determinants of renal impairment following cardiac surgery. 
  • The impact of intraoperative echocardiography on clinical outcomes following adult cardiac surgery. 
  • The impact of preoperative anxiety and education level on long-term mortality after cardiac surgery. 
  • The importance of patient-specific preoperative factors: an analysis of the society of thoracic surgeons congenital heart surgery database. 
  • The in vitro effects of antithrombin III on the activated coagulation time in patients on heparin therapy. 
  • The incidental finding of a patent foramen ovale during cardiac surgery: should it always be repaired? A core review. 
  • The kaolin-activated Thrombelastograph predicts bleeding after cardiac surgery. 
  • The learning curve for intraoperative echocardiography during congenital heart surgery. 
  • The management of hypoplastic left heart syndrome with a right aortic arch. 
  • The pathophysiology of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CSA-AKI). 
  • The rationale and design of the Surgical Treatment for Ischemic Heart Failure (STICH) trial. 
  • The rationale and development of an adult cardiac anesthesia module to supplement the society of thoracic surgeons national database: using data to drive quality. 
  • The relationship of plasma transfusion from female and male donors with outcome after cardiac surgery. 
  • The risk of valve surgery for endocarditis in patients with dialysis-dependent renal failure. 
  • The role of aprotinin in a blood-conservation program. 
  • The role of nonocclusive sources of acute gut injury in cardiac surgery. 
  • The role of robotics in cardiac surgery: a systematic review. 
  • The study of LoSmapimod treatment on inflammation and InfarCtSizE (SOLSTICE): design and rationale. 
  • The use of the Berlin Heart EXCOR in patients with functional single ventricle. 
  • The year in cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia: selected highlights from 2012. 
  • The year in cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia: selected highlights from 2013. 
  • The year in cardiovascular surgery. 
  • The year in cardiovascular surgery. 
  • The year in cardiovascular surgery. 
  • Therapeutic goals in patients with refractory chronic angina. 
  • Thoracic duct ligation for persistent chylothorax after pediatric cardiothoracic surgery. 
  • Thoracoscopic resection of the left atrial appendage after failed focal atrial tachycardia ablation. 
  • Thoracoscopic versus robotic approaches: advantages and disadvantages. 
  • Three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography for perioperative right ventricular assessment. 
  • Tissue engineering in the cardiovascular system: progress toward a tissue engineered heart. 
  • Tissue factor-activated thromboelastograms in children undergoing cardiac surgery: baseline values and comparisons. 
  • Trans-aortic Alfieri stitch at the time of septal myectomy for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. 
  • Transcatheter aortic valve replacement performed via left ventricular assist device inflow cannula. 
  • Transcatheter closure of patent foramen ovale following cryptogenic stroke: An updated meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. 
  • Transesophageal echocardiography in fetal sheep. A monitoring tool for open and fetoscopic cardiac procedures. 
  • Transesophageal echocardiography interpretation: a comparative analysis between cardiac anesthesiologists and primary echocardiographers. 
  • Traumatic Gerbode ventricular septal defect and third-degree heart block. 
  • Treatment of acute postoperative hypertension in cardiac surgery patients: an efficacy study of clevidipine assessing its postoperative antihypertensive effect in cardiac surgery-2 (ESCAPE-2), a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. 
  • Treatment of persistent tachycardia with dexmedetomidine during off-pump cardiac surgery. 
  • Trends and outcomes of tricuspid valve surgery in North America: an analysis of more than 50,000 patients from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons database. 
  • Trends in intraaortic balloon counterpulsation complications and outcomes in cardiac surgery. 
  • Tricuspid regurgitation and right ventricular function after mitral valve surgery with or without concomitant tricuspid valve procedure. 
  • Troponin I in cardiac surgery: marking the future. 
  • Two cases of transfusion-associated graft-vs-host disease after open heart surgery. 
  • Ultrapore hemofiltration during extracorporeal circulation. 
  • Unreliability of hemodynamic indexes of left ventricular size during cardiac surgery. 
  • Update on perioperative right heart assessment using transesophageal echocardiography. 
  • Urinary biomarkers of AKI and mortality 3 years after cardiac surgery. 
  • Urinary cystatin C and acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery. 
  • Urine Biomarkers and Perioperative Acute Kidney Injury: The Impact of Preoperative Estimated GFR. 
  • Use of the talon closure device in combination with a pectoralis turnover muscle flap for sternum nonunion. 
  • Usefulness of Von Willebrand Factor Activity Indexes to Predict Therapeutic Response in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. 
  • Using insulin to prevent hyperglycemia in surgical patients. 
  • Utility and Scope of Rapid Prototyping in Patients with Complex Muscular Ventricular Septal Defects or Double-Outlet Right Ventricle: Does it Alter Management Decisions? 
  • Utility of concomitant tricuspid valve procedures for patients undergoing implantation of a continuous-flow left ventricular device. 
  • Utilizing Hybrid Techniques to Maximize Clinical Outcomes in Congenital Heart Disease. 
  • Validation of European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE) in North American cardiac surgery. 
  • Validation of association of the apolipoprotein E ε2 allele with neurodevelopmental dysfunction after cardiac surgery in neonates and infants. 
  • Value of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Derived Baseline Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction and Volumes for Precise Risk Stratification of Patients With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: Insights From the Surgical Treatment for Ischemic Heart Failure (STICH) Trial. 
  • Valvular disease. 
  • Valvular heart disease. 
  • Variation in congenital heart surgery costs across hospitals. 
  • Variation in markup of general surgical procedures by hospital market concentration. 
  • Variation in outcomes for benchmark operations: an analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Variation in outcomes for risk-stratified pediatric cardiac surgical operations: an analysis of the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Variation in the type and frequency of postoperative invasive Staphylococcus aureus infections according to type of surgical procedure. 
  • Ventricular function in surgical patients. 
  • Vigilance--a main component of clinical quality. 
  • Vocal cord dysfunction and feeding difficulties after pediatric cardiovascular surgery. 
  • Vocal fold paralysis following surgical ductal closure in extremely low birth weight infants: a case series of feeding and respiratory complications. 
  • What is blood and what is not? Caring for the Jehovah's Witness patient undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • What is the role of biomarker measurement after cardiac surgery? 
  • ε-Aminocaproic acid and clinical value in cardiac anesthesia. 
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