Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
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Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · Aug 2012
Case ReportsHaemostasis of a right ventricle-gunshot wound using a novel haemostatic vacuum device.
Heart wounds are frequently fatal. The haemorrhage from a right ventricle-gunshot wound in a male patient was successfully controlled using a novel haemostatic vacuum device. This case report shows how this simple, quick and efficient method can be used to control critical bleedings.
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Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · Aug 2012
Case ReportsSuccessful bovine arch replacement for a type A acute aortic dissection in a pregnant woman with severe haemodynamic compromise.
Acute aortic dissection is very uncommon in pregnant women and the acute type A aortic dissection carries a high mortality rate outside specialized centres. There are a few cases reported with successful outcomes for the mother and the foetus from major cardiac centres. We are reporting our first experience of acute aortic dissection during the third trimester of pregnancy in a patient with Marfan features, profound haemodynamic compromise on arrival and a bovine aortic arch. Both the mother and the baby are doing well two years postoperatively.