The incidence of blunt chest trauma (BCT) is greater than 15% of all trauma admissions to
the emergency departments worldwide and is the second leading cause of death after head …

Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify predictors of permanent pacemaker
implantation (PPMI) following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with a balloon …

Type 2 diabetes mellitus associated with obesity, or “diabesity”, coincides with an altered
nitric oxide (NO) metabolism in skeletal muscle. Three isoforms of nitric oxide synthase …

Left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) are an increasingly implemented therapeutic
intervention for patients with end-stage heart failure. A growing body of evidence, however …

Innate immune responses and rapid recruitment of leukocytes, which regulate inflammation
and subsequent healing, play a key role in acute myocardial infarction (MI). Peptidylarginine …

Introduction: Profoundly impaired left ventricular (LV) function in patients undergoing femoral
veno-arterial (VA) extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) can result in intra-cardiac …

Background The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of rapid deployment aortic
valve replacement (RDAVR) on surgical outcome and hemodynamics compared with …

Objective Despite the clinical success of large-diameter vascular grafts, synthetic grafts in
small-diameter vessels are of limited use because of their poor patency rates. Previous …

Background There has been conflicting evidence concerning the effect of levosimendan on
clinical outcomes in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Therefore, we performed a …

The use of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) results in the activation of leukocytes, release of
neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) and severe inflammation. We hypothesize that targeting …