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CONCLUSION: There was an increased risk of ipsilateral stroke < 30 days in patients operated on with primary closure compared with eversion CEA and patch angioplasty. There was no difference between primary closure, different patch types, or eversion after the peri-operative phase.

To evaluate postoperative clinical outcomes and analyze influencing factors for patients with thymic epithelial tumors over 3 years after operation.

To evaluate postoperative clinical outcomes and analyze influencing factors for patients with thymic epithelial tumors over 3 years after operation.

CONCLUSION: There was an increased risk of ipsilateral stroke < 30 days in patients operated on with primary closure compared with eversion CEA and patch angioplasty. There was no difference between primary closure, different patch types, or eversion after the peri-operative phase.

Left atrial dissection is a rare and a potentially fatal complication of cardiac surgery. Multi-modal imagery is helpful for the diagnosis and to guide the treatment.

We describe a case of aortic repair using bovine pericardium for a pseudoaneurysm of a dissecting abdominal aorta. A 71-year-old man had undergone several aortic replacement surgeries for type B aortic dissection. He developed paraparesis after thoraco-abdominal aortic surgery and recovered. After 3 years, the scheduled computed tomography scan showed a pseudoaneurysm of the dissecting abdominal aorta. Because he was at high risk of spinal cord ischaemia, aortic repair using bovine pericardium...

Double rupture is a very rare, and life-threatening complication after acute myocardial infection (AMI), which defined as the coexistence of any two of the three types of rupture include left ventricular free wall repture (LVFWR), ventricular septal perforation (VSP) and papillary muscule repture (PMR). We report here a case of successful staged repair of double rupture combined LVFWR and VSP. A 77-year-old woman with diagnosis of AMI in the anteroseptal area fell into cardiogenic shock suddenly...

Left atrial dissection is a rare and a potentially fatal complication of cardiac surgery. Multi-modal imagery is helpful for the diagnosis and to guide the treatment.

Left atrial dissection is a rare and a potentially fatal complication of cardiac surgery. Multi-modal imagery is helpful for the diagnosis and to guide the treatment.

Left atrial dissection is a rare and a potentially fatal complication of cardiac surgery. Multi-modal imagery is helpful for the diagnosis and to guide the treatment.