{"title":"[Redo operations after operation for true thoracic aortic aneurysm].","authors":"K Tabayashi, K Sato","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recurrent aortic aneurysms after operation for true thoracic aortic aneurysm are not rare. It is reported that the incidence of redo operations after operation for true thoracic aortic aneurysm is 6 to 14%, and operative mortality is higher than that for primary operation. We have reviewed a variety of techniques of redo thoracic aortic surgery that have recently been reported. The followings are important to manage in these high risk patients, adequate selection of supportive measures, use of retrograde as well as antegrade infusion of cardioplegic solutions, meticulous operative technique.</p>","PeriodicalId":79253,"journal":{"name":"Rinsho kyobu geka = Japanese annals of thoracic surgery","volume":"14 6","pages":"476-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20350249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[A case of left atrial free-floating ball thrombus].","authors":"K Oohara, T Yamazaki, M Nakayama, A Kobayashi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A rare case of left atrial free floating ball thrombus with mitral stenosis is reported. A 66-year-old woman was admitted for epigastralgia and acute heart failure without atrial fibrillation and previous embolization. The patient was treated successfully with removal of ball thrombus and mitral valve replacement. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography was effective for monitoring of mobile left atrial thrombus.</p>","PeriodicalId":79253,"journal":{"name":"Rinsho kyobu geka = Japanese annals of thoracic surgery","volume":"14 6","pages":"529-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20350886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H Yoshida, O Oba, Y Yamamoto, G Kato, H Inoue, Y Ochi, T Shichijo
{"title":"[A study of pacemaker implantation to cases performed valve surgery].","authors":"H Yoshida, O Oba, Y Yamamoto, G Kato, H Inoue, Y Ochi, T Shichijo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For 13 years between 1980 and 1992, 23 patients needed pacemaker (PM) implantation because of bradyarrhythmia, 21 of atrial fibrillation and two of complete A-V block, after valve surgery. Five of 88 survivors (5.7%) after OMC, 11 of 227 (4.8%) after MVR, one of 169 (0.6%) after AVR, five of 67 (7.4%) after MVR + AVR and one of 15 (6.7%) after TVR underwent PM implantation in postoperative period. Two cases who had heart failure was implanted PM in early postoperative period. In late period, the mean duration between previous valve surgery and PM implantation was 6.4 years in 12 cases after initial valve surgery and 2.3 years in nine after second valve surgery. Postoperative course after PM implantation was almost good, but one case was died due to critical arrhythmia. And one case underwent re-MVR because of mitral bioprosthesis dysfunction and one, without anticoagulant after OMC, was complicated cerebral infarction.</p>","PeriodicalId":79253,"journal":{"name":"Rinsho kyobu geka = Japanese annals of thoracic surgery","volume":"14 6","pages":"497-500"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20350252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M Ando, M Endo, H Nishida, H Tomioka, Y Sodenaga, H Koyanagi
{"title":"[Phrenic nerve injury following coronary artery bypass surgery: its clinical implication and management].","authors":"M Ando, M Endo, H Nishida, H Tomioka, Y Sodenaga, H Koyanagi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The hospital records of 80 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery, including 19 patients using the \"isolation pad\", were reviewed to examine the prevalence of the phrenic nerve injury (PNI). All patients received ice slush for topical cooling during operation. The degree of the elevated diaphragm was evaluated objectively by \"Diaphragmatic Elevation Index, DEI\" calculated from the plain chest roentgenogram taken before and after the operation. Sixty-one patients without using the isolation pad were subdivided into 3 groups, mild (35), moderate (15), and severe (11) according to the degree of the elevated diaphragm, and compared along with those using the isolation pad. All groups could not be distinguished by clinical course. The degree of left diaphragmatic elevation was significantly high compared with that of right, but recovered significantly at discharge except 2 patients. Pulmonary complication was highly associated with the \"severe\" groups. Because PNI is often transient and of little clinical significance, it is sometimes neglected. But considering the high frequency of the development of pulmonary complication, proper protective measure should be undertaken. Utilization of the isolation pad was effective means in terms of protection of phrenic nerve.</p>","PeriodicalId":79253,"journal":{"name":"Rinsho kyobu geka = Japanese annals of thoracic surgery","volume":"14 6","pages":"501-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20350253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T Osawa, M Seki, Y Uno, K Kobayashi, M Tsubota, M Endo, H Sato
{"title":"[Two cases of tuberculous constrictive pericarditis].","authors":"T Osawa, M Seki, Y Uno, K Kobayashi, M Tsubota, M Endo, H Sato","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Case 1 was a 79-year-old male suspected of tuberculous constrictive pericarditis. He was admitted to our hospital because of surgical treatment. His heart failure was NYHA IV. Culture of pleural effusion and pericardial effusion was negative. But ADA level in pericardial effusion was found to be increased. So tuberculosis was suspected. Cardiac catheterization date was compatible with constrictive pericarditis. Case 2 was a 73-year-old female. She was admitted because of heart failure (NYHA IV). As RVP wave indicated dip & platou at cardiac catheterization, she was diagnosed as constrictive pericarditis. ADA level in pleural effusion increased. So tuberculosis was suspected as etiology of constrictive pericarditis. In both cases, after pericardiectomy, heart failure improved to NYHA I. Results of pathological examination were tuberculous inflammation.</p>","PeriodicalId":79253,"journal":{"name":"Rinsho kyobu geka = Japanese annals of thoracic surgery","volume":"14 6","pages":"540-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20350889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Dynamic cardiomyoplasty: current status and future perspective].","authors":"R C Chiu, Y Misawa, T Hasegawa, K Fuse","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dynamic Cardiomyoplasty is a new approach to manage patients with heart failure. The phase I study shows that the muscle stimulator and electrodes function as designed and that the operation is done without any impairment of the patient's motor function. The results of the phase II study has been made public. The hemodynamic effects on patients with dilated cardiomyoplasty have been reported to be excellent. The assisting mechanism of dynamic cardiomyoplasty is based on the conformational change of the wrapped muscle with the ability to restore its optimal length and tension. In the chronic postoperative stage, the muscle seems to form a layer outside the epicardium. This change is important for the myocardinal sparing and girdling effects which are related to the wall stress of the heart. The hypothesis that the wrapped muscle becomes another layer of the heart can explain these effects. Increasing the wall thickness of the left ventricle reduces the wall stress (myocardinal sparing effect) according to Laplace's law. Even if the wrapped muscle is not transformed or stimulated (adynamic cardiomyoplasty), the wall stress is reduced after conformation, and the dilatation of the heart may be protected (girdling effect). The systolic augmentation is shown as the increase of cardiac output, ejection fraction, and blood velocity of the ascending aorta and ejection time. The dynamic cardiomyoplasty might effect the remodelling of the impaired heart and delay its progressive dilatation. When the efficacy of dynamic cardiomyoplasty is proven by the phase III study, which has been going on in the centers of North and South Americas, it will be useful as a bridge to heart transplantation, or as one of the surgical treatment modalities for advanced heart failure.</p>","PeriodicalId":79253,"journal":{"name":"Rinsho kyobu geka = Japanese annals of thoracic surgery","volume":"14 6","pages":"489-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20350251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N Nakamura, K Arikawa, S Shimokawa, H Toyohira, Y Umebayashi, R Ishibe, K Tanaka, A Taira
{"title":"[Multi-organ ischemia due to traumatic lesion of the descending thoracic aorta--a case-report].","authors":"N Nakamura, K Arikawa, S Shimokawa, H Toyohira, Y Umebayashi, R Ishibe, K Tanaka, A Taira","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This is a case of severe ischemic and reperfusion multi-organ failure due to descending thoracic aortic rupture. A 25 year-old man received a hard blow on his chest in a traffic accident. Chest X-ray, CT scans and aortogram elucidated descending thoracic aortic rupture. Emergency operation was performed 18 hours after the injury. The aortic rupture, 4/5 of the aortic circumference with intact adventitia was seen. The descending aorta 22 distal to the left subclavian artery was repaired under cardio-pulmonary bypass with selective cerebral perfusion. Ischemia due to aortic occlusion with thrombus and reperfusion injury after reconstruction of the aorta connected with rhabdmyolysis and severe multi-organ failure. Intestinal necrosis required laparotomy on the 9th and 15th post operative day. The patient died on 15th postoperative day of multi-organ failure.</p>","PeriodicalId":79253,"journal":{"name":"Rinsho kyobu geka = Japanese annals of thoracic surgery","volume":"14 6","pages":"525-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20350885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Surgical experience with 2 cases of upper ventricular tachycardia showing annular dysplasia at the attachment section of the tricuspid valve septal cusp].","authors":"M Tsubota, M Seki, M Endo, T Osawa, T Iwa","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79253,"journal":{"name":"Rinsho kyobu geka = Japanese annals of thoracic surgery","volume":"14 5","pages":"444-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20380248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T Kawamura, K Ogawa, T Asada, N Mukihara, T Higami, T Sugimoto, H Oho, K Gan, I Kitano, I Izumi
{"title":"[Efficacy and limitation of intra-operative pace mapping in sustained ventricular tachycardia combined with giant left ventricular aneurysm].","authors":"T Kawamura, K Ogawa, T Asada, N Mukihara, T Higami, T Sugimoto, H Oho, K Gan, I Kitano, I Izumi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79253,"journal":{"name":"Rinsho kyobu geka = Japanese annals of thoracic surgery","volume":"14 5","pages":"450-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20380251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}