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Two siblings born with pleural effusions died of pulmonary insufficiency. The infant born with fetal hydrops at 30 weeks of gestational age lived 45 minutes. The lung weights were mildly hypoplastic on postmortem examination. The sibling, born at 37 weeks of gestational age lived 8 days. Postmortem
OBJECTIVE
Video-assisted endoscopic techniques had been applied in the surgical correction of patent ductus arteriosus, vascular ring, or coronary artery disease. However, it has been used only recently in the correction of reoperative mitral valve lesions.
METHODS
Video-assisted cardiac operations
BACKGROUND
Experimental studies have shown that mechanical ventilation using high tidal volumes (V(T)) damages the lungs, causing pulmonary edema. We tested the hypothesis that high V(T) ventilation in rats induces major vascular dysfunction.
METHODS
Healthy Sprague-Dawley rats, weighing (mean +/-
Polycations, such as protamine sulfate and polylysine, have been implicated in the cause of pulmonary edema, but the mechanism is unknown. We studied the vascular effect of protamine in isolated rat lungs perfused with a cell- and plasma-free solution. Protamine (50-1,000 micrograms/ml) increased
The transient receptor potential (TRP) vanilloid subtype 4 (V4) is a nonselective cation channel that exhibits polymodal activation and is expressed in the endothelium, where it contributes to intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis and regulation of cell volume. The purpose of the present study was to
Between January 1988 and December 1997 a total of 22 patients (age: 8 days-46 years) were operated for vascular airway compression syndromes with respiratory insufficiency. Vascular anomalies in tracheal compression were double aortic arch in 7 patients, (2 previously operated elsewhere), right