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Background Surgical risk scores are used to identify high-risk patients for surgical mitral valve repair. There is no scoring system to estimate the mortality risk for patients undergoing percutaneous treatment. The aim of this analysis is to evaluate the predictive value of the EuroSCOREs and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Predicted Risk of Mortality Score (STS) for periprocedural mortality in...
Pulsatile perfusion flow resembling the natural heart beat during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) for open-heart surgery is more physiological than the non-pulsatile flow. However, the conventional idea of generating the pulsatile flow is far from satisfactory because of the resistance of the oxygenator and aortic cannula that counteract the force of the pulsatile pumps. The pulsatile organ perfusion...
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