Background: Increased fish or fish-oil consumption is associated with reduced risk of cardiac
mortality, especially sudden death. This benefit putatively arises from the incorporation of the …

Since its early days, cardiac surgery has typically involved large incisions with complete
access to the heart and the great vessels. After the popularization of the minimally invasive …

An open-label study reported that ingestion of a fish oil concentrate decreased the incidence
of atrial fibrillation (AF) after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery. However, a …

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine the psychological risk factors for
cardiac-related readmission within 6 months of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) …

To date, researchers have examined the role of psychological factors in longer-term
adaptation to coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG), but few have investigated the …

Background: Studies relating cardiovascular outcomes to dietary or blood measures of
various fatty acids rely on the implicit assumptions that dietary change results in changes in …

Giant thymic cysts are a rare clinical entity evolving from smaller benign thymic cysts over
many years. Benign thymic cysts account for approximately 3% of all mediastinal masses …

Novel approach to bleeding in patients undergoing cardiac surgery with liver dysfunction |
European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery | Oxford Academic Skip to Main Content …

Five patients who had had previous cardiac operations underwent minimally invasive
beating heart mitral valve operations via a right minithoracotomy between November 2006 …

Background Multiple case studies have suggested that video-assisted thoracoscopic
sympathectomy (VATS) reduces the occurrence and frequency of symptoms in long QT …