Background: Appropriate dietary recommendations represent a key part of secondary prevention in cardiovascular disease (CVD). We evaluated the effectiveness of the implementation of a nutritional program on quality of diet, cardiovascular events, and death in patients with established CVD. Methods: In this open-label, multicenter trial conducted in 35 sites in Brazil, we randomly assigned (1:1) patients aged 45...
Objective: to follow the healing of a sternotomy surgical wound in which cyanoacrylate bandaging was used, in children who underwent heart surgery. Methods: prospective cross-sectional study performed with children during the immediate postoperative period of heart surgery, with the average of 12 and both genders. The data collected were performed using an instrument. The variables were: bleeding, hyperemia, he...