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Surgery of chest wall deformities
Matos, AC; Bernardo, JE; Fernandes, LE; Antunes, MJOBJECTIVE: To evaluate the medium-term results of 77 surgical corrections in patients with chest wall deformities, 53 (68.8%) with pectus excavatum and 24 with pectus carinatum, operated upon from 1985 to 1994. METHODS: The mean age of the patients was 14.7 years (4-39 years) and 77% were younger than 15 years of age. There were 59 male (76.7%) and 18 female patients. Only four had a family history of the malfo...
Coronary artery bypass surgery with intermittent aortic cross-clamping
Antunes, MJ; Bernardo, JE; Oliveira, JM; Fernandes, LE; Andrade, CMDespite the generally accepted use of cardioplegia for myocardial protection during cardiac revascularization and other operations, non-cardioplegic methods have been used by many surgeons throughout the world. We have prospectively studied 229 patients consecutively subjected to isolated coronary artery bypass surgery from March 1990 to February 1991 by a single surgeon who used intermittent aortic cross-clamp...