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Blunt cardiac injury
Blunt cardiac injury (BCI) is most commonly the result of sudden deceleration or direct precordial impact and encompasses a spectrum of structural and functional cardiac derangements that may occur after trauma to the heart 7.
Terminology
While sometimes referred to with general terms such as ...
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Post-sternotomy complications
Post-sternotomy complications comprise a varied range of complications that can occur at varying intervals following a median sternotomy.
Epidemiology
Complication rates for median sternotomy have been reported to range from 0.5-5% and mortality rates ranging from 7-80%.
Pathology
They are ...
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Sternal dehiscence
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23 Sep 2019
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Myocardial contusion
Published
15 Sep 2015
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Transcatheter mitral valve intervention
Transcatheter mitral valve interventions (TMVI) or percutaneous mitral valve interventions are less-invasive, highly technical procedures available for the management of selected patients with mitral valve regurgitation and include several transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVr) and transcathet...