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Filter by:The aorta is the principal arterial vessel arising from the left heart that transfers blood to the body. Certain genetic and familial disease processes are known to weaken the aortic wall resulting in dilation and potential rupture. These aortic complications carry high mortality (>25%) and current management is orientated towards early detection and preventive treatment. Aortic dilation can also result in aortic valve dysfunction leading to heart failure. The estimated UK incidence of aortic disease per year is around 10 per 100,000 individuals, with 2000 people per year dying from aortic complications. The 2017-2020 National Adult Cardiac Surgery Audit report identified the number of people receiving surgery for aortic dissection in Scotland is per population proportionately lower compared to England (4.6 per million per year in Scotland vs. 6.6 per million per year in England). The reasons for this are unclear but may relate to the prevalence of aortic disease or a large geographic distribution with compromised access to specialized centres. Currently surgery is recommended when the aortic diameter exceeds a certain threshold. There are several types of effective surgical procedures, but there is still limited information on their long-term outcomes and the advantage of one procedure over another. The aims of the project are firstly to determine the clinical outcomes of the surgical procedures that are currently employed in Scotland to treat proximal aortic disease and secondly to describe the prevalence and distribution of proximal aortic disease within the Scottish population. The project will be hosted by the Golden Jubilee Research Institute. Contemporary and retrospective data will be collected from all the Scottish Cardiothoracic Surgery units which are based in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. This will be the first study to analyse surgical outcomes for ascending aortic disease in Scotland, and the first to describe the epidemiology of aortic disease within the population. It is anticipated that the results will guide current surgical practise, and provide data to inform national service provision for the management of proximal aortic disease.
The individualized drug use research on optimizing piperacillin tazobactam for CRRT of hospital-acquired pulmonary infection after cardiopulmonary bypass is still in the initial stage at home and abroad, lacking systematic research data. With the help of the population pharmacokinetic model, it can help clinicians to formulate individualized drug administration plans for such patients and provide methodological and data support for precise treatment. The rational use of piperacillin tazobactam will play an important role in reducing the use of carbapenems and curbing the occurrence of drug resistance.
Aortic dissection (AD) is one of the most dangerous cardiovascular emergencies, with rapid onset, rapid progression, high fatality rate, and a variety of life-threatening complications. Acute lung injury (ALI) caused by AD is an important cause of many adverse outcomes. Studies have confirmed that 34.9% to 53.8% of AAD patients have ALI before surgery, and Impaired preoperative lung function may lead to worse oxygenation after AD surgery. The pathophysiological mechanism of AD-induced ALI is complex. A variety of preoperative and intraoperative risk factors can induce or aggravate ALI, such as ischemia-reperfusion injury, deep hypothermic circulatory arrest, and inflammatory reactions. At present, the clinical use of improved surgery, cardiopulmonary bypass perfusion, early anti-inflammatory treatment, and protective lung ventilation can reduce and improve perioperative ALI to a certain extent, but it is still not ideal. In recent years, inhibition of neutrophil activation and aggregation, and reduction of neutrophil elastase activity as targets for the treatment of inflammatory injury have also become an important clinical treatment measure, in order to further reduce the body's inflammatory response to improve and alleviate ALI. Sivelestat sodium, as a neutrophil elastase inhibitor, is the only approved therapeutic drug for ALI/ acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in the world. It is precisely by reducing the inflammatory infiltration of neutrophils and inhibiting neutrophil elastase activity, thereby exerting a certain protective effect on the lungs. The study takes patients with AD surgery as the research object. On the basis of not terminating and changing the original treatment plans, sivelestat sodium was added in the perioperative period to observe the incidence, and severity of ALI/ARDS in the perioperative period. It aims to explore the efficacy and safety of sivelestat sodium in the treatment of pulmonary insufficiency after AD arch surgery under hypothermic circulatory arrest.
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common and serious complication after aortic dissection (AD), and it is closely related to the inflammatory response associated with cardiopulmonary bypass. Hemoperfusion can reduce the level of systemic inflammatory response effectively in patients with sepsis. Some studies have tried to apply hemoperfusion to cardiopulmonary bypass surgery, and put forward the concept of "absorptive cardiopulmonary bypass", but there are few related research reports. The use of hemoperfusion during cardiopulmonary bypass can reduce the level of systemic inflammatory response, thereby reducing the risk of postoperative AKI and improving the prognosis of patients. The Cardiovascular Surgery Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Jiaotong University is one of the first demonstration units of "adsorption-type cardiopulmonary bypass" in China. Our previous retrospective analysis shown that intraoperative hemoperfusion can effectively reduce the occurrence of postoperative AKI in patients with AD, compared with traditional cardiopulmonary bypass. In addition, previous studies have found that the increased expression of CIRP after cardiopulmonary bypass can aggravate the oxidative stress and mitochondrial dynamics disorder in renal tubular epithelial cells, thereby inducing AKI. This project is a single-center randomized controlled study. It intends to investigate whether the application of hemoperfusion during cardiopulmonary bypass in patients with AD to reduce the level of systemic inflammatory response can reduce the incidence of postoperative AKI and improve the patient's discharge outcome. At the same time, exploratory studies were conducted to investigate whether hemoperfusion could effectively reduce the expression level of CIRP in the circulation. The successful implementation of this study can provide effective intervention methods and related theoretical basis for reducing the risk of AKI after aortic dissection.
Aortic disease is a life-threatening condition requires swift surgery or intervention. With modern techniques and vascular prostheses, still quite a few patients suffer surgery/intervention related complications such as suture line pseudoaneurysm, stent- induced re-entry tear, and aneurysmal expansion. Previous studies suggest that these complications may be related to the abnormal aortic motion pattern and biomechanical stress induced by vascular prostheses. The relationship between aortic motion changes and aortic adverse events after treatment still remains unclear. A dynamic protocol (multiphase contrast-enhanced ECG-gated) CT scan is able to measure the spatial motion of the ascending aorta, and finite element modelling is able to simulate both surgery or endovascular intervention and analyse the biomechanical interaction between vascular prostheses and tissue based on the patient-specific images. This project is aiming to explore and identify the interaction of 4D aortic motion and the biomechanical changes after surgery or endovascular treatment.
Aortic dissection is a life-threatening condition caused by a tear in the internal layer of major artery wall (aorta) that carries blood to all body organs, resulting in separation of the aortic wall layers (dissection). The dissected aorta compromises blood flow to any organ, and eventually leads to organ damage (Malperfusion Syndrome). Our goal in this project is to use Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) to have real time assessment and confirm any evidence of malperfusion syndrome in the setting of aortic dissection after repairing the original aortic tear. IVUS is a small ultrasound (sound waves) wand that is attached to the top of a thin tube. This tube is inserted into the aorta from the groin. This device takes pictures of the aorta and its major branches, to identify problems with blood flow. Having this real-time and dynamic assessment will help to identify any malperfused organs before leaving the operating room and allow us to address the malperfusion syndrome as quickly as possible to limit complications. Without this technique, identifying the problem can take several days after surgery at which point there can be irreversible complications.
To explore the potential prognostic effect of glucocorticoid on the postoperative aorta-related adverse events after aortic dissections patients underwent thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR), glucocorticoid (30mg/kg) will be intravenously given within 2h after TEVAR.