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Filter by:Due to various causes, such as brain impairment, environment changes, anxious,et al. patients, who undergo cardiopulmonary bypass, often suffer from poor quality of sleep. In chinese traditional medicine, acupuncture can improve the quality of sleep in patients with sleeping disorder. But it remains acupuncture could improve the quality of sleep in patients with heart operations.
Since the first implant in September 1982, the Medtronic Hancock® II has provided more than 20 years of excellent hemodynamic performance and durability. Design improvements over the past generations include: low profile, flexible stent, Supra-X™ supra-annular placement, T6 anti-calcification tissue treatment, modified fixation process, CINCH® advanced implant system and ULTRA™ minimized sewing ring. Valve sizing is a critical consideration in obtaining optimal hemodynamic performance. This is particular true in small aortic roots. A critical issue is the size of the prosthesis in relation to the patient's annulus. The objective of this clinical study is to evaluate, at six and twelve months, the hemodynamic performance of the HancockÒ Ultra™ bioprosthesis in the aortic position, to analyze the incidence of patient prosthesis mismatch, correlation of gradients, and to ascertain frequency at which a larger valve size is used vs. a patient's debrided annulus diameter.
Patients undergoing aortic valve replacement (AVR) surgery with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) are at risk of left ventricular dysfunction. The aim of the study is to describe the haemodynamic effects of levosimendan in comparison to placebo in patients undergoing elective aortic valve replacement (AVR) together with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery. The study is randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled and will be carried out in Heart Center. Twenty four patients will be randomized into two groups of 12. The treatment group will receive 24 hour infusion of levosimendan preoperatively where as the placebo group will receive an identical infusion of thiamine coloured glucose. The splanchnic perfusion will be measured by the means of vena hepatica cannulation. CircMon B202 (JR Medical Ltd, Tallinn, Estonia) is used for the measurement of whole-body impedance cardiography derived heart rate, cardiac index, left cardiac work index, systemic vascular resistance index (SVRI), and extracellular water (ECW). Surgical procedure, anaesthesia and cardio protection will be carried out as in standard care. Echo cardiography will be done pre- and postoperatively. Haemodynamics will be recorded hourly and mixed venous saturation every fourth hour for 24 hours.
For this study, blood and tissue samples will be collected in order to perform genetic testing to help researchers gather information about this disease and how and why it affects some patients more than others.
It is well know that statins have been used to low cholesterol to prevent and treat coronary artery disease for many years. It was also reported that statins could protect endothelial function and cardiac function during coronary artery bypass graft. However, some results were controversial. Also, there is no clinical data available on statin cardiac protection during surgery in China where rheumatic heart disease is prevalent. Thus, the investigators are trying to see whether statins can protect heart injury during cardiac surgery in Chinese. Part of patients will receive statin treatment and part of will not before surgery in the study. Both patients' heart function will be measured and compared after surgery to determine whether statins can protect heart injury during heart surgery.
To develop and validate the predictive warfarin dosing algorithm.
Remote ischaemic preconditioning has shown its cardiac protective effect during heart surgery including coronary artery bypass graft surgery, congenital heart disease and aneurysm. However, no data was reported on heart valve disease surgery. Rheumatic heart disease is one of the major heart diseases requiring surgery in China. Thus, the investigators chose heart valve disease as a focus to see whether remote ischaemic preconditioning also has cardiac protective effect during heart valve surgery.
The aim of the study is to compare three different regimens for volume replacement during cardiac surgery, e.g. Albumin 5%, Hydroxyethylstarch 130/0.4 (HES) and Ringer-Lactate (RL). Main Outcome parameters: chest tube drainage and coagulation parameters. The investigators hypothesis is that HES is as safe as Albumin, however less expensive. Whether RL is an even less expensive and as safe alternative has to be shown.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the ATS 3f® Aortic Bioprosthesis, Model 1000 (Equine Pericardial Bioprothesis) size 19mm in a patient population undergoing isolated aortic valve replacement of his/her native aortic valve, or replacement of a failed prosthesis.
Hypotension frequently occurs during anesthesia induction. Preload decrease by anesthetics was often considered as one of main causes for this hypotension. However, the studies on this topic have been lacking. Dynamic preload indices are more suitable than static preload indices to predict the effect of preload changes. And, recently, passive leg raising test showed successful results to predict fluid responsiveness in patient with spontaneous ventilation. The investigators hypothesized that hypotension after induction of anesthesia is caused by decrease of preload by anesthetics and passive leg raising test could predict this hypotension. In this study, the investigators will try to evaluate whether passive leg raising induced hemodynamic changes could predict hypotension during anesthesia induction.