Showing papers in "The Annals of Thoracic Surgery in 1969"

TL;DR: A retrospective analysis of the clinical material was made to determine the role of techniques, underlying disease, and coincident contributory factors in the production of this previously rare complication.

TL;DR: This report is based on the review of the cardiac findings at necropsy in 31 patients who died in the early postoperative period following single or multiple valve replacement at the Presbyterian-&.

TL;DR: This study is presented in the interest of defining certain aspects of the comparative anatomies of human, pig, calf, and sheep aortic valves so as to facilitate the selection of the most favorable heterograft donor species.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the method of placement and subsequent management of these temporary pacing wires and describe their method of placing atrial and ventricular pacing wires prior to closure of the chest.

TL;DR: The tumors under discussion in this paper appear according to the following classification: the common sites of occurrence of benign tumors in the proximal tracheobronchial tree or the distal tracheo-somatic tree and lung parenchyma can be a basis for classification of the varied tumors.

TL;DR: To limit the number of sudden failures with possible disastrous consequences and to achieve maximum use of equipment, both the patient and his implanted prosthesis must be monitored frequently enough to reduce unpredicted failures to a minimum level.

TL;DR: The following study includes a description of 50 patients, 15 with excessive blood loss and 35 with “normal” postoperative blood loss, and presumed correctly that a distinct separation of the two groups of patients could be made on the basis of the coagulation studies.