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E-132 Successful mechanical thrombectomy in an 11-year-old patient with emergent large vessel occlusion acute ischemic stroke related to congenital complete heart block and recent covid-19 infection
ConclusionsThis is a first known report of a successful mechanical thrombectomy in a pediatric patient due to a large vessel occlusion related to congenital complete heart block and recent COVID-19 infection.Disclosures J. Ansari: None. D. Mata Canadas: None. M. Ayub: None. J. Caskey: None. P. Simoncini: None. R. Riel-Romero: None. P. Sharma: None. D. Jordan: None. H. Cuellar: None.
Source: Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery - July 30, 2023 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Ansari, J., Mata Canadas, D., Ayub, M., Caskey, J., Simoncini, P., Riel-Romero, R., Sharma, P., Jordan, D., Cuellar, H. Tags: SNIS 20th annual meeting electronic poster abstracts Source Type: research

When does life end? New organ donation strategy fuels debate
On a chilly holiday Monday in January 2020, a medical milestone passed largely unnoticed. In a New York City operating room, surgeons gently removed the heart from a 43-year-old man who had died and shuttled it steps away to a patient in desperate need of a new one. More than 3500 people in the United States receive a new heart each year. But this case was different—the first of its kind in the country. “It took us 6 months to prepare,” says Nader Moazami, surgical head of heart transplantation at New York University (NYU) Langone Health, where the operation took place. The run-up included oversight from an ethi...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 11, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

Neurocognitive, Quality of Life, and Behavioral Outcomes for Patients With Covert Stroke After Cardiac Surgery: Exploratory Analysis of Data From a Prospectively Randomized Trial
CONCLUSIONS: More than one-half of patients undergoing cardiac surgery demonstrated covert stroke. In this exploratory analysis, covert stroke was not found to be significantly associated with neurocognitive dysfunction 1 month after surgery; evidence of impaired quality of life, anxiety, or depression, albeit a type II error, cannot be excluded.PMID:34319914 | DOI:10.1213/ANE.0000000000005690
Source: Anesthesia and Analgesia - July 28, 2021 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Choy Lewis Annabelle Levine Lauren C Balmert Liqi Chen Saadia S Sherwani Alexander J Nemeth Jordan Grafman Rebecca Gottesman Charles H Brown Charles W Hogue Source Type: research