Objectives/Hypothesis To report two patients with a history of microvascular decompression
(MVD) for hemifacial spasm who presented with Teflon granulomas (TG) mimicking …

Some cardiac surgeons prefer to close the pericardium whenever possible following
surgery, others specifically avoid this practice, and still others believe that neither alternative …

Objectives To determine the clinical utility of an acellular bioscaffold as a structural material
for mitral valve repair (MVr). Methods This was a retrospective study of patients undergoing …

The use of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) for tissue regeneration is often hampered by
modest engraftment in host tissue. This study was designed to quantitatively compare MSCs …

BACKGROUND: The prevention of the pericardial adhesions largely accountable for the
technical difficulty and risk of injury inherent to resternotomy continues to gain in importance …

Reduction of sternal adhesions is still an issue in cardiac surgery. To evaluate a new fibrillar
porcine collagen absorbable membrane (Cova™ CARD), 16 sheep underwent a sternotomy …

Background Postoperative pericardial adhesion formation is a prominent cause of morbidity
and death in cardiovascular surgery, but there is still no ideal prevention method, especially …

Background Postoperative pericardial adhesions have been associated with increased
morbidity, mortality, and surgical difficulty. Barriers exist to limit adhesion formation, yet little …

Cardiovascular diseases have become a major threat to human health. The adhesion
formation is an inevitable pathophysiological event after cardiac surgery. We have …

Sternal re-entry adds supplementary risk to cardiac re-operations and it may represent the
most important factor in the entire hazard estimation. A new anti-adhesive substance, based …