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C Christides

Publications and source records attributed to C Christides.

At least 109 records · Page 6Linked to original sources
PubMed1975

[Criteria of detection and treatment of rejection crises following human cardiac transplantation in a series of 10 cases].

Analysis of a series of 10 cardiac transplantations confirmed that the reject phenomena have a paroxysmal course, the diagnosis of which is different according to the time occurence of the reject crises, whether early (acute early rejection) or late (late acute rejection or chronic rejection). Because of the early diagnosis based on the follow-up of the electrocardiogram, of coagulation, of the graft flow, overcome eight rejection crises on the 3 patients with middle-term survival.

Adrenal Cortex Hormones↗
PubMed1975

[Vascularization of the sino-atrial and atrioventricular nodes].

A recent personal study of the coronary arteries has enabled us to give precise details of the blood supply of the nodal structures. The right coronary artery is the commonest source (supplying 67% of the sino-atrial nodes, 85% of the atrio-ventricular nodes, and both nodes simultaneously in 60%). During the course of this study we have also demonstrated that the sino-atrial node may have a double vascular supply. It seems likely that the blood supply to the atrio-ventricular node is complex; because of the limitations of our study method, we examined only the main source of supply.

Atrioventricular Node↗
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[Acute dissection of the infrarenal aorta and horseshoe kidney. Apropos of a case and review of the literature].

We report about one case of acute dissection of the infrarenal abdominal aorta associated with a horseshoe kidney. A few points in the history of this 47-year-old patient deserve being underscored: the absence of an "etiological" factor of aortic dissection, the presence of five renal arteries, illustrating the complex vascularity of a horseshoe kidney, the specific surgical problems arising from both a lesion of the aortic junction and a horseshoe kidney. On the basis of the literature, we underline the incidence of dissection of the infrarenal aorta (1 to 3%), that of horseshoe kidney (0.15%) and that of pathology of the aortic junction in patients with a horseshoe kidney, which seems to be accidental.

Aortic Dissection↗
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[Surgical treatment of pulmonary metastases].

Between 1977 and 1986, 23 patients with pulmonary metastases were operated upon in a thoracic and cardiovascular surgery department, totalling 26 thoracotomies. The time elapsed between treatment of the primary tumour and that of the metastasis (single or multiple) ranged from 11 to 89 months. The metastases were discovered on follow-up x-ray films of the chest in 15 cases. All patients underwent preoperative lung function assessment, pulmonary radiotomography or thoracic computerized tomography and bronchial fibroscopy. Surgery consisted of tumorectomy (12 cases), lobectomy (5 cases), pneumonectomy (3 cases), segmentectomy (1 case) and tumorectomy combined with lobectomy (1 case). In 2 patients only exploratory thoracotomy could be performed. The operative mortality was nil. The mean survival counted from the date of the last thoracotomy was 17 months (range 1 to 51 months). The mean absolute survival was 24 months (range 13 to 51 months). The actuarial survival rate was 60 percent at 1 year, 47 percent at 2 years and 26 percent at 3 years. Terminal respiratory failure was the main cause of death. Surgery within a multidisclinary approach of lung cancer must therefore spare as much lunch parenchyma as possible to preserve the patient's future.

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[Renal arteriovenous fistulae after nephrectomy: report of a case and review of the published literature (author's transl)].

The authors review the principal etiological, pathogenic, clinical and radiological features of post-nephrectomy renal arteriovenous fistulae, basing their remarks on the personal observation and 46 cases reported in the published literature. Surgical treatment is essential and consists, preferentially, of resection of the aneurysmal sac with dissection and a separate ligature of the artery and the vein.

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Traumatic ventricular septal defect with tricuspid incompetence. Surgical treatment.

The authors report a case of traumatic ventricular septal defect associated with tricuspid incompetence after blunt injury of the chest. This case is the third one described in the literature. This case includes several unusual features: (1) the patient was a 52 year old man. Wounds of the heart usually happen to younger people; (2) clinical manifestations were immediately important; (3) there was a left bundle branch block on the electrocardiogram; (4) surgical treatment was performed as an emergency (less than a fortnight after the accident).

Bioprosthesis↗