What if a child’s own melatonin levels could tip the scales against oxidative injury during heart surgery? Pediatric cardiac ...

Among patients who are already taking statins, giving additional doses in the hours before CABG isn’t worthwhile, the StaRT-CABG trial shows. The 30-day rate of MACCE (a composite of all-cause ...

Although perioperative prophylactic glucocorticoids have been used for decades, whether they improve outcomes in infants after heart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass is unknown. We conducted a ...

Infants undergoing heart surgery are connected to a heart-lung machine and given nitric oxide as an anti-inflammatory. Researchers from the Universities of Zurich and Queensland have now conducted the ...

Cardiopulmonary bypass, more commonly known as heart-and-lung bypass, has some unique impacts on the creation and growth of brain cells in the area of a child's brain called the subventricular zone ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A longstanding practice of giving steroids to patients during cardiopulmonary bypass surgery to reduce inflammation failed to help patients and actually increased the risk of ...

Congenital heart disease affects about one in a hundred live-born children. In the US alone, about 40,000 children are born with congenital heart disease every year. About half of these patients ...

Complement activation via C3 and C5 plays an important role in inflammation, vasoconstriction, vascular leakage, leukocyte activation, cardiac damage, and apoptosis. The inhibition of complement ...

According to a 2024 study published in the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, patients who ...