Hofer extends the study of maternal deprivation to changes in behavioural and cardio-respiratory physiology in the infant rat following abrupt early maternal separation.
The difference between deaths due to pneumonia and influenza and total cardio-respiratory deaths is particularly notable.
The patient was easily weaned from cardio-pulmonary bypass, and the chest was closed with hemodynamic stability.
It became customary for the recommendations to aim for enhanced muscular endurance and cardio-respiratory fitness.
We decided to close his atrial septal defect, and transferred him to a cardio-thoracic surgical unit.
If previous palliative shunts have been performed, they are controlled and will be interrupted after establishing cardio-pulmonary bypass.
Both infants were admitted to our clinic in cardiogenic shock and implantation was performed under conditions of cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
Angiographic volume measurements are standard tools in paediatric cardio-logy, but all methods are using assumptions of ventricular geometry.