Tiny Perfusion Letter #10

Tiny Perfusion Letter

Here's TPL Nr. 10. In just one month, you have received one-hundred publications in the field of perfusion, cardiothoracic surgery or adjacent disciplines.
I hope you enjoyed receiving them and that you like the format.
If you have any suggestions about it, do not hesitate to contact me.

Meanwhile, keep on reading, keep on spreading the news.

Thank you.

Regulation of coronary blood flow in health and ischemic heart disease.
Duncker DJ, Koller A, Merkus D, Canty JM Jr
Prog Cardiovasc Dis. 2015 Mar-Apr;57(5):409-22

Liberal or restrictive transfusion after cardiac surgery.
Murphy GJ, Pike K, Rogers CA, Wordsworth S, Stokes EA, Angelini GD, Reeves BC; TITRe2 Investigators
N Engl J Med. 2015 Mar 12;372(11):997-1008 FREE
EDITORIAL

Optimal Medical Therapy Improves Clinical Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Revascularization with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention or Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Insights From the SYNTAX Trial at 5-Year Follow-Up.
Iqbal J, Zhang Y, Holmes DR, Morice M, Mack MJ, Kappetein AP, Feldman T, Escaned J, Stahle E, BanningAP, Gunn JP, Colombo A, Steyerberg EW, Mohr FW, Serruys PW
Circulation 2015 February 24. [Epub ahead of print]

Pancreatic Stone Protein Predicts Postoperative Infection in Cardiac Surgery Patients Irrespective of Cardiopulmonary Bypass or Surgical Technique.
Klein HJ, Csordas A, Falk V, Slankamenac K, Rudiger A, Schönrath F, Rodriguez Cetina Biefer H, Starck CT, Graf R
PLoS One. 2015 Mar 20;10(3):e0120276 FREE

Avoiding aortic clamping during coronary artery bypass grafting reduces postoperative stroke.
Moss E, Puskas JD, Thourani VH, Kilgo P, Chen EP, Leshnower BG, Lattouf OM, Guyton RA, Glas KE, Halkos ME
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015 Jan;149(1):175-80
EDITORIAL

Impact of 6 % hydroxyethyl starch (HES) 130/0.4 on the correlation between standard laboratory tests and thromboelastography (TEG®) after cardiopulmonary bypass.
Hans GA, Hartstein G, Roediger L, Hubert B, Peters P, Senard M
Thromb Res. 2015 Feb 8. [Epub ahead of print]

Age of Transfused Blood in Critically Ill Adults.
Lacroix J1, Hébert PC, Fergusson DA, Tinmouth A, Cook DJ, Marshall JC, Clayton L, McIntyre L, Callum J, Turgeon AF, Blajchman MA, Walsh TS, Stanworth SJ, Campbell H, Capellier G, Tiberghien P, Bardiaux L, van de Watering L, van der Meer NJ, Sabri E, Vo D; ABLE Investigators and the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.
N Engl J Med. 2015 Mar 17. [Epub ahead of print]

Modular minimally invasive extracorporeal circulation systems; can they become the standard practice for performing cardiac surgery?
Anastasiadis K, Antonitsis P, Argiriadou H, Deliopoulos A, Grosomanidis V, Tossios P
Perfusion. 2015 Apr;30(3):195-200

The effects of cardiopulmonary bypass on pulmonary function during robotic cardiac surgery.
Wang G, Xiao S, Gao C
Perfusion. 2015 Apr;30(3):213-18

The use of balanced HES 130/0.42 during complex cardiac surgery; effect on blood coagulation and fluid balance: a randomized controlled trial.
A Schramko A, Suojaranta-Ylinen R, Niemi T, PesonenE, Kuitunen A, Raivio P, Salmenperä M
Perfusion. 2015 Apr;30(3):224-32