Quality Improvement Project in Congenital Cardiothoracic Surgery Patients: Reducing Surgical Site Infections

Acute Hyponatremia after Cardioplegia by Histidine-Tryptophane-Ketoglutarate–A Retrospective Study

Acute hyponatremia during cardioplegia with HTK solution is isotonic and should probably not be corrected without presence of hypotonicity as confirmed by measurement of serum osmolality.

Myocardial Reperfusion Injury: Etiology, Mechanisms, and Therapies

Although single therapies have shown some promise, the complexity of the response to reperfusion has made dramatic improvement elusive. Effective treatment will most likely require multifaceted antagonism of the numerous pathological cascades initiated by reperfusion.