- Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
- Aortic aneurysm repair treatments
- Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases
- Cardiovascular Conditions and Treatments
- Pericarditis and Cardiac Tamponade
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Vascular Anomalies and Treatments
- Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
- Cardiac and Coronary Surgery Techniques
- Congenital Heart Disease Studies
- Vasculitis and related conditions
- Myasthenia Gravis and Thymoma
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Tracheal and airway disorders
- Amyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
- Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions
Universidade de São Paulo
2012-2024
Discovery Air (Canada)
2024
Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo
2018-2021
Introduction: Three-dimensional (3D) printing has become an affordable tool for assisting heart surgeons in the aorta endovascular field, both surgical planning, education and training of residents students.This technique permits construction physical prototypes from conventional medical images by converting anatomical information into computer aided design (CAD) files.Objective: To present 3D feature on developing leading to improved aortic as well transcatheter valve implantation, mainly...
Introduction: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic brought an unprecedented lack of control what was to come.The intent this document is provide a balance how much ceased be done for patients with aortic disease, assess the mortality these patients, and show happened those who became COVID-19 positive during their hospitalization.Methods: From April 1st July 31st 2020, worst period in São Paulo, Brazil, Institute's surgical operated on were evaluated compared same 2019.Results:...
ARTIGO ORIGINAL Coronary artery bypass grafting in acute myocardial infarction: analysis of predictors in-hospital mortalityCirurgia de revascularização miocárdica na fase aguda do infarto: análise dos fatores preditores mortalidade intra-hospitalar Resumo Objetivo: A cirurgia (CRM) infarto miocárdio (IAM) está associada a aumento risco operatório.O objetivo estudo foi determinar intrahospitalar nos pacientes submetidos CRM no IAM.Métodos: Durante três anos, todos os IAM foram analisados...
The echocardiogram is an available and essential imaging tool for the evaluation of thoracic aortic diseases.This examination plays a significant role in identification diagnosis, as well follow-up chronic cases.Its availability, portability, costeffectiveness, absence exposure to radiation or contrast make it important monitoring patients with known aortopathy, who usually require serial examinations follow-up.Although inferior total detailed characterization aorta all its sections compared...
O ecocardiograma é uma ferramenta de imagem disponível e imprescindível para avaliação das doenças da aorta torácica. exame tem papel importante na identificação diagnóstico, além do acompanhamento em casos crônicos. A disponibilidade, a portabilidade, o custo-efetividade ausência exposição à radiação ou contraste colocam como seguimento pacientes com aortopatia conhecida, que usualmente requerem exames seriados acompanhamento. Apesar ser inferior caracterização total detalhada todas as suas...
Objective: Aortic valve replacement with Braile bovine pericardial prosthesis has been routinely done at the Heart Institute of Universidade de São Paulo Medical School since 2006.The objective this study is to analyze results Biomédica ® aortic bioprosthesis in patients disease.Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 196 disease submitted prosthesis, between 2006 and 2010.Mean age was 59.41±16.34years 67.3% were male.Before surgery, 73.4% NYHA functional class III or IV.Results: Hospital...
Pericardial effusion can develop in patients with acute pericarditis or association a wide variety of systemic diseases and is characterized as transudative, exudative, pyopericardium, hemopericardium. Large effusions are usually related to tuberculous neoplastic effusions. Primary pericardial tumors rare, the vast majority cases resulting from secondary tumors. may be present 7% 53% cancer correlated an advanced stage disease. The main types [...]
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a type of chronic vasculitis that affects medium and large-caliber arteries, frequently related to aortic involvement and, consequently, aneurysm formation. However, associated valvulitis with giant cells uncommon. We describe the case 50-year-old female patient valvular insufficiency, whose anatomopathological examination revealed giant-cell aortitis.