...: interleukin-8; NLR: neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio. Pericardial complications after cardiac surgery are common but under-reported conditions that increase morbidity with a great impact on postoperative management. Pericardial effusion Cardiac surgery complications Post-pericardiotomy syndrome Post-cardiac...

... and the patient was discharged 5 days later, with referral to the general surgeon for further management. We conclude that, in cases of tamponade post-cardiac surgery, extrapericardial pathologies should be considered. Off-pump coronary bypass Hiatus hernia Cardiac tamponade Cardiac surgery complications...

... burden and has a significantly negative impact upon patient recovery [ 3 ]. Database Cardiac Surgery, Complications Wound infection Abstract OBJECTIVES National trends in cardiac surgery show a shift towards a higher preoperative risk profile and factors that might also be expected to increase...

... for the surgeon since prevention is the only effective treatment. Cholesterol emboli syndrome Multiple cholesterol emboli syndrome Cholesterol clefts Cutaneous emboli Blue toe syndrome Cardiac surgery complications Cholesterol crystal embolization (CCE), a complication of atherosclerosis, is found in 2–8...

... such as kinking of a coronary artery graft related to CABG surgery. myocardial ischaemia myocardial infarction cardiac surgery complications myocardial infarction MI myocardial ischaemia circumflex artery branch of left coronary artery coronary artery left electrocardiography ECG left anterior descending...