[67] Infection can spread from the liver by direct extension into the pleuropulmonary cavity and the pericardial cavity. Occasionally, usually in immunosuppressed individuals, infection might be ...

Cardiac fibrosis is a major and complex pathophysiological process that ultimately culminates in cardiac dysfunction and heart failure. This phenomenon includes not ...

In such patients, a left atrial (LA) configuration of the inflow cannula may be attempted if LA cavity is big enough (19). Proteinuria identifies patients ... The conventional surgical approach to ...

From the Center for Systems Biology (W.C.P., M.N., F.K.S.), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. From the Center for Systems Biology (W ...