Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy

· 3 papers in corpus
meta-analysis 2017
doi:10.21037/cdt.2017.03.03 ·PMID:28567352

BACKGROUND: A number of small studies have suggested that outcomes following endovascular (ENDO) therapy are comparable to those following surgical (SURG) revascularization for patients presenting with acute limb ischemia (ALI). We sought t…

review 2016
doi:10.21037/cdt.2016.11.19 ·PMID:28123973

Venous compression syndromes are a unique group of disorders characterized by anatomical extrinsic venous compression, typically in young and otherwise healthy individuals. While uncommon, they may cause serious complications including pain…

observational 2016
doi:10.21037/cdt.2016.09.05 ·PMID:27904842

BACKGROUND: Although the specialty of cardiothoracic surgery has been practiced in Nigeria for many years, open heart surgery (OHS) has only in the last decade become relatively more frequent, mainly through visiting foreign cardiac surgica…