Content

Introduction
Website
BelSECT symposium 2006
Articles
Calendar of events

Introduction

This is our first newsletter of 2006.
We just had a general assembly in january: you will be able to read the report of this meeting in our future member area (more info follows at our next educative evening).
As usual, we give an overview of some relevant articles, and have a short overview of perfusion BelSECT events.

If you still have an interesting event, a postgraduate meeting or an interesting article, please feel free to contact us.

Website

On the next educative evening, we will present our website.
As you could read in our last newsletter, BelSECT-members can register for the member-area.

The information you provide, at the time you register, will not be published on the main website.
Every BelSECT member can log in/subscribe at our homepage: at the right side 'member-login'.
After registration, we still need some time to approve your inscription and you will receive an email after your payment has been checked.
This year the deadline for the membership fees is 1th of march.

For more questions about this subject, you can join us at the next educative evening!

BelSECT symposium 2006

On the 7th of Octobre, BelSECT organises the tenth symposium on perfusion.
The first announcement and call for abstracts is online. You can find it here.

Articles

We have selected some recently published articles for you. The links bring you directly to the publisher's website of the article involved. BelSECT holds no responsibility for the contents of the articles, nor does it wish to favorise any of the author’s or products mentioned.

• Should We Discontinue Intraaortic Balloon During Cardioplegic Arrest? Splanchnic Function Results of a Prospective Randomized Trial
  Francesco Onorati, MD _^* , Lucia Cristodoro, MD, Pasquale Mastroroberto, MD, Antonio di Virgilio, MD, Antonio Esposito, MD, Massimo Bilotta, MD, Attilio Renzulli, MD, PhD
  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 80: 2221-2228, 2005
• The Risk Associated with Aprotinin in Cardiac Surgery
  Dennis T. Mangano, Ph.D., M.D., Iulia C. Tudor, Ph.D., Cynthia Dietzel, M.D., for the Multicenter Study of Perioperative Ischemia Research Group and the Ischemia Research and Education Foundation
  New England Journal of Medecine
• Synchronously counterpulsating extracorporeal life support enhances myocardial working conditions regardless of systemic perfusion pressure
  Koen D. Reesink, Loes D.C. Sauren, André L.A.J. Dekker, Ervin Severdija, Theo van der Nagel, Gijs G. Geskes, Frederik H. van der Veen, and Jos G. Maessen
  European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery. 28: 790-796, 2005
• Deterioration of Body Oxygen Metabolism by Vasodilator and/or Vasoconstrictor Administration during Cardiopulmonary Bypass
  

  Sato, Koichi; Sogawa, Masakazu; Namura, Osamu; Hayashi, Jun-ichi
  ASAIO. 52: 96-99, 2006
• Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials Comparing Off-Pump With On-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Patency
  Alessandro Parolari, MD, PhD , Francesco Alamanni, MD, Gianluca Polvani, MD, Marco Agrifoglio, MD, PhD, Yong Bing Chen, MD, Samer Kassem, MD, Fabrizio Veglia, PhD, Elena Tremoli, PhD, Paolo Biglioli, MD
  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 80: 2121-2125, 2005
• Normothermic Beating Heart Surgery with Assistance of Miniaturized Bypass Systems: The Effects on Intraoperative Hemodynamics and Inflammatory Response
  Rex, Steffen MD; Brose, Stefan MD; Metzelder, Sebastian; de Rossi, Lothar MD; Schroth, Sylvia MD; Autschbach, Rudiger MD; Rossaint, Rolf MD; Buhre, Wolfgang MD
  Anesthesia & Analgesia. 102(2):352-362, 2006
• Hypothermic Low-Flow Cardiopulmonary Bypass Impairs Pulmonary and Right Ventricular Function More Than Circulatory Arrest
  Jess M. Schultz, MD, Tara Karamlou, MD, Julia Swanson, BA, Irving Shen, MD, Ross M. Ungerleider, MD
  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 81: 474-480, 2006
• Sorptive Loss of Volatile and Gaseous Anesthetics from In Vitro Drug Application Systems
  Suzuki, Takahiro MD; Uchida, Ichiro MD, PhD; Mashimo, Takashi MD, PhD
  Anesthesia & Analgesia. 100(2):427-430, 2005.
• Comparing On-Pump and Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
  Frank W. Sellke, MD, Co-Chair; J. Michael DiMaio, MD, Co-Chair; Louis R. Caplan, MD; T. Bruce Ferguson, MD; Timothy J. Gardner, MD; Loren F. Hiratzka, MD; Eric M. Isselbacher, MD; Bruce W. Lytle, MD; Michael J. Mack, MD; John M. Murkin, MD; Robert C. Robbins, MD
  Circulation. 111: 2858 - 2864, May 2005
• Residual air in the venous cannula increases cerebral embolization at the onset of cardiopulmonary bypass
  Rosendo A. Rodriguez^, , Fraser Rubens, Dean Belway and Howard J. Nathan
  European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 29: 175-180, 2006

If you're not able to retrieve the full-text, you can always contact our secretary.

Calendar of events

BelSECT Educative evening

• Friday 24th March 2006 - 20h00: Diamant conference centre - Brussels
  20h00: BelSECT website
  Mr. Gerdy Debeuckelaere (UZ Antwerpen)
  21h00: Articles & discussion
• Friday 5th May 2006 - 20h00: Diamant conference centre - Brussels

BelSECT symposium

• Saturday 7th October 2006 - Ter Elst, Antwerp (Edegem)
  Call for abstracts

Congresses & events

You can find the calender of perfusion related events here.