Volume : 6, Issue : 6, June - 2017

DEL NIDO CARDIOPLEGIA IN ADULT CARDIAC SURGERY

Dr. Srinivasa Kumaran, Dr. Nandha Kumar

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">In the early 1990s del Nido cardioplegia was developed by Pedro del Nido, Hung Cao-Danh, Eric Sommers and Akihiko Ohkado at the university of Pittsburgh for pediatric and infant cardiac surgeries. Its use in adult cardiac surgeries is expanding now.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">In Our institution cardiac surgeries such as mitral valve replacement, aortic valve replacement, double valve replacement, repair of congenital cardiac defects and CABG are being routinely performed .This study deals with usefulness of del Nido cardioplegia in adult cardiac surgery&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>