Does retrograde warm blood cardioplegia provide equal protection to both ventricles?
Energy metabolism in the RV is less well preserved than in the LV during RCNBC. A combination of ACNBC and RCNBC seems to provide good cardiac protection as measured by the recovery of cardiac energetics and pHi.
Diagnostic TN-EGD is better tolerated than C-EGD. Narrow-diameter endoscope has a level of diagnostic accuracy comparable to that of conventional gastroscope, even though some technical characteristics of these instruments should be improved. Transnasal EGD with narrow-diameter endoscope should be proposed to all patients undergoing diagnostic EGD.