Henning Busk

Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg | OvGU · Clinic for Cardiac Surgery and Surgery of the Chest

Aims The GermAn Laser Lead Extraction GallerY (GALLERY) is a retrospective, national multicentre registry, investigating the safety and efficacy of laser lead extraction procedures in Germany. Methods and results Twenty-four German centres that are performing laser lead extraction have participated in the registry. All patients, treated with a lase...

Background Though laser guided extractions of cardiac implantable electronic devices leads have become a routine procedure, the severe complications are associated with a high mortality. Here, we report our single center experience using uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopy for laser lead extraction and compare it to stand-alone laser lead extract...

Penetrierende Thoraxtraumata stellen eine Verletzung mit signifikanter Morbidität und Mortalität dar. Abhängig von dem klinischen Zustand des Patienten und den erwarteten Verletzungen stehen hierbei verschiedene Zugangswege zur Verfügung. Vor dem Hintergrund eines möglichst niedrigen zusätzlichen Operationstraumas („second hit“) sind der Nutzen und...

Case Study

Case Study

Das operative Spektrum der 25 Jahre in der Klinik für Herz- und Thoraxchirurgie an der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität in Magdeburg

Case study on spontaneous rupture of bronchial artery

Successful interfaculty cooperation in teaching

Even though isolated cases of penetrating chest wounds are exceptionally rare in Germany, chest trauma accounts for major morbidity and mortality in over 18 0000 multitrauma patients encountered every year. Injuries range from immediately fatal cardiac wounds and major vessel lacerations to intercostal bleeding, parenchymal damage, chronic haematot...

Objective: Even though roughly 90% of all implanted cardiac implantable electronic devices leads can be removed through conventional techniques, presence of large vegetations or thrombi, fractured leads, previous failed extraction, or long duration from implantation often impede classical transvenous extraction. In these cases, laser-assisted proc...

Modern thoracic surgery with its emerging focus on minimally invasive techniques requires intraoperative one-lung ventilation to achieve optimal surgical exposure. The double-lumen tube has been considered to be the golden standard for almost 60 years; however, new indications and surgical techniques in thoracic, cardiac, esophageal and ventral spi...

Since the first accounts of empyema treatment by Hippocrates of Kos, who pioneered surgical procedures of the chest wall and the emergence of thoracic surgery during the late 19th and early 20th century specifically to develop treatment strategies for tuberculosis, chest wall resection and reconstruction has become a mainstay of septic and oncologi...

OriginalpublikationRintoul RC, Ritchie AJ, Edwards JG, Waller DA et al (2014) Efficacy and cost of video-assisted thoracoscopic partial pleurectomy versus talc pleurodesis in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MesoVATS): an open-label, randomised, controlled trial. Lancet 384:1118-1127HintergrundEvidenzbasierte Therapieempfehlungen beim...

Chest tube protocols are still largely dictated by personal preferences and experience. A general lack of published evidence encourages individual decision-making and hinders the development of clear-cut guidelines. The aim of this review is to establish standardized procedures with recommendations for size and number of inserted tubes, ideal sucti...

Non-oncologic inflammatory disorders of the thorax are mainly of infectious origin. The clinical presentation depends on the localization, the course and the pathological picture. The basis of treatment is effective anti-infective drug therapy. Nevertheless thoracic surgery may be indicated in cases where medical therapy is primarily not effective,...

The purpose of this randomized, prospective trial was to determine if Bachmann's bundle pacing reduces the incidence of AF after CABG. The study included 161 patients with no history of AF who were randomized to three groups. Group 1 included 50 patients as controls. Group 2 included 60 patients who had an epicardial wire placed at the lateral wall...

Trefoil factor family (TFF)-domain peptides (formerly P-domain peptides, trefoil factors) represent major mucin-associated peptides of the gastrointestinal tract. Here, the first localization studies on TFF3 in the lower respiratory tract of human material are presented. Immunohistochemistry revealed significant accumulation of TFF3 to mucous cells...