The simplified MELD score predicts mortality in patients undergoing tricuspid valve surgery. This model requires only total bilirubin and creatinine and is therefore applicable in patients undergoing warfarin therapy.

We report the rare case of a 68-year-old man with a bilateral deep femoral artery aneurysm. Right-sided rupture was treated via plug embolization of the right deep femoral artery and ligation. In the following year, Viabahn® stent grafts were placed in the left superficial femoral artery to relieve occlusion and in the left deep femoral artery to treat the left aneurysm. The postoperative course of the patient was uneventful.

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Serum S-100 beta protein elevated immediately after weaning from CPB correlated with bypass time but not with neurological symptoms. Physiological changes other than substantial brain damage caused by CPB may increase the serum S-100 beta protein level. Prebypass data on neonates and infants showed serum S-100 beta protein increased without brain damage supporting this hypothesis.

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