Introduction: The World Health Organization (WHO) considers people over the age of 65 as older adults. These people usually suffer from chronic diseases including Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) surgery is a common surgery operated on these patients to increase survival and improve patients’ Quality of Life (QOL); however, previous studies h...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) occurs in one quarter to one third of patients after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). Conventional CABG uses cardiopulmonary bypass, a process that is itself associated with a systemic vascular inflammatory response that contributes to postoperative morbidity. The avoidance of cardiopulmonary bypass is associated with a significant reduction in the inflammat...

The American Heart Association (AHA) released a scientific statement in 2015 regarding the secondary prevention after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) [1]. Advice was given for antiplatelet therapy, antihypertensives, beta-blockers, and anti-lipids post CABG prevention. This paper reviewed adherence at single centre discharge with AHA guidelines [1] effect this had on outcomes.

According to the annual registry of the Japanese Association for Coronary Artery Surgery, the percentage of off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) procedures performed in Japan in recent years has increased rapidly, comprising of more than 60% of all CABG procedures in 2004. This widespread use of off-pump CABG is mostly owing to the recent technological advances in devices that are sp...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Despite the benefits of surgical coronary revascularization, patients continue to be at risk for ischemic events in the years that follow coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG), mandating the role for postoperative secondary preventive therapy. The purpose of this review was to present a summary on the subject of secondary prevention after CABG, including an overview of a...

Methods Of 2083 patients who underwent isolated off-pump CABG between 1999 and 2012, 91 patients who underwent offpump CABG concomitant with non-cardiovascular surgery (group 1) were compared with 1991 patients who underwent isolated off-pump CABG (group 2). In group 1, there were 49 malignancies and 42 benigns. Non-cardiovascular surgery included 34 thoracic surgeries (11 bullectomy, 11 pulmon...

Cholesterol crystal embolization (CCE) may be triggered by various factors: intra-arterial angiographic procedures, aortic or vascular surgery, anticoagulant or thrombolytic treatments, or both. There are few previous reports of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) experiencing and therefore displaying severe systemic CCE. We describe four patients presenting, shortly afte...

Introduction: Myocardial protection is one of the key points during cardiac surgery. Inadequate myocardial in cross-clamping period an issue concern Cardioplegic solutions improve tolerance ischemia and reperfusion by preserving energy reserves, preventing osmotic, electrolyte imbalances acidosis. Warm blood cardioplegia (WBC) has had a profound impact, especially coronary artery bypass surgery...

BACKGROUND Data are lacking on the optimal scheduling of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery after stroke. The authors investigated the preoperative predictors of adverse outcomes in patients undergoing CABG, with a focus on the importance of the time interval between prior stroke and CABG. METHODS The Hospital Episode Statistics database (April 2006-March 2010) was analyzed for el...