background: pain on mid sternotomy incision site after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (cabg) is a common problem that causes sleep disturbance, delayed wound healing, and increased use of analgesic drugs. massage therapy which is mostly performed by healthcare providers is a non-pharmacological approach for managing this pain. the present study aimed to determine the effect of massage the...

conclusions ptps is a common problem following cabg, and pre-emptive therapy with dex may decrease neuropathic pain. results fifty-four patients were placed in the control group, and 50 patients were assigned to the dex group. the age, sex, and body mass index were not significantly different between the two groups of study (p > 0.05). the incidence of ptps was 11/50 (22%) patients in the dex g...

heparin- induced thrombocytopenia (hit) is an antibody mediated adverse effect of heparin therapy which is classified into two subtypes, hit i which is non-immune, spontaneously reversible thrombocytopenia and; hit ii which is an autoimmune-mediated adverse effect of heparin therapy. in this case report, we described a 65-year old male patient with hit ii after coronary artery bypass grafting. ...

BACKGROUND Postoperative neurocognitive deficit is prevalent after cardiac surgery. Xenon may prevent or ameliorate acute neuronal injury, but it also may aggravate injury during cardiac surgery by increasing bubble embolism. Before embarking on a randomized clinical trial to test the safety and efficacy of xenon for postoperative neurocognitive deficit, we undertook a phase I study to investig...

conclusions cabg may be the superior form of treatment for long-term outcomes in terms of the relief of chest pain, improvement of the functional class, reduced need for re-admission, and later death for octogenarians. however, short-term morbidity may be higher among the cabg group, but the mortality rate after 30 days is quite similar. background appropriate treatment methods lead to a reduce...

INTRODUCTION Final 5-year results of the Synergy between PCI with Taxus and Cardiac Surgery (SYNTAX) trial were recently presented at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) and European Society of Thoracic Surgery (ESTS) meetings [1]. SYNTAX is frequently quoted as “the most important percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) vs. coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) trial in multi...

Patients with unprotected left main coronary artery (ULMCA) disease are considered at highest-risk of adverse cardiovascular events and mortality within the broad range of risk for patients with obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). On the basis of several clinical and anatomic characteristics and patient/physician preference, individual patients with ULMCA disease might be treated with pe...

The Randomised Intervention Treatment of Angina (RITA) Trial is a prospective, randomised study to compare the short term and long term effects of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and coronary artery bypass surgery. During the study a register of patients undergoing coronary arteriography at the fourteen participating centres is being maintained to assess the overall context of pa...