Occlusion or narrowing of the coronary ostia by syphilitic aortitis is a rare disease. In 1950 Scharfman, Wallach, and Angrist, reviewing several large necropsy series, reported 935 cases of syphilitic aortitis in 33,176 necropsies. Of these, 24 had involvement of the coronary ostia. Effective treatment by endarterectomy has been reported by Blondeau and Dubost (1962), Michaud et al. (1963), an...

Patients with porcelain aorta carry a high risk of cerebral as well as systemic embolism during cardiac surgery. Here we describe a case of severe aortic stenosis and coronary artery disease combined with the circumferentially calcified aorta. The patient was a 77-year-old man who successfully received four coronary artery bypass grafts with in situ arterial grafts without clamping the aorta an...

Corresponding author: Sangmin Maria Lee, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 50, Irwon-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-710, Korea. Tel: 82-2-3410-0362, Fax: 82-2-3410-0361, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commerci...

PURPOSE We sought to determine whether hypothermia provided any benefit in patients undergoing simultaneous coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) and carotid endarterectomy (CEA) using one of two different surgical strategies. METHODS Group 1 patients (n = 34, 88.2% male, mean age 65.94 ± 6.67 years) underwent CEA under moderate hypothermia before cross clamping the aorta, whereas group...

The Society for Vascular Surgery clinical practice guidelines management of extracranial cerebrovascular disease recommends carotid revascularization as soon the patient is neurologically stable after 48 hours and before 14 days symptom onset in patients with recent stroke. In United States, insurance status has been demonstrated to play a role wait times surgical care. There are no large-scale...