the effect of regular physical activity at home on patients' physical status after coronary artery bypasses surgery     hemmati maslakpak m [1] *, amirian z [2] , khalkhali hr [3] , salehi sh [4]     received: 5 aug, 2011 accepted: 3 nov, 2011     abstract   background & aims : coronary artery disease causes mortality and disability of large part of a country's productive people. oxyg...

A 37-year-old man with symptoms of cardiovascular disease applied to our hospital. Seven years ago, he had undergone combined kidney and pancreas transplantation. Afterwards, 4 years ago, his renal transplantation was repeated because of rejection. Coronary artery angiography revealed two-vessel coronary artery stenosis. We performed coronary artery bypass grafting to treat the coronary artery ...

tranexamic acid is now used on a routine basis for on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg). we assessed the hemostatic effects of tranexamic acid to decrease bleeding tendency and transfusion requirements in patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery (opcab). a total of 66 patients were enrolled to elective opcab in a double-blind, prospective randomized study. of these,...

BACKGROUND Congenital left main coronary atresia is an extremely rare coronary anomaly. Long-term surgical outcomes and the optimal management strategies for recurrence of ischemia remain uncertain. Herein, we present a case involving successful redo coronary artery bypass grafting for unstable angina 27 years after the initial coronary artery bypass grafting for congenital left main coronary a...

We report a case of coronary artery bypass grafting through the left thoracotomy in a patient who suffered from sternoclavicular joint infection with methicillin-resistance Staphylococcus aureus. We performed off-pump coronary bypass surgery, using the left internal thoracic artery to the left anterior descending coronary artery and a saphenous vein graft from the aorta to the circumflex artery...

Currently coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is the most commonly used procedure for revascularization of coronary heart disease. However it may not be suitable for the patients with diffuse coronary artery lesions, for which endarterectomy is a way but it’s not feasible to thin coronary artery without inner lumen or to the immature plaque. In this case, it may be a proper therapeutic optio...

OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical, angiographic, neurocognitive, and quality of life outcomes of off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery with conventional coronary artery bypass grafting surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass. DESIGN Randomised controlled clinical trial. SETTING Tertiary cardiothoracic centre in Middlesex, England. PARTICIPANTS 168 patients (27 women) requiring primary isol...

a t t c t Background. Coronary artery endarterectomy with cornary artery bypass grafting for diffuse coronary artery isease has been associated with increased morbidity nd mortality. We evaluated our institutional experience o redefine the role of coronary endarterectomy for difuse coronary artery disease. Methods. From 1985 to 2002 isolated coronary artery ndarterectomy with coronary artery by...

BACKGROUND Excessive myocardial necrosis following coronary artery bypass grafting is associated with adverse outcome. The present study was designed to assess the extent of myocardial injury after conventional coronary artery bypass grafting with cardio pulmonary bypass (ONCAB) compared with off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB). METHODS Measurements of serum cardiac troponin T (TnT) were ...