Background: Radial artery is becoming the commonest artery after femoral artery used for cardiac procedures. The anatomical feasibility, patient comfort along with less chances of atherosclerosis in radial graft make it a preferred artery, but in certain clinical situations as need of second graft, blocked radial artery, difficulty in puncturing radial artery, where we require some other artery...

Stress echocardiography and myocardial perfusion imaging are commonly used noninvasive imaging modalities for the evaluation of ischaemic heart disease. Both modalities have proved clinically useful in the entire spectrum of coronary artery disease. Both techniques can detect coronary artery disease and provide prognostic information. Both techniques can identify lowrisk and high-risk subsets a...

OBJECTIVE The radial artery is frequently the second graft of choice after the left internal thoracic artery in coronary artery bypass graft surgery. However, the optimal radial artery proximal anastomosis site remains controversial. The aim of the present study was to compare the radial artery patency according to its use as either an aorta-radial artery graft or composite radial artery graft ...

T he indication of adjunctive mitral valve surgery in patients with ischaemic mitral regurgitation (MR) undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting remains controversial. Furthermore, no approach currently predicts in which patients ischaemic MR will resolve with revascularisation alone. It has been recently suggested that a reduction in ischaemic MR caused by an improvement in regional left ven...

OBJECTIVES To assess the link between perfusion, metabolism, and function in viable myocardium before and early after surgical revascularisation. DESIGN Myocardial blood flow (MBF, thermodilution technique), metabolism (lactate, glucose, and free fatty acid extraction and fluxes), and function (transoesophageal echocardiography) were assessed in patients with critical stenosis of the left ant...