Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is advantageous for long-term clinical outcomes compared to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in hemodialysis (HD) patients, as PCI has a lower short-term mortality but higher late revascularization risk. Therefore, CABG very important HD patients current practice. In the presence of an arteriovenous fistula may flow capacity ipsilateral internal th...

In the UK 2.5 million people have diabetes. Three quarters of all deaths in patients with diabetes are caused by coronary artery disease. It has been projected that 25–30% of all revascularisations will be in patients with diabetes by 2010. The choice of optimal revascularisation strategy—coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)—remains controversi...

[email protected] The use of the left internal mammary artery (LIMA) is preferred for the revascularization of a stenosed or occluded left anterior descending artery (LAD). Occlusion or stenosis of proximal part of the left subclavian artery (LSA) could induce reverse blood flow in LIMA called coronary subclavian steal syndrome (CSSS) and should be revascularized before coronary artery bypass ...

The optimal revascularization strategy for patients with multi-vessel coronary artery disease remains controversial. The advent of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has challenged the superiority of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery for multi-vessel disease. In the late 1990s, an integrated approach, now referred to as “hybrid coronary revascularization” (HCR), was pioneered co...

BACKGROUND Fibrinogen is related to the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. The inflammatory process in atherosclerosis may cause an increase in plasma fibrinogen level. Therefore, in this study we proposed to investigate whether plasma fibrinogen is associated with the patency of saphenous vein graft in patients at least 1 year after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. METHODS Patients...

BACKGROUND Robotic-assisted coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) has been shown in short-term studies to increase patient satisfaction and to reduce surgical morbidity and recovery times. However, the long-term patency rate of robotic-assisted CABG is unknown. Therefore, the objective of this study was to assess the long-term patency rate of robotic-assisted coronary artery bypass grafts. M...

An increase in caregiver burden and a decrease social support have both been identified as predictors of poor psychological distress. However, little is known about the role these factors coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) caregivers. The purpose this study was to investigate whether change perceived from pre post surgery mediated relationship between depressive symptoms subjective well-being ...