Concomitant surgeries for unrelated diseases can be performed to minimize the risks associated with surgery and general anesthesia. In treating a male patient with breast cancer and severe coronary artery disease, we used the beating heart technique for a coronary artery bypass graft to avoid the negative effects of on-pump bypass on the possible acceleration of tumor growth. In this report, we...

P ercutaneous transluminal angioplasty is an accepted treatment for stenoses of bypass graft& and for total coronary artery occlusions.3-5 It follows that the same treatment would also be appropriate for total occlusions of saphenous aortocoronary bypass grafts. This report describes our clinical experience with attempted dilatation of totally occluded saphenous bypass grafts. Of the 2,679 cons...

Background: Previous researches have provided contradictory results about on working memory performance after the coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). In addition, studies have focused on the elderly community. For this reason and with regard to the importance and direct effects of working memory on the quality of life human. This study was designed to compare working memory of young CABG patie...

Recently, noninvasive imaging modalities such as electron-beam computed tomography, magnetic resonance angiography, and single-slice helical computed tomography (CT) have emerged as ways to visualize the coronary arteries. With regard to internal mammary artery grafts, however, conventional 3D imaging techniques have failed to demonstrate consistently satisfactory performance. We overcame these...

BACKGROUND Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is well established for patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, yet little is known about candidates for coronary artery bypass graft surgery. METHODS AND RESULTS From 2006 to 2010, we retrospectively included in this registry 627 consecutive patients treated by coronary artery bypass graft surgery having at least 1 angiographically int...

Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute systemic vasculitis. It is one of the most common acquired heart diseases in children. Its important acute complication is coronary artery aneurysm. Although most of these aneurysms resolved overtime but some never did. Coronary artery stenosis and myocardial insufficiency or infarction are late complications. Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) and catheter in...

A coronary fistula is an extremely rare coronary artery anomaly and its incidence is 0.08-0.4% (1). A fistula between the Left internal mammary graft (LIMA) graft and pulmonary vein after a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) is a very rare event, which can result in recurrence of anginal symptoms related to coronary steal (2). We present a 57 year old male patient who had coronary bypass surge...

Although dual left anterior descending arteries are found in about 1% of the population, identification and localization these coronaries remains a challenge for cardiac surgeons throughout coronary artery bypass graft surgery. We present case (LAD) disease highlight techniques used identifying vessels.

conclusions both anesthetic regimens were acceptable for induction in patients with coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery. results incidence of pain on injection (2 - 4%) and myoclonus (10%) was less in both groups. the hemodynamic response was similar in the two groups for all variables over the time interval, except for ci at ...