introduction: coronary endarterectomy is not a perfect procedure. however, it is sometimes the only available alternative for cardiac surgeons in patients suffering from diffuse coronary artery disease. according to a large volume of studies, coronary endarterectomy results (such as survival, recurrence of the symptoms of myocardial ischemia, and graft patency) are not as satisfactory as standa...

introduction: aortic valve sclerosisis considered as a manifestation of coronary atherosclerosis. recent studies demonstrated an association between aortic valve sclerosis and obstructive coronary artery disease. the purpose of this study was to evaluatethe correlation betweenaortic valve sclerosis andobstructive coronary artery disease and the extent of coronary artery disease in patients hosp...

Introduction: As off pump Coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (CABG) is a developing method in coronary cardiac surgery, most surgeons are anxious about the danger of emergency crash conversion. In this observational study we tried to show the rate and outcome of conversion . Material and methods: In this descriptive study about 477 coronary off-pump CABG patients were operated in Ghaem hos...

Method The results of 831 operations with CABG in patients with CAD in 3 groups were evaluated: CABG in patients without diffuse lesions of coronary arteries (group I 711 patients), isolated CABG in patients with advanced CAD (group II 33 patients) and CABG combined with TMLR in patients with advanced CAD (group III 87 patients). Data evaluation was made on the basis of the data of intraoperati...

The effect of medical and surgical treatment on subsequent sudden cardiac death was assessed in 13,476 patients in the Coronary Artery Surgery Study registry who had significant coronary artery disease, operable vessels, and no significant valvular disease. (Patients were assigned to medical or surgical therapy on the basis of clinical judgment and not according to a randomization scheme; there...

1 doubt that there has ever been a time in medicine where a field of surgery has grown so rapidly as in the area of direct coronary revascularization. Virtually within two years following the introduction of saphenous vem bypass grafting by Favalero and Johnson the procedure was adopted across the United States and the number of coronary bypasses performed has swelled during each additional ye~...

SEE PAGE 318 T raditionally, left main coronary artery disease had been regarded as a dominion of the cardiac surgeons on the basis of results from the classic trial comparing medical treatment and bypass surgery (1,2). However, several brave pioneers in interventional cardiology have continued to evaluate the performance of “less invasive” coronary stenting for the left main coronary artery st...