OBJECTIVES The study was aimed at investigating the risk factors of using an intraaortic balloon pump (IABP) in coronary artery bypass surgery and presenting the authors' clinical experience of IABP use. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 1094 patients who underwent coronary artery bypass surgery at the authors' clinic between January 2009 and December 2011. A comparison was made between...

BACKGROUND Proliferative diabetic retinopathy leading to vitreous hemorrhage, tractional retinal detachment, and neovascular glaucoma is a major cause of severe sight impairment in adults of working age worldwide. Neovascular glaucoma occurs in 2.5% of patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy, which is difficult to treat and often leads to blindness. Onset of neovascular glaucoma with r...

In the 1970s and early 1980s, randomized trials comparing coronary bypass surgery with medical therapy emphasized the indications for coronary revascularization. In these trials and database studies, the major benefit of surgery over medical therapy upon survival was among 'sicker' patients, characterized by the severity of ischaemia, the extent of coronary disease and the presence of left vent...

INTRODUCTION Disturbances of the cardiac conduction system are frequent in the postoperative period of coronary artery bypass surgery. They are mostly reversible and associated with some injury of the conduction tissue, caused by the ischemic heart disease itself or by perioperative factors. OBJECTIVE Primary: investigate the association between perioperative factors and the emergence of atri...

Coronary artery bypass surgery is considered as the gold standard treatment of unprotected left main coronary artery (ULMCA) disease. Over the last 20 years, improvement in stent technology and operators experience explained the increased number of reports on the results of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) for the treatment of left main (LM) coronary artery lesion. The recent data com...

Continuous Hemofiltration in the Perioperative Management for Chronic Hemodialysis Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Shigeyuki Makino, Takane Hiraiwa, Toshihiko Kinoshita and Hideki Fujii (Department of Thoracic Surgery, Anjo Kosei Hospital, Aichi, Japan) Coronary artery bypass surgery was performed in 7 chronic hemodialysis patients. Hemodialysis and extracorporeal ultrafiltra...

More than 150,000 Americans have undergone coronary artery bypass surgery since this operation was first available on a nationwide scale in 1968. From data now available, we can better evaluate the various mechanisms by which bypass surgery has been thought to relieve anginal symptoms, and whether or not this operation improves ventricular function and increases survival. Most individuals have ...