The right gastroepiploic artery (RGEA) has been used in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) as an alternative graft. In particular abdominal surgeries, surgery is required to rescue the graft flow into the coronary artery. A 77-year-old male with a history of CABG using RGEA was admitted with a diagnosis of a large hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) occupying the whole caudate lobe. Preoperative...

The experimental and clinical efforts of Demikov and Kolesov between 1952 and 1964 related to coronary anastomosis between the internal thoracic artery and left anterior descending artery on a beating heart. Sones and Shirey (Cleveland, 1962) were pioneers of selective coronary angiography. The first coronary artery bypass grafting using a saphenous vein graft was performed by Garrett, Dennis, ...

R andomized, controlled trials (RCTs) comparing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery for multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD) have routinely excluded patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), so decisions about revascularization in this population depend on other sources of evidence (1). Several observational studies have reported that...

s Gen ard M oard m nd Pr See O A 72-year-old woman with coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) with mitral valve replacement (MVR) using a 27-mm Carpentier-Edwards bioprosthesis (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, California) 6 years earlier was referred to our institution with severe, symptomatic prosthetic valve mitral stenosis. Her clinical history was otherwise significant for recent percut...

Each year, approximately 26,000 Californians with advanced heart disease undergo a major surgical procedure known as coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. In California, 119 hospitals offer bypass surgery to adult patients. Prior to the establishment of the California CABG Mortality Reporting Program (CCMRP) and the release of its first report in July 2001, little was known about how wel...

OBJECTIVE In redo coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), repeat median sternotomy is a routine approach when the graft to the left anterior descending artery (LAD) is occluded. However, it is important to avoid injury to the patent graft to LAD during repeat sternotomy. We retrospectively reviewed our cases to assess our combined strategy for a safer redo CABG. METHODS The study group compri...

the correlation between severity and extent of coronary artery disease (cad) and lipid measurement was assessed in 152 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery (cabg). tfie severity and extent of cad was determined under direct vision of a cardiac surgeon during the cabg. patients were divided into two groups: 1. those with very severe and diffuse cad that all their coronaries w...