AIMS The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy in the assessment of coronary artery bypass grafts using 64-slice computed tomography (CT) technology. METHODS AND RESULTS CT coronary angiography was performed for 96 bypasses in 31 patients with suspected coronary artery disease using a Siemens Sensation 64-slice CT-scanner and compared with invasive coronary angiography (IC...

Objective: To find out the effect of Dexmedetomidine infusion on renal function in patients undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) surgery.
 Study Design: Randomized control trial (RCT- NCT05375188).
 Place and Duration Study: The research was conducted Department Anesthesia, National Institute Cardiovascular Diseases Karachi Pakistan, from Jun to Sep 2021.
 Methodology: ...

32 The Journal of Thoracic and Cardio bjectives: The benefits of statin therapy for patients with coronary artery disease ave been well documented, including those occurring after coronary artery bypass raft surgery. The purposes of this study were to assess statin prescription rates in atients who have undergone coronary artery bypass graft surgery and to identify he determinants of postoperat...

surgery in the presence of patent or occluded grafts (P > 0.05). Statistically significant increases occurred in the peak rate of systolic wall thickening ofregions supplied by patent bypass grafts, and significant decreases occurred in regions with occluded grafts (P < 0.01). Of 42 preoperatively hypokinetic regions (pdT,/dt > 0 < 5.0 cmls) supplied by a patent graft, 30 improved by an average...

Near-maximal treadmill exercise tests (TET) performed at the time of coronary arteriography and bypass graft visualization an average of 13 months after direct myocardial revascularization were analyzed in 217 consecutive patients to assess the accuracy of the TET in predicting completeness of revascularization. TET results were correlated with bypass patency and extent of revascularization. Al...

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...

The aim of this randomised, prospective study was to evaluate hospital mortality and morbidity after myocardial revascularisation, comparing on-pump coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) myocardial revascularisation versus off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (OPCAB) myocardial revascularisation in population with multivessels coronary artery disease. Sixty patients with multivessels coronary ar...

A 57-year-old male visited our clinic with chief complaint of exertional chest pain. He had been on anti-hypertensive medication for 15 years. In 1999, he went through coronary artery bypass graft surgery for myocardial infarction, using an aorto-left anterior descending artery (LAD) bypass with the left internal mammary artery, and aorto-right coronary artery (RCA) bypass with saphenous vein. ...

background: inadequate depth of anesthesia leads to release of stress hormones. electroencephalographic monitoring by bispectral index is a guide to asses the depth of anesthesia. the aim of the present study was to measure the serum cortisol levels as an index of stress response in patients who are candidates for coronary artery bypass graft surgery in two groups of patients.   methods: sevent...

Although early occlusion of saphenous vein coronary artery bypass grafts is usually thrombotic, late occlusion is most often a result of progressive intimal fibromuscular proliferation or atheroma formation in the implanted vain. We describe another mechanism of late graft occlusion: atheromatous plaque rupture with superimposed occlusive thrombosis. Four men, ages 48-67 years underwent repeat ...