OBJECTIVES To evaluate the safety and effectiveness of a self-closing surgical clip with an interrupted technique in left internal thoracic artery to left anterior descending artery bypass grafting. METHODS Eighty-two patients were enrolled and treated (February 2000 through August 2001) in a prospective, nonrandomized, multicenter trial. Left internal thoracic artery to left anterior descend...

BACKGROUND Although techniques for off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) are continually being refined, angiographic follow-up studies have indicated a higher rate of anastomoses-related stenoses than expected after traditional on-pump CABG. This study was performed to evaluate the use of intraoperative epicardial color Doppler ultrasound to quality-assess left internal mammary artery...

AMA Dowgiałło-Gornowicz N, Waczyński K, Waczyńska Lech P. Single anastomosis sleeve ileal (SASI) bypass as a primary and revisional procedure: single-centre experience. Videosurgery Other Miniinvasive Techniques/Wideochirurgia i inne techniki małoinwazyjne. 2023. doi:10.5114/wiitm.2023.128021. APA Dowgiałło-Gornowicz, N., Waczyński, K., Waczyńska, & Lech, (2023). https://doi.org/10.5114/wiitm.2...

 Abstract Background: End-to-side esophagojejunostomy has almost always been associated with some degree of dysphagia. To overcome this complication we decided to perform an end-to-end anastomosis and compare it with end-to-side Roux-en-Y esophagojejunostomy. Methods: In this prospective study, between 1998 and 2005, 71 patients with a diagnosis of gastric adenocarcinoma underwent total gastrec...

BACKGROUND The aim of this experimental study was to compare the safety of different suture materials in a left colonic anastomosis in the presence of peritonitis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-one male Wistar albino rats were randomly divided into three groups. First, left colonic injuries were created in all groups for the peritonitis model. After 24 hours, coated polyglactin 910 and silk su...

BACKGROUND Despite the improvements of surgical techniques and postoperative management of patients with liver transplantation, biliary complications are one of the most common and important adverse events. We present a first case of choledochoduodenostomy using magnetic compression following a massive resection of the small intestine due to strangulated ileus after living donor liver transplan...

30 ‘circular’ vs. oblique ‘elliptical’ anastomosis extended on the left PA, evaluating pressure and velocity profiles, and shear stress, from PA 31 origin to the bifurcation. ‘Elliptical’ anastomosis provides larger (s54% difference) cross-sectional area than ‘circular’ anastomosis. Velocity 32 contours showed important stagnation at PA bifurcation in ‘circular’ anastomosis and minimal in ‘elli...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the incidence and risk factors for reoperations on the pre-isthmic aorta after repair of type A acute aortic dissection. METHODS From January 1979 to December 1996, 178 patients (125 males and 53 females with a mean age of 57 +/- 9 years) underwent emergency surgery for acute type A aortic dissection with an overall operative mortality rate of 21%. One hundred and forty-...