INTRODUCTION Statins reduce coronary events in patients with coronary artery disease. MATERIAL AND METHODS Chart reviews were performed in 305 patients (217 men and 88 women, mean age 74 years) not treated with statins during the first year of being seen in an outpatient cardiology practice but subsequently treated with statins. Based on the starting date of statins use, the long-term outcome...

OBJECTIVE The subject and purpose of the prospective study was to delineate coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) course and to determine patency of aortocoronary venous bypass grafts (ACVB) compared with internal mammary artery bypass grafts (IMA) in the early postoperative follow-up, by contrast enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). For control, patients were examined with X-ray angiog...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to evaluate the patency of coronary artery bypass grafts (CABGs) while assessing the capabilities and limitations of 16-slice multidetector computed tomography. METHODS We studied retrospectively 19 patients (13 men, 6 women), over an 18-month period. All patients had undergone CABG surgery 3 months to 7 years earlier. Two patients were examined on a...

OBJECTIVE To compare the Cleveland Clinical Score and EuroSCORE when evaluating patients submitted to elective CABGS in Rio Grande do Sul, RS, Brazil. METHODS; This was a cohort study of 202 patients given CABGS between January 2006 and March 2007. Surgical risk was categorized according to the Cleveland Clinic Score and the EuroSCORE as low, medium or high. The incidence of deaths was measured...

Clin. Pract. (2014) 11(2), 193–206 ISSN 2044-9038 part of Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) remains the most widely performed cardiac operation in the western world. Over recent decades, remarkable technical progress has been made allowing the operation to be performed with low morbidity and mortality. The large majority of CABGs are still carried out on pump utilizing the heart– lung mach...

BACKGROUND Chronic mitral regurgitation (MR) results in a state of chronic left ventricular (LV) volume overload, resulting in compensatory dilatation. Mitral valve (MV) surgery for regurgitation reduces LV preload but increases LV afterload. Few data are available documenting subsequent changes in LV size and function over time following MV surgery for severe regurgitation in unselected popula...

OBJECTIVE To check changes in the functional capacity of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) by testing six-minute walk test (6MWT) following two years. METHODS A prospective cohort study where 215 patients were enrolled who underwent CABG, 13 did not meet the criteria for inclusion. 202 patients were evaluated preoperatively, 13 died during hospitalization and 6 in the...

BACKGROUND To investigate possible effects of high thoracic epidural anesthesia (HTEA) on mixed venous oxygen saturation (SvO2) in coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (CABGS) MATERIAL AND METHODS: Sixty-four patients scheduled for CABGS were randomly assigned to either test (HTEA) or control group. Standard balanced general anesthesia was applied in both groups. Mean arterial blood pressure...