BACKGROUND After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) surgery, temporary epicardial pacing wires are placed on heart to meet unforeseen complications like bradyarrhythmias or asystoles. This step needs additional time, resources and has potential to cause complication. Even having less complications, is this additional step in elective CABG surgery necessary? Some important predictive factors in...

Background—Whether mitral valve repair during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) improves survival in patients with ischemic mitral regurgitation (MR) remains unknown. Methods and Results—Patients with ejection fraction Յ35% and coronary artery disease amenable to CABG were randomized at 99 sites worldwide to medical therapy with or without CABG. The decision to treat the mitral valve durin...

Objective: Neuropsychological dysfunctions are considered to be important complications of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). We examined the frequency of neuropsychological abnormalities occurring in patients undergoing CABG with (on-pump) and without (off-pump) cardiopulmonary bypass. Methods: Neuropsychological assessment with seven cognitive tasks was performed one day before, 6–7...

OBJECTIVE The usefulness of the gastroepiploic artery (GEA) as arterial grafts in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) has been studied extensively. We report our experience performing abdominal surgery after CABG using in-situ GEA. METHODS The subjects were eight patients who underwent abdominal surgery after CABG with an in situ GEA graft. The surgical indications were malignant tumors in...

BACKGROUND In the past decade, there has been an increase in the amount of patients with medical co-morbidities referred for coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG). Significant carotid artery disease in patients undergoing CABG procedures increases the risk of neurological complications. We review the results of routine carotid screening in patients undergoing CABG to determine the contemporary ...

BACKGROUND Since the advent of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs), technological advances, adjunctive pharmacotherapy, and increasing operator experience have contributed to lowering the occurrence of major complications. However, emergency coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) for failed PCI is still associated with important morbidity and mortality, even in the era of coronary stentin...

BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation/flutter (AF) is a common complication of open heart surgery and ACC/AHA guidelines strongly recommend the use of prophylactic beta-blockers (BB) for its prevention. Several recent studies, however, have failed to show the desired protective effects of BB against post-coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) AF. As the protocols of CABG, medical management of CAD (co...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the protective effect of topical rifamycin SV treatment against sternal wound infection (SWI) in diabetic patients undergoing on-pump coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. METHODS One hundred and fifty-nine diabetic patients who were scheduled to undergo isolated on-pump CABG surgery were included. Eight were excluded for various reas...

OBJECTIVES Studies have emphasized the importance of normal fibrinogen concentrations in surgical patients. The primary hypothesis of this study was that fibrinogen levels significantly decrease in on-pump coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery versus off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (OPCAB) surgery. The second objective was to show that ROTEM (TEM International, GmbH, Munich, Germany...

Pulmonary collapse is a common problem after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). If absorption atelectasis during anaesthesia is an important mechanism in the genesis of pulmonary collapse after CABG, the addition of nitrogen to the inspired gas during anaesthesia should reduce the amount of postoperative collapse. We studied 30 patients who were allocated randomly and prospectively to...