reliable, exclusively in appropriately selected situations. In creation of bypass grafts, durable completeness of revascularization and function of the ITA to the LAD bypass should not be compromised. We would suggest that the balanced bypass flow toward the LAD and the RCA is noticeably important to achieve an entire patency of the Y-graft for three-vessel regions. This study is not conclusive...

et al. T graft with the right internal thoracic artery to left internal thoracic artery versus the left internal thoracic artery and radial artery: flow dynamics in the internal thoracic artery main stem. A new pattern for using both thoracic arteries to revascularize the entire heart: the pi-graft. Effects of heart rate on phasic Y-graft blood flow and flow reserve in patients with complete ar...

Patients of 55 years of age or older were enrolled in the study. The oldest patient was 83 years old. All of them had undergone coronary angiography and thereby documented coronary artery disease. At least one coronary segment had shown a narrowing of the luminal diameter by 50 percent or more. They had not had coronary bypass surgery before inclusion in the study. Subjects enrolled in the CASS...

one of the most common complications of operation and anesthesia is shivering. the purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of ondanseton and meperedine in preventing shivering after off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (opcab). in this double-blind randomized clinical trial, the sample consisted of 90 patients, who were candidates of cabg under general anesthesia. these patients...

spontaneous coronary artery dissection (scad) is a rare and important cause of acute coronary syndrome and sudden cardiac death. various etiologies are thought to be responsible for this condition, among which underlying atherosclerosis seems to be the most common. scad is predominant in women and is usually diagnosed via coronary artery angiography. therapeutic interventions include medical th...

Areduction in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol lowers coronary heart disease (CHD) by 24% to 31% in subjects with prevalent CHD; this reduction occurs with the use of several statins, including simvastatin1 and pravastatin.2,3 Additional reductions in CHD could come from further reductions in LDL cholesterol, as was suggested by the Post Coronary Artery Bypass Graft clinical trial (POS...

Introduction: During coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), the role of cardioplegic solution which results in cardiac arrest, is critical. This study was planned to evaluate the clinical impacts of N acetylcysteine (NAC) enriched cold-blood cardioplegia on early reperfusion injury in patients with ischaemic heart disease undergoing CABG Methods: In a...

BACKGROUND Coronary artery bypass graft surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass is a safe, routine procedure. Nevertheless, significant morbidity remains, mostly because of the body's response to the nonphysiological nature of cardiopulmonary bypass. Few data are available on the effects of off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery (OPCAB) on cardiac events and long-term clinical outcomes. ME...